Betcha Didn't Know This About the KOP Mall's Holiday Decor

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• The mall features two central holiday displays: one in the Court, the other in the Plaza.
• Custom-designed for the mall, the Bloomingdale's Court holiday tree measures in at 48 feet.
• The tree performs an hourly animated light show choreographed to a seven-minute holiday soundtrack.
• The tree bears the weight of 152 animated toys and ornaments, 60 strobe lights, and thousands of white lights.
• Toys featured on the tree include teddy bears, rocking horses, toy soldiers, dolls, and toy tops.
• Over in the Plaza's Nordstrom Court, a holiday carousel displays scenes from Valley Forge National Historic Park and Longwood Gardens.
• Eighteen handmade, handpainted reindeer circle the inside of the carousel. "You must be this tall to ride," says Santa.
• A 30-foot tree perches atop the carousel, twinkling with over 22,450 miniature lights.
• The carousel cresting features ten hand-painted scenes unique to the Valley Forge area, and required over 200 hours of artistic rendering.
• Inspired by Longwood Gardens, over a quarter million individual petals comprise the flower bed at the carousel's base.
• Twenty life-sized decorated reindeer greet shoppers at the mall’s entrances.
• With a combined height of 48 feet, the world's largest man-made Manzanita reindeer stand guard at the mall's Neiman Marcus entrance. The reindeer are crafted from the branches of the Manzanita shru

Fun fact #1: The King of Prussia Mall's two main holiday displays are made in America by the century-old company Barrango. The Nordstrom Court's fully-functioning holiday carousel was custom-built entirely within Barrango's San Francisco factory, the fiberglass reindeer modeled after antiques. Click through the gallery for more KOP Mall holiday decor facts, in numbers.
·King of Prussia Mall [Official Site]