Top 10 Excessive Christmas Light Displays

I have spent years crawling the web for the best Christmas displays so you don’t have to. Here are the 10 best displays that I have come across.

Note: ‘Excessive’ has no negative connotations.

10. Just barely making it onto the list is an automated display timed to the peanuts theme. Link to Youtube.

9. controltheshow.com offers a unique experience where the user gets complete control over christmas lights that are viewable via a webcam. There is a queue system where the user gets sole control over the lights for a minute.

8. An automated light display of the song Carol of the Bells is one of the better ones around and made it into this list.

7. These aren’t a light displays, or even displays at all, but they are just sooo awesome that I had to put them in here. gotchabox.com has some hilarious fake product boxes (eg. a 28 piece wisk set) to put real presents in. Too bad it’s too late to order these for Christmas.

6. Here is another automated Christmas light display to the Trans Siberian Orchestra’s the Nutcracker.

5. Kipkay has recently posted an easy Christmas Light hack that anyone could easily do. This video explains how to hook up a set of Christmas light to a stereo and blink in time with the music.

4. Automated Christmas Bells playing the Super Mario theme are pretty difficult to make, but would be good for impressing the ladies. The producer briefly explains how he made the bells here.

3. I don’t like techno (or Christmas music either), but this display plays in time to Da Rude’s Sandstorm.

2. Alek has offered his amazing light display for the public to control. He is doing this all for Celiac Disease (you can donate on his website). There is quite a bit of traffic on this site, so the lights don’t always respond to input. This display started of as a hoax, but probably isn’t now. The Musem of Hoaxes covers this here.

1. It was a close battle between first and second, but the original viral Christmas lights movie has prevailed. It is done to the song ‘Wizards of Winter’. This video has also been rumored to be a hoax, but Snopes debunked that here.