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 ...

Stuart's craving for bananas is so strong that even a Thanksgiving feast can't satisfy it. Balloon Dimensions ... Bronx Zoo is celebrating its beloved animals and naturalistic exhibits that ...

The Spiderman balloon at the 88th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on November ... Lastly, replica animals appearing on the Bronx Zoo float were "designed to be the same size as their real ...

About 100 artists, builders and balloon technicians work there year round to prepare the parade attractions for the Thanksgiving morning. Macy’s began holding test flights for its parade ...

The main attraction was animals borrowed from the Central ... s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC and Top 10 Balloon Mishaps at Macy’s NYC Thanksgiving Day Parade ...

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade will fill the streets ... The spectacle debuted in November 1924 as "Macy's Christmas Parade," borrowing animals from the Central Park Zoo in an effort to ...

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 ...