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# Flashing Lights
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/flashing-lights-20080625/
- Published: 2008-06-25T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T19:58:59.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: local, Santa Monica, #archive-import

The new Pacific Wheel at Pacific Park features 160,000 LED lights that put on quite a show once the sun goes down. While the new Ferris wheel has been widely celebrated as a vast improvement over the old wheel there are some that feel the lighting design is a tad too much.

So this week’s Q-Line question asks: Is the new Ferris wheel too bright or just right?

Call (310) 285-8106 before Friday at 5 p.m. and we’ll print your answers in the weekend edition of the Daily Press. Please limit responses to a minute or less.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 25, 2008.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/062508.pdf?ref=smdp.com)