Holiday Fantasies Come To Life
Halloween 2024: This year’s theme is Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland.
Dates & Hours: To Be Announced, but plan is to have the yard display up by the beginning of October, starting at 6:30pm every night.
Admission: Free
Location: 1505 N. Valley Street, Burbank 91505
Website: facebook.com/holidayfantasies
Quick Take: Holiday Fantasies Come To Life offers an amazing display of props, settings, and figures, which do indeed seem to bring fantasies to life. An occasional live character or mechanical figure adds a bit of life to the mostly static display, but mostly it is the sheer scale of the presentation overwhelms the senses. Halloween yard displays do not get much better than this.
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Holiday Fantasies Come to Life: Overview
Holiday Fantasies Come To Life is, as the name suggests, not limited to Halloween. Rather, proprietors Tina Schaefer and Arnulfo Padilla decorate their home for both October and December, utilizing a different theme every year.
Halloween 2018 offered a spectacular take on Pirates of the Caribbean. Far more than a few skeletons and some skull-and-crossbones flags, this stupendous Halloween yard haunt resembles a pirate galleon parked where a house should be, with a skeleton at the helm, ghosts peering down, alligators lurking in a “swamp,” and numerous blood-thirsty scalawags posed to recreate memorable images and scenes from the Disney ride and the feature films. The Pirate theme returned for Halloween 2019, but the pirate ship was replaced with a castle.
During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Holiday Fantasies switched to a Disney’s Villains theme for Halloween, featuring Cruella and Ursula. Disney icons remained visible during the 2020 Christmas display. Halloween 2021 saw Dreamworks’ Shrek taking over from Disney; the display included a live Headless Horseman, adding a slightly scary element. This was followed by the Wizard of Oz in 2022.
Halloween 2023 saw a change of pace, with Holiday Fantasies for the first time adopting an a more over horror theme for Halloween: Classic Monsters. The tone was still family-friendly, but for the first time the yard was filled with familiar icons such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Mummy.
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