Originally Posted By Doobie This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Lotion-View.asp?ID=146" target="_blank">LP Lotion: LP Lotion: Magic Kingdom Holiday Decorations Begin</a>
Originally Posted By ccaracciolo Wow! Great photos! Where exactly were you when you took that great shot of the parade. I would LOVE to be there for the parade! Also, do you have any shots of what the train station looks like now? Is it still covered? I know it isn't done yet but I was wondering if it is an eyesore. Fantastic job! Carol C.
Originally Posted By Indigo The train station is still covered in tarps. But it looks nice since they've screen printed a photo of the train station on the tarps. That photo of the parade was actually taken from just outside of the main walk-way through Cinderella Castle.
Originally Posted By CTXRover Are all the lightposts in Frontierland decorated this year? If so, that's great. I don't remember Disney decorating outside areas much past Main Street at the MK in recent years. The interiors of some gift shops and all restaurants were decorated, but nothing on the outside. From what I've seen of AK's decorations also, it looks like Disney has given its Holiday decorating team its budget back plus more for this year (after cutting it post 2001).
Originally Posted By Jim_n_Ruth I must have just missed it. I just got back on the 6th. The animal kingdom was in the process of decorations, but not the kingdom. My luck.
Originally Posted By disney pete Great pics Doobie ive always wanted to visit this time of year the place looks great,i like where the tree is at the minute.
Originally Posted By Mickeylover8383 It looks like another awesome holiday celebration!!! I really wish I could go. *sigh* Someday.....
Originally Posted By Jim_n_Ruth I've been fortunate to be there twice during the Christmas season. Frankly, there's NOTHING like a Disney Christmas.
Originally Posted By nate5881 Going down for MVMCP on the weekend of the 16th of December...hopefully it'll be a little cooler then 88 degrees at that time. It's a little hard for me to get into the spirit when I'm sweating in shorts and a T-shirt ;-) I can't wait, the decorations look so great. I love to go around to all the resorts too and check out the decorations there, especially Grand Floridian. Sometimes they have a guy out front giving away roasted chestnuts, I don't even really care for the things but I just love the gesture, it's fantastic!
Originally Posted By LuvDatDisney I was at Epcot over the weekend and saw no decorations at all. I doubt they'd start that park until Food and Wine wraps up this weekend. I was at both DAK and MK today and they are both beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Even saw the Country Bear Christmas Show, which was sadly having some technical issues.
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo I'm not remembering what Animal Kingdom looks like for the holidays. Does this park decorate as well?
Originally Posted By danyoung >. Even saw the Country Bear Christmas Show, which was sadly having some technical issues.< Never been in a Bears show that had tech issues. What was it doing?
Originally Posted By CTXRover ^^AK's first few years had minimal decorations, which I always attributed to the fact that I never got the feeling it was an ideal park to decorate given its natural/jungle-like appearance. However, over the past few years or so, they have really decorated the park nicely with more each year. I believe it was two years ago that they turned Camp Minnie-Mickey into a character Holiday get-away. They've done an excellent job with decorations for this land, including snow caps on all the light posts and probably 15-20+ individual 7 foot trees each decorated with impressive detail to represent a particular character or movie. Unfortunately if you don't go back into that land, you never see it. They also decorate Dinoland with quite a few decorations. However, they aren't overly impressive but do fit into the 50-60's traveling carnival idea that is the Dinorama portion of the land quite well. Basically most of the decorations are 50's time period garlands and decorations with tinsel trees and garlands, etc. It all looks very nice at night (which AK will get more of this holiday season) The buildings around Safari Village are decorated with some cool garlands, but get lost among all the jungle plants that surround the buildings. The inside of most shops are also nicely decorated, including some neat wreaths inside the store in Harambe. AK's tree sits outside the park's entrance and is one of the neater decorated trees on property imo with authentic safari-like decorations.
Originally Posted By CTXRover Correction from above..."safari village" is now officially called "Discovery Island"...brain lapse
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I don't care much for the location of the tree. Why not put up the two white and blue Xmas trees on either side of the castle like they used to do years ago, and leave the traditional tree on Town Square?
Originally Posted By MinnieSummer I read elsewhere that the tree is in that location until after the taping of the Christmas Parade and then will be moved back to it's prime location.
