{"id":95884,"date":"2025-12-25T22:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95884\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T22:46:09","slug":"christmas-magic-at-the-museum-of-illusions-on-i-drive-in-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/95884\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Magic at the Museum of Illusions on I-Drive in Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Magic at the Museum of Illusions on I-Drive in Orlando<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCHRISTMAS DAY AFTER YOU FINISH DINNER WITH FAMILY AND YOU\u2019RE TRYING TO AVOID AN ARGUMENT OVER POLITICS? SLEEP? YEAH, BUT HOW ABOUT SOME MAGIC? THERE\u2019S WESH 2\u2019S MICHELLE MEREDITH REPORTS. IT\u2019S AS EASY AS STEPPING THROUGH THE RIGHT DOOR. WE HAVE A SNOW GLOBE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE? WELL, I WANT TO SEE THE ILLUSIONS. OH, WE GOT TO CUT TO THE CHASE HERE, SANTA, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ILLUSION IS JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR MAGIC. SO COME WITH ME. COME, SANTA. MATT GAVE US A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE MUSEUM OF ILLUSIONS AND ICON PARK. AND WHAT YOU\u2019RE ABOUT TO SEE IS MIND BLOWING. LIKE A THOUSAND MICHELLES IN ONE ROOM. AND IT GETS WORSE. BUT LET\u2019S START AT THE BEGINNING. EVER SEEN A HEAD ON A PLATTER? WELL, HERE\u2019S HOW IT\u2019S DONE. YOU WIGGLE INTO A BOX WHERE THE ENTRANCE IS HIDDEN, POP YOUR HEAD OUT AND THE MIRRORS AROUND THE BOX DO THE REST. AND NOW YOU HAVE A BODILESS REPORTER. ALL YOU HAVE TO DEAL WITH IS MY LITTLE PINHEAD. AND YOU DON\u2019T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE REST OF ME. SO IT\u2019S A BETTER DEAL FOR MANAGEMENT. NEXT THING YOU KNOW, EVERYONE\u2019S GETTING INTO THE ACT. BUT NOT ONLY DID THIS KID HAVE TO ENDURE HAVING HIS HEAD ON A PLATTER, IT WAS ATTACHED TO HIS SISTER\u2019S BODY. THEIR PARENTS THOUGHT IT WAS A SCREAM. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? IT\u2019S AMAZING. I THINK THIS MUSEUM IS WONDERFUL. YOU KNOW HOW THE MONA LISA LOOKS LIKE. SHE\u2019S ALWAYS WATCHING YOU. NO MATTER WHERE YOU STAND. WELL, AT THE MUSEUM OF ILLUSIONS, THE FAMOUS ARTIST SALVADOR DALI RIPPED A PAGE OUT OF HER PLAYBOOK. THEN THERE\u2019S THE LIGHT BOX THAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU\u2019RE PART OF A SPECIAL EFFECTS SHOOT IN A B-GRADE MOVIE. CLOSER, CLOSER. NEXT. SANTA. MATT WANTED TO TEACH ME HOW TO FLY. AND THIS PLACE? YOU CAN MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN. YOU ARE FLOATING. YO YO CRAZY. DOWN THE HALL. A FAMILY FROM PENNSYLVANIA WATCHED MULTIPLE VERSIONS OF THEIR MOTHER PLAYING CARDS. IT WAS TOO MUCH. IT\u2019S ONE TABLE, BUT WHEN SHE SITS THERE, IT\u2019S FIVE MOMS. AND I SAID THAT ONE MOM IS ENOUGH FOR ME. AND AS IF YOU HAVEN\u2019T SEEN ENOUGH OF ONE REPORTER IN A STORY. HERE\u2019S MORE LIKE ANOTHER LOOK INSIDE THAT WILD MIRROR ROOM. CAN YOU SEE ME? CAN YOU SEE A THOUSAND ME\u2019S? THIS IS MY BOSS\u2019S WORST NIGHTMARE. AND A MICHELLE HEAD SEEN THROUGH A GIGANTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. I DON\u2019T KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS, BUT MY PHOTOGRAPHER AARON IS LAUGHING SO HARD. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, AARON? THE CAMERA\u2019S JIGGLING. IT WAS ALL GOOD FUN ON THIS SPECIAL DAY. MADE EVEN MORE SPECIAL WHEN WE ALL GET TO MAKE A LITTLE MAGIC. COVERING ORANGE COUNTY IN\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Magic at the Museum of Illusions on I-Drive in Orlando<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766702769_873_wesh.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"WESH logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 5:25 PM EST Dec 25, 2025\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christmas Magic at the Museum of Illusions on I-Drive in Orlando CHRISTMAS DAY AFTER YOU FINISH DINNER WITH&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14494,50036,50942,1089,50943,30310,50940,1278,48607,2455,139,141,140,50941,4504,12706,18304],"class_list":["post-95884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-box","tag-christmas-magic","tag-closer","tag-family","tag-guided-tour","tag-head","tag-illusions","tag-it","tag-matt","tag-museum","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-platter","tag-rest","tag-santa","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}