Local Schoolkids Get First Look At New Floats For Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
MOONACHIE, N.J. (CBSNewYork) -- Macy's is planning to put on quite a show next Thursday for its 90th Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A handcrafted wooden Christmas cottage with a fully-working carousel and a Hawaiian island with volcano that shoots confetti are among the four new floats that will make their way down the famed parade route this year.
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As for the balloons, lead designer John Piper said they're going retro with a recreation of the 1927 Felix the Cat.
"We've re-created him in the same scale, size and manner that he was carried in the first parade with balloons on poles," Piper said.
After a year's worth of work, Macy's opened the doors of its parade studio in Moonachie to some tough critics -- school kids from northern New Jersey.
"I think it's awesome and they did work very hard, so thumbs up," one student said.
"It's really fun in here, I love floats, there's balloons, it's almost like a circus," another said.
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John Piper of #MacysThanksgivingDayParade here at warehouse in Jersey where floats come to life #1010wins pic.twitter.com/5FdT4IHKCN
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More than 3.5 million spectators are expected to line the parade route next Thursday.
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