Thread: Gemmy Xmas Light and Sound Show on Sale

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If anyone is looking for the Gemmy Xmas Light and Sound Show (with speaker and mp3 input) to adapt to use for halloween also, Frontgate has theirs on sale right now for $59. (click link) I bought one of these two years ago during their clearance sale and it's a pretty good price. They are a good company to buy from too as far as customer service and such. It's not an LOR system by a long shot but works decently for simple singing pumpkins or other music triggered light displays. No real learning curve just plug and play for the most part and a nice system for someone who wants some animated lights and ease of use.

As you will see from the music list of prerecorded songs, they are strictly Xmas but the mp3 does give you adaptability for halloween. A number of users here and on other boards have come up with songs that seem to work pretty well for their light displays at halloween time.

BTW the system on sale has inputs for 6 light strands only. It is not an expandable system which would give you 12 (but basically Gemmy's 12 is 2-6s as far as the control of the lights goes anyway). For my simple singing pumpkins set up the 6 was fine.

BTW I went back to my post from 9/22/2009 when I picked up my unit from Frontgate and they had it on deep discount in the Nearly Gone category at $29 back then. Not sure if they will further reduce the units from the $59 price (the economy is a bit different from then) but thought I would mention it. In any event the $59 is still a good sale price compared to what the Gemmy units have been selling for lately during the holiday season or what you can find them for on Ebay. Back then shipping UPS 3-7 days was $8, now it would be $12 for me.

Had my eye on this for awhile (for both xmas & halloween)

Thanks, I may take the plunge.

DD

I gotta tell you that I picked by 12 outlet one up at Sam's two years ago after Christmas for 24.99. I'd wait.

Here's how I look at it. I decided to post what I paid when the unit got plunged into Frontgate's Nearly Gone category just so people knew that at one time Frontgate did sell it for even less than the $59. However, it's hard to say how many unit have to be left before they list it there, will they actually drop the price further and will you be around to see it when they do. I think most people also thought that the deep discounts kind of evaporated over this past year or so, so I hate to tell people to wait and then the opportunity never happens. I also doubt that Sam's Club or Costco (which also carried the product) will get these in again. It was a couple of years ago and I don't think I've ever seen these stores repeat the same thing.

BTW here's a listing from someone on Ebay that I found interesting. Obviously FG pulled the item from their regular catalog after season, counted inventory and has relisted it back on the website in the outlet/clearance section, unbeknownst to the seller (and chances are they bought their units at the Frontgate outlet store directly and selling to make a profit). Anyway you'd be way ahead buying from the FG website outlet area and paying their shipping charges directly. I'm not really seeing it being sold by anyone else now that the season has past. Places may have it listed still but they say out of stock.

Wow that is a good deal GOS! Thanks for sharing!

BTW: TD, I think you were lucky to find that 12 outlet because I looked at many stores to find this and it was either sold at 25% off reg price or soldout completely.. Its all about timing to tell you the truth!

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I got the Halloween one at Target for $40 last year. They had a lot of them left.

Some people have complained that there's no output jack if you want to add more speakers... the solution is to use a Y splitter on the MP3 player. Depending on your setup you may even just leave the speaker on this thing way down and use your own speakers. Also, if you're using LED lights or other low powered items there should be no problem with using a cheap multi-outlet jack with this. I would not try this with higher wattage lights.

Frontgate has the Gemmy Xmas Lights and Sound with mp3 connection on sale this Christmas. Now on sale for $49, down $10 from last year's Christmas sale pricing (see above). Hard to say if it will be further reduced after the holidays or not this year. EBay has some listed for quite a bit more. Frontgate's shipping is pretty reasonable too.

Here's the link:

http://www.frontgate.com/holiday-music-26-light-machine/holiday-decor/holiday-sale/27235

Thanks just ordered one.I got one a few years back and returned it due to it not working with my mp3 player.Hopefully it will work now.