 Schlittebahn’s Hill Country Christmas in
New Braunfels,
Texas (close to San Antonio) shuts down their award winning water park in the fall and
starts preparing for Christmas. They create a dazzling award winning walk-through
display bringing in people from all over Texas.
Anybody can
put up millions of Christmas lights but Schlitterbahn wanted to have some of
their displays choreographed to music. They quickly called Animated Lighting and work
was begun in October.
Schlitterbahn took one of their pools, drained
the water and
built scaffolding to hold some Christmas trees. The staff called it the
wedding cake because that's what the scaffolding looked like without the
trees. Soon enough 19 six foot
tall trees were added, each with two colors of lights and a giant Christmas
tree was formed. They added 18 huge snowflakes, various
ornaments and named it Holiday Illuminations. Animated Lighting called it the display needing 63 light
channels sequenced to five different Christmas songs.
Inside the wedding cake are four Animated Lighting ELD-16
controllers connected to a Monster Brain. 16 minutes of lights
sequenced to music were produced by Animated Lighting and Animated Lighting
even put a technician on-site to make sure everything was perfect.
Once the tree was built and everything working, mini-lights were strung
from the base of the wedding cake to the sides of the pool to imitate water
glisten in the night. Holiday Illuminations ended up being one of the
favorite destinations in the park.
Be sure and
watch
this short video to see how Animated Lighting brought
life to Holiday Illuminations at the Schlitterbahn Hill Country Christmas.
Holiday Illuminations ended up being just one of four
animated displays at Schlittebahn’s Hill Country Christmas in
New Braunfels,
Texas. We'll be happy to share information with you on how to bring
this same dazzling technology to your venue.
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The Holiday Illuminations set. The pool was drained of water
and a wooden structure built to hold 19 six foot tall trees on four
different levels. Without the trees the staff thought it looked
like a wedding cake and the name stuck for internal use. |
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Inside the wedding cake at the base level. The pool concrete
can be seen at the bottom of the picture. The main power
distribution panel is on the left, an Animated ELD-16 is in the center
and the wooden box on the right houses the Monster Brain to control the
display. |
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Inside the wedding cake everything is very three dimensional
requiring a ladder to get to the various Animated Lighting controllers.
Look carefully for two controllers at the top and one near the bottom of
the picture on
the back wall. |
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A close-up view of one of the controllers connected to trees at the
top of the Holiday Illuminations display. |
Be sure and
watch this short video to see how Animated Lighting brought
life to Holiday Illuminations at the Schlitterbahn Hill Country Christmas.
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