Galleria Dallas: Grand Tree Lighting & Ice Shows featuring Missile Toes

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Standing tall in the center of the ice rink at Galleria Dallas, the nation’s tallest indoor Christmas tree reaches 95 feet into the glass-domed shopping atrium, decorated with nearly 450,000 sparkling LED lights and 10,000 hand-blown glass ornaments. On holiday weekends, the ice center hosts the legendary Grand Tree Lighting Celebration featuring Olympic, world, and national figure skaters alongside 'Missile Toes'—the famous backflipping, pyrotechnic ice-skating Santa Claus who shoots real sparks and fireworks from his skate blades! Between ice show celebrations, families can gather along the multi-level mall balconies to watch the daily Illumination Celebration, where the massive tree flashes in choreographed harmony with high-energy holiday music four times daily. Public ice skating sessions are open around showtimes, offering kids a chance to skate on the same ice around the towering tree.