{"id":48,"date":"2011-12-23T22:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2011-12-23T22:23:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T22:23:43","slug":"monorail-christmas-tree-disaply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/23\/monorail-christmas-tree-disaply\/","title":{"rendered":"Monorail Christmas Tree Disaply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We started a few years ago with the WDW Monorail playset you can buy in the parks for about $73 and put it around our Christmas Tree. Next, we bough the Contemporary Resort accessory that, just like the real hotel, the monorail can drive through. Then I found out about an old set of ceramic buildings by a company called Dept. 56.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1994-1996, they apparently made a series called &#8220;Disney Parks Heritage Village Collection&#8221; across two years. Slowly but surely, I&#8217;ve been finding the buildings on ebay. This year, I was able to expand the collection further with a few choice buys. Though not yet complete (I&#8217;m missing <I>Tinkerbell&#8217;s Treasures<\/i> and the <I>Silversmith<\/i> buildings), it really looks amazingly magical already.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"monorail playset and dept 56 disney heritage village under the christmas tree\" title=\"xmas-tree-display-dec11\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-49\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"monorail playset and dept 56 disney heritage village under the christmas tree\" title=\"xmas-tree-display-dec11a\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/xmas-tree-display-dec11a.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Click both images for larger version)<\/p>\n<p>Our village includes Olde World Antique Store I &#038; II (which look just like Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe in MK), Olde World Gate, Disneyland Fire Station, Mickey&#8217;s Christmas Carol (which looks like Sir Mickey&#8217;s in MK), the Balloon seller figure set and the 3 family set. We&#8217;ve sprinkled in some other people and trees purchased from the craft store and viola!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We started a few years ago with the WDW Monorail playset you can buy in the parks for about $73 and put it around our Christmas Tree. Next, we bough the Contemporary Resort accessory that, just like the real hotel, the monorail can drive through. Then I found out about an old set of ceramic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12,86,8],"tags":[94,93,87,89,96,95,90,88,91,92],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-christmas","category-disney-at-home","category-photos","tag-christmas-decorations","tag-christmas-tree","tag-dept-56","tag-disey-village","tag-disney-christmas","tag-disney-christmas-decorations","tag-disney-heritage-village","tag-disney-parks-heritage-village","tag-monorail-playset","tag-monorail-under-the-christmas-tree"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thefloridaproject.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}