Good to hear you didn't have a giant wall of Santa pictures (bonus insanity points for using pins connected via strings and saying "It all makes sense now!"). That would have been a bit worrisome XD.
Anyway: Good to hear, that the lighting part was without major problems. Is there the possibility to automate the cleaning up process and the bevelling or would it take forever to do such a thing, because there isn't an existing solution yet?
I know, what you mean with reference pictures and the colours in LDD. Some stuff is just hard to translate into LEGO form and if you were to build it in reality, there is always "that piece", which isn't available (or it costs way too much).
Nah, the cable part is fine. Have you seen one or more cables in the wild* (or rather the house)? If don't do cable managment, it usually ends up being a mess/pile anyway ^^.
I have only asked for the bandwidth and now I even know, what plugs and sockets are being used. Truly an amazing thread :D!
*that sounds like a really low budget version of Pokemon now