Quite frankly, I was embarrassed to hype up how enjoyable this event has been in past years. In the past, we walked straight in after a free RSVP, and saw a lot of neat art fixtures and installations, and it felt like a nice lengthy event.
This year, they seemed to corporatize the whole thing and suck all the good out of it. We had to pay for tickets ahead of time, and then spent more than 45 minutes waiting in line to enter, and about 10 minutes zipping through the 5 or 6 fixtures they had. It was absolutely pathetic, and reminds me of how the Mozart’s Christmas lights show has been gutted and turned into a total money grab.
Truly disheartening, and this is the kind of changes I hate to see as a longtime Austinite, because I know how good things could be, but then you see a sharp decline in quality while prices hike up. Why does it have to be this way?
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