The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights Final Season

In 1995, a display of Christmas lights was placed on the Residential Street of the backlot area of Disney-MGM Studios and the rest is history...IMG_607220 year later, we are looking at the final season of this beautiful display, which is sad but, as a great Doctor once said, “Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.”IMG_5995 One of the great additions this year is the Osborne Electric Co. window display that gives a history of the event and really adds a more classic touch than the old billboard that many guests missed.IMG_5999This year, Santa Goofy has been moved to the former entrance to the Backlot Tour.IMG_6004 IMG_5806But of course, as the sun starts to set in the west, it becomes time for Santa Goofy to join a lucky family and flip the switch to turn on five million dating lights each night.IMG_6013

So with that, instead of writing how beautiful the lights are or all the fun hidden touches Disney has included this year, I will put up pictures and video to encourage you to make it to Disney's Hollywood Studios before January 3, 2016 which is the night these lights will "glow away forever!"

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But before this Spectacle leaves, I would be remiss if I didn't look back at a few of the pictures from 2001 when I first saw the lights.

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I can not encourage you enough to make a family trip down before this event becomes just a memory!

Jeremiah Good
Our main correspondent for Walt Disney World and the Orlando area and a heck of a paleontologist if he does say so himself.