The Pageant Phantasmagoria manifests as an ornate Victorian brass magic lantern housing ten rotating glass plate carousels, each carousel dedicated to one league's character archive. It projects luminous, semi-transparent holiday scenes that shimmer with warm golden light interwoven with aurora-colored spectral effects, creating the illusion of depth and movement within each frozen tableau. Every glass slide bears film-reel borders etched by frost, framing the projected characters in authentic cinematic presentation. The apparatus hums with a barely audible chorus of distant sleigh bells and chain-ringing that intensifies when projecting cross-league cameo appearances.

Serves as the primary projection mechanism that creates each bag tag's unique cinematic tableau by combining glass slides from different league carousels, ensuring no two projections are identical while maintaining the cohesive visual universe of the Chainsmas Chronicles through its ability to overlay multiple character interactions from disparate Christmas story traditions into seamless, dynamic frozen moments.