Found em. Traditional style twinkle lights

[PracticaIIyMagic]

I really think I might have done it.
Unfortunately the website doesn't have a video of the twinkling but the advert I followed to get there did and they definitely twinkle not flash and its every bulb not just half of them.
Old style looking bulbs (Although they are LEDs) and they do warm white or coloured (including pink! 😁)
I'm going to buy a set and see what they're like
🤞🏼
We R Christmas - vintage candle lights string 600 lights

https://werchristmas.co.uk/products/vintage-candle-light-string-600-leds-warm-white?variant=56668551872892

https://werchristmas.co.uk/products/vintage-candle-light-string-600-leds-multi-colour?variant=56668551840124

Found the advert on FB

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EFUYg9o7m/

Oooh let us know what they’re like. I’ve been looking for years for proper old fashioned twinkly lights not the fit-inducing flashing ones.

For me it's the overall glare of any LEDs so I'd be interested to hear your report back.

What brand are they please @PracticaIIyMagic ?
I’m not in the UK so they may not deliver to me or if they do the addrd taxes and delivery charges will be astronomical.
New laws in the EU have added more tax onto non EU goods, sadly.

Ooooh i dunno. Colours look good but our old lights never twinkled or - god forbid - flashed!

Wasn't this thread posted a couple of weeks ago?

There's 2 reviews on there.
1 five star and 1 one star .....

They definitely look like they're flashing not twinkling in that advert to me 😞

Yes I'd be very interested to know how you find them @PracticaIIyMagic! 😊

The one star is because he never got them. I assume the courier was the issue

I had twinkling lights in the 90s. Incandescents back then. That's why I've been looking for them

Not by me

It's the site We R Christmas. Their own brand I think. You could see what the site says about delivery

To me that's a definite twinkle effect. Flashing lights all blink on and off at the same time.

I'll definitely report back with my impressions for anyone interested. I'll try to do a video too

Yes please report back!

Ok. Sorry to anyone who got their hopes up. But the advert was misleading. Only showed the twinkling part of the twinkle/flash mode that seems to be standard on LEDs these days. Why they cannot get this right is a mystery to me. JUST TWINKLE PLEASE.
The colour is nice. I got the warm white and they look like old fashioned "clear" bulbs. The bulbs look like old fashioned incandescents but the twinkling is a let down for me at least. I'll be returning them.
Sorry again.
The search continues

Oh that’s a shame.

Can’t you just set whatever lights you buy to twinkle mode? They usually don’t switch between settings.
I feel like I’m missing something here 🤔

They don't have a singular twinkle mode. They have a twinkle/flash mode which does both and is frankly horrible. The pretty twinkling suddenly changes to seizure inducing flashing then back again

Why no one can manage to make these effects separate modes is anyone's guess, but every single light set I've seen that has "8 modes" is like this. I hate them

They look like harsh, fast flashing modern lights to me. How I miss the old ones.

A few years ago I bought a few sets of different brands of vintage twinkling lights. They were all faster and more jerky than I expected. Not at all what I remembered. It made me wonder if my memory was playing tricks on me.

I do too.
I thought I had got good ones but tbh, they’re not great.
Someone on Mumsnet last year said her dh who is good at this stuff was working on it.
Sadly I can’t remember her username.
They got men on the moon, surely they can give us proper twinkling lights !!!!

You'd think! I mean they clearly can manage a sort of twinkle for the twinkle/flash mode. Why not separate them? Then those weirdos people who like flashing lights can still have them. And I can have my twinkles. I don't feel I'm asking for much 😭

I think that in the good old days the old fashioned bulbs that kept dying and forced you to crawl along your string of fairy lights testing for the one that blew, gave a much softer light. They looked mysterious and beautiful against dark green fir leaves. The modern bulbs don't blow like that, and they don't heat up causing a fire risk, but they are harsh and headachy to look at. I don't like Christmas lights any more, which feels quite sad.