Fun Find Friday
December 23, 2011
Location: Streets of America, Disney's Hollywood
Studios
While Walt Disney World is
my favorite place on earth, Christmas time
adds an extra layer of magic to this
wonderful place. Snow falls, countries
traditions are discovered, and parades in
the jungle add a jingle jungle type of
twist.
My favorite addition to the Christmas season,
however, can be found at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Every night a
lucky guests is chosen from the audience to flip a light switch that
turns on thousands of Christmas lights which then dance to music at
the Osbourne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights. How did this all
start though?

The whole story actually began in Little Rock,
Arkansas when a little girl named Breezy asked her father Jennings
for a simple Christmas wish: to have their house covered in lights!
Jennings, who often went overboard on promises to his daughter,
decorated his house to the extreme! This unfortunately caused his
neighbors to complain about the traffic that his light display was
creating in the neighborhood which in turn, resulted in Jennings
buying out the two houses next to him and adding them to his annual
display!
Eventually the lawsuits won out and Jennings had to
give up his light display, but luckily for him, Disney heard about
the story and gave Jennings a very generous offer: move his light
display to (the then) Disney-MGM Studios where it could be enjoyed
by millions every year! Jennings obviously jumped at the case!
However, we do have a Fun Find hidden here.
While going through Jennings' lights Disney
discovered a purple cat (which was actually from his Halloween
display). Jennings told Disney to keep it and a new tradition
arrived with the annual light display: Disney would hide the purple
cat every year as a Fun Find for guests on a yearly basis! So next
time you are at Disney during Christmas, make sure you head over to
Disney's Hollywood Studios and keep your eyes out for this guy:

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