The PNC Festival of Lights will be Nov. 18 to Jan. 8, 2023
CINCINNATI - The Cincinnati Zoo revealed Thursday morning that the new PNC Festival of Lights nutcracker will be a hippo for the show’s 40th anniversary.
The hippo head took a year to create for the 24-foot-tall nutcracker statue. It is a tribute to the zoo’s most popular resident -- Fiona. “This nutcracker is truly unique,” Cincinnati Zoo’s Vice President of Marketing and Visitor Experience Chad Yelton said. “It’s 24 feet tall, 8 feet wide, and looks just like Fiona! COST of WisconsinFans of Fiona will have fun finding the hidden details that are part of the famous hippo’s story.A camera as her belt buckleThe nutcracker has been a PNC Festival of Lights tradition for decades, and the last two have been a rhinoceros and a lion, according to the zoo’s archives.show Nov.
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