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00:00Let's get this train rollin' in three, two, one, all the way!
00:08This season...
00:09Let it go!
00:10Christmas is approaching full steam ahead.
00:15As families patch up...
00:17The entire house is wrapped in chicken wire?
00:20It is.
00:21...unber-lievable holiday homes.
00:24You live in an igloo?
00:25My dad, my mom killed it.
00:27You'll wanna scroll through...
00:29Yeah!
00:30...for your elf...
00:31This is elf Tyson!
00:34...plus our annual heavyweight special...
00:37This is a battle of epic proportions!
00:40...goes overboard...
00:42This is a battleship.
00:43I love both!
00:45...with the sweetest monster-sized displays.
00:49You're making me hungry right now, all right?
00:51...and tonight, Judge Carter Osterhaus...
00:54What is happening in there?
00:56...blows the roof off the competition...
00:58Look how bright that is!
00:59I think I'm getting a suntan right now!
01:01...with our first $50,000 prize!
01:04This is the coolest Christmas gift ever!
01:08So don't change that channel!
01:10That is amazing!
01:11They're watching The Great Christmas Light Fight!
01:13Because The Great Christmas Light Fight...
01:15I Am Obsessed!
01:16...is on!
01:17We wish you a Merry Christmas!
01:18Moos!
01:19Moos!
01:20Moos!
01:21And a Happy New Year!
01:22Moos!
01:23Moos!
01:24Moos!
01:25Moos!
01:26Moos!
01:27And a Happy New Year!
01:28Moos
01:36And a Happy New Year!
01:37Hi, we're the Paliszo family.
01:41We make Christmas...
01:42Merry!
01:43And Bride!
01:45Woo-hoo!
01:47How'd they look?
01:48This one over here, maybe more the corner.
01:50Got it.
01:51Our display is a synchronized light show.
01:53I call it geek to chic.
01:55The geek really came out at me because I love computers.
01:58I love animation.
02:00My wife is the chic.
02:01She likes the classic look.
02:03Just ladies on top in a zigzag pattern.
02:05Aaron loves precision.
02:07We need to make sure it's completely straight.
02:09Even the pins on the house, he likes to keep it very precise.
02:13Is it straight now?
02:14Yeah.
02:14The big wow of our display is the large driveway matrix.
02:19It is so awesome to see the pixels light up
02:22and turn into some beautiful images.
02:24Check, check, and double check!
02:26To share this with my boys, my daughter, and my wife.
02:29There's nothing better than this experience.
02:35I love this outfit you got on.
03:01I like this.
03:02Tell me a little about who you are and who's with you.
03:04My name is Aaron Peluso, and this is my beautiful bride, Monica,
03:08Jonah, Micah, and Annalie.
03:10We're the Peluso family.
03:11We just have a passion for lights.
03:13We fell in love with lights together.
03:15We love the great Christmas light fight.
03:17There, points right there.
03:18Okay.
03:18Points right there.
03:19You got him, right?
03:20Yeah, absolutely.
03:21The best thing about our display is that we have a techie versus, like, kind of old-school vibe going on here.
03:28So first, we have something to give you.
03:30Okay.
03:30We all have these awesome hats and bracelets.
03:33Yeah, everybody does.
03:34I just got that, by the way.
03:36These are all synchronized to the light show.
03:38It's got some Christmas magic in it, Carter.
03:40How does that look?
03:41Yeah.
03:41He looks great.
03:43Get ready to be mesmerized.
03:44That is impressive.
03:46I don't think I've ever seen that before.
03:47I'm very excited to see it, so how do we get it started?
03:49We can't have any hot chocolate without a marshmallow, so what we're going to ask you is to slide that marshmallow down, and it's going to trigger our button, and it's going to fire that show up.
03:59You guys ready?
04:00We're ready!
04:01Here we go.
04:02Let's count it down in three, two, one!
04:10Wow!
04:10That is a massive matrix.
04:27I can't believe everybody's hats are lighting up.
04:32Magic.
04:32Magic.
04:33It is magic.
04:34This is great.
04:39You have got a lot of lights.
04:41Yeah.
04:42How many lights do you have in this display?
04:44A little bit over 300,000 right now.
04:46Wow!
04:50I love the ice skaters over here.
04:53That's a blow mold up there.
04:54Yes, sir.
04:55I love the mix and match of old school and new school.
04:59Is that your doorway to your house?
05:00It is something special for the kids.
05:09Yeah!
05:09All right!
05:10Come on, guys!
05:11That was amazing.
05:12Can we get in there and check it out?
05:13Yeah!
05:14Let's go!
05:15Let's go!
05:15Come on, guys!
05:16Let's go!
05:16Christmas stocking up.
05:17Everything's really good.
05:19I like the set of like tossing up.
05:22I like to tossing up.
05:23It's Christmas time.
05:27At Christmas time.
05:29Carter, this is our large driveway matrix.
05:34This is unbelievable.
05:36I've never seen one like it before.
05:38And I've seen a ton!
05:39This has 5,400 pixels on it.
05:42Wow!
05:42And it takes almost two months to really put together.
05:45I'm so curious.
05:46Just seeing like, you know, 2x4 framing that you have.
05:49But these lights right here, what are you using to hold them nice and tight?
05:54That's called aircraft cable.
05:55And that allows me to stretch the cable really taut and allows the pixels to stay flat and even.
06:02What is the width of this?
06:03It's 16 feet.
06:04And then you have?
06:0544 feet.
06:06The spacing in between is?
06:08They're 8 and a half inches to really get the image flat.
06:11Preciseness really has to be exact here, because if you don't, it just won't look correct.
06:17One thing you'll notice, Carter, is that there's over 2,000 zip ties on here.
06:21That is a lot of zip ties.
06:25So, Carter, right over here on the end, little turnbuckles.
06:28Each one has a different tension.
06:29We have all of our turnbuckles connected on this side, so it allows all of our wires on the other side.
06:35They go back to my pixel controller that's hidden under the Christmas present.
06:39Yep.
06:40And then this archway, I mean.
06:41We really love these driveway arches, and they synchronize to the music.
06:45This kind of frames it beautifully as you kind of look down the driveway.
06:49Essentially just conduit, I'm assuming.
06:50Electrical conduit, you're right.
06:52What about the stakes in the ground?
06:53They do go down about 4 feet.
06:55Had to have the gas company come out, mark where my gas lines go, because we don't want it.
07:01We don't want to do that.
07:01No hazards at this house.
07:04Little lollipops.
07:08Looking at all of these different items, you guys intermingled old traditional with all of the dancing lights,
07:14and that's not easy to do either.
07:16I tend to think that pixels only is a little bit not inviting.
07:19It's not as soft, so I wanted to make sure that we incorporated some of the vintage or old-fashioned components to it.
07:26I mean, even looking at stuff like this.
07:28This is a homemade cupcake.
07:30Can I pick one up?
07:30Yeah, go for it.
07:32It's really heavy.
07:33Be careful.
07:33Yeah, I don't, I have no idea.
07:35How did you make this?
07:36That is insulation foam with those ping-pong balls.
07:39So delicious looking.
07:40We also use it to hide our speakers.
07:42Oh, right up here.
07:43That is so cool.
07:45No one wants to see an eyesore of a speaker,
07:47so we want to make sure it's inviting and cute like a cupcake.
07:51Look at Santa.
07:55He's coming out of the chimney.
07:57We're going to take a step into here.
07:59You don't let everybody just come into this area, do you?
08:02We're going to be taking a look at something that's really special to my family and I.
08:06Hey.
08:06And it's these wood cutouts.
08:08These are so fun.
08:10So these were the very first things that we had.
08:13This and one strand of lights on the house.
08:15They're kind of old school, but they work with your display.
08:18Exactly.
08:18Can we talk about the roof a little bit?
08:20It looks amazing.
08:21Yeah, my daughter and I spent our time in July really going up on that roof.
08:25I clipped the clips onto the bulbs and he put them in the tiles.
08:30Individually?
08:30Yes.
08:31This is kind of my backdrop to the light show, so we had to tone it way down.
08:35Right now they're at 1%.
08:36They get brighter?
08:37They get way brighter.
08:38Really?
08:38We're going to turn them on to their full brightness.
08:40Ready, here we go.
08:43Whoa!
08:44Look how bright that is.
08:46Oh my gosh.
08:47It's shocking, the difference.
08:49I think I'm getting a suntan right now.
08:51This is amazing.
08:54Look at our top of the tree.
08:57This is the geekiest, highest mega tree that we could actually get on this lawn.
09:02It's about 29 feet.
09:03There's around 4,800 pixels.
09:05Wow.
09:06We have a 1,000-pound winch secured to the house, anchors that go down about 4 feet.
09:11Structurally, this looks amazing.
09:13It's Fort Knox.
09:15These are DC Volt power supplies.
09:18This is what powers my Pixel controllers.
09:20I actually have 22 Pixel controllers.
09:23Whoa.
09:23Some are on the roof.
09:24Some are under the eaves.
09:25Some are in the driveway.
09:27You have so much passion about this thing.
09:29I love it.
09:29I can tell you.
09:30You do love it.
09:31All right, so Carter, we've got to come right over here.
09:40So let me remove the cookie real quick.
09:42All right.
09:43No, just joking.
09:44It's not that heavy.
09:45It's not that heavy.
09:45It's out of styrofoam.
09:47Cord, keeping them organized are really important to me.
09:49So I had to run a power cord down here all the way through the drain, kind of do a little
09:54zigzag, and it goes straight across my roof line.
09:58You have power cords in your gutters?
10:00I didn't want to trip hazard across my driveway.
10:03That is genius.
10:04If you look right here, I have about 8,000 thumbtacks to hold the lights.
10:09You use those for all your lights in the house?
10:11Hurt your thumbs.
10:12I'll tell you that, Carter.
10:13I'm sure.
10:14Half a day, your thumb's hurting like heck.
10:16Yeah, you got to take a break.
10:17Got to take a break.
10:18Oh, what's up, guys?
10:28We're going to show you the Santa's workshop.
10:29This is Santa's workshop?
10:31I was a little unsure if this was actually your front door.
10:33You got to make sure you're elf-sized to get in there.
10:37I have to shrink.
10:38I have to shrink down like this.
10:39Okay.
10:39The kids are ready to drop the Christmas magic on you right in here.
10:42Look at this.
10:44Wow.
10:45I love Santa's workshop.
10:48We're going to show you the Santa's workshop.
10:53This is Santa's workshop?
10:55Whoa.
10:56Look at this place.
10:58This is so cool.
11:00I love Santa's workshop.
11:03I love the fireplace, the wreath, the lights that are strung up across the top.
11:09What's your favorite part of this whole area?
11:11Hit a button.
11:12Oh, I hit a button?
11:14Oh, it plays jingle bells.
11:16That is so fun.
11:17Look at this.
11:18Presents are falling off the conveyor belt.
11:20Come on, man.
11:21Give me a high five.
11:22Nice.
11:23My favorite part of this would be this little village that we have.
11:26Love that.
11:26Those little pieces are my grandparents.
11:28And it's great.
11:29What's on the other side of that?
11:31Our kitchen.
11:31Okay.
11:32There is so much going on in this little space.
11:35We have a little hot chocolate and cookies for you.
11:37Oh, look at this.
11:38This is the coolest place ever.
11:40I never want to go anywhere else.
11:42Stay right here.
11:44Oh, that is perfect.
11:46Should I have a cookie, too?
11:48Yeah.
11:48We made them.
11:50Oh, come on now.
11:51I don't want to leave this room, Annalia.
11:53I really just want to stay right here.
11:55I guess so.
11:56I'll come back.
11:57The Peluso family had an incredible display.
12:00I love the blend of the high-tech and traditional.
12:03When it's done this well, it looks perfect.
12:06You guys, that was so much fun.
12:08I was so impressed.
12:10Just on the matrix alone on the driveway,
12:12that's something I've never seen before.
12:14I love seeing all the lights on the roof
12:16and how precise they are.
12:18The mix and match from the new to the old,
12:20the blow molds,
12:21and then mixing that with all of the dancing lights
12:24that are around.
12:25That's not easy.
12:26Aaron works on it every single day.
12:28This is definitely his dream, his vision,
12:31and he does it all to bring joy to others.
12:34You guys go above and beyond on so many levels,
12:37and that's why I love seeing your display.
12:39I have some other places I've got to go to,
12:41so I'm going to give you guys a big hug
12:42and say Merry Christmas.
12:44Merry Christmas.
12:45Thank you so much.
12:46Take care.
12:47See ya.
12:48I think Carter matched my geek on that one.
12:51We did it, guys.
12:52Woo!
12:53Tug-a-tug-a, tug-a-tug-a, tug-a-tug-a, tug-a-tug-a, tug-a-tug-a.
13:01We're the Grayson family, all aboard the Holiday Express.
13:05Next stop, Christmas.
13:07Choo-choo!
13:08All right, I'm going to have to solder that.
13:10I've been decorating for Christmas since I was a teenager.
13:13My grandfather had a set of trains underneath of the tree,
13:16and it would go round and round,
13:17and I got really involved with it,
13:19and then he left me his train.
13:20Okay, that went on real nice.
13:22And I kept doing them and still are doing them to this day,
13:24and I just love playing with them.
13:26This is the train garden.
13:27It has seven different trains running at one time.
13:30There's an elevated train here that goes along.
13:33He's always working on the trains.
13:35But the trains is, like, all-year-round kind of thing.
13:40The display is set up within an acre of land,
13:43so that's a lot besides making sure everything's placed
13:46exactly where I need it to be.
13:47I bury all the wires.
13:49Carter won't see any wires anywhere.
13:51Okay, we're good.
13:56And the leaves, trying to take care of the leaves
13:58during the light display, it is a real challenge.
14:02We call it leaf wars.
14:05This Christmas display isn't one that you can drive around.
14:08You have to walk around the property,
14:10look at all the decorations, watch the trains.
14:13It just lifts everybody's Christmas spirit.
14:24Are you ready?
14:26Yes!
14:27What's up?
14:28What's up, guys?
14:30Merry Christmas!
14:33Merry Christmas!
14:36How you doing?
14:37How you doing?
14:38Yes!
14:39How you doing?
14:40I'm real good.
14:41I'm Chuck Grayson, and this is my family.
14:43Hi, guys.
14:44How are you?
14:44Hi!
14:45I love the conductor outfit you got going on right now,
14:48and the elves.
14:49Tell me a little bit about your display.
14:50Our theme is trains.
14:52Oh, very cool.
14:53We do this for the whole community.
14:54We have such a blast.
14:56How long have you done it for?
14:57I've been here doing it for 30 years.
14:59Some of the things that I have here are over 50 years old.
15:03Holy smokes.
15:04You've been doing it for a long time.
15:05Yeah.
15:05That's really impressive.
15:07You guys ready to see it?
15:08Yes!
15:11Carter, we have this train back here.
15:13There's a switch here for you to hit.
15:14This is so cool.
15:16Wow.
15:17I've got a conductor's hat for you.
15:19I love wearing hats, but I do have a big head,
15:21so yeah, it doesn't fit me.
15:23But that's okay.
15:23We'll just put it right on the top there.
15:25All right?
15:25Well, how do we get this started?
15:26We're going to say 3, 2, 1, all aboard.
15:28Are you guys ready?
15:30Yes!
15:30All right, here we go.
15:32Let's get this train rolling in 3, 2, 1, all aboard.
15:39Wow.
15:44Let's get this train rolling in 3, 2, 1, all aboard.
15:55Wow.
15:57It goes all the way around the house.
15:59The whole display is one acre big.
16:01Holy moly!
16:04You have the house decorated, the roof is decorated.
16:07You can see all the trains in the front yard.
16:09And wow, a lot of trains.
16:13Wow, this is incredible.
16:15I mean, you have the perfect space for it.
16:17I'm ready to get into it.
16:27Okay, I'll put that on you, all right?
16:29You guys want to check it out?
16:30Yeah!
16:31Come on!
16:32Let's go!
16:33All right.
16:33Look how cool this is!
16:34This is a great perspective to see the entire display, which I love.
16:48It's on a nice hill here.
16:49It's a bit of a challenge setting it up on the hill.
16:51I can imagine.
16:52The perspective is so cool here because it's like an amphitheater.
16:55Okay.
16:55I feel like the seating is all here.
16:58Your house is the stage.
16:59But I'm sure as you walk down, you get a different perspective.
17:02You get the feel of it.
17:02You're in it.
17:04Look at the snowman.
17:05Look at the snowman.
17:08Wow!
17:09Is that Santa?
17:10Yeah, is that Santa?
17:11Did you notice?
17:12Do you see any wires?
17:14I don't see any wires.
17:14There are no wires to be found.
17:16I'm always impressed.
17:17When I can hop over here, I don't see any wires.
17:20Where do you put them all?
17:21They're all buried under the ground.
17:23I take a claw hammer and dig a trench.
17:26And I put the wires in there and cover it back up.
17:29So let me get this straight.
17:30So you take the backside of a hammer that's used to pull out nails.
17:33Correct.
17:34And you just dig a little trench.
17:35Correct.
17:36My man, I do the same thing.
17:37Do you?
17:38That's great.
17:38I knew we were similar.
17:43I like the one on the Christmas tree.
17:49Now, look at all of these trains.
17:53I love the elevated train.
17:54I don't think I've seen one ever.
17:56It took me a whole summer to elevate that track.
17:59It's all pressure treated, one by sixes, on top of a half-inch rebar.
18:02But I tried to make it as level as I could.
18:05It's funny you called it the elevated train because that's its name.
18:07It's the elevated train.
18:13Amazing.
18:14See me!
18:15Whoa!
18:16Hello, Concer.
18:17Good job.
18:18Carter, I want to show you in here.
18:19This is a special thing.
18:20Just follow me.
18:22Yeah.
18:22It's kind of neat to be in the middle of it.
18:24I have very large feet.
18:25Oh, my gosh.
18:26I feel like you're right in it now.
18:27You're in the middle of it.
18:28Whoa!
18:29Whoa!
18:30Hey, buddy!
18:31How you doing?
18:32You're like the only person I've ever allowed in here.
18:35This is the military train.
18:36Okay.
18:37It's all military.
18:38And this one?
18:39That's track one, and it's a lot of maintenance stuff to take care of trains.
18:42Okay, I see that.
18:43But I love these trains.
18:44I mean, there's just so many lights on all of them.
18:46I've had to put every light in there.
18:48I take them in, set them on a workbench, and I start adding these little LEDs to them.
18:51For me to build one helicopter there took me 14 hours.
18:55You know, that's just for one.
18:56That's crazy.
18:57The LEDs are so tiny.
18:58You can almost not see them.
18:59And they put out all this light.
19:00You are devoted to your train track.
19:03All these little scenes that are happening.
19:04Yeah, and the guy buying a newspaper there.
19:07Wow, this is so cool.
19:08I love it.
19:08The Ferris wheel.
19:09You have like a little town.
19:11And if you watch the little guy in the middle, the snow cones turn and stuff.
19:14Yeah, of course.
19:15How long does it take to lay something out like this?
19:17Years, because I just kept building onto it.
19:19Yeah.
19:19One of the main reasons I got into it was the kids that come here.
19:23They notice the detail.
19:25Look at that.
19:29Carter, come on over here.
19:30I'll show you.
19:31Such a different world over here.
19:33The landscaping is just gorgeous.
19:35Well, thank you.
19:35I collected these rocks from this property to be able to build the waterfall and the pond.
19:41Some people think it's a natural stream.
19:43It's really not.
19:44There's two pumps down in here.
19:45That's incredible.
19:47So what'd you build this out of?
19:48It's three quarters.
19:49It's pressure treated.
19:50Two by sixes.
19:51Oh, it is.
19:52Sometimes I need to walk on that.
19:53And why do you have the plexi?
19:55Well, my theory was in case a train fell off, it wouldn't fall into the water.
19:58So I ended up putting it all the way around.
20:00Even the lights.
20:01I didn't even see those lights right there.
20:02I needed lights on here because it was a little dark over here.
20:06So I got these aluminum slots and then cut them in half.
20:09Because they look like real lights that you would see, like on a street.
20:13Hi, guys.
20:15That's so cool.
20:16It brings back the kid inside of anybody.
20:19Carter, if you think this is something, we need to go out back and let me show you what's back there.
20:24It's fantastic.
20:24All right, let's go.
20:25Come on.
20:25Okay, let's go.
20:29Carter, I have a surprise for you.
20:30Okay.
20:31We have a very unique way of showing off their display.
20:34Okay.
20:34And I hope you're not afraid of heights.
20:36What?
20:38You want me to get on that?
20:41That's their Christmas cable swing.
20:43Wow.
20:45How high is that?
20:4660 feet.
20:46That looks so scary.
20:48Is this for real?
20:49Yes.
20:50Now I'm getting a little nervous.
20:51Climb up them steps there.
20:53I don't know what this has to do with Christmas, but I am all for it, guys.
20:56Put this up underneath of you.
20:58Okay.
20:58Back up into it.
20:59Here goes nothing.
21:01You guys ready?
21:02Ready.
21:03Yep.
21:03Give me a countdown, guys.
21:04Ready?
21:05Three, two, one.
21:08Go!
21:09Whoa!
21:11Whoa!
21:13This is awesome.
21:14Oh, my gosh.
21:16This is the coolest Christmas gift ever.
21:20Wow.
21:21Oh, my gosh.
21:23Oh, my goodness.
21:25I felt like I could see the entire town.
21:28I got so high.
21:29That is high.
21:30That is really high.
21:32A little bird's eye view.
21:33It was perfect.
21:34Oh, my gosh.
21:35That is so cool.
21:38Oh, my gosh.
21:40You guys, I am so impressed.
21:42This display had so many twists and turns, and I'm not just talking about the train tracks.
21:47And Chuck does it out of the goodness of his own heart.
21:49I really see why this family pulls out all the stops to make this happen.
21:54That was so much fun.
21:55I had a blast.
21:56I mean, you put me on a swing.
21:58Of course I'm going to love it.
21:59That's one of the coolest things about your display.
22:01There's just so many trains moving around.
22:03You've created all the scenes and also the landscaping, too.
22:07Some of the kids that sit there, they stay there until the parents have to carry them off screaming.
22:11I can imagine.
22:13That's a labor of love.
22:14It's his passion.
22:15You can see how much love he puts into all of it.
22:19Right.
22:19It shows, and that's why I think people keep coming back.
22:22It's such a treat, you guys.
22:23I had such a blast being here.
22:25I had so much fun.
22:27I'm going to just give you a big, I'd say, Merry Christmas.
22:29Merry Christmas.
22:31Thank you so much.
22:33All right, take care, all right?
22:33All right.
22:34Bye.
22:35That was good.
22:36I think he had a really good time on that swing.
22:38He seems a little scared.
22:49We are the Jimenez family, and our display is more than meets the eye.
22:55Christmas time for us is an important holiday.
22:58We come from really traditional families where there's a lot of traditions.
23:04Sorry.
23:05We're from traditional families where there's a lot of traditions?
23:07Help!
23:08I got stuck.
23:09We just made it worse.
23:10We've been decorating for about 11 years now.
23:15It started out pretty simple and pretty basic and added to it every year.
23:19It really sort of transitioned into an interactive walkthrough experience.
23:23We're going to be setting up our sidewalk-adjacent Candyland area.
23:27One of the things we try and do with The Biggest Little Christmas in Phoenix, as we call it, is really do things that can be experienced from a kid's perspective.
23:35So the kids will be able to come through and see Stitch there.
23:38Perfect.
23:39It's so full of whimsy and creativity.
23:44It's a little bit of a lot of things.
23:47Like, you can't turn around and not, like, see something.
23:50Your show is relentless.
23:51It's relentless.
23:52Yeah, it just broke.
23:57Ah!
23:58Doing a display like this in Arizona, it's, like, rocky, clayey soil.
24:03That's a rock.
24:04So we find other ways to do things.
24:05All right.
24:06Well, this blow mold keeps blowing over because we have a really small space to work with.
24:12Half of our display is on our driveway, so one of the things I do is we zip-tie the blow molds to these grids and then set those on the ground and put rocks on the grids.
24:20We still have a lot to do.
24:21Yeah, well, that doesn't look like much.
24:23No, this is what we've already done.
24:25This is what we still need to do.
24:27Oh!
24:28I would love to see us win the Great Christmas Light Bite because it would be a message to people that you don't have to do a Christmas display like every other Christmas display you've seen.
24:47Oh, hey, everybody!
24:48Here comes Parker!
24:51What's up, guys?
24:56Merry Christmas!
25:00What's going on?
25:02Merry Christmas!
25:03How are you doing?
25:05Merry Christmas!
25:07How are you guys doing?
25:08Good.
25:08Fantastic.
25:09Fantastic.
25:09You're looking great.
25:10I love this.
25:12I'm Carl, and this is my spouse, Patty.
25:14How are you doing?
25:15Pleasure.
25:16And this is the biggest little Christmas in Phoenix.
25:18We don't have a lot of space.
25:19It's not a huge yard, so we do a lot of things with scale.
25:23Things that are big and things that are little.
25:24Good things come in small packages.
25:26That's really good.
25:26Oh, that's so cute.
25:29But we also do a lot of wordplay and a lot of sort of puns and kind of like gags like that.
25:35I love that.
25:36I am excited to see this.
25:38Well, we've ordered a special switch from the Holiday Light Display On Switch Company.
25:42Oh!
25:43Out of Traverse City, Michigan.
25:44What? Come on!
25:45That's rough.
25:46Rough!
25:48Are you guys ready?
25:49Yeah!
25:50I'm going to give you the throw bar.
25:52Okay.
25:52You guys know how to use this?
25:54Yeah.
25:54All right, guys.
25:56There you go.
25:58There you go.
25:59Oh!
26:00What happened?
26:01It's tiny.
26:02Prepare to have your mind blown.
26:10That is the cutest little switch I've ever seen.
26:13I even made a little pallet right there.
26:15All right, you guys ready?
26:16Yeah!
26:19Let's count it down in three, two, one!
26:28Oh!
26:28Oh!
26:30Oh!
26:32You weren't kidding!
26:33You packed everything in there!
26:39Where's your yard?
26:39How do you even get in there?
26:41It's all in there somewhere.
26:43I love all the blow molds over here.
26:45What are those, dinosaurs?
26:47Yeah, we got dinosaurs.
26:48All right.
26:49The gingerbread man.
26:51I see a ton of lights.
26:52How many lights do you have in there?
26:53We've got, like, dozens, at least.
26:55Uh, dozens.
26:56Yeah, I feel like I'm going to have a lot of, like, this throughout the night, huh?
27:03You guys want to get in there and check it out?
27:05Yeah!
27:06All right.
27:07Go take a look.
27:07All right.
27:08Come on.
27:08Let's take a look at the start of our display here.
27:29As you know, snowmen and global warming do not go well together.
27:33Yeah.
27:33And so they've gathered here to protest climate change.
27:36Oh!
27:36And...
27:37That's so great!
27:39They're trying to change the world.
27:40So how many blow molds do you got?
27:43A bunch.
27:43Okay.
27:44There was a lot, and now there's more.
27:46And then you keep gathering them?
27:48It just kind of grows.
27:49Luckily, I break a lot of things because they're kind of on me, so then he has to buy new things.
27:53The whole thing is that once you start taking a closer look, there's, like, this sort of, like, next level.
27:57And you're going to get down, and then there's, like, a fourth level that's, like, even, you know, more detailed.
28:02That's some levels!
28:03Yeah!
28:12Well, if you like Snowtown USA, then I think you're going to like what's next.
28:16We have Honey Lane.
28:17I think the best way to experience it is to actually sing it.
28:21Okay, so let's sing it.
28:23All right.
28:23Okay, here we go.
28:24We wish you a Merry Christmas.
28:27We wish you a Merry Fishmas.
28:29We wish you a Merry Christmas.
28:33Moose!
28:36And a Happy New Year!
28:39I love that.
28:40We are literally six feet away from the climate crisis.
28:45And now we just got happiness.
28:47Oh, we have cow puns.
28:48Yes!
28:49Yeah.
28:56I see some major, large things over here.
28:59They're all very specialized Christmas dinosaurs with very specialized Christmas skills.
29:03Right, right.
29:04We have our Triceratops, which has a specialized skill of helping to dig up Christmas trees.
29:10Of course.
29:10Then we have the Brightosaurus.
29:12So he's really good at hanging up decorations up high in the trees.
29:14Yeah, get those bright lights up there.
29:16The Stegnagosaurus.
29:17He just really enjoys a nice eggnog.
29:19It's not necessarily a skill, but it's what's...
29:21Somebody's got to do it.
29:21And then, you know, the big guy here, Tyrannosaurus wraps.
29:24He's got those short arms, so they're really in close, and he can get the detail work of
29:27a really nicely wrapped present.
29:29That's genius.
29:30I mean, half the things are in here.
29:31She's like, nobody's going to get that.
29:33I'm like, oh no, there's one dad who's going to come through and he's going to see that detail.
29:37Some guy comes up and is like, Carl, great job!
29:41I love it.
29:41That makes it all worth it, right?
29:43Exactly.
29:47Of course, over here we have our Winterfest, which is a celebration of fun, friendship,
29:53and elf culture.
29:54There's a concert series that features some of the biggest names in elf music, like Elvish
29:59Presley, Missy Elfiot, Elf Elf Cool J, of course.
30:02That's so great.
30:03One of our most popular features of elf name generator.
30:08Okay.
30:09So the first letter of your name, C, would be Hoppy.
30:13That's my name.
30:13It's Hoppy.
30:14Hoppy.
30:14And then your birth month.
30:16Oh, no way.
30:17I'm Hoppy Jolly Flakes.
30:20You look like a Hoppy Jolly Flakes.
30:23Hi, I'm Hoppy Jolly Flakes.
30:26Let me try again.
30:26Oh, hi.
30:29I'm Hoppy Jolly Flakes.
30:36Over here we have Mr. and Mrs. Claus.
30:41Of course, got Mrs. Claus here.
30:43With her bake shop.
30:44Smell the cookies.
30:45Oh, I can smell it from here.
30:47Okay.
30:47And then, of course, Santa's workshop.
30:49I love all the detail.
30:51So we really try and literally take our view from a kid's perspective.
30:55Sure.
30:56And I'll literally get, like, on my knees.
30:58Yeah, because you kind of have to.
30:59And crawl through the display.
31:00Well, yeah, if you don't get down in here, you're not going to see.
31:03Mrs. Claus has a picture of Santa.
31:07And Santa has a picture of Mrs. Claus in his hands.
31:10Oh, that's so sweet.
31:13Santa!
31:16I'm just going to stay on my knees from now on, okay?
31:19I mean, I feel like everywhere I look, I want to see something more interesting than the last.
31:23Okay, we can do that.
31:25We can.
31:25Bring us over to Penguin-topia.
31:27Yeah.
31:27It's an iceberg with penguins on it.
31:29Great.
31:29But if you get in, there's a surprise in there for you.
31:33Oh, my gosh.
31:35What is happening in there?
31:37That is incredible.
31:43What?
31:44There's a surprise in there for you.
31:46Oh, my gosh.
31:48Whoa.
31:49There's a whole world in there.
31:51There is.
31:51I got a pond liner.
31:52I flipped over, spray paint it white.
31:54Yeah.
31:54But then there's this big hole on the side where the plumbing was for the pond.
31:57Yeah.
31:57And I'm like, maybe I don't cover up the hole.
31:59Genius.
31:59And I do something else with it.
32:01That is so creative.
32:02I was not expecting any of this.
32:04But it's what's inside the Penguin-topia.
32:06Yeah, again, that's the layers.
32:08That blows my mind right there.
32:11It's ice skating.
32:16Here we have the Keebler House, which is the home for Wayward Elves.
32:21Yes.
32:21Oh, sweet.
32:22So we have elves just going about their business when they're not making toys.
32:27And then I don't know if you can see, but down in the living room, our elves are watching something on television.
32:34You've got to be kidding me.
32:37They're watching the Great Christmas Light Bites.
32:39The elves love Great Christmas Light Bites.
32:40What?
32:41They've got a Carter episode in there.
32:43I'm so impressed.
32:44I am not worthy.
32:45I have never seen this, ever.
32:48Did you see in here?
32:48You've got to see this.
32:50Oh, my gosh.
32:52Wait, that is so cool.
32:56Then we come over here.
32:57We've got our food truck giving away free samples, candy canes as big as your head, as long as you're outside.
33:04Oh, as long as you're a little miniature.
33:06We come over here.
33:07Santa's got a little bit of a side hustle.
33:08Okay.
33:09You've got to diversify in this economy.
33:11I don't know if you want to give that horn a little.
33:13Hit it, Santa.
33:17There we go.
33:19Uh-oh.
33:19Uh-oh.
33:20Uh-oh.
33:20Oh, no.
33:21They've all escaped.
33:22Somebody left the door open.
33:23Do not open crate door.
33:25If the nutcrackers escape, they're likely to engage in holiday hijinks and horseplay.
33:30This one over here trying to trick you into eating a pepper instead of a peppermint.
33:34Christmas joy.
33:35And now it's just, oy.
33:36These little dudes, you can't trust them.
33:39They can be naughty folks.
33:40Mm-hmm.
33:43Jack!
33:43Jack!
33:44Jack!
33:45It's a good one.
33:50Remember when we saw Santa's delivery truck over there?
33:52Well, the trees that he's delivering come from Quick Nick Tree Farm.
33:55Perfect.
33:56Some customized trees.
33:57You've got the Jack Skellington Bone Daddy tree.
34:00Oh, I see a really special tree.
34:02Oh, yeah.
34:03There we go.
34:05I've got my own tree.
34:06Some wrenches and some hammers.
34:08Smart.
34:09A variety of tools and things.
34:10Play to your audience.
34:11I like it.
34:12Yeah.
34:12Right?
34:13Quick Nick's tree farm has inspired me for my new tree now.
34:16There you go.
34:16I like it.
34:20So we use every part of our yard.
34:23Of course.
34:23What we've got to show you is something on a scale you've never seen before.
34:28And rather than see how big we could go, we wanted to see how small we could go.
34:32So we have the micro tree, which is the littlest Christmas tree in Arizona.
34:38Come on.
34:40Under the microscope, you can take a look and you can see the micro tree there.
34:45No way.
34:47I think this is a joke.
34:49Special shrinking technology has been employed.
34:52Come on.
34:53So you can see the sensors here that are like reading the tree data.
34:55I mean, the sensor technology alone at that scale, it was really a challenge.
35:00Yeah.
35:01Whoa.
35:02I get the joke.
35:03That is genius.
35:05Who thought of that?
35:05The micro tree is one of our proudest accomplishments.
35:09I am very impressed.
35:10Congratulations.
35:11You've done a very good job.
35:12Absolutely.
35:12And all of your clinical trials and finally getting into this.
35:15See, like the scientists have been busy.
35:17So you've seen the littlest Christmas tree in Arizona, right?
35:20I mean, I think I saw.
35:21Yeah, sure.
35:21Well, and with that, you get the special prize here.
35:23Ah!
35:24Special button.
35:25That is perfect!
35:27I love it!
35:27There you go.
35:29Carl and Patty created a tremendously creative display.
35:32Everything is packed in by making things small and telling a story on different levels.
35:38But you know what?
35:39That took it to the next level.
35:41Patty, Carl, that was amazing!
35:43When you guys said this was the biggest little Christmas, you weren't kidding.
35:47There was so much to see in here.
35:49I love the fact that you have so many different scenes within your space.
35:52There was just so many different things, so many different levels.
35:56If you didn't get down and you didn't see that different perspective,
35:59you wouldn't really know what's happening inside each part of the display.
36:04I just kept wanting to do more.
36:06Yeah.
36:07But we're just landlocked with the amount of space that we have.
36:10And I do like to think that people come to this and be like,
36:13oh, we can do something really big and really cool with just what we have.
36:17Yeah.
36:17I think that he's made something really magical.
36:20So just getting to help him with that, I feel really lucky.
36:23Carl and Patty's display is so clever and detail-oriented,
36:27but I have seen some amazing displays.
36:29This is going to be a really hard decision to make.
36:32Thank you so much.
36:33I just want to give you both a huge hug.
36:35Thanks for being here.
36:35Thank you so much for coming.
36:36Take care, guys.
36:37Bye!
36:38Thanks for coming.
36:39Hey, great job.
36:41You too.
36:42I'm really proud of you.
36:43Oh, yes.
36:44All right, so what do you think next year?
36:46More blow molds?
36:46Oh, probably.
36:48We can go more on the, do some more display on the roof.
36:50That's a great idea.
36:51Let's talk about that tomorrow.
36:52Want your display to shine?
36:54Go to abc.com slash casting to apply to be on the show.
36:58All right.
37:09What's up, big guy?
37:15This competition had me smiling like a kid on Christmas morning.
37:19The Peluso family from Carlsbad, California, tech the halls with bows of circuits in a picturesque pixel show like nothing I've ever seen before.
37:30I can't believe everybody's hats are lighting up.
37:32Magic.
37:33Magic.
37:34It is magic.
37:35The driveway matrix with animated characters was a true engineering feat.
37:39I've never seen one like it before.
37:41And I've seen a ton.
37:42Plus, the nostalgic pieces in Santa's workshop added such a sweet touch to the display.
37:48This is the coolest place ever.
37:50All four!
37:52The Grayson family from Parkton, Maryland, went full steam ahead with a festive train-themed display.
37:58Whoa!
37:59Hey, buddy!
38:00How you doing?
38:01Chuck's massive collection of lit-up trains speeding through an intricate landscape of miniature villages got Christmas rolling on the right track.
38:09It brings back the kid inside of anybody.
38:12It was such a fun way to swing into the Christmas mood.
38:15This is the coolest Christmas gift ever!
38:20The Jimenez family from Phoenix, Arizona, packed a plethora of puns into a pint-sized presentation.
38:27You can see the micro-tree there.
38:30Carl and Patricia were a couple of Christmas comedians who utilized layers and scale to decorate inside their decorations.
38:37There's a whole world in there!
38:39There is!
38:39With a clever take on Christmas that brought me to my knees.
38:43That is amazing!
38:44They're watching The Great Christmas Light Fight!
38:48All right.
38:48It's right up here, Santa.
38:50And now, Santa and I have something special for Under the Tree.
38:58Hit it, Santa!
38:59Thanks, Santa!
39:00Thanks, Santa!
39:01All right, this is going to be fun.
39:03It's garnered!
39:04No, seriously!
39:05See?
39:06No!
39:06What?
39:07Hey, guys!
39:07What?
39:08Come on out, guys!
39:09What are you doing?
39:10How are you?
39:11Good!
39:12Good!
39:13Good!
39:14We're a little surprised!
39:15Good to see you!
39:16Good to see you!
39:17Good to see you!
39:18Merry Christmas!
39:19Merry Christmas!
39:20Oh, my gosh!
39:21Merry Christmas!
39:22How you been?
39:23Fantastic!
39:24Pretty good!
39:25Yeah?
39:26Well, I have to tell you guys, I've been to a lot of awesome places, and yours was super
39:32cool.
39:33I did love it a lot.
39:34You know, you guys proved that you don't have to have a massive display to have massive amounts
39:40of creativity.
39:41And that's why you guys are the champions of The Great Christmas Light Fight!
39:46You just won $50,000!
39:48Congratulations!
39:49Oh, my gosh!
39:50Congratulations, you guys!
39:56I'm, like, blown away.
39:58Yeah.
39:59I'm absolutely blown away, like...
40:00I'm not often speechless in what you've done here.
40:02No!
40:03You were not speechless the entire time you didn't walk through.
40:06Come on!
40:07The creativity was off the charts.
40:09You know, when you talk about deck the halls, you guys decked the halls.
40:12Yeah.
40:13And the halls of the halls.
40:14Yeah.
40:15You didn't stop.
40:16You had to, like, get down and really see everything that you could.
40:19And you had your micro treat.
40:20I mean, were you pranking me?
40:22No!
40:23Are you sure?
40:24Just proves it's not the size of the display.
40:26It's the creativity.
40:27Thanks so much.
40:28I hope we inspire other people to go for it.
40:31Do it.
40:32Yeah.
40:33Okay.
40:34Well, I have a tiny little surprise for you.
40:36Is he giving me that coffee I need?
40:38That coffee?
40:39You guys ready?
40:40Oh, my gosh.
40:41It's fantastic.
40:42It's beautiful.
40:43Can you see it?
40:44It's a micro trophy.
40:45Look at that.
40:46It's the smallest trophy.
40:47There you go.
40:48You need that?
40:49There you go.
40:50Oh, you didn't fit this whole name on there.
40:51Yeah.
40:52You want this?
40:53There we go.
40:54You got it?
40:55Okay.
40:56Woo!
40:57They won the micro trophy!
40:58Yes!
40:59Give me that.
41:00I got something else for you.
41:01Can I put this in here?
41:02Yeah.
41:03Put it in there.
41:04All right.
41:05Here it is.
41:06There we go.
41:07Look at that.
41:08That's the real thing.
41:09And...
41:10Fantastic.
41:11It's yours.
41:12Take it, Patty.
41:13Can you believe that?
41:14Our silly little display.
41:16Fantastic.
41:17Woo!
41:18Woo!
41:19Woo!
41:20Woo!
41:21Woo!
41:22Woo!
41:23Woo!
41:24Woo!
41:25Woo!
41:26Woo!
41:27Woo!
41:28We got it.
41:29Come on, man.
41:30Look at this.
41:31Let me help you raise it up.
41:32Yeah!
41:33This is just amazing.
41:34It's frosting.
41:35Is frosting better than icing?
41:36Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:37You want cream cheese frosting?
41:38This is the cream cheese frosting?
41:39This is the cream cheese frosting.
41:40On the cake?
41:41On our light show cake.
41:42Oh, that's nice.
41:43That's a good metaphor.
41:44Maybe let's take it to the lab,
41:45see if we can shrink it.
41:46Ooh!
41:47We'll make it tiny.
41:48That's right.
41:49Yeah.
41:50Because, you know, around here we say, like,
41:51if something's good, shrink it.
41:52Yeah.
41:53The smaller the better.
41:54We can publish in the shrinking journals.
41:56That's right.
41:57Shrinking today.
41:58Shrinking today.
41:59Shrinking today.
42:00Stephanie
42:06Shrinking today.
42:07Stephanie
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