Amazing Christmas Light Display

[AIM-54]

But.... Christmas is ages away yet!

This is America, land of year round Christmas specialty shops and Christmas television specials in late October. Christmas comes early and often!

(Okay, some exaggeration...but not much.)

 

[Guillaume]

Even if it is nice to see one time, I'm glad I don't live across the street from this guy. It is mighty annoying to have these lights constantly flashing. Call me Scooge, but I like my Christmas decorations inside the house and to be discreet outside.

Humbug!

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Might be more appropriate if they used the Bob River's tune "Decorations."

I’m stringing up decorations
It’s draining the power stations...

 

[glass]

I'm watching it right now!

IYKWIMAITYD


glass.

 

[glass]

Was the music added afterwards, or do you really hear it outside the house?

I wondered that, because it'd be a whole lot less impressive without the music, but I can't imagine having that blaring out day and night without getting lynched by the neighbours.


glass.

 

[Henry]

Bah! Peanuts! There's a block of houses about 10 blocks from where I live, where the neighbors all put up outrageous displays at Christmas time. One particular neighbor, for years, put up a display to commemorate one of their three daughters, who died in a traffic accident on one December in the 1970's. They stopped with the really ostentacious stuff about 1995 or so, but for a good 20 years, you had every shrub on the yard decked out, Santa and the Reindeer scaling the roof, frosty tipping his hat on the other side of the roof, the driveway lined with red and green, a GIGANTIC christmas tree in the front year that was a normal fir any other time of the year, and yellow and blue strobing lights on the outer Pine trees about the periphery of the yard, along with LOUD but easy listening christmas music blaring from about 7pm to about 10 pm.

My parents used to take me by every Christmas, as did most of the parents & kids in the town...

 

[Roadkill101]

I'm not very impressed. Sure the timing is pretty awsome, but all those white lights just come off as plain old vanilla. Then again, for the last decade or so, it seems that white lights have been the dominant color at christmass time, where I prefer color.

 

[mojo1701]

UPDATE:

I have info about the person that actually did this:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005512050331.

 

[kenobi65]

Now I can stop wondering what ever became of the stage setup from Electric Light Orchestra's 1970s tours...it all wound up in this guy's yard.

How large is their electric bill going to be this month?

Not sure, but I bet you could use their electric meter to burn CD-ROMs.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

UPDATE:

I have info about the person that actually did this:

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005512050331.

But which song is it? I really like it but I don't feel like buying each Trans Siberian Orchestra album looking for it.

The family sounds pretty cool that they will shut it down if the neighbors complain, and the neighbors are cool that they aren't complaining. Of course the fact that the music broadcasts over your radio, rather than blaring speakers, makes it easier to tolerate.