Everything to Know About the 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade For example, did you know the parade used to feature live animals? And that they’d simply release those massive balloons into the ...

Gotham/GC Images For millions of Americans, every Thanksgiving ... featured live animals, including lions and camels, from the Central Park Zoo. The first-ever "character balloon" was Felix ...

Here's the full list of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons. The first Macy's Thanksgiving ... shorts during the silent film era. Zoo animals stopped being part of the parade because they ...

A century ago, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day ... bears—you name it). Live animals stopped being used in the parade after 1926. Replacing them would be the balloons we know and love today, starting ...

Zoo animals—think elephants ... Interestingly, we wouldn’t see the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon for three years. In 1927, the parade took to the skies, with Felix the ...

Real animals were replaced with balloons in 1927; that same year, the name of the event was changed to Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The longest-running parade float is the event’s ...