White Christmas 2017

[pushbutton]

No sooner were the Fright Nights signs down.......!

 

For now at least,  the fountain is still a fountain and not yet a Christmas tree.

[themagician]

Wow they aren’t messing around this year. Usually they don’t go up until mid November 

[pushbutton]

Seems like they're following the retail trend of making Christmas earlier every year! 

Edited October 31, 2017 by pushbutton

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

Kinda makes sense though - pull one thing down, put the other thing up...

[pushbutton]

Just noticed they've even put the Christmas lights up on the Main Street  buildings.

 

Edited October 31, 2017 by pushbutton

[Theme Park]

Could have at least waited till after Halloween (All Hallows Day for my fellow Irish Citizens)

[Brad2912]

Why? Whats 2 days difference make? If they already had the Necessary high-reaching equipment out for take down the FN’s stuff, may as well put stuff up at the same time 

[pushbutton]

18 minutes ago, Brad2912 said:

Why? Whats 2 days difference make? If they already had the Necessary high-reaching equipment out for take down the FN’s stuff, may as well put stuff up at the same time 

For the (admittedly very minor) benefit of guest experience authenticity.

I'm not Village management. I'm a guest!

[JaggedJanine]

7 hours ago, pushbutton said:

Just noticed they've even put the Christmas lights up on the Main Street  buildings.

 

These were already up when I was at last Fridays FN event. 

[Santa07]

Wrong forum 😉

I thought the lights go up before Fright Nights?

[Brad2912]

3 hours ago, pushbutton said:

For the (admittedly very minor) benefit of guest experience authenticity.

I'm not Village management. I'm a guest!

Tbh, for any guest that complains that there are Xmas decorations up prior to Halloween I would support managements decision to swiftly remove them from Park, on the proviso they be given free Easter themed merchandise on the way out. 

[pin142]

At least with Easter you get hollow eggs that for some reason seem to taste better than normal chocolate. Plus there's no annoying songs or decorations that appear two months out from the event.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

6 hours ago, pin142 said:

At least with Easter you get hollow eggs that for some reason seem to taste better than normal chocolate. Plus there's no annoying songs or decorations that appear two months out from the event.

That would be what I call the 'egg air' phenomenon.

They say smell is as important as taste when eating - and the eggs are packaged with a hollow (obviously) inside a chocolate factory smelling like chocolate. So when you bite in, you release the air inside, and the aroma of the chocolate factory hits your nose - making it taste better.

Seriously... thats my theory anyway.

[themagician]

As said, the fountain is currently still running, the remainder of the lights are up, but now additional speakers/snow machines are in, th the pole wraps are up and Santa’s Villages has begun to be installed

[pushbutton]

Well. Th- chr-stm-- t-ree is al-os- up!

I've never seen it half complete before. 

[New display name]

@pushbutton go inside.  It's a new dark ride just for you.

[pushbutton]

55 minutes ago, Skeeta said:

@pushbutton go inside.  It's a new dark ride just for you.

The DC partially complete Christmas experience? 

Edited November 7, 2017 by pushbutton

[Brad2912]

It would be pretty wicked if they did a re-enactment of the Gotham tree lighting from Batman Returns... maybe the gaps are to install the boxes to hold the bats ready for release....

[New display name]

MW sold half the tree to help pay for Rivals.

[pin142]

Maybe you have to pay extra to get a set of augmented reality goggles to see the whole tree.

[themagician]

Contacted MW and they said tickets will go on sale next week 

[JaggedJanine]

[themagician]

Plenty of decorations have been added over the last couple of days:

Tree is nearly complete 

The Ginger Bread house panelling has been installed

FAKE SNOW EVERYWHERE

Flags installed

Even more lighting around the park

This has appeared also, so maybe this year we wont see the fairy fly down Main Street

More speakers/snow machines in place

And Santas Workshop is being installed

And just an overview of Main Street

Edited November 10, 2017 by themagician

[Aimsley81]

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 

I haven’t been to a White Christmas event before so this year will be my first. Very much looking forward to experiencing it. Taking my 4 year old nephew and I think he’ll love it. 

[pushbutton]

On 11/10/2017 at 12:47 PM, Aimsley81 said:

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! 

I haven’t been to a White Christmas event before so this year will be my first. Very much looking forward to experiencing it. Taking my 4 year old nephew and I think he’ll love it. 

Make sure you book the Christmas buffet to enjoy while you're there. Full Christmas dinner and adds loads to the overall experience!