It’s well past 8:00 when the music ends and the lights stop dancing, but they stay on. Somewhere along the way we learn that they’ll be on for an hour after park closing. Ah, so we didn’t have to rush, after all. We line up to get our pictures taken by a Photopass photographer. When the family in front of us is posed and ready to get their picture taken, 
the Osborne Lights and music start up again – Trans-Siberian Orchestra this time, a personal favorite – and the photographer has to wait until the dancing stops to take the shots. It’s hard to get a good background when the lights are pulsing on and off!
We enjoy the second light show, and then it’s our turn for pictures.
Afterwards, we’re ready to head out. It feels strange – after all, we just arrived at Disney-MGM Studios about 90 minutes ago, and now we’re leaving. And even more oddly, I’m not sure if we’ll get back here on this trip. We’re planning on spending the 
day at the Magic Kingdom tomorrow, and then we only have a couple of hours Thursday morning before we have to catch the bus to the port. We’d like to see the new (to us) Lights, Motors, Action stunt show, but it may not happen.
We were excited when we found out about this park’s name change to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, 
especially since it was initially reported that the change would be official at the start of the new year. Given that we were booked to be at Walt Disney World over the New Year, we thought we might get to witness the transition and be a part of history. Then, later, the transition was announced as officially being on January 7 – next Monday. So, it’s still Disney-MGM while we’re here.
We stop for another PhotoPass picture on Hollywood Boulevard, and then we’re out of the gates.
4 comments:
I'm jealous! When we were there in October they were working on putting up the lights. I've always wanted to see them, but we opted to go to Disneyland for Christmas instead. Nothing like It's a Small World decorated for Christmas!
See, now that's something I haven't experienced. I haven't been to Disneyland since right after I graduated high school, waaay back in '82. Hopefully I'll get back there in the summer of 2009, when my chorus competes in Anaheim.
Hope you get to Florida sometime for the holidays, though -- it's all spectacular, not just the Osborne lights!
Hopefully you can visit Disneyland in 2009 AND sometime for Christmas. Just make sure you stop by the Firehouse and say 'Hi' to Walt :)
So I doubt whoever wrote these comments 13 years ago will ever see this reply, but the 2009 trip did happen, and was documented in another trip report beginning here: http://theworldofwombat.blogspot.com/2009/07/wombat-in-anaheim-beginning.html. And then Becky & I went back to Disneyland in 2019, after we were empty-nesters -- twice! (Southwest Airlines reward points are good things!) We went for her birthday in May, and then returned in December to enjoy the Christmas decorations.
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