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Overwatch 's Winter Wonderland event is about to begin, bringing a wave of festive cheer to Blizzard's hero shooter. The third annual celebration will give players access to exclusive game modes, hundreds of cosmetics and even a few secrets. Papa Jeff Kaplan has been silently sitting in his office in Irvine, Calif., planning something new for all the good (and bad) boys and girls who still play Overwatch.

When does Overwatch Winter Wonderland event release?

Winter Wonderland will begin when the new patch is released, like every Overwatch event that has happened since the game released in 2016. The patch will most likely drop on Dec. 11 between 2 to 3 p.m. EST. Blizzard has occasionally missed that deadline in the past. When working on a game of this size and magnitude, patches can sometimes get held back due to bugs or other unforeseen issues. If the QA team finds something at the last minute, Winter Wonderland could take a few extra hours to release.

One of the last updates to a Blizzard game, Hearthstone' s Rastakhan Rumble released at 1 p.m. EST, which was unusual for the company. It's unlikely that Blizzard is going to do the same for the much larger Overwatch , but anything is possible.

Overwatch Winter Wonderland 2018 Skins

Along with a slew of old content, like Yeti Winston and Snow Owl Ana, Overwatch is going to get a whole new collection of skins. So far, Blizzard has teased four of the Legendary quality cosmetics we are going to see, but there will be many more. Here are the skins coming in the latest Overwatch Winter Wonderland event.

Krampus Junkrat (Legendary)

It\u2019s good to be bad.

Get on the naughty list as KRAMPUS JUNKRAT (Legendary)! \ud83d\ude08

Overwatch Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/EPHeyz84ze

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) December 10, 2018
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Figure Skater Symmetra (Legendary)

Put your enemies on ice.

Rise up the rinks as FIGURE SKATER SYMMETRA (Legendary)! \u26f8\ufe0f

Overwatch Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/fI3QQusPi9

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) December 9, 2018
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Gift Wrap Bastion (Epic)

Keep your eyes on this prize.

Unwrap GIFT WRAP BASTION (Epic). \ud83c\udf81

Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/hYppzgffnw

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) December 8, 2018
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Biathlon Widowmaker (Legendary)

Ready to win frost place!

Go for the gold as BIATHLON WIDOWMAKER (Legendary)! \ud83e\udd47

Overwatch Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/zbMxb5UwxY

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) December 8, 2018
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Sugar Plum Fairy Mercy (Legendary)

Straight from Sweetzerland.

Play as pixie perfect SUGAR PLUM FAIRY MERCY (Legendary). \ud83e\uddda\u200d

Winter Wonderland returns Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/TE2Y4e6cIe

— Overwatch (@PlayOverwatch) December 7, 2018
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Arctic Fox Lucio (Legendary)

Level up your sleet skills.

Powder up your game as ARCTIC FOX L\u00daCIO! \ud83e\udd8a

Winter Wonderland begins Dec 11. pic.twitter.com/UBKb84pQgo

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GenreChristmas
Composer(s)Felix Bernard
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\"Winter Wonderland\" is a song written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere. Since its original recording by Richard Himber, it has been covered by over 200 different artists. Its lyrics are about a couple's romance during the winter season.[1]\n

A later version of \"Winter Wonderland\" (which was printed in 1947) included a \"new children's lyric\" that transformed it \"from a romantic winter interlude to a seasonal song about playing in the snow\". The snowman mentioned in the song's bridge was changed from Parson Brown to a circus clown, and the promises the couple made in the final verse were replaced with lyrics about frolicking. Singers like Johnny Mathis connected both versions, adding a verse and chorus.[2]\n

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Smith, a native of Honesdale, Pennsylvania, was reportedly inspired to write the lyrics after seeing Honesdale's Central Park covered in snow. He wrote the lyrics while being treated for tuberculosis in the West Mountain Sanitarium in Scranton.[3]\n

The song was originally recorded in 1934 for RCA Victor. At the end of a different recording session by Himber and his Hotel Ritz-Carlton Orchestra, with extra time to spare, RCA Victor suggested arranging and recording \"Winter Wonderland\" using some additional members of its own orchestra, which included Artie Shaw and other established New York City studio musicians.\n

Guy Lombardo\u2019s version that same year would go on to be one of the biggest hits of 1934.[4]\n

In Mathis' version, heard on his 1958 LP Merry Christmas, the introduction is sung between the first and the second refrain.\n

In 1960, Ella Fitzgerald recorded a jazz arrangement of the song for her Verve release, Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.\n

The song was included on the 1994 compilation album If Every Day Was Like Christmas by Elvis Presley.[5]\n

In 1999, Ringo Starr recorded a version of Winter Wonderland on Mercury Records release, I Wanna Be Santa Claus.\n

In 2023, Chl\u00f6e covered the song for Amazon Music as part of their Amazon Original Music series. The cover peaked at number 87 on Billboard Hot 100,[6] making her version of the song the first to enter Hot 100.[7]\n

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Guy Lombardo's version was the highest on the charts at the time of introduction. Johnny Mercer's version of the song placed #4 on the Billboard airplay chart in 1946. The same season, a version by Perry Como hit the retail top ten; Como would re-record the song for his 1959 Christmas album.\n

In November 2007, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) listed \"Winter Wonderland\" as the most-played ASCAP-member-written holiday song of the previous five years, and the Eurythmics' 1987 version as the one most commonly played.[8]\n

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Australia (ARIA)[9]\n40\n
Denmark (Tracklisten)[10]\n35\n
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[11]\n34\n
Ireland (IRMA)[12]\n69\n
Italy (FIMI)[13]\n44\n
Lithuania (AGATA)[14]\n98\n
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[15]\n55\n
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[16]\n39\n
Norway (VG-lista)[17]\n35\n
Portugal (AFP)[18]\n68\n
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[19]\n42\n
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[20]\n64\n
UK Singles (OCC)[21]\n94\n
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US Holiday Digital Song Sales (Billboard)[23]\n20\n
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Global 200 (Billboard)[24]\n140\n
Hungary (Stream Top 40)[25]\n21\n
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[26]\n66\n
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Michael Bubl\u00e9 version[edit]

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Sweden Heatseeker (Sverigetopplistan)[27]\n13\n
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[28]\n93\n
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position\n
Global 200 (Billboard)[29]\n102\n
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[30]\n31\n
US Rolling Stone Top 100[31]\n41\n
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US Billboard Hot 100[6]\n87\n
US Holiday 100 (Billboard)[32]\n57\n
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[33]\n19\n
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position\n
Australia (ARIA)[34]\n69\n
Canadian Hot 100 (Billboard)[35]\n55\n
Ireland (IRMA)[36]\n14\n
Lithuania (AGATA)[14]\n97\n
New Zealand Hot Singles (RMNZ)[37]\n7\n
UK Singles (OCC)[38]\n26\n
UK Indie (OCC)[39]\n4\n
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 (Billboard)[40]\n2\n
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Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[41]\nPlatinum\n90,000\u2021\n
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Darlene Love[edit]

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United States (RIAA)[44]\nPlatinum\n1,000,000\u2021\n
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\"the-story-behind-winter-wonderland-find-more-genealogy-blogs-at-familytree-com\"One of the most well known Christmas songs is \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d. It is a familiar song that your relatives may have sung while Christmas caroling, or you might have sung in a school choir. The story behind \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d is one that not everyone is aware of.

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The origins of \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d start in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. A local man named Richard Smith wrote a poem in 1934. He was in the West Mountain Sanitarium being treated for tuberculosis. While being treated, he entered contests for jingles and ads for companies. Richard Smith’s sister, Marjorie W. Smith, claimed her brother was inspired by the beauty of the freshly fallen snow in the park when he wrote the \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d poem.

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Tuberculosis was also called consumption. It was a highly contagious disease that primarily affected the lungs but also caused other body tissue to waste away. It was the most common cause of death throughout the 19th century. In the 1920’s and 1930’s, people bought Christmas Seals (stamps) that had images of Santa Claus on them. The money from the stamps went to National Tuberculosis Association.

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\u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d mentions Parson Brown. He was a made up character intended to represent parsons. A parson was an independent priest of the Protestant faith who was not associated with any specific parishes or churches. At the time the poem was written, parsons traveled through the country performing interdenominational services and ceremonies when no one else was available to do so.

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In 1934, Richard Smith showed his \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d poem to his friend Felix Bernard. He was a Jewish musician who was touched by Richard Smith’s poem. He set out to compose a melody to go along with the poem. (Many Christmas songs were written and/or composed by Jewish musicians.)

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Sadly, Richard Smith died in 1935, at the age of 34. Some reports say he died before he could hear the music Felix Bernard made for \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d. Other reports say Richard Smith lived long enough to hear Guy Lombard and his orchestra, the Royal Canadians, perform his song the Christmas before he died.

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The Wayne County Historical Society placed a marker outside Richard Smith’s childhood home on Church Street, in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. The location is now a law office. Every year, the Greater Honesdale Parnership (a local business group) has an Annual Santa Parade that starts at Main Street and ends at Central Park. A DJ from the local radio station reads a short story about Richard Smith and points to the songwriter’s childhood home, where a lighted Christmas tree sits in his bedroom window.

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VenueHyde Park, London
Location(s)London, United Kingdom
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Hyde Park Winter Wonderland, commonly referred to as Winter Wonderland, is a large annual Christmas event held in Hyde Park, London, from mid-November to early January. It features several festive markets, over 100 rides and attractions from across Europe, a Giant Wheel, numerous live shows, including a circus, ice show, and live music, as well as numerous bars and restaurants. In its first ten years, Winter Wonderland had 14 million visitors.[4]\n

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Winter Wonderland began in 2005 as a small funfair operating through the Christmas period at the edge of Hyde Park. The lack of success led The Royal Parks to look at alternative events. In 2007, The Royal Parks invites AEG Live and PWR Events to co-operate on organising the new Winter Wonderland event. The event includes a Christmas Market, temporary Ice Rink, Giant Wheel, and a small selection of amusement rides along Serpentine Road in Hyde Park.\n

From 2009 to 2010, the event grew substantially, introducing the Bavarian Village (a German style food and drink centre), Zippo's Circus, Santa Land (an area with smaller rides for children and families), and the introduction of several larger rides, such as the Power Tower 2 freefall tower.\n

In 2012, the event was granted an expansion of the site. The following attractions were introduced: Wilde Maus XXL roller coaster; Magical Ice Kingdom (a walk-through exhibition of ice sculptures). The Bavarian Village expanded to include The Great Hall, an Oktoberfest style beer tent with live music.\n

In 2016, the attractions Munich Looping, the world's largest portable roller coaster;[citation needed] and the Imperial Ice Stars ice show were introduced.\n

In 2018, the following attractions were introduced: Dr Archibald – Master of Time dark ride, the Winter Wonderland Comedy Club,[5] The Snowman Experience,[6] and the Teletubbies Christmas Show.[7]\n

On 2 September 2020, PWR Events announced that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event was cancelled, however, it returned on 19 November 2021.[8]\n

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There is a high number of reported incidents at Hyde Park Winter Wonderland, despite it only being open for a small period of time each year. \n

On 24 November 2019, a professional acrobatic performer for Zippos Circus fell a reported 30ft after she slipped from her safety harness.[22] It was later disputed by circus management that she had only fallen 12ft.[23] \n

On 20 December 2021, a power cut caused the Munich Looping to come to a halt on the first hill, with riders having to exit the rollercoaster by walking down the trusses. No injuries were reported, although this specific ride was involved in the fatality of an employee while stationed at Vienna's Prater amusement park. The fatality was later deemed to be caused by the employee entering a restricted area.[24]\n

In the evening of the 11 December, 2022, a man was stabbed in the neck entering the premises, he was treated at hospital with non-life threatening injuries.[25]\n

On 15 December 2022, an incident occurred on the Slingshot ride. After a failure with the gearbox, the bungee cord appeared to fall loose, sending the passenger car into the support beam, there were no reported injuries.[26]\n

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  1. ^ \"Winter Wonderland: About Us\". Retrieved 8 December 2016.\n
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  2. ^ \"Hyde Park Winter Wonderland\". Archived from the original on 7 January 2019. Retrieved 7 January 2019. PWR Events, an International Management Group (UK) Limited company, are proud to be actively producing sustainable events and are certified to ISO 20121, the international standard for sustainability in event management.\n
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  3. ^ \"Winter Wonderland visitors rise to more than 2.5 million\". Retrieved 8 December 2016.\n
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  4. ^ \"Hyde Park Winter Wonderland\". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 8 December 2016.\n
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  5. ^ \"Comedy Club Winter Wonderland 2019\". Hyde Park Winter Wonderland.\n
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  8. ^ \"Winter Wonderland cancelled due to coronavirus\". BBC News. 2 September 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2020.\n
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Winter Wonderland
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  • This was written in 1934 by Richard B. Smith and Felix Bernard. The lyricist Richard Smith served as an editor of a newspaper before taking up a career in music. The composer Felix Bernard, who was born in Brooklyn, New York, played the piano with popular orchestras and was also a tap dancer and writer of musical comedies for Vaudeville. He later became a composer and though this proved his greatest success, he also earned a steady income writing songs for Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor on radio shows. Smith was inspired to write the song after seeing the central park in his hometown of Honesdale, Pennsylvania covered by snow.
  • This became one of the most popular holiday songs of all time, but unlike most seasonal favorites, there is no consensus on the most popular version of the song. When the bandleader Guy Lombardo recorded it with his Royal Canadians in 1934, the song was a huge hit. In 1946 Lombardo successfully revived it with a Boogie Woogie arrangement accompanied by the Andrews Sisters, which sold a million copies. Perry Como also successfully recorded it the same year, but the song fell out of favor in the Rock era, and no version has made the Top 40 since the 1955 creation of the Hot 100 chart.

    Like many Yuletide favorites in need of a remake, \"Winter Wonderland\" found a new audience thanks to the 1987 charity album A Very Special Christmas, which featured a version by Eurythmics alongside other holiday songs by Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Nicks, Bon Jovi and several other very popular artists. The song picked up steam, with subsequent recordings by Garth Brooks, Jewel, Cyndi Lauper, The Cocteau Twins, Amy Grant, Sugarland, Air Supply, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashanti, Hellogoodbye, and Clay Aiken. These numerous contemporary takes on the song made it, according to ASCAP, one of the most played holiday songs on American radio since 2002, battling it out for the top spot from year to year with \"Sleigh Ride\" and \"The Christmas Song.\" The Eurythmics version is the most played.
  • The song was originally recorded by Richard Himber and his Orchestra at the end of a recording session when they found some time to spare and it was suggested that this new tune be tried. Among his orchestra was a young clarinetist, Artie Shaw, who was doing some studio work to support himself while he caught up on his formal education.
  • Though this is generally recognized as a Christmas song, the lyrics do not refer to the holiday season.
  • The details are vague, but the folks larking about in this song appear to be an unmarried couple, and when they build a snowman, Parson Brown offers to marry them, and they accept the offer. This verse appears again later in the song, although in later versions, \"pretend that he is Parson Brown\" is replaced with \"pretend that he's a circus clown.\"
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  • In Britain, the tune is frequently used by fans for soccer chants. One example was in 2006 when the Manchester United fans taunted Chelsea fans with: \"Mourinho are you listening, you'd better keep our trophy glistening, coz we'll be back in May to take it away, walking in a Fergie Wonderland!\" (\"Mourinho\" being Jose Mourinho the Chelsea manager and \"Fergie\", Alex \"Fergie\" Ferguson, the Manchester United manager).
  • A version by Darlene Love was part of A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector, which was one of the first Christmas compilation albums, and could be considered the first concept album. Made up of seasonal favorites performed by Spector's go-to musicians, the album took a painstaking six weeks to record in the middle of summer, but was sadly released on November 22, 1963, which was the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
  • Bob Rivers, who was a longtime DJ on Seattle radio, made a name for himself doing parodies of Chirstmas songs. One of his most popular is his take on this one called \"Walkin' 'Round In Women's Underwear.\"
  • Icelandic jazz-pop singer-songwriter Laufey paid homage to the holiday season with her rendition of \"Winter Wonderland\" for Spotify's Holiday Singles series in 2023. \"I chose to cover 'Winter Wonderland' because it captures the essence and warmth of Christmastime at my family's home in Iceland,\" she explained.

    Laufey's version peaked at #26 on the UK Singles Chart and also reached #55 in Canada.
  • Chloe Bailey covered the song for Amazon Original Music in 2023. During the tracking week ending December 30, 2023, the song debuted at #96 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the first version of the song to enter the chart. It climbed to #87 before dropping out of the listing post-Christmas.
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Comments: 3

  • Casey from Glendale, AzKenne: dude they already mentioned that above...why would you repeat it..lol?
  • Kenne from Phoenix, AzThis song was recorded by Felix Bernard (composer) and Richard B. Smith (lyricist) in 1934.
  • Kiwi from San Jose, CaClay sounds so heavenly!
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