Epic Christmas Village II
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2012
- Epic Christmas Village II display features Department 56 Original Snow Village, Christmas in the City and Dickens Village buildings and animated accessories. The train is the Lionel Polar Express. The Subway train is the O scale Lionel NYC Transit Authority R30 Subway. The Subway was added after the original Epic Christmas Village. • Epic Christmas Village The video was shot on three different cameras: Sony HDR-AX2000, Canon 5D Mark II and Iphone 4S.
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I come here every year to view Epic Christmas Village from the first video to the last. It's become a Christmas tradition! I've even recommended watching these videos to friends and family. You should be on one of those Christmas programs showcasing this fantastic World you've created.
Thank you Rosemary. That really means a lot to me. Merry Christmas!
It's really wonderful that three generations of your family share the Christmas Village tradition. Your thoughts are heart-warming and inspiring. Thank you for sharing them.
The music is the emotion. Without it, there is no nostalgia.
Thank you so much for sharing. I've been collecting pieces for 18 years - since my Daughter's first Christmas and imagine I'll have to hand it over to her someday when she has a family herself. For now, it's a favorite time for me and my Dad to spend together every holiday setting up the train, and all of the village pieces. It takes us days - as it does most collectors - but it truly brings me joy year after year! Thank you again!!
This is my favorite layout ever
WooooooooooooooooooooooooW. I would LOVE to see this in person. Incredible display
Thank you Toni! I started with 1 house that I picked because it reminded me of the house I grew up in. After that I slowly added pieces that reminded me of special times, family trips or significant events. Before I realized it my village had grown to Epic proportions. Stick to pieces that stir memories and your village will be awesome.
Wow, my wife just got a dept 56 accessory piece in the mail today and I picked up my smart phone and ran smack dab into your double masterpiece of video work and village setup! And you take it down every year and put it back up every season in a new design! Bless You!
With everything that's happened this year I'm looking forward to Christmas in July preview.
I cant' tell you how many times I've watched this video. You're village is spectacular!!! If anyone needs to be cheered up, just watch this!
Thank you Debra. It's wonderful comments like yours that motivate me to begin planning the next Epic Christmas Village. Your comment really means a lot.
Thank you for your heartfelt comments. It's wonderful to hear that the Epic Christmas Village II resonates with you in a positive way. I hope you will continue to enjoy this and future Epic Christmas Village videos. Godspeed.
What a beautiful display!!! Thanks for sharing.
That's great! You'll be surprised at just how fast a Christmas village turns into a family tradition.
I love this!!!! I just started collecting last year. This is the gold stand of Christmas Villages!
star attraction has to be subway station w/ red train and its opening doors! WOW! and of course, every city has to have its chinatown. so original! and your photography is clear and eye appealing. no clutter, surprises and 'adventure' throughout! you must've rec'd some type of award for this display, no?
Thank you so much for this video! I didn't have a warm childhood when i was a kid and this video and music had literally put a smile on my face, my heart and joyful tears. I love this video and music so much i must have watched this video a dozen times! Thank you so much, Santa Claus!
Thank you so much for your comment. You've given me added motivation as I begin this year's Christmas Village. I don't have a blog and I'm not sure that I have a particular system. My Christmas Village changes every year and each new design just sort of happens. You should consider making a video of your Christmas Village this year, Personally, I think some of the smaller Villages are the most interesting.
Thank you Stacey. The moving school bus, cars and people are moving on the Department 56 VILLAGE ANIMATED TRACK. The track comes with pegs that you attach to the bottom of whatever you want to move. Department 56 stopped making the track awhile ago but you can still find them occasionally on Ebay.
I still love your Christmas Villages every year. My husband and I already started on a new Christmas Village since we move. Thank You so much and have a Merry Christmas
Thanks for the compliment. The track in the beginning of Epic Christmas Village II is the Department 56 "VILLAGE ANIMATED TRACK". It was produced between 1996 and 1999. You can usually find a used one on EBAY.
Oh my goodness!! Our humble layout taking shape this October has a long way to go....this is truly magical to old and young. I’m stunned by the subway train just amazing. Thank you for sharing the magic 🇺🇸🇬🇧
Thank you for acknowledging my tribute to LKH. I imagine that almost everyone who views Epic Christmas Village II has their own LKH. Let's just say that LKH was someone whose loss was felt profoundly, but whose memory will never die. I'll leave it to the individual viewer to "Fill in the blank" with their own "LKH".
Thank you. The automated system at the beginning of Epic Christmas Village II is the Department 56 "VILLAGE ANIMATED TRACK". It was only produced between 1996 and 1999, but you can usually find one used on EBAY.
Thank you. A realistic but nostalgic feel was what I was going for this year. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
WOW! The amount of detail and work put into this. The village is living :)
It's fantastic that you have been keeping the Christmas Village tradition for over 17 years. Thanks for your comment.
COMPLIMENTS DELUXE!!! FINE JOB!!
from someone who has been creating villages for over 17 years
Epic! 2018 season is almost here! I am spending all morning getting ideas for this years village.
I look forward to seeing your Village video.
please look at my channel lots of ideas, time laps.
Thank you. Happy to hear you are starting a village of your own. I found almost all of the houses, people, vehicles, accessories and animated features on Ebay. Most of the fine details, such as sand, rocks, snow and small decorations were found at local crafts stores. Some things, like the subway station I made by hand. Good luck with your village.
I love coming back to this particular video. Maybe it was the first one of yours I viewed first. But it has a special feeling in my heart and helps me get the village juices going even though it is almost 90 outside and fall is about here.
Watching this always puts me in such a good mood! Can't wait for Epic Christmas Village IV!!
It's definitely a labor of love. Thanks for your comment. Merry Christmas!
Thanks for your comment. The Christmas Village is basically 5' by 12' and sits on top of a pool table in the middle of the room. The room is just big enough to allow space on each side to walk around so you can get very close to any part of the display. Locating the Christmas Village in the middle of the room makes it easier to view and also to set up.
This is the one video that gives me the Christmas Feeling
WOW! Where's the "LOVE" button on this? Spectacular village!!! Great video too!
Watching this video was total eye candy :>)
Thank You so much for sharing all your
time & efforts. Your wondrous love for the
Christmas Season shows.
It really did take a long time but I enjoyed it. Plus it's always nice to hear that other people enjoy the Epic Christmas Village as well. Thanks.
I really like building them. It has grown so much that it not only consumes my entire living room wall to wall and from the floor to the ceiling it is now also in two other rooms. I think I need a building just to put my villages out. I change them every year and love to have the folks from church come every christmas to see it and sometimes even a scavenger hunt game finding things in the villages.
So beautiful
Thanks M C!
Thanks. The garage with the snow thrower guy is one of my favorites.
just precious... beautiful
Thank you very much Chrisrichele. Epic Christmas Village IV is in the works and as usual is taking much longer than I had anticipated. It's a fresh design and I'm incorporating some new ideas. I hope you like it. I plan to post the new video between Thanksgiving and the first week of December.
Thank you Tim. I also find that hiding the wires can be incredibly difficult and time consuming. Whenever possible I try to drill holes directly under the buildings and run the wires straight down, otherwise I cut a narrow "V" shaped channel in the styrofoam surface, push the wire into the channel and fill in with snow. Sometimes however there is just no good way to hide the wire except to cover them with white batting. Good luck with your village this year. I'm sure it will be fantastic.
By chance my husband & I just found your village display. I've always searched by Dept 56 - I'm so glad my husband searched "2012 village" and found yours. It's absolutely amazing!!! The best village display I've ever seen. It makes my 20 snow village buildings seem tiny! Your camera work was great...nice and slow so you can appreciate each piece. Thanks so much for posting it - I can't wait to show my family (all of which are dept 56 nuts, like me) Merry Christmas & may God bless. -Jill
A wonderful and inspiring Christmas village - Thank you!
This is amazingly beautiful. Christmas brings out the child in me. I thank you. There’s so much going on with our youth. Losing there morals and the child in them forever leaves them. I so wish a lot would change in that way for this generation. I just wished my kids would enjoy Christmas for the reason s I do.
The surface of the mountains is a thin sheet of plywood covered with styrofoam insulation. The face of the mountains is the same styrofoam painted brown. There is one mountain used as a divider that is just a 2 inch thick piece of styrofoam standing on edge and painted brown.
WOW. Didn't think Christmas villages went this far. Mind blown.
If you think that went far, just wait until you see Epic Christmas Village IV when it comes out in a few weeks! Subscribe to my channel so you won't miss it.
Just put my first village together, came across yours, made me smile! Love the music as well. Hope you keep the village up all year as I am. I love it, great job.
This is my 2nd year watching your epic Christmas villages and I’ll continue to watch every year. Merry Christmas to you and yours! ❄️🎅🏾🤶🏾🎄
Thank you so much Priya! Merry Christmas!
Always great to hear from a fellow Christmas Villager. Thanks for the nice compliment.
This is the best thing I've ever seen.
Absolutely beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you Bismarc. Some of my favorite buildings are the ones we started our village with years ago, I'm sure your Snow Village will quickly become a Christmas tradition. The blue train at the beginning of Epic Christmas Village is the Lionel Polar Express. The red Subway train is the O scale Lionel NYC Transit Authority R30 Subway. These fit really well with the Department 56 villages.
I have two words for you. Pure Epicness.
Thank you GG!
Thank you for sharing your wonderful Christmas village with us! I enjoy repeated views. ❤
Glad you enjoyed it
I Don't Get Tire Watching ur Videos.... I Watch Over and Over..... Thanks....!!!! You are A Genius....God Bless u....!!!
You are too kind! Thank you sooooo much!
This is just wonderful!
I appreciate the "Professional" compliment but really I'm just a Dad with a camera. It's a lot of fun to make and I'm glad to hear that you will view Epic Christmas Village II again. There is a lot in there and I hope you will discover new things each time.
Thank you. It's wonderful to hear that it resonates with you.
The best village ever. Trying to get mine together but many things you have like the skiers on hill you can't get. Absolutely beautiful
+angbuzz Thanks. Your right about the skiing hill. It's very hard to find and usually requires repairs if you can find it. Good Luck!
Thank you. It's hard to do justice to the Department 56 pieces. They have such incredible detail. I'm glad to hear that you and your family are fellow Christmas Villagers. I'd love to see your Christmas Village on UA-cam. Some of the smaller villages are my favorite. Merry Christmas!
me too. 1969. I have been collecting a few items over the last year or two. not much . I just found this sight. AWESOME!!!!!!!
+John Fields Thanks John. Enjoy your collection. They have a habit of growing very quickly.
Thank you Zombie. Epic Christmas Village III should be posted in the next few days. Hope you enjoy it. Merry Christmas!
so calming & joyful to watch! amazing job!!! totally saving this to watch again during the holidays
+Boogie Photos Thanks BP. I hope your Holidays are the best ever.
Thank you Sunny. It's true about the Times Tower. Department 56 has a "fix" on their website. Click on the Collecting tab then choose Village Collecting, then Display Ideas, then Times Tower. It's just a download of some glue on numbers. I seems ridiculous but it actually looks pretty good. I never notice the fix after I change it each year. The Times Tower is a great addition and a real focal point.
Really excellent job on the video and the music. Gets you right in the spirit, even though its July! Time to start working on this years project already! Thanks for keeping Christmas alive!
Thanks you Medina.I really appreciate your comment. Merry Christmas!
Love the village! You have done another fantastic job. Happy Holidays.
The Department 56 "Santa's Sleigh" was produced from 2000 to 2007. You can usually find a used one on EBAY.
This is fantastic!!!!!!
I can't believe YT muted your lovely video. How crazy. It is still a delight to view.
Awesome shooting, awesome village and greatest dedication.
this is one of the most legitimate looking Christmas Villages I have ever seen absolutely great work and detail
Thank you Kristin.
Your welcome it really is the the best village I have ever seen on UA-cam thank you for posting this video !
Thank you RB. Much appreciated. I hope you check back this Christmas to see Epic Christmas Village IV. It is going to be twice as epic!
What a buzz! It's amazing! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Marly. I must say the same for your "Christmas at Little Gam". It's brilliant!
Thank you. Kids definitely love the surprise of the red subway train. I'll try to incorporate some wide shots this year as best I can. Epic Christmas Village II and the upcoming Epic Christmas Village III have a way of dominating the space in a room. That creates difficult camera angles, but I'll give it my best shot.
Just amazing, love what you've done!
+hdb80 Merry Christmas!
Thank you for sharing your viewing experience. There was a lot of nostalgia in the making of Epic Christmas Village II. I'm really happy that it came across and that I could share that feeling. Mostly I'm grateful that you would share your thoughts. Thank you.
Most of the elevation changes are just varying layers of styrofoam insulation with the higher levels being further back of course. It's already white so all that is needed is to rough up any sharp edges and sprinkle a little snow.
Thank you Tina. I edited with Adobe Premiere Pro and used a layer mask for the area of the drive-in movie screen and added the home movie video as a second layer. I like to take the Christmas Village down each year and start fresh in the Fall. I think that coming up with a new design each year is half the fun. I already have some new things in mind for next year.
Amazing! Love it, now i really looking forward to christmas
you get to do all the work and we get to enjoy!!!! thanks....
What an awesome job! That is one of the best displays I've seen and a rare occasion where buildings from various Villages were used in the same display seamlessly and very successfully. To top it off, a charming video. Kudos!
Thank you Myksweet. I'm always looking for things that will fit into the village. I love finding things that don't ordinarily appear in Christmas Villages and then blending them in. I appreciate your comment. Thank again.
Looks amazing
At the 7 min mark the yellow and red trolleys that are going up and down..it's really nice..thanks for the help and advice as well!! Really beautiful
+Jeff Deleon That is the DEPARTMENT 56 "VILLAGE ANIMATED GONDOLA". There is usually 1 on Ebay most of the time. It is one of the few Ski Slope type Dept 56 pieces that is relatively durable. This is a great piece for any Christmas layout and is popular with kids and adults alike.
Oh my gosh! This is so great! It made me smile so much. It's so amazing. And all that work you put in. WOW! I love it. All of it. :) Happy Christmas! Thank you.
Thank you Linda! Merry Christmas!
Lovely!!!
Really nice! Reminds me of years ago. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic detail, an excellent job , we started building our first one this year and already spent a fortune, and still buying more ready for next year we have a lot to learn but looking at yours and others gives so much inspiration , happy new year
the best i've seen!!!! wonderful!
So much work and effort put into this *Happy Xmas 2013 *
Merry Christmas Threapleton!
Amazing... great detail and warmth. I really enjoyed watching this video.
Thanks Oldmiss. This year I'm adding a Department 56 "Mickey's Diner" because it reminds me of my favorite Aunt. I've modified it so now the sign reads "Tippy's Dining Car", because my Aunt Tippy is awesome!
awsome job!!!...first one I've seen with a subway and Drive-in...very inspiring for all village hobbiest!!!!
Brilliant Idea about the homemade track ! You ought to get a patent !
Thanks for writing back. Merry Christmas and can't wait to see your new Village.
Incredible scene! I started collecting a few years ago, and dreamed of displaying my Christmas in the City pieces. Thanks for the ideas!
mrpooh167 Thank you Mrpooh. I hope you will post a video of your display this year. I'm sure it will be great!
Thanks! Such a nice thoughtful reply! I watched your masterpiece video on mute the other day because I didn't want to distract the people around me. I watched and listened to the first few moments a few minutes ago and now I am anticipating quite a treat! Thanks again!
Love the golf piece too...OMG you did a stunning job!
Thank you Cora!
I'm sure your Christmas Village is big on Christmas feeling. Thanks for the comment. Merry Christmas!