4 ft Lighted Pop-Up Snowman, 100 Warm White LEDs, Collapsible Frame

Description

A 4 ft figure that folds flat

This is a lit snowman about 4 ft tall, built on a pop-up frame so that the body collapses like an umbrella rather than coming apart into pieces. He wears a black top hat and a red scarf, has a glove on each stick arm and holds a small wrapped gift. At 4 ft he sits in a useful middle ground: tall enough to read from the pavement, short enough not to dominate a small front garden or a porch.

Assembly and storage, which are the same operation

The pop-up design is the thing worth paying attention to here. You insert a pole into the base, thread the pole through the body, and attach the top section; the body springs open as you do it. Reversing that takes about a minute and the whole figure goes back to a flat disc. Compared with a rigid wire frame, which needs a dedicated shelf and bends if you stack anything on it, this stores in a bin and survives being packed carelessly. It ships at about 5.7 lb in a carton roughly 20 by 6 by 20 in, which tells you the flat-packed diameter rather than the assembled height.

Lighting and how it reads after dark

There are 100 warm white LEDs inside the body. Because the covering is a translucent white fabric over the frame, the whole body glows rather than showing individual points, and the hat, scarf and gloves stay dark against it. The supplier notes the LEDs are cool to the touch, which is worth knowing if the figure will sit where children pass. The effect from the street is a soft white column with a dark cap on top, which is legible at a distance but not bright enough to compete with a floodlit house wall.

Staking and wind

A 4 ft fabric-covered figure is exactly the shape that catches wind: tall, rounded and light. Pin the base down properly on soil and do not rely on the figure’s own weight, which is under 6 lb. On a deck or a porch you will need to weight the base, since there is nothing for stakes to hold. If a storm is forecast, the pop-up design means collapsing the figure for a night is a one-minute job rather than a dismantling project, and that is the sensible response.

Power and cord runs

Run an outdoor-rated extension cord to the base and keep the connection off wet ground. Because the body folds, plan the cord so it is not trapped inside the frame when you collapse it; feed it out at the base and leave slack.

Honest notes

CJ’s dimension artwork prints several different measurements for this piece and they do not reconcile cleanly with the stated 4 ft height, so we have quoted the supplier’s headline figure rather than pick one of the drawings. The supplier does not publish an ingress protection rating, a cord length or a wattage. Handling is 1 to 3 business days plus 5 to 9 in transit, so order by Monday December 7 for Christmas.