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Years past the train has been decorated, there were trees all through its path that were lit....actual Christmas trees, The music played on the train was nice and festive. Now tghis year they are advertising as the all new CT Express and its basically the only addition for 2018. The soundtrack seems forced and not enjoyable at all....did they not rehearse those lines or just read them off the paper on the first recording? The first section is nice and enjoyable. Then you get to the bridge. Those globes say absolutely nothing Christmas like to me and in fact I think the view of Ireland would be spectacular but you cant see it for the pastel lights blinding you. It was put best by someone a couple rows behind us...."it fells like a New York or Washington DC Metro ride" with those lights passing by so close. They were right...they nailed it. The overuse or RGB lights on this attraction is criminal. They basically plugged them in a put them on test mode. Do they not know how to program them? I would gladly show them. The possibliities of those lights are endless. Same with the tree at the Festhaus.....please someone add a new song. It so easy, wouldnt it be nice to have a new song added every year or diffrent shows play throughout the night. I type this as a sit here infront of a monitor with 100+ channels of lights tweaking and making show changes.
 
the park does not use some off-the-shelf residential light controller. the light show was designed by ken billington, same guy who does lighting for all the parks shows, their professionally choreographed
I also do not run some "off the shelf residential light controller" , I run Light o Rama Pro controllers, although when I bought most of mine they were called "comercial Controllers" and I have hundreds of channels. These are the same controllers that are inside the O Tannenbaum tree. Only diffrence is I did all my own programming, design and build as well as maintaining them and adding to them each year. I also have a fairly large sound system and FM transmitter although I keep both turned way down to keep my neighbors happy. The O Tannenbaum show isnt very complex.
 

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Just to add...I first used Light o Rama controllers in the 2006 season and at the time I was the only one around that was doing a lights and music show, we even made the local tv news. At the time LOR was a much smaller company, in fact in building the first season I talked to them quite often about the software and they even reviewed some of my programs when there was a hardware problem and did software upgrades of my controllers over the internet. At the time that was pretty high tech. About a couple years later a home in Norfolk was doing a show but they stopped about 5 years ago. This season there are a couple dozen in Southeastern Va running shows of varying degrees.
 
Hi guys I have a premier membership and I have family in town for Christmas that I would like to take to Christmas town tonight. It says online tickets are sold out. But under my pass member page it looks like I can buy tickets. Would the tickets I buy be valid for tonight and would I be able to use my free guest ticket tonight also?
 
How many people do uplan on bringing? There are about 3 bring a friend passes with the premier membership.
 
Yea, you only have 1 per pass this time of year if you haven’t already used it.
 
@mwe bgw is wrong. Single passes don't ever have multiple bring a friend tickets valid at any given time.

Edit: Like @sunchild points out below, ^ is true unless there are bonus bring a friend tickets valid for the day in question as well.
 
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Not wrong rather unclear. There are three for the whole year, not Christmas town. They are all valid for about 1 third of the season, but do not overlap. Therefore you must redeem them separately throughout the year to get all three. Although the park occasionally has added extra free tickets, generally you can one bring in one friend for free over the course of a few months for any given pass.
 
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