Remember, too - just for anyone reading this who has never been on It's a Small World Holiday - it's not only "
Jingle Bells" that is sung in the ride. The dolls also sing "
Deck the Halls" for quite a while, too, interspersed with the regular IASW theme song!
Within each 'scene' of the ride you may hear variations of the songs, such as "Jingle
Shells" sung in Ariel's underwater scene, or a bit of a twangy instrumental in the American/Old West scene with Woody, etc.
And, of course, there are scents piped into the ride - like gingerbread (which doesn't really smell like gingerbread to me) and often times peppermint in that candy factory scene with the candy canes and other stuff hanging overhead, and a balsam-type smell when you pass by the Christmas tree with candles on it (I think it's that tree and not another tree in the ride).
So there are many layers and levels of sensory overload

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) going on in IASW Holiday!
Cute pins! I like the tour pin with the Toy Soldier a lot. And I like that the tour people still get a different version of the gingerbread cookie with ears (meaning ears with different-colored frosting) - now that DLR has begun to sell the old versions of the tour cookies with red ears to the general public for the holidays.
Riding IASW Holiday at the end of the tour is usually how it's done for the late afternoon tours, from what I have read. In fact, I have usually recommended to people in the Superthread or on the DIS in general to do the later tour - specifically so they can ride IASWH at the end of it, when the facade is illuminated (better photo opportunities that way). If people take the early tour, by the time they get to IASWH it won't be aglow. Also, when IASW Holiday is lit up at night, the line for the ride becomes longer. So the value of getting the front-of-the-line privileges with the tour is suddenly increased!!