Osborne Family Specatcle of Dancing Lights

Once you've been to Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party and have toured the resorts and eaten yourself into a gingerbread induced food coma, fret not...there are still more holiday festivities to behold!

Disney's Hollywood Studios has one of my favorite Christmas decorations of all time...the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. I'm just going to preface this by saying that no description will do it justice and it truly is a sight to behold. You really won't believe it until you see it!

So what is it? Don't worry...it's not THOSE Osborne's (no crazy hair, tattooed children with a father you can't understand swearing every 2 seconds), these Osborne's are more of the Disney variety...a family from Arkansas who began decorating their house for Christmas back in 1986. That year, father Jenning's Osborne decorated their house with 1000 red lights. In the years that followed their light display grew, until they purchased property adjacent to theirs to expand their annual light collection.

The display grew from the measly 1000 red lights to millions of lights: flashing and multi-colored as well as custom made light sculptures and a 75-foot Christmas tree with lights.

As breathtaking as the display was, it was quite literally, stopping traffic. Legal action was taken and the Jenning's family was ordered to remove the display. Enter Mickey Mouse to save the day! In 1995 the Mouse took the lights and relocated them to the residential streets at Hollywood Studios; 80% of the lights used in the display at the park are from Osborne's original display.

After the rehab of Residential Street the lights found a new home on the Streets of America, where the lights can be seen from November 10th to January 3rd at dusk until park closing (operating approximately every 10 minutes).

So what's the big deal about some Christmas light? Um...there are 4 million of them, and they dance to music. Just sayin'...it's a sight to behold!