The lights are programmed and synchronized to turn on and off with music using a computer application and set of controllers from the Light-O-Rama company.
For each minute of animation synchronized to music, he spent approximately one hour to sequence 88 Light-O-Rama channels to control his 16,000 Christmas lights.
[3] Subsequently, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra adopted a digitally-remastered version of the original as its own "Official Video" for Wizards in Winter, and posted it to YouTube on October 26, 2009.
[4] A light show similar to Williams' "Wizards in Winter" was used in a commercial for the UK's National Lottery, although according to a press release the advertising campaign "was created by Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO".
In November 2006, Williams decided to revive the display and move the show to Heritage Oak Park in Mason, Ohio.