Magic of Lights Returns to Alabama Adventure

 

Alabama Adventure will host its Annual Drive-Through Holiday Lights Spectacular, including FREE Santa Photos this year!

 

 

Opening November 22nd for the Holiday Season!

 

Affordable for All Holiday Pricing – “One Carload, One Price”

 

Tickets now on sale at Magicoflights.com

 

Bessemer, AL – This holiday season promises to be brighter, merrier, and more colorful with the return of Magic of Lights. Alabama Adventure will be transformed into a vibrant drive-through light display and Holiday Village with FREE Santa Photos creating unforgettable memories for all. The festive event opens Friday, November 22nd and runs through Saturday, January 4th.

 

This year, guests at Magic of Lights can look forward to a magical new addition: FREE Santa Photos! For 2024, guests will have the chance to capture their holiday spirit with a special photo op featuring Santa Claus himself. As attendees visit the holiday village, they will have the opportunity to take a festive selfie with Santa, creating cherished memories and a perfect holiday keepsake—all at no additional cost. It’s a fun and festive way to make your visit even more memorable!

Produced by Family Entertainment Live, “Magic of Lights” is making its return to Alabama Adventure. This enchanting event will showcase dozens of displays, festive favorites, and captivating digital animations, all brought to life with millions of LED lights, ensuring a memorable holiday experience for the entire family. “We’re excited for Magic of Lights to return to Alabama Adventure for the second year in a row said Ken Hudgens, CEO of Family Entertainment Live, “We hope Magic of Lights has become a part of the Birmingham holiday tradition, and will be for many years to come”

“We are absolutely thrilled to be collaborating with Magic of Lights for the second year! Their expertise in creating enchanting, immersive light displays is unparalleled, and we couldn’t have asked for a better partner to bring this vision to life. Together, we’re going to create a Christmas experience like no other, one that will leave our guests in awe. We can’t wait to see the magic they’ll weave into our park to make this holiday season truly unforgettable!” -Dan Koch, President

 

Guests can experience Magic of Lights’ beloved holiday displays from the comfort of their own vehicle, including Prehistoric Christmas, Winter Wonderland, the 12 Days of Christmas, Toyland, festive Elves, and Reindeer Road. Along with the 200-foot Enchanting Tunnel of Lights, there will be new and captivating light tunnels to enhance the festive journey.

 

For the 2024 season, the brand-new MagicVision Selfie Filters will be unveiled featuring fun filters that will transform your selfies into festive holiday-themed images, perfect for sharing with friends and family.

 

Other dazzling displays include the 32-foot-tall animated Mattel’s Waving Christmas Barbie®, a Prehistoric Christmas scene with life-sized dinosaurs celebrating the season, and the iconic BIGFOOT® Monster Truck. With over two million sparkling lights, Magic of Lights offers a nostalgic and festive experience that everyone will love.

 

Guests can also stop inside the Jolly Holiday Village, which allows visitors to walk through a majestic out-of-car area featuring Candy Cane Lane, Toyland and other holiday activities.

 

 

QUICK FACTS – MAGIC OF LIGHTS

· 2+ million lights per Magic of Lights event

· 12.6 miles of light cord per Magic of Lights event

· 3,750 staff hours to set up each Magic of Lights event

· The steel displays are designed, bent, cut and welded into about 800 frames that are combined in different configurations to create each show’s giant winter holiday scenes. Each frame of each scene is designed using the latest CAD technology and hand built in-house from 15 pages of design specifications each.

· Each Magic of Lights show uses about 10 miles of steel to build the displays and 10 miles of LED lighting installed inside the displays, there are 10 different colors of LED bulbs used in the shows.

· Scenes, such as the animated Mattel’s Waving Christmas Barbie, are as high as 32 ft. tall and as long as several hundred feet.

 

Magic of Lights dazzles daily from 5:30pm to 9:00pm, starting from November 22nd through January 4th. Tickets for this vibrant seasonal event will be available for purchase starting October 18th at 10am with pricing set per vehicle.

For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets, visit MagicOfLights.com/Birmingham

 

About Venue

 

Alabama Adventure & Splash Adventure is a family owned, 100-acre, water park and amusement park in Bessemer, Alabama that has been thrilling guests since 1998! Since the Koch Family purchased the park in 2014, Alabama Adventure and Splash Adventure has been two great parks for one price and strives to be the embodiment of safe, clean, friendly, fun. This continually expanding amusement park and water park combo offers a thrilling blend of adrenaline-pumping rides, refreshing water attractions, and endless fun for visitors of all ages.

 

About Family Entertainment Live

Family Entertainment Holdings, LLC is a diversified, entertainment holding company that develops family-oriented live events including Magic of Lights ®, an outdoor holiday lights drive-through experience produced at venues throughout North America and Hot Wheels® Monster Trucks Live, showcasing a toys-to-life show of Mattel’s legendary Hot Wheels Monster Trucks show presented across North America, Europe and elsewhere internationally. The Company is headquartered in New York, NY. For more information visit familyentertainmentlive.com