Vote for your favorites in a bracket-style contest
We’re down to four and they’re all iconic Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons! And all four won their matchups in the Elite Eight round rather soundly. The closest was Babar over Curious George by 6 votes. Vote now in the Final […]
Only 8 balloons left! And they’re all pretty iconic. And, no, I didn’t plan the Charlie Brown vs Snoopy matchup. It just happened. 🙂 And, yes, there were a few close votes in the Sweet 16: Bugs Bunny beat Garfield […]
We’re down to just 16 of these huge balloons, and I daresay they’re all familiar. We had a couple close matchups in Round Three: Ice Age’s Scrat beat Harold the Policeman by 3 votes Babar the Elephant beat Big Bird […]
We’re two rounds in and there are still some old characters in the running! Hobo Clown, Harold the Policeman, Freida the Dachshund, and the Goldfish have all done well. The Gorgeous Gobbler is old, too, but since it’s a Thanksgiving […]
Round Two is the size of a regular bracket, since we started with a double. 64 balloons remain. I’m glad to see some of the old ones remaining, and not just because they were matched up with other old ones. […]
Macy’s has been hosting Thanksgiving Day Parades since 1924 and balloons were introduced in 1928. Most of the balloons are either novelty or character balloons. The most widely known type of balloon is the full-size balloon class, the majority of […]
And the winner of Favorite Christmas Movie is: Thanks to everyone who voted. This topic had a really great turnout. Below is a list of the top favorites, based on our votes, compared with the overall “Best Christmas Movies of […]
We’re down to the top two! It’s Muppets vs Charlie Brown! The Muppet Christmas Carol beat White Christmas by just 5 votes, but Charlie Brown handily defeated the Grinch. Vote now in the Championship Round! The deadline is Tuesday evening, […]
A couple of surprises as we move into the Final Four. Three of these four won their Elite Eight contests by about a 2-to-1 margin, but the upset, statistically, was The Muppet Christmas Carol beating It’s a Wonderful Life by […]
A couple more upsets happened in the Sweet Sixteen Round! Two of the #1 seeds fell! (Elf and Home Alone) and Frosty and Christmas Vacation, two standards, also fell, but their matchups were with It’s a Wonderful Life and the […]