Bob Chapek Helps Put Finishing Touch on Christmas Tree Installation at Disneyland

    Disneyland now has a Christmas tree on Main Street USA, and Chairman of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, Bob Chapek was there to help put on the finishing touches.

    The Disneyland Christmas tree stands 60-feet tall on Main Street, U.S.A., and has become a favorite spot for guests to snap their holiday photos. This Christmas tree features 1,500 Victorian-inspired ornaments and 100 oversized faux candles.

    Here are some more “by the numbers” facts about the holidays at Disneyland.

    • New this year is a festive and wintery holiday look around the Partners statue in the Central Plaza at the end of Main Street, U.S.A. This beautiful holiday installation is made up of more than 7,500 individual plants, featuring approximately 80 pine trees decorated with more than 150 strands of warm, mini lights that illuminate each tree. This new display also features more than 500 branches of beautiful red winterberry (Ilex verticillata) and more than 800 red dogwood branches.
    • The Disneyland Christmas tree stands 60-feet tall on Main Street, U.S.A., and has become a favorite spot for guests to snap their holiday photos. This Christmas tree features 1,500 Victorian-inspired ornaments and 100 oversized faux candles.
    • As guests walk along Main Street, U.S.A., they find storefronts, lampposts and rooftops wrapped in wreaths and garland. The exterior of Main Street, U.S.A., features approximately 220 garlands that measure more than four miles long, with approximately 80 wreaths and 120 bows bringing the season to life on this charming street.
    • Sleeping Beauty’s Winter Castle shimmers during the day and is illuminated each night with more than 126,000 twinkling LED lights, sparkling “icicles” and shimmering snow-capped turrets.
    • “it’s a small world” Holiday and the surrounding plaza are illuminated with more than 400,000 twinkling lights (50,000 on the façade of the attraction, and an additional 350,000 mini-lights in the trees, hedges and animal topiaries) surrounding the attraction in whimsical Fantasyland. The popular attraction transforms each year for the holidays, celebrating children around the world and the holiday traditions of their countries. The warm holiday atmosphere of the plaza area in front of “it’s a small world” Holiday is further enhanced with colorful garland, festive poinsettias and international holiday wreaths.
    • The Disneyland Resort has its own team of holiday “elves” who help create the magic of “it’s a small world” Holiday each year. It takes a talented and dedicated team of nearly three dozen cast members 35 days to install the glittering façade and nearly 18 days to decorate the holiday attraction’s dazzling interior.
    • Haunted Mansion also transforms into Haunted Mansion Holiday for the holiday season, inspired by the classic film, “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.” This year marks the 19th anniversary of the transformation, as well as the 19th creepy creation of the gingerbread house in the Haunted Mansion ballroom. This year’s design celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Haunted Mansion attraction and features 15 spirited, spooky and recognizable ghosts made out of gingerbread. It took a team of six culinary cast members from the Disneyland Resort Central Bakery 13 days to create, build and decorate this year’s gingerbread house masterpiece.
    • Mickey’s Toontown gives the holidays a wacky twist with its own distinctive “toon” trees and decorations to show off the characters’ personalities.

    We’ll have more on the holidays at Disneyland Resort soon, so keep checking back with us here at BlogMickey.com!

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