feliciat02: Disney's Spectacle of Dancing Lights: By the numbers

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Disney's Spectacle of Dancing Lights: By the numbers

Filed under: North America, United States, Theme Parks

The Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights is one of the most popular holiday events at Walt Disney World.

Each night at dusk, the lights are turned on at Disney's Hollywood Studios. It is impossible to take a picture that shows the magnitude of Disney's dancing lights display. It completely covers the buildings in the theme park's Streets of America section. So, to try to give you the big picture, here are some of the numbers that go into making this display.

1,000 - The number of lights this display started with when Jennings Osborne put some lights up outside his Little Rock, Arkansas, home at his daughter's request. When the exhibit grew into millions of lights, it drew too much traffic to his neighborhood and was moved to Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida.

16 - The number of years that the spectacle has been lighting up the night at Disney's Hollywood Studios, where it was first displayed in 1995.

5,000,000 - The number of individual lights now in the Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights display.

350 - The number of miles the strings of lights would cover if laid end to end.

40 - The approximate number of "hidden Mickeys" in the lights display. Disney designers add Mickey shapes to the display, and many guests try to find them all.

Gallery: Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights