Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade By the Numbers and Fun Facts

OVERVIEW :

• Years of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade – 91 (est. 1924) o Note : The Parade was canceled in 1942, 1943 and 1944 due to World War II. Parade Route Spectators – 3.5 Million
• Parade Route Length – 2.5 miles (77th & Central Park West south to 34th Street-Herald Square) Participants - 8,000+ including Macy’s employees and their friends & families, celebrities,recording artists, athletes, Broadway performers, marching bands, clowns, dancers, cheerleadersand other performance groups

BALLOONS :

• Giant Character Helium Balloons – 17
  
• Heritage Balloons – 27 in total including the recreated Harold the Baseball Player (circa 1946)and later seen in the Twentieth Century Fox Film, “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947)
  
• Balloonicle (Macy’s Parade innovation of hybrid cold air balloon and vehicle) – 1, The Aflac Duck
  
• New Character Balloons – 4 (Disney Frozen’s Olaf, Illumination’s presents Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,PAW Patrol® and Jett from Super Wings™) o To date, there have been 178 different characters featured as a giant balloon in theParade since 1927.
  
• Height of Tallest Balloon – 60 feet (Disney Frozen’s Olaf)
  
• Length of Longest Balloon – 77 feet (Red Mighty Morphin Power Ranger)
  
• Width of Widest Balloon – 39 feet (Jett from Super Wings™)
  Balloon Handlers – 2000 (90 handlers on average per balloon)

FLOATS :

• Floats – 26, comprised of hundreds of different set pieces and other structural elements
  
• New Floats Making 2017 Debut – 6 (Everyone’s Favorite Bake Shop by Entenmann’s®, Harvestin the Valley by Green Giant®, Parade Day Mischief by SOUR PATCH KIDS®, Shimmer andShine by Nickelodeon, Universal Playground by Sprout® and Macy’s Singing Christmas Tree byDelta Air Lines)
  
• Length and Height of Largest Float – 60 feet long and 3.5 stories tall (Santa’s Sleigh) Float Escorts – 400

THE BROADCAST :

• Television Viewers – More than 50 Million, one of the country’s most viewed televised events
  
• Hours of Live Television – 3 (9am-noon EST)
  
• Years on NBC, official national broadcast partner – 65 (since 1952)
  
• NBC TODAY Show anchors as host of the Parade:
  

o 2017 marks Matt Lauer’s 20th year (since 1998)

o 2017 marks Savannah Guthrie’s 6th year (since 2012)

o 2017 marks Al Roker’s 23rd year (since 1995)



ENTERTAINMENT,    PERSONALITIES & PERFORMERS :

• Marching Bands - 12 bands spanning approximately 2585 members in total
  
• Performance Groups – 6 groups including 550 cheerleaders and 550 dancers from all over thecountry
  
• Radio City Rockettes® – An annual favorite, they first performed in the 1957 Parade
  
• Broadway musicals – 4, the long-standing relationship with Broadway shows to showcaseperformances dates back to 1977
  
• Choral Singers (Macy’s own) - 175
  
• Clowns – 1,000
  
• Clown Stilt Walker Units - 12
  
• Santa Claus – the ONE and ONLY in his famed Parade finale appearance
  

o Santa Claus has closed the Macy’s Parade every year with the exception of 1933, theonly year in which he led the official Parade march

BEHIND-THE-SCENES MAGIC BY THE MACY’S PARADE STUDIO TEAM:

• Hours of Labor from the Parade Studio team of approximately 27 painters, carpenters, animators,sculptors, welders, scenic/costume designers, electricians and engineers – 50,000+
  
• Square Footage of the Parade Studio’s Moonachie, NJ headquarters – 72,000
  
• Length of Tubular Steel – nearly ½ mile for creation of the Macy’s Singing Tree, and the moststeel ever sourced for a Macy’s Parade float
  
• Gallons of Paint – 240
  
• Pounds of Reusable Molding Clay – 400
  
• Pounds of Glitter – 300
  
• Paint Brushes – 75 fine art brushes + 300 additional types of brushes
  
• Costumes – 4200
  
• Make-Up Artists for Clowns – 90
  
• Banner Carriers – 95
  

Source Credit: Macy's Inc

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