Entrance: Where we *really* are (Patreon)

So I spent the whole last two days replacing the lights in the scene, all the bulbs, and the sign, as well as the balloons. I changed all the bulbs and balloons to instances, which means the computer when rendering recognizes them as repeats and thus renders them faster. Even with that done, the render time is approximately 12 hours. I don't know what else I can try to reduce the time. It looks pretty much the same after all that work but I consider that a success. 

I'm going to move on to the second part and get that up to speed first and put the entrance aside.