Talk:Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

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[edit] Date confusion

Article says first Macy parade was in 1929 but then goes on to discuss things happening in earlier years. What were the real years? How many years (and which) was the parade in NJ before moving to NY? WikiParker (talk) 16:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] balloons 2007

Someone put that a balloon for the tom cruise movie Valkyrie was ot debut this year. Looking at the official parade site [1] shows this to not be the case so i have deleted it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.122.225.170 (talk) 17:55, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Participants, 2005

[edit] Balloons

BROADWAY SHOWS

CELEBRITIES, PERFORMING TALENT AND SPECIAL GUESTS

The Cast and Muppets™ of Sesame Street

SPECIAL CHARACTERS

  • Bearemy & Pawlette Confur
  • Captain Macy
  • Macy's Parade Bears
  • Mother Goose & Friends
  • NFL Team Mascots

FLOATS

  • *ecko's Expedition to Rhino Mountain
  • Amerada Hess Corporation's Bridge to the Future
  • Amica Insurance's American Classic Malt Shop
  • Barbie's™ The Magic of Pegasus
  • Build-A-Bear Workshop® Teddy Bear's Workshop
  • Cartoon Network's Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi™
  • Delta Air Lines Cornucopia Float
  • Discovery Kids' Tutenstein
  • Discovery Network's Animal Planet
  • Fisher-Price's® The Magic of Childhood
  • Georgia-Pacific's Dixie Krazy Kritters® Float
  • Hershey Foods Corporation's Kids' Candy Creation Lab
  • Macy's Tom Turkey Float
  • Mike Miller & Associates' Pep Rally Float
  • National Football League's Turkey Bowl Float
  • OK Centennial Commission's Oklahoma Rising!
  • Pillsbury's Holiday Lovin' Oven
  • Rocking Horse
  • Royal Caribbean International's® Voyage to Adventure
  • Santa's Sleigh with Mrs. Claus
  • Sesame Workshop's 1-2-3 Sesame Float
  • Soaring Spirit Canoe
  • The New York Daily News Big Apple Float
  • United States Postal Service's Spirit of America
  • Universal Orlando Resorts' Holiday Beat
  • Warner Bros.' The Polar Express®

MARCHING BANDS

  • Blue Springs HS Marching Band, Missouri
  • Crestview HS Marching Band, Florida
  • Hawaii All-State Marching Band, Hawaii
  • John B Alexander HS Marching Band, Texas
  • Kennesaw Mountain HS Marching Band, Georgia
  • NYPD Marching Band, New York City
  • Ohio University Marching Band, Ohio
  • Pocono Mountain East HS Marching Band, Pennsylvania
  • The Brooklyn Steppers, New York
  • The Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps
  • University of LA, Lafayette, Louisana

PERFORMANCE GROUPS The Gym Dandies Children's Circus Hip Hop Kidz Lake Highland HS Wildcat Wranglers Mike Miller Dance Team The Red Hot Mamas Universal Cheerleaders Association & Universal Dance Association Cheerleaders

SPECIALTY VEHICLES Annheiser Busch Hitch & Clydesdales NYPD Motorcycles NYPD Mounted Unit Pikamobile Planters® Nut Mobile The Big Red Shoe Car™ with Ronald McDonald®, Birdie®, the Early Bird, Grimace®, and Hamburglar®

SPECIAL THANKS TO: THE AFFINIA HOTELS DELTA AIR LINES, The offical airline of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade® GMC, The offical truck of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade® REMO, provider of Parade drumheads RIHGA ROYAL, New York TIMBERLAND, The offical outerwear of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade® TORO and STORR Tractor

[edit] "Macy's Day Parade"

_ _ Unless they are being paid not to, New Yorkers say "Macy's Day Parade". Woody Allen, the quintessential New Yorker, had his own character in Broadway Danny Rose do so. Professional journalists covering it on the TV news do so. "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" has 158,000 Google hits, but "Macy's Day Parade" gets 133,000 hits for written references. The formal NY Times, which still calls newsmakers "Mr. <surname>" in subsequent references, has "60 of about 79" for

"Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade" site:nytimes.com

but nevertheless one (4th 'graph) for

"Macy's Day Parade" site:nytimes.com

The hipper Village Voice has "11 of about 13" for the formal version, and "5 of 5" for

"Macy's Day Parade" site:villagevoice.com

Again, all of these written.
_ _ I've got no problem with the title being the formal version, but i'm adding

usually the "Macy's Day Parade" in informal contexts

and not only bcz the needed rdr requires it.
--Jerzy•t 17:51, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

We call it the "Macy's Parade". 24.4.131.142 05:07, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Partial rewrite

I've trimmed and rewritten some portions of the page. In some cases, there was a lot of detail that isn't necessary for an encyclopedia article (like the names of the organizers), and in others, the information didn't meet NPOV (e.g., the use of words like "sadly" and "unfortunately"). I think that the page is a much nicer read now. but I do welcome corrections/additions (just please don't wholesale-revert or undo it). —LrdChaos (talk) 17:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I've just reverted the edits by Maxx151 and 70.23.21.115, citing the addition of NPOV, unencyclopedic material. I don't want it to seem like I'm protecting "my" version of the page, so I figure I should explain a little as why. (For ease of viewing, this is a diff between my original rewritten version and the last edit before my revert).
I don't think that we need a whole paragraph devoted to a book; the book is already mentioned in the references section, and that's all we need. This article is about the parade, not about the book.
Secondly, there's no reason to list the names of the people involved in organizing the parade, especially in the way that it's been done here (by saying that "under [their] leadership ... the future looks even more joyful and exciting".
The material about past perfomances needs to be sourced, and the use of phrases as "many fondly remember" doesn't seem like the statement ever could be. A more neutral phrasing of some of the more notable performers over the years would be a much better fit.
The additions about the television coverage are likewise unsourced violations of NPOV. You would need to cite a source that makes these claims. The last bit (mostly 70.23.21.115's edits) really need no explanation; it just reads like one person's small rant about the coverage. —LrdChaos (talk) 14:01, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] External Links

I think the cleanup external links should be removed because the links to me are appropriate. Red1530 15:50, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] video game balloons

I removed the part about 1993 having Sonic being the first video game balloon. It was just thrown in the middle of the history paragraph for no reason. Also, if that is so important, perhaps a section on Parade Firsts would be better, such as the first time a tv character became a balloon, etc... Sabalon 02:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Underdog Reference on Reba

On an an epsisode of Reba, Van and Buzzard, a minor character were talking as they were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and they were disappionted that Underdog was replaced. I am wondering how long Underdog was in the parade? Mr. C.C. 16:15, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barney

  • One year the wind was so strong that the Barney balloon flew away from the rest of the parade.

Does anyone have any reference to this? And what year was that? Ryan Holloway (talk) 15:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

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