Elvis’s talent, mannerisms, and obvious enjoyment in his role really do add a lot to ‘Twas That Night, but the show is so imaginative and has such great music that I’d still really enjoy it even without him.
Christmas Town 2019
- Thread starter Gavin
- Start date
Some preparations for CT are underway. Seen that some sections of the fencing along the RR tracks have the same lights up. The section that starts right after you pass Pompeii, some of the sections behind the Black Forest picnic area and that short, last section right before the RR crossing before InvadR. Also those globe lights were on the train trestle next to Griffon and LNM.
Last edited:
No it didn't. Member sneak peak is still scheduled for November 15th with CT opening to everyone on November 16th. They just cut into their transition time.
That was already an improbably fast turnaround, now i don't think there is any chance they will be ready. I'm doubting we'll see many changes, as i would assume that would require more time. I do hope the park starts tweaking some areas so that it doesn't get too stale.
With Festa being closed the entire weekend I will assume that all of Festa will be done before the weekend. After that I think they could begin the process of placing trees in the park. They just won't be turning in the lights. If they do both of those steps is should help in the transition. There is already a lot of CT stuff that is lying under the HOS stuff as that it how they normally have it set up.
In past years the last weekend or so of HOS you have seen trees appearing. I think by HOS staying open we will just see a little more Christmas that last weekend of HOS and a little less Christmas the first weekend of CT. Hust like everything they do now it takes a few weeks for everything to be ready. To me the most interesting part will be the bar in front of the Festhaus, I bet that is gone that last weekend. Even though Busch is lazy and just plugs it in basically without adding any new programming it still takes a couple days to get the tree all up.
Last edited:
I'm looking forward to my Nightmare before Christmas experience.
To be honest, if they'd pay for the licensing they could effectively blend the seasons and stay open through January.
I'm too lazy to flesh out the full idea, but something like where half the park has the licensed IP that is designed to transition from the spooky parts to the Christmas parts by changing out the character costumes which effectively would transition from scare to holiday cheer.
They make it the only section open during the HOS to CT transition, since it's already transitioned rather quickly. The rest of the park would make the transition essentially behind the scenes then open when ready. I'd figure the rest of the park would take about 2 to 3 weeks depending on what sections get the IP and what else would need to be converted.
This just gave me major throwback vibes to the Jack’s Pumpkin Express soundtrack in 2007. Always loved hearing the Nightmare before Christmas theme leaving the Caribou station.
Or they could pull a Disney and just do it all overnight...
October 31-November 3 so the entire final weekend of HOS that was added on this week.
The extra weekend of HoS. They said festa will be completely closed
For what it is worth, we saw CT lights going up this past weekend. I imagine they are doing as much in advance, as they can.
