{"id":21273,"date":"2022-12-08T15:53:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/?p=21273"},"modified":"2022-12-08T15:53:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:53:48","slug":"exhibicion-de-luces-navidenas-de-la-familia-de-pasadena-gana-50000-en-concurso-nacional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/la-comunidad\/exhibicion-de-luces-navidenas-de-la-familia-de-pasadena-gana-50000-en-concurso-nacional\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibici\u00f3n de luces navide\u00f1as de la familia de Pasadena gana $50,000 en concurso nacional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pasadena Family\u2019s Holiday Light Display Wins $50,000 in National Contest<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Published on Thursday, December 8, 2022 | 5:56 am<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Harbecks home on Pasadena\u2019s Tropical Ave. in the Hastings Ranch neighborhood will be hard to miss this holiday season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their extravagant holiday light display, with angel wings made from recycled plastic bottles and colorful gumdrops that light up in different colors, helped them win a reality show competition for the best Christmas lights this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competition is ABC\u2019s \u201cThe Great Christmas Light Fight,\u201d a reality TV competition originally titled \u201cLights, Camera, Christmas!\u201d that premiered on Dec.9, 2013. The series airs Mondays in the first three weeks of December annually as part of the network\u2019s seasonal programming lineup, 25 Days of Christmas. The series is now in its 11th season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Harbecks of Pasadena were featured in the Dec. 5 episode and won $50,000 and a holiday-themed trophy as the week\u2019s winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Harbeck Family wins with the Light Side of The Force,\u201d reads ABC\u2019s headline for the episode. \u201cCombining the resourcefulness of DIY designs and computer animation know-how, the Harbeck Family channels the Light Side of The Force for their \u2018Star Wars\u2019 themed display.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Harbecks spent more than 600 hours just last year making some of the other lights using two 3D printers, including butterflies, snowflakes and more,\u201d according to Fox 11 that reported on the Harbecks holiday light display.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Husband and wife Andy and Tatiana Harbeck said they\u2019ve been part of the Upper Hastings Ranch Association (UHRA) annual Holiday Light Up every year, since they displayed a reindeer and a string of lights about 12 years ago. They and with their two teenaged sons have been working on this year\u2019s display for several months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andy Harbeck works as an animator at Dreamworks Animation, a subsidiary of Universal Pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s kind of the story that we told with the lights,\u201d Andy told Fox 11 about their winning. \u201cThey all kind of come together with some of the sequences to create more of an emotional story.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverytime that I hear this song, it makes me cry,\u201d Tatiana Harbeck said as she watched \u2013 and listened \u2013 their award-winning display. \u201cBut it\u2019s kind of happy because you\u2019re with your family watching the show. It\u2019s so special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harbecks\u2019 display, which is turned on every night throughout the season, features the lawn decorated with Star Wars-based animations and products, an eight-bit retro game style platform on the roof, which showcased a beautiful story along with the light show, a Wispy Forest with \u201ctrees\u201d made with 3-D printers, and a robot named Winston that\u2019s connected to servers and talks to visitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lighter PVC \u201ccandy canes\u201d also line the lawn, and in the backyard can be seen some bubble trees and butterflies, along with angel wings formed by using recycled water bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along with the TV audience and visitors to Pasadena, neighbors at Upper Hastings Ranch were equally amazed with the Harbecks\u2019 home decorations this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Harbeck family is wonderful,\u201d Tiffany Gardner, Board members of the UHRA, said. \u201cThey\u2019re just the kindest people, and many houses on their street started lighting up after they did. We have our fingers crossed that they win, but even if they don\u2019t, we feel like winners for having them here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pasadena Family\u2019s Holiday Light Display Wins $50,000 in National Contest Published on Thursday, December 8, 2022 | 5:56 am The Harbecks home on Pasadena\u2019s Tropical Ave. in the Hastings Ranch neighborhood will be hard to miss this holiday season. Their extravagant holiday light display, with angel wings made from recycled plastic bottles and colorful gumdrops that light up in different colors, helped them win a reality show competition for the best Christmas lights this week. The competition is ABC\u2019s \u201cThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21273"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21276,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21273\/revisions\/21276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pasadenahoy.com\/primero\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}