Osborne bought neighboring properties in spite of his community to expand his light display for the primary purpose of escalating the aggravation he was causing his neighbors. Since his death in 2011 he's most likely used a periscope every Christmas to see if his garish display is still in operation.
The Osborne lights were pretty well Disney branded. Yes they have the Osborne lights but many features in the lights featured Disney.
You might be the first one I've heard call them tacky. I really don't agree with you here.
There's a reason for that and Weird Al's song gives the explanation.
Outdated how? They were LED that's about as up to date as you can get with lights. They also have the light 'tunnel' that shows animations in it. The newest thing in lights are pixels. I don't know how well that would work in this display.
We're just going to have to disagree and I've never even seen them in person and I can tell you they aren't tacky.
That's a little provocative... *
The Osborne family was given an inventory list with what they are getting back. A member of the family is actually a member on these boards.
I think the only thing the Osborne family is getting back is their name. The original lights would be well over 20 years old and long ago dead. All these LED lights they have replaced the original with are Disney owned. The original setup on Residential Street was no where near what you see today. I saw it. It was a bunch of over the top neighbor designs that were fun and made better with the 3d glasses they gave everyone but no where near the wow factor they do now. The few items that would be a continuation of Osborne-look like the soldiers, globe and carousels, surely are completely different structures. What Osborne has gotten the last two decades is a royalty check. Now that Disney doesn't have to pay them anymore, maybe they will create a new light show of some kind in a new location.
Osborne soldier vs Disney soldier. Kept it close in design but Disney made it's own.
I have a question then. As someone who does their own display to music but of course not with a million lights what makes a Christmas light display impressive? I have seen light displays from all over the country and take ideas from each to my own. Osborne to me was impressive in the amount of lights. I have seen plenty that are done much better to the music but Osborne was all about the number of lights.
They might be getting back the frames for the things that were part of the original display like the globe and the toy soldiers like you showed above. All they did to them was replace the lights. The frames are technically still there's I would think.
They used to called lights of winter they were stopped in 2009 I believe.
