White Christmas 2018

[aaronm]

Such a festive Christmasy entrance sign...

Who doesn't enjoy a good Christmas Precinct? 

Edited December 4, 2018 by aaronm

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

First part of video shows decorations around the park

 

[Brendo88]

video of last nights parade for those interested and a few pics

 

 

Edited December 16, 2018 by Brendo88
adding content

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

All dates are sold out

[westical]

There goes my redemption.

[pushbutton]

On 25/10/2018 at 11:46 AM, Skeeta said:

Really?   I thought this was aimed at children.  Last year I left early because my daughter was bored.   So many good free Christmas events at this time of the year that nobody needs to pay these overinflated prices. 

 

2016 Parade

2017 Parade

 

 

Now the fun part is to watch is to watch them both at the same time.  (it's like seeing double)

Over inflated prices? It's FREE. You only have to pay if you want to add extras. Dinner is merely  $30 for adults and  $16 for kids. That's pretty cheap. 

1 hour ago, Gold Coast Amusement Force said:

All dates are sold out

I'm glad I booked a couple of days ago. 

Edited December 16, 2018 by pushbutton

[Brad2912]

Wow don’t recall that ever happening (all dates sold out with still a week to run). 

Glad I got mine in for this Thursday 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

Have Movie World ever added extra nights?

Edited December 16, 2018 by Gold Coast Amusement Force

[Brad2912]

I do recall them adding a night or two AFTER Christmas in previous years, which at the time I thought was kind of strange..

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

20 hours ago, Brendo88 said:

 

I remember when the christmas lights on main street looked amazing. It seems like these are being put up more sloppily than in previous years. I'm a little disappointed.

I'd love to see them change it up. With the technology these days, RGB lighting wouldn't be difficult, and then you could integrate it into the parade too.

[Brendo88]

1 hour ago, AlexB said:

I remember when the christmas lights on main street looked amazing. It seems like these are being put up more sloppily than in previous years. I'm a little disappointed.

I'd love to see them change it up. With the technology these days, RGB lighting wouldn't be difficult, and then you could integrate it into the parade too.

They did have them synced to the parade and they also did a musical number with the lights synced to it too. 

 

It was only in banks of lights though, not individual ones which I think is what you were implying. That would be super cool if they could do that 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

not necessarily individual ones, although that technology does exist - those lights are still 'dumb' lights - the whole string is one colour, and the whole string may be turned on or off.

replace them with RGB dumb string - by varying the power supplied across three wires (which can be computer controlled) you can make every light in the string change from one colour to the next.

The next step is RGB Pixels - which receive constant power, with a data wire delivering colour and brightness information, allowing each and every lamp to be controlled independently of each and every one around it!

[red dragin]

A guy at Bald Hills has addressable lights on his house for Christmas. "Brads Brisbane Christmas Lights" on Facebook. I believe those are the constant power lights? 

[rac2703]

On 16/12/2018 at 11:13 AM, Gold Coast Amusement Force said:

All dates are sold out

 

On 16/12/2018 at 11:32 AM, westical said:

There goes my redemption.

I just redeemed mine this morning for tomorrow night. 

[pushbutton]

Maybe some tickets are held in reserve for redemptions.

[Ash]

I just ordered 4 adult north pole passes no issues at all

[westical]

2 hours ago, rac2703 said:

 

I just redeemed mine this morning for tomorrow night. 

Thanks, I’ll take a look. 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

It was sold out. Maybe they added more tickets.

[themagician]

More tickets have been added for each night 

[westical]

Must have found some more space. 

[themagician]

I’ve very doubtful of that, I went last year on a sold out night, and you couldn’t properly enjoy it because it was so crowded. They are just being greedy 

[Gold Coast Amusement Force]

They most likely limited tickets on the later nights so they would sell more tickets in the earlier (less popular) nights.

[westical]

8 hours ago, themagician said:

I’ve very doubtful of that, I went last year on a sold out night, and you couldn’t properly enjoy it because it was so crowded. They are just being greedy 

I don’t actually think they found more space...

[rac2703]

Like many major events (concerts, theatre, sporting etc.) they probably stagger release the tickets, so they may appear to be sold out earlier on - however new tickets are released closer to the event. 

Edited December 17, 2018 by rac2703

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

16 hours ago, red dragin said:

A guy at Bald Hills has addressable lights on his house for Christmas. "Brads Brisbane Christmas Lights" on Facebook. I believe those are the constant power lights? 

You're spot on Red. There's quite a number of us around Brisbane who use synchronised pixels for Christmas. @Tim Dasco does too.

I guess what i'm saying is, if its achieveable for one guy in his front yard, how hard is it really for a place like Movie World?