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Scott Searle, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, Category 1, This is
our third Christmas in our first house, this display is a gift for my
wife and every year I build on this gift as she calls me Clark Griswald
as he is my lighting hero. Thank You for your consideration. Scott
Griswald Searle |
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chick Kazienko, Braselton, GA, United States, Category 1, Approx 40000
LED lights White & Multi, 2 15' Arhces White, 2 10' Arches Multi, 10
Mini Trees white, 5 light sticks white, 6 6 ' Trees multi / white, roof
lines, 6 wreaths white / multi, 30 candy canes lining drive, icicles
lights, PVC window frames with white, Net lights on bushes white /
multi, 3 oaks wrapped in multi / white. Been planning on adding
controllers / sequencing for past 2 yrs but keep hitting road bumps.
Hope to win contest and start the madness in 2012. |
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Scott Sawin, Roseville, CA, United States, Category 1, Pictures are on
my website. This is my 5th year of static lights for Christmas with a
blue and cool white theme. Though from the pictures its hard to see the
blue or really understand how bright it really is. My goal has always
been to put up as many lights as possible without looking tacky and at
15,000 lights I am getting close to that limit in my postage stamp of a
front yard. I am the type who can never leave it alone though so each
weekend until Christmas I will find ways to continually add. I hear
that is a no no when it comes to synchronizing so that will be a tough
habit to break. |
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Ralph Marius, Concord, NC, United States, Category 1, This is my a temp
to bring Christmas lights to our neighborhood. Not many people decorate
around here so I do the best with what I got. I do wish I had the money
to go out and buy A kit but kinda tight on money right now. Every year
we try to buy 1 or two Items after Christmas when things go on sale. I
also set up for Halloween. Thanks |
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Gene Garcia, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, Category 1, I
have always had lights on my house since 1994 starting with a string on
the gutter and a blow mold Santa, over the years it has just grown and I
have wanted to do a light show for about the last five years and not
knowing where to start I with a computerized show I came across your
site this year. I am maily decoration with blow molds as that is my
preference I enjoy them a lot more and have started to purchase some
more unique ones, I am currently using a Mr Christmas for my light show
at this time and it is serving its purpose for now. Thank you Gene |
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david preston, kingman, az, United States, Category 1, my residential
light display uses between 50 and 60,000 lights. With the help of my
handy man, son and 2 grandchildren, we started decorating nov. 2 and
every day through thanksgiving when the power went on and will go on
every night at 5:45-10:00 through new year! none of my displays are
computerized (not yet). However, one tree is hooked up to a music box ,
and several ornaments have their own speed control box to provide the
appearance of motion. in addition i do have some multi-function and
blinking lights. |
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David Ostrander, Murreita, California, United States, Category 1, Hand
Made 14' Christmas Tree made of PVC Tubes / Green & Red Rope Lights /
(24) 6" Blinking Starts / 16" Red Star / and 20 Strands of (200) green
Lights. 2 Hand Made Christmas Candles made of PVC Tubes, Red Rope
Lights / Wooden Flame with 200 White Chasers / and 10 Strands of (200)
red lights. 4 Flicker Snow Flakes
2 Animated Winter Deer with Blue Pond made of Rope Lights and 600 Blue
Lights. 5 Green Rope lights outline the Front Yard. |
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Jason Shoff, Galloway, NJ, United States, Category 1, Our first year
putting up Christmas lights. Hoping to upgrade to a computer controller
next year, Light-O-Rama of course! The lights are mostly incandescent
with the exception of the walkway which are LED. I've known about LOR
for some time now and frequent the site. I love to see all the
creativity that comes from the LOR community! Can't wait to see what
everyone has done this year. |
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Ryan Teetz, West Allis, WI, United States, Category 1, Its about 7,000
lights and we want to add more but first want to get a light o Rama
system and this is a great way to do that. |
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Rober Black, lowell, Indiana, United States, Category 1, My entry is
just a static entry with some motion non computerized. A few net lights
across the bushes and m5 string lights everywhere else, with a moving
Santa and some presents. With one mini tree for next year. |
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Jason Hickmott, Metamora, mi, United States, Category 1, I try and go
for a Classic Classy display. I Have 25,712 lights. This fall I put in
120 amp service dedicated for my Christmas display. It took me 50 hrs
to put all my lights up and run chords. 2 newspapers featured my
display for there front page, and now the locals call me Clark.. LOL |
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Dannan Wagner, Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States, Category 1,
Santa's Arrow. 5,700 lights with a outhouse and the arrow helping the
big guy out, getting animated next year and up to 10,000+ |
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Mike Mettler, Lancaster, Ohio, United States, Category 1, 2011 Christmas
light display. Total of 8900 lights. This year i added an animated
Ferris wheel and seesaw. I also have an low power FM transmitter
broadcasting on 87.9. I also have a 20 ft lighted John Deere tractor in
the front yard that I made last year. |
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Adam Cole, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Category 1, We have been doing this
for 4 years now and this year raise money for the Stroke Foundation.
Most of my displays are hand made, as i like to be different to
everyone else. Next Year i plan on doing some sort of show using
one of your entry level units. We have had over 5000 people thru
this year so far.
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Eric Liebl, Royal Palm, Fl, United States, Category 1, Over 10,000
lights blow ups and color changing lights. Some flash and i have music
but nothing like LOR. Over on the next block I have a neighbor who has
at least 128 channels and blows me away every year with his show. I
hopw to one day compete with his efforts. |
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brandon tighe, schnectady, new york, United States, Category 1, i am 13
years old and i decorated my house all by myself and the house has over
11,000 lights. it took a couple weeks to do it. and i also have
Christmas music playing outside for everyone who drives by to get in the
holiday spirit. |
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Tim Berenz, Maineville, OH, United States, Category 1, Over 8,000
lights, includes animated and static inflatables as well as animated and
static lights. Some lights are connected to preprogrammed transmitter to
flash with preprogrammed songs. |
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Ray Juneau, Slave Lake, Alberta, Canada, Category 1, Slave Lake was
devastated by a wildfire in May of this year that burned approximately 30%
of our Town. They are saying that it is the second biggest natural
disaster in Canadian history...being that over 350 houses were lost...If
you Google Slave Lake wildfires you will see the devastation! I was so
lucky and only by Gods will that we never lost our home...but anyway...I
wanted to light up my house bigger and better than usual for those that
never had lights as there ware many depressed people this time of year
in Slave Lake Alberta. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun and I can't
believe the amount of people driving by and stopping to look. So glad I
could do that for my town to see some smiley faces. This will be the lasy
year for my old style bulbs as I have intentions of going led due to
being out of power and I actually want to add more ! In fact my
electrician who came over freaked on me for over powering breakers etc.
I actually had to have him disconnect my welder and add more boxes. LOL.
So its time for an upgrade and want to use your system to do so. Thanks
for looking at my display and hoping to win so I can light it up even
bigger and better for next year in my town of Slave Lake, AB. Canada.
Seasons greetings to you and yours. Alll the best Ray |
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david cope, placerville , ca , United States, Category 1, 1,200 light
moving to the sound of music .controlled by a MR CHRISTMAS light show in
a box .LOR contest entry LIGHT O RAMA |
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Chris Weeks, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, Category 1, I have used
16147 Lights. The few items that blink on and off are controlled by a
Gemmy 6 channel controller. The controller just randomly turns each
channel on and off. I did not consider that computerized. This is one
of my hobbies that only comes once every year. My kids are my
motivation because they are always wondering what I may do differently
each year. |
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Luke Cutler, Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand, Category 1, Designed
and set up totally by myself (Luke Cutler) (16yrs old). Our
display is at 39 Chatsworth Rd Silverstream, Upper Hutt, New Zealand.
This is our 5th year doing Christmas lights, I started with only a
string of 100 clear lights that my mum gave me and we have grown from
there! The display is set up during the afternoons throughout November
(in-between study for exams) and then runs all December. My dream
is to one day have a huge display that runs on lightorama, I want my
lights to be able to dance to music to create an amazing display!
Unfortunately my budget does not allow me to buy a controller at the
moment! (: Here is an article written last year by the local
newspaper about my hard work, doing the lights:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/hutt-news/4461216/Hutt-teens-paper-round-money-funds-Christmas-lights-display |
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Barry Squires, Saratoga Springs, Utah, United States, Category 1, Well
as you might be able to see right in our front yard we have a 20 Foot
lighted Christmas tree. I hoped to have that by next year
displaying a flying Santa Claus and Reindeer so it will be around 15 to
20 feet in the air flying from the front of my front yard to the back
which will be about a 20 to 30 foot flight path. As you can also
see I have been slowly switching to LED Christmas lights 90 % of our
lights are now LED. The Gingerbread train & the moving lighted
wire framed deer were part of my home where I grew up and every year I'm
trying to add something new to my display as my dad and I did at the
home I grew up in I would like my 2 children to have the same feeling I
did when my father and I when out and decorated the home I grew up and
to be able to help make my neighbors and other individuals who drive by
our house feel the spirit of Christmas and make each little child SMILE. |
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jeff barrie, New Beith, Qld, United States, Category 1, This is the
second year that we have done lights and while driving around Brisbane
Aust, I was totally amazed by the couple of LOR animated displays we saw
and thought that is where I want to go. Our display this year is almost
all new LED string and rope light as the stuff we bought last year was
cheap and most of it didn't work this year. The display has
about 12000 LED lights in it and I am of the opinion that made is better
than bought so here is a quick run down on our lights. The candy canes
are about 3m tall with 20m of red and white LED rope light across the 2
the red is on static and the white is on slow glow. The Happy Christmas
across the front of the house is 40m of warm white LED rope light lower
case letters 55cm tall. The roof border is 100m white LED string
on twinkle, while the blue zig-zag pattern and front gutter string is on
static. The icicle LED strings along the front are on alternate flash.
The Jacaranda tree on the footpath has 5. 4m strings of icicle LEDs and
40m of warm white rope light. We would like to add initially
16 channels of LOR sequencing to our display next year, so it would be
great to win your comp. We intend to run two lines of wording one over
the top of the other. To sequence with a 2.5m x 8m fabricated figure
display above the roof. Then adding another 100m of green and red LED
string to the roof to be sequenced in. In the years to come a
fully sequenced fountain in multi colours and 16 arches in 4 sets of 4
around the oval rose garden across another 48 channels. Thank you,
God Bless, Happy Christmas and a Great new year. Jeff Barrie. |
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david parks, pattison, Mississippi, United States, Category 1, static
display pulls approximately 100 amps at 110 vac been displaying for 12
years now , has radio station for in car music , radio station is 486
computer using mcas software as player transmitter is home built kit ,
display is run with timers only , planning on upgrading to computer
animation next year for some sections, display is 1/8 mile drive through
more pictures on faacebook page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santas-Runway-Christmas-Lights-Display/337655112913225 |
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Greg Chiappetta, Leander, TX, United States, Category 1, 15000+
lights, mostly LED with an inflatable Santa |
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Brett Brownderville, Sherwood, AR, United States, Category 1, We have
around 5700 lights all together. All are mostly Clear mini incandescent
lights. We have a few hundred multi-color C9s lining the yard line. We
don't have many yard decorations for this year as it was only our first
year decorating at all. We have big plans for next year though. Looking
to get 2 LOR controllers at least for the 1st non static show. |
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Clouard Jacques, VERMONDANS, Franche comte, France, Category 1, This is
a static system; Animations are just made with automatic animator;
Next Year, it will be a big tree at the right and a water wind wheel on
the roof; I have discover Your system just any days before
Christmas; I have charge the demo software and made a test with:
very very top!!!!!!!! |
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Gary Davis, Frisco, Texas, United States, Category 1, 16,000 lights this
year pulling 62 Amps. Christmas tree is 13' tall and has multi color C9s
(hard to see in the pictures) for ornaments. The trees have about 40 C9
twinkle bulbs in each one of them for an added touch. Hoping to
animate next year, increasing the size of the Christmas tree to 20' and
a total bulb count of 25,000! |
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Linda Brown, Lubbock, Texas, United States, Category 1, Many of the
items in the display are hand made. People have told us that's one of
the reasons they enjoy our display so much each year. They get to see
elements that they don't see anywhere else. We made the candy cane tree
carousel, Ferris wheel, Bethlehem star, snowflakes on the roof, the
ladder and elves, and the sleigh and reindeer. Santa in the sleigh is
sound activated and waves his hand and sings. I also made the nativity
scene and the angels that are on each end of the yard. Kids of ALL ages
love the virtual Santa in the window. We also made a video screen and
put speakers outside so visitors could listen to the Christmas music and
watch videos. People take pictures of one another in front of the
display and we hand out candy canes when the weather permits. |
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Billy Zapf, North College Hill, Ohio, United States, Category 1, The
Zapf's Annual Christmas Display
Welcome To The Zapf’s 41th Annual Christmas Display. ( 3rd Year
Without Dad "12-19-08") The Christmas Display Is Turned On At 6:00
Pm Off At 10:00 Pm Nightly Through Jan. 3rd 2012
Christmas Display Is Made Up With: About 70,000 Lights 24
Decorated Trees 8 Hand-Made Signs 800 Illuminated Figurines
{Several New Added This Year} 14 Animated Figurines {In Santa’s
Workshop} 3 L.G.B. Model Trains In Toyland {Front Porch} A
Lot Of Stuffed Animals On The Porch, And So Much More To See. Yes,
It Does Take A Lot Of Electricity To Feed Our Display, 200 Amp
Electric Service And 21 Breakers ! Hope To See You All At The
South Pole ! The Zapf’s |
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Theodore Dirksen, Springfield, Illinois, United States, Category 1, I
have been decorating for many years. My display is over18000 lights and
other things to make people smile. I have 2 light trees that I am
working on doing more with and arches over my drive with multiple
colors. I am looking into going computerized but have always been
intimidated by the thought. I have used the GE Mr. Christmas but they are
ok at best. I want to go with the best Lightorama in the future years.
Sorry I have no video. |
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brandon tighe, schencetady, ny, United States, Category 1, i am a 13
year old boy and this year i put up 11,000 lights on my house all by
myself and i even had Christmas music playing out side for everyone's
enjoyment and i put Santa up by the chimney and i even did the outline
of the chimney and i bought all of the lights with my own money i hope
u like them |
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Nick Mai, Ely, Iowa, United States, Category 1, I started adding lights
to my display a few years ago and I am up to about 14,000 LED lights. As
of now my display is static but I would realy love to jump into the
world of LOR |
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Philip Scher, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, Category 1, Watching too many
shows on TLC and then searching youtube, i wanted on of those houses
that people came to see.as a kid growing up, my father displayed a one dimensional Santa as yard
art. again searching online found some patterns to start my display of
Santa and 9 reindeer. making and painting the yard art is what i did
last year. i'd like to move on from static to something animated.
online searching led me to lightorama, and this contest. the video that
inspired me, well actually it was the title of the video on youtube..."how
t really annoy your neighbours". and that is what i really want to
do...but in a nice way. |
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Jennifer Chmielewski, Keller, Texas, United States, Category 1,Here are links to the
other photos that I put on photobucket :
http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z329/jtheman9/P1140527.jpg
http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z329/jtheman9/P1140570.jpg
http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z329/jtheman9/P1140539.jpg
http://i1184.photobucket.com/albums/z329/jtheman9/P1140557.jpg
Me and my son start setting up in early November in hopes of getting the
lights all on around December 1st. This years display included between
15,000 and 16,000 lights. A variety of mini lights, c7's, and starting
this year some LED's. Most decorations are handmade (With exception of
the blowmolds the snowflakes and the snowman). We have a snowman that
blows fake snow. And, if you look on the left side of the photo you can
see a "Christmas Cactus". 15 mini trees with a combined total of 4,400
mini lights on them. This year we started to add some LED's by putting
blue and white LED's around the bottom windows. It grows more every
year! |