The Biggest Little Christmas in Phoenix — a dazzling holiday lights display at a north Valley home — just won national bragging rights and a big cash prize.
The Jimenez family competed in the latest season premiere of ABC’s “The Great Christmas Light Fight.” The episode, which aired on Dec. 4, followed their quest to create the biggest and best display against two other families — one in California and one in Maryland.
The Jimenez family won $50,000 and the bulb-shaped Light Fight trophy.
Despite having limited yard space, the front of the Jimenez house is completely covered with blow molds, gingerbread people, elves and a “Gingerassic Park” that features inflatable dinosaurs. There are decorations on all sides of the home, as well as on the roof.
In 2022, homeowner Carl Jimenez told KJZZ’s The Show that he liked the walkthrough experience of the light displays, inspiring him to create his own. Visitors can move through the entire display that starts at the driveway and winds around the yard.
“You know it just kind of, it started pretty simple and just sort of grew somewhat out of control,” Carl Jimenez said then.
And what do the neighbors think about all this attention and traffic?
“That's always a big question with really any of these light shows,” Jimenez said in 2022. “The thing we find with our neighborhood is that the further away from our house in the neighborhood, the more the neighbors kind of like it.”
Watch Season 13, Episode 1 of “The Great Christmas Light Fight” streaming on Hulu.
If you go
What: The Biggest Little Christmas in Phoenix light display
Where: 18639 N. First Ave., Phoenix 85027
When: 6-9 p.m. through Dec. 25
Details: https://northphoenixlights.neocities.org/
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