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The Magic of Lights display will be produced by Family
Entertainment Live, a family-oriented entertainment holding
company headquartered in Medina, Ohio. The event is
presented by WLBT-TV. “We are excited to bring Magic of
Lights to the Brandon community and the Brandon Amphitheater
for the first time ever and hope it becomes an annual
holiday tradition,” says Ken Hudgens, CEO of Family
Entertainment Live.
Ted Fortenberry, Regional Vice President and GM of WLBT
says, “We are excited to present the Magic of Lights at
Brandon’s Amphitheater. It is the perfect setting for this
fantastic family holiday experience. Helping to bring in
events like Magic of Lights so families can create lifelong
holiday memories fits perfectly with WLBT’s commitment to
serve the communities of Central and Southwest Mississippi.”
Visitors to the event can enjoy the tour’s displays from the
comfort of their own vehicle. Displays will feature a 32-foot
tall, animated Mattel’s Barbie, and prehistoric Christmas
display featuring life-sized dinosaurs celebrating the season.
Other displays will include Big Foot Monster Trucks, Winter
Wonderland, as well as Magic of Lights favorites including the
Twelve Days of Christmas, Toyland, and the 200-foot long
Enchanting Tunnel of Lights. “Magic of Lights is a nostalgic
and festive experience for guests of all ages,” says Hudgens.
The numbers to create the event are staggering. The total
Magic of Lights event will use 12.6 miles of light cord. It takes
3,750-man hours to set up each Magic of Lights event. Each
Magic of Lights event uses about ten miles of steel to build
the displays and ten miles of LED lighting installed inside of
the displays, which are designed, bent, cut, and welded into
about 800 frames that are combined in different color
configurations to create each show’s giant winter holiday
scenes. Each frame of each scene is designed using state-ofthe-art
technology. And each display is hand-built in-house
from fifteen pages of design specifications. Scenes are as
high as 32 feet tall, and as long as several hundred feet.
Magic of Lights shines nightly from 5:30pm until 10pm.
Mayor Lee says more than 10,000 vehicles are expected
to drive to Rankin County to experience the event. “This
Christmas light event will pave the way for this to become
an annual, family friendly show in the years ahead.”
Tickets for this festive holiday event are on sale now and
can be purchased for any day starting at just $15 per vehicle.
For a complete schedule and to purchase tickets, visit
MagicOfLights.com/Brandon.
16 • NOVEMBER 2022