An award-winning Christmas display, sporting more than 45,000 lights, will still be twinkling despite a vandal - or vandals - destroying the light feature.
Severed wires, missing reindeer and empty spaces now plague Shane Spalding's front garden after his light feature was targeted by vandals this week.
"I have thousands of lights, Santas, reindeer running through the garden, so many different figurines, flashing lights, stars and lights that twirl up the palm trees - it's covering the whole house and garden. Every year I accumulate more and add to the collection. It's not cheap but in all the years I've been decorating my house, nothing like this has ever happened before.
"I'm pretty gutted. I don't do this for me, I do it for the kids and the community."
Mr Spalding's Welcome Bay home has been dazzling the community on the Bay of Plenty Times Christmas Lights Trail for more than seven years and in that time he has won top prize three times, placed second once and won a consolation prize.