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Are DH and I alone in thinking Osborne Lights okay but not fabulous?
Maybe it's just that neither of us is all that fond of elaborate holiday light displays, but we both came out of Osborne Lights wondering if the pixie dust missed us where the lights are concerned.
We weren't either of us very impressed, more an "Okay, we saw them, and that's one HUGE bunch of lights synced very expertly to music. Been there, saw 'em, can say we did both."
::::: neutral shrugs :::::
Must be something wrong with us, I guess, since we LOVE the GF's over-the-top lobby decorations. But not Osborne Lights so much. Go figger.
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We enjoyed the Osborne Lights once...and never felt the overwhelming need or desire to go again, although I think we did walk thru a second time on another of our trips. It was never a must do on our list of things to do on the next trip.
So, no you are not alone. We seem to enjoy the other decorations - like the gingerbread creations and the poinsettias!
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I've never seen them in person but I agree with the sentiment I read online - "it's like Christmas threw up." There's just way too much IMO to the point you can't see anything. Not that it matters anyway but just because I could, I even found a video online - I couldn't even watch it. It messed with my eyes and gave me a headache.
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I completely agree with you, Dot. I loved when they first came to the studios and were displayed on the movie and tv house street from the backlot tour. That street was like a little neighborhood and each house was decorated with a different personality. You could wander down the street and really imagine people living there. There was a bigger display on New York street, but it was still not as overdone as it is now. It's gotten to be "let's put lights on every square inch of these buildings and call it pretty". It really felt like Christmas in the early days. Now it's more like Vegas.
You've nailed it, Laurie. I hadn't realized it until you said "more like Vegas," but that display is as excessive as the Vegas Strip. A ridiculous number of lights!
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I love the lights! When I was little my DDad would take me to Boston to see the lights and then we would drive through neighborhoods to see the decorated homes. It was a time to have my Daddy all to myself and it was wonderful. Being in the Osborne Lights takes me back to that time. I wish I could have brought Dad down to FL with me to see the lights, but I probably would have just turned into a teary mess if I did.
I do love the lights. I think I liked them better before they were "dancing" but there is still something about being totally surrounded in Christmas lights that makes me happy.
We love them but this year it was less enjoyable because it was just SO CROWDED. I like to stroll with a drink or a snack and enjoy it slowly but this year I felt we were just shuffled along. I'm certainly sad to see them go but we also love the GF decor and made sure to take a trip over there as well
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I love the lights! I never got to see them when were on the houses on the Backlot Tour. I definitely think it is hard to enjoy them if it is really crowded. I will definitely miss them.
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I loved them. I am not a big Christmas person as I have worked retail and that has ruined Christmas for me. I would just assume go into a coma Thanksgiving night and wake up December 30th. My friend brought me to the Studios to see the Osbourne lights and I have to say I loved them. I was put in a Christmas spirit I have not felt in years.
My son loves them, I like them, but my husband hates them. Then, he hates anything that is Garish Christmas. Sorry to see them go but last year it really wasn't a lot of fun like it was the first few times; too crowded, too regimented with how you were directed to go only a certain way, too many lights, and then there was that dessert or dinner thing. Bought a mug of hot chocolate, danced around for 30 minutes, then left. Twenty years is a good run. Time for something new.
...my husband hates them. Then, he hates anything that is Garish Christmas.
Precisely why neither of us was impressed. Those were Christmas lights on steroids! Or, as lauriep so aptly termed them, more Vegas than Christmas.
That's exactly what all those synced flashes brought to mind immediately--the Vegas Strip. One thing I can say for it is that there's not incessant deafeningly loud music as you move along the Strip.
No. Decidedly not. Give me the simple real neighborhood feel that Laurie said the display once had.
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We really love the lights. We always thought the area back where they are was such a waste of space and boring (not that it will be that way anymore ) so it was nice they did something there during the holidays! Definitely disappointed they will be gone!
We enjoyed the Osborne Lights...right up until they started selling them as a dessert party package. Once they did that it was horrible because it totally blocked up one end of the street and you could only enter and exit at opposite ends of the street. The first few times we saw it they were great because you could come and go as you pleased and you weren't herded through them like cattle. The last couple times were horrible. We didn't even bother with them on our last trip. If I want to see something like this in future I'll just watch the Great Christmas Light Fight on TLC.
Small World Holiday in Disneyland is far superior in my opinion.
Have your brought your Dad to Lasallette? We would always stop in Attleborough (can't spell it today) with the kids after our Christmas visit to Providence and it was a beautiful stroll and a calm and peaceful evening. There is also one off 89 in NH but I haven't been.
I had no desire to see the Osborne lights. I am not impressed by the ability to put lights on anything (like Spectromagic, too). And I hate Vegas lights.
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