This article/news comes to us from the Orlando Sentinel.
Under the cloak of darkness, Walt Disney World rapidly turns pumpkins into poinsettias. But it’s not the handiwork of a fairy godmother. Dozens of workers shift the Magic Kingdom from Halloween into a full-on, deck-the-halls Christmas mode.
The stroke of midnight isn’t the deadline, yet a sense of urgency looms. The quick change started immediately after the final Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party last Monday and had to be finished before tonight, the first Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party event of the season.
“As soon as the [Halloween] event was over, we took all of the event-specific decor out of the park,” said Katrina Wilder, a Disney World planner for events and decorating support. First to be packed up are themed backdrops for photo opportunities with characters.
Other first-night work includes the removal of jack-o’-lantern decorations from the lampposts on Main Street. Sometimes the dismantling causes paint to chip on the pole, prompting “a mad rush of painters to touch it up,” Wilder said.
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Photo credit Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Orlando Sentinel / November 5, 2010
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