Show Us Your Crazy Christmas Decorations

Show Us Your Crazy Christmas Decorations

Every year, my parents’ neighborhood in Dallas goes all-out for Christmas. We’re talking, trees wrapped in lights from trunk to top, teams of reindeer on display, and even a house with giant, moving jack-in-the-box effigies of every family member moving in sync with carols. Have you seen similar stuff? We want to see it.

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Japanese Christmas Light Displays Are Simultaneously Absurd and Calming

Japanese Christmas Light Displays Are Simultaneously Absurd and Calming

In south Japan, Mie prefecture is rocking 7 million LED Christmas lights. Hence the awesome light tunnel above. "Illuminations" or Christmas light displays have been a big deal in Japan since the 1980s. But there’s something a lot more contemplative about these lights compared to some of the spectacles in the U.S..

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This Christmas Tree Is Lit by 1,000 Brussels Sprouts

This Christmas Tree Is Lit by 1,000 Brussels Sprouts

Leaving hundreds of twinkling Christmas lights on over the festive period adds a hefty chunk to your winter electricity bill. But what if there was an alternate source other than the mains with which to illuminate your tree? What if the lights were juiced by…Brussels sprouts?

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This Blinding 502,165 Christmas Light Display Is in Someone’s Home

Ready for a big number? 502,165. That’s the number of LED lights the family of David and Janean Richards in Canberra, Australia has decked its home in order to clinch the 2013 Guinness World Record for most Christmas lights in one display. Whoa.

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Watch Christmas Lights Recreate Star Trek’s Beam Me Up Scotty Effect

Even non-Star Trek fans have dreamed about teleporting away to space by just saying Beam Me Up, Scotty. And though it’s unlikely to ever happen in our lifetimes (prove me wrong smart people!), the special effects maestro Shanks FX has cooked up a slick way to recreate the Star Trek teleportation effect with Christmas lights.

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Of Course There Is a House with a Christmas Lights Show Set to Gangnam Style

Gangnam Style has over 800 million views on YouTube so it’s only fitting that a house has its Christmas Lights set to the South Korean horse dancing song. Watch it, it’s kinda amazing how well it works. I guess Gangnam Style can be the new Jingle Bells. [YouTube via BuzzFeed] More »