Having some issues getting FastLED/LEDText working with dynamic strings.

Having some issues getting FastLED/LEDText working with dynamic strings. I believe this issue is NOT a FastLED issue but given how helpful this group has been I thought I would post it here in case anyone could help.

The details of the issue can be found on this post:
http://www.esp8266.com/viewtopic.php?f=160&t=15193

You never allocate msgStr that I can find, so why would it work? This isn’t a bug in anything but your code. And why is fixing the buffer using static allocation bad?