Alpine Corporation Indoor/Outdoor Metallic Foil Tree Stake Holiday Decoration with Multi-Colored LED Lights, Silver 4.2 FT

The Alpine Corporation Artificial Christmas Tree with Glowing Star Topper takes a little patience setting up. We slowly untangled the light strands and matched the top of the light strands with the bottom holes in the frame. We are missing one of the springs that attach the wire strand to the bottom and we use a wire tie to secure the wire stand to the bottom frame. I called the Alpine customer service telephone number listed on the instruction manual and explained that we are missing a spring. Judy the customer rep. said she would ship us a new tree since there isn't a replacement spring in their parts list. We put the tree in our backyard home theater hide-a-way. See attached photo.

This thing is BIG! Around 7 ft tall, and the base is about 28" diameter. I set it up inside and it was a little hard to get out the door, ha. The box says it is weather resistant so hopefully it will do fine outside. I have not left it out there yet but had it set up inside for awhile to try the light functions. There are about 8 light patterns (flashing patterns, blinking, slow fade), and constant-on. There isn't a remote really, but a button attached to a wire on the tree itself, but it blends in pretty well. Setting it up was a bit wild because all of the strands come hanging off the top part and you have to do your best to keep them from getting tangled. I had to just go around and find each strand in order and hook it to the bottom, untangling one by one. Each strand has a wire spring and hook at the bottom so it connects tightly to the base without slack. Overall setup was fairly easy and it looks very good especially at night, very bright LEDs and flashing patterns.