Disney’s Frozen Christmas Day special is the 2014 broadcast that gave the 31st Annual Disney Parks Christmas Celebration a Frozen-themed finale. Building on the mega-successful Frozen franchise, the show ends with Elsa casting a freezing spell on Main Street USA — ice races down the street, culminating in the spectacular frosting-over of Cinderella’s Castle.
In October 2014, SCANable performed a 3D laser scan of Walt Disney World’s Main Street and Cinderella’s Castle. Those LiDAR scans were developed into a meshed 3D model used by CBS Digital to create the ice and snow visual effects seen at the end of the special — 3D scanning and modeling that helped make the show-stopping effect possible.
