Jimmy LaFave

10/17/2008

Palace Concert Series

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ICE!

11/14/2008 - 1/3/2009

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Christmas on Main Street

11/28/2008 - 11/30/2008

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North Pole Express

11/28/2008 - 11/30/2008

Tickets on sale in September

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Carol of Lights

12/1/2008

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Christmas on Main Street

12/5/2008 - 12/7/2008

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ICE!

ICE! EXHIBIT
The resort’s popular ICE! exhibit will return this year with a variety of new ice sculptures including a train depot, igloo, gingerbread family, and walk-through Nativity scene. Most exciting will be this year’s bigger and better three-level ICE! slide! An impressive additional third slide, measuring 5 feet taller and 15 feet longer than last year’s slides, will curve around the interior of the exhibit to provide visitors with an even more exhilarating sliding experience.

All sculptures inside of the 14,000-square-foot ICE! exhibit are hand-carved from two million pounds of ice by visiting artisans from Harbin, China. To keep visitors warm and cozy in the exhibit, which is maintained at a wintry 9 degrees, oversized parkas will be provided. Following a stroll through ICE!, guests are invited to shop in the unique ICE! retail store and enjoy a complimentary cookie in the resort’s Java Coast coffee shop.

ICE! BY THE NUMBERS:
2,000,000 pounds: amount of ice it takes to create ICE!
400,000: number of visitors who enjoyed ICE! in 2005 and 2006
5,000: number of ICE! blocks hand-carved and transformed into our winter wonderland
40: number of artisans from the City of Harbin (China) Tourism and Development Commission, who sculpt the attraction by hand
34: number of days needed to hand-carve the ICE! display
14,000: total square footage of the unique structure that houses ICE!
9 degrees: the temperature setting for the ICE! structure. The average temperature fluctuates from 14 to 20 degrees, but is always under freezing.
1,400+: number of LED lights frozen within ICE!
3: number of types of ice used in the construction of ICE! - Clear “glass-like” crystal ice – so flawless that it is compared to Waterford Crystal – makes up 80 percent of the sculptures. “White ice” blocks, which are more like compacted snow, make up 15 percent of the sculptures. Colored ice, which contains dyed brilliant colors, is used for highlighting and accenting the remaining 5 percent of the sculptures.