Lindsay Lights

[indamixx99]

Wow this is awesome! Its basically the same thing as the house with the Trans Siberian Orchestra music 2 years ago that's also on the Budweiser commercials.

80,000 lights, 110,000ft of wire, and 35,000 watts. Wonder what their electric bill is.

Live Streaming Webcam
The live cam is only available at nights when the show is actually running.

I was unable to find any good youtube vids on this, except ones from previous years.


http://lindsaylights.com for more info on this display, as well as all the technical goodness on how this thing works.

Not sure if this is a repost btw...

 

[yllus]

Interesting, it's in Toronto. I'm not Christmassy enough to actually venture up there though.

 

[Mrvile]

They're doing Pirates of the Carribean now.

EDIT: Ok now it's TSO

 

[jumpr]

I'm sure their neighbors are thrilled. :roll:

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm sure their neighbors are thrilled. :roll:

I would just sublty tap into the lines and power my house for free......

 

[YoungGun21]

I wish my house could be like that

 

[vital]

here's another one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwOCmJyCZk

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
They're doing Pirates of the Carribean now.

EDIT: Ok now it's TSO

I guess my kids were correct when they it was PotC...

Pretty cool.

 

[Exterous]

Originally posted by: vital
here's another one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwOCmJyCZk

the music reminds me of the good ol super mario days

 

[Homerboy]

God in heaven if I hear that horrendous TSO crap one more time this season...

 

[ViviTheMage]

slick haha

 

[RaistlinZ]

I wonder if they had to work out an agreement with their neighbors as to when they can have those lights on.

 

[DrPizza]

For what it's worth, there are dozens if not hundreds of places online. Look for the Light-O-Rama site. They make the controllers that are most popular for such shows. I believe Lindsay's house was posted here last year and the year before.

 

[sniperruff]

lol the car drove by was probably like wtf

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
For what it's worth, there are dozens if not hundreds of places online. Look for the Light-O-Rama site. They make the controllers that are most popular for such shows. I believe Lindsay's house was posted here last year and the year before.

Light-O-Rama is very popular, as is D-Light and http://animatedlighting.mywowbb.com/. Unless they've made a massive hardware change in the last year or so, and IIRC, Lindsay Lights uses home grown controllers, rather than off the shelf.

I also don't know about the Lindsay brothers neighbors, but it seems that many neighbors enjoy having a light display nearby, and more and more are wanting to join in. I think that my friend Rob LaRe's display, PicTown Lights , is up to 15 houses on 1 street. Marty Slack, of Christmas Utah, has neighbors that generally cooperate and are appreciative, from what I've heard. The list goes on and on. And then there are, of course, those neighbors that detest Christmas light displays... I don't feel like getting into that crap.

http://www.planetchristmas.com is an excellent website for those of you who are interested in the "Christmas Light Enthusiast" community.

http://www.constantlychristmas.com is another, though we focus more on technical details, how-tos, and etc., and are more of a close knit family than is the PlanetChristmas forums community. The ConstantlyChristmas usergroup could be considered a select subset of PlanetChristmas users. CC requires a full real name and location to be provided in order for your membership to be approved.

There are other forums out there, but the above are probably the most well known and active within the Christmas Lighting Enthusiasts community.

 

[Rubycon]

very nicely done

 

[johnjohn320]

Originally posted by: vital
here's another one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwOCmJyCZk

Holy crap that was annoying...

 

[indamixx99]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320

Originally posted by: vital
here's another one
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_vwOCmJyCZk

Holy crap that was annoying...

Hmm, yeah I dont think I'd be able to watch the entire show with that music playing. They should have put an animated mario in there.

 

[LookingGlass]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
very nicely done

That is nicely done, I normally can't stand that stuff. It was tasteful, the use of color, the timing, I really liked it! :thumbsup:

 

[adairusmc]

Originally posted by: jumpr
I'm sure their neighbors are thrilled. :roll:

The neighbors are irrelevant. It is not their property, hopefully there is not a damn thing they can do about it if they did care.

 

[indamixx99]

I think the main disturbance to the neighbors would be the increased traffic, followed by the flashing lights from the house. The audio is actually broadcast via fm transmitter so the cars can hear it on their own radios, which I thought was pretty cool.

 

[Sacraster]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
very nicely done

wow, it is really nicely done. :thumbsup:

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Sacraster

Originally posted by: Rubycon
very nicely done

wow, it is really nicely done. :thumbsup:

There are higher quality videos of the Holdman display here.

If you like that, you might also want to check out:

Marty Slack's Christmas Utah (my personal favorite)
Mike Sigmond's Gilbert Lights
Robert Cox's O Holy Lights