What Character Was the First Giant Balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and How Big Was It?

In 1927, three years after the parade launched, Felix the Cat debuted as its first big balloon. Felix was a cartoon cat that ...
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Cat plays with balloon in Jiangsu, China

On October 19, 2025, in Jiangsu, China, @Niánniányǒuyú shared a video of a white cat intensely playing with a purple balloon. In the video, the cat happily bats at the balloon until it suddenly wraps ...
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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade history, a look through the years l Timeline

From its humble beginnings in 1924, to becoming a global spectacle, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in NYC has evolved ...
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Orange Cat's Wonder Over His Pink Balloon Makes Him Look Like a Little Kid

Every once in a while, the (amazingly dumb) argument crops up online about whether or not pet parents can think of their dogs and cats as their kids. I'm here to tell you that you absolutely can, and ...

The First Character Balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade—And What Happened to It

When Macy’s first introduced a helium-filled character balloon into the Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1927, people watching from the sidewalks of New York didn’t quite know what they were looking at.