A holiday display that sits perfectly still tends to blend into the room by the second week of December. Guests glance at it once, and so, eventually, do you.

This carousel gives the eye a reason to come back. Hand-painted animals rise and fall as it turns, while more than 100 LEDs outline the canopy, columns and base. Pick from three light shows: Multiplex flashes in time with the music, Unison blinks every bulb together, and Steady On simply glows. A brown base with gold filigree finishes the old-fashioned fairground look.

Then there’s the music. Forty songs are loaded in, 20 Christmas carols plus 20 all-time favorites, which is why it can stay out long after the tree comes down. Turn the volume up for company, or switch the sound off and let the motion and color carry the evening. It plugs in with the included AC adapter, so there are no batteries to hunt down mid-carol. Set it on the sideboard and the fair is in town all year.