Set of 100 ALDI LED Canterbury Belles Christmas Lights - Unboxing & Review | Part 1 of 3

In this video, we unbox and examine a set of Perfect Christmas 100 LED Canterbury Belles Nostalgic Lights, they were sold in ALDI last Christmas.

I found them to be a little pricy at the time, but in the new year the prices were reduced to £8.99 a box, so I bought 2 sets of each of the two designs.

They got put away with all the other decorations, but I have dug them out to take a look and see what they are like.

Buyers beware, on this set I found 2 LEDs that were the wrong colour in their respective shades, I also found 2 LEDs that were not working.

I would say this is a quality control issue, when you watch my next video I will go into more details and my thoughts about these lights.

They are a missed opportunity, great design, poorly made.

Do not buy unless you don't mind tinkering to perfect them.

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A little 'light' history.

The early 90's were the beginning of the end for 'classic' style Christmas light sets, new manufacturing and safety laws saw the delicate thinner cables replaced with thick and bulky black ones for 240v sets of lights, making them look cumbersome and chunky.

NOMA still produce some 'classic style' sets of lights, identical to the late 80's lights but unfortunately with this thick cable.

Over the years, Christmas lights have been replaced with characterless, shadeless sets of lights, then eventually we got the domination of LED lights.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of modern lights that I do like, and I will try to do some videos about them too.

We do hope that one of the legacy firms like PIFCO or NOMA bring back the classic style lights, perhaps in low voltage LED form in sets of 20 and 40, and possibly 60-100 too with the old style shades, a mix and match option would be brilliant.

What do you think ?

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