First off, I really liked how you did the scaled ticket pricing. And no one envies herding cats and you should be commended for trying. The only thing I take issue with is the statement: "Few consumer-culture jamming opportunities near a metro station." Our fine city has opportunities-a-plenty to wreak havok. "Culture Jamming" is where you make it. That being said, going to a private mall is always a bad idea, because Santa can be arrested for trespassing. Santa hates being arrested. If shoppers are what you want, Colorado Boulevard would have been a great destination. (Metro Gold Line, Memorial Park Staion.) Lots of bars, lots of shoppers. (True, Pasadena PD are more humorless than LAPD, thus the guys that were pinched there last time Santa went through five years ago.) Another destination could have been LA Live (7th Street Metro Station) Again, lots of bars, lots of shoppers. Downtown is fine place for Santa. As Charles Pheonix reminds us, Disneyland is based on downtown's "It's a Small World" features. (Oh, and, Jumbo's is only three blocks from the Hollywood/Western/Bukowski Metro Station.)