You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the ...

Macy’s parade accidents have gotten rarer since the Great Balloon Massacre of 1997 (see entries five and six), but they’ll always be a part of the event’s history.

Every year since 1994, the parade balloons are blown up during the “Macy's Balloon Inflation Celebration,” which is held on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day on the Upper West Side in ...

The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is world famous for its tradition of larger than life balloons of cartoon characters flying through the streets of Manhattan. These balloons are also famous ...

The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has been a tradition since 1924. ... The Cat In The Hat balloon after its accident during the 1997 parade | Evy Mages/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images.

In the 2005 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the M&M's-sponsored "Red and Yellow Brighten the Holidays" balloon caused an accident when one of its handling lines snagged a lamppost, dislodging the ...

As carefully detailed by the New York Times, 39-mph winds caused a six-story Cat in the Hat balloon to crash into a lamppost at 72nd Street and Central Park West at the 1997 parade.The incident ...

Grogu balloon at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade ushers on Nov. 25, 2021, in New York City. In 2021, the parade went mostly back to normal, although all participants had to be vaccinated.

According to CNN, the balloons were first introduced in the 1927 parade when Macy's Christmas Parade (which debuted in 1924) was renamed the Thanksgiving Day Parade. A 35-foot-long fish balloon is ...

This year will mark the 100th Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Getty Images In 1997, winds tossed a balloon into a lamppost, causing it to crash to the ground and injuring a ...

You know what they say, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is all fun and games until one of the balloons goes down. Since the parade started marching balloons around Manhattan in 1927, the ...