Best Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons Introduced in the 1940s
Superman is a comic character. And probably the first powerful superhero in the fictional world. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. It was published by DC comics. The first animated superhero movie was superman. The origin story of Superman relates that he was born Kal-El on the planet Krypton, before being rocketed to Earth as an infant by his scientist father Jor-El, moments before Krypton's destruction. Discovered and adopted by a Kansas farm couple, the child is raised as Clark Kent and imbued with a strong moral compass. Very early on he started to display various superhuman abilities, which, ...read more. The second decade of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons is highlighted by the first balloon based on a comic book franchise. And DC Comics has that honor by having Superman debut as a balloon in 1940.
The common hippopotamus, or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous mammal in sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus. Quite oddly, the hippo was one of two balloons along with Superman introduced in 1940. Expect it to have a cartoon-like design given the decade it debuted in.
This is actually the name of a balloon based on a clown. Can't say much about it, but it's interesting enough to include it on this list. It made its debut in 1945.
A redesigned version of the Superman balloon (why did they have to replace the Man of Steel...? ). First debuted in 1941.
A redesigned version of the Bobo the Hobo balloon (guess it must have been a relief for kids and adults with coulrophobia). First debuted in 1946.
A redesigned version of The Baseball Player from 1946. Wow, all these redesigns are reminding me of that Ed, Edd n Eddy episode Once Bitten, Twice Ed where Eddy kept tweaking all his scam designs. Anyways, this balloon first debuted in 1947.
A redesigned version of The Police Officer (man, they must have really loved redesigning previous parade balloons! Then again, they were probably still recovering from World War II after 1945). That said, this balloon first debuted in 1948.
A balloon based on a typical toy soldier figure. First debuted in 1949.
I can bet the teddy bear balloon introduced in this decade was all sorts of cartoon-like adorable. Moving on, it first debuted in 1945.
Mmm, ice cream cone. Sounds like quite a peculiar choice for a parade balloon at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, but hey, it's worth an honorable mention. Anyways, it first debuted in 1945.
Jiminy Cricket is the Walt Disney version of the Talking Cricket, a fictional character created by Italian writer Carlo Collodi for his children's book The Adventures of Pinocchio, which Disney adapted into the animated film Pinocchio in 1940. Originally an unnamed, minor character in Collodi's novel, ...read more.