Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off a century after its first trip through Manhattan  

New York — 

A period aft the archetypal Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the yearly vacation contented kicks disconnected Thursday successful New York City with caller Spider-Man and Minnie Mouse balloons, zoo and pasta-themed floats, performances from Jennifer Hudson and Idina Menzel, and more.

This year’s star-studded lineup is simply a acold outcry from the parade’s archetypal incarnation, which featured floats showing scenes from Mother Goose, Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Miss Muffet and the Spider, and different fairy tales.

Some things stay the same, though. As successful 1924, determination volition beryllium plentifulness of marching bands and tons of clowns, followed by the expansive finale of Santa Claus riding done Manhattan and ushering successful the vacation season.

This year's parade features 17 giant, helium-filled quality balloons, 22 floats, 15 novelty and practice inflatables, 11 marching bands, 700 clowns, 10 show groups, award-winning singers and actors, and the WNBA champion New York Liberty.

One caller interval volition spotlight the Rao’s nutrient brand, featuring a knight and a dragon successful conflict made with existent pasta elements. Another volition observe the Bronx Zoo’s 125th day with representations of a tiger, a giraffe, a zebra and a gorilla.

“The enactment that we do, the accidental to interaction millions of radical and bring a spot of joyousness for a mates of hours connected Thanksgiving morning, is what motivates america each day,” said Will Coss, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade enforcement producer.

The parade begins astatine 8:30 a.m. connected Manhattan’s Upper West Side and ends 4 kilometers distant astir noon astatine Macy’s Herald Square flagship store connected 34th Street, which serves arsenic a signifier and backdrop for performances.

It'll hap rainfall oregon radiance — the parade has lone been canceled 3 times, from 1942 to 1944 during World War II — but organizers volition beryllium monitoring upwind speeds passim the festivities to marque definite it's harmless for the large balloons to fly.

So far, the forecast calls for rainfall with temperatures successful the upper-40s and winds astir 16 kph, good wrong the acceptable scope for letting Snoopy, Bluey and their friends soar. New York City instrumentality prohibits Macy’s from flying the full-size balloons if sustained winds transcend 37 kph oregon upwind gusts are implicit 56 kph.

The parade airs connected NBC with hosts Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker and streams connected the network's Peacock service. Carlos Adyan and Andrea Meza volition big a Spanish simulcast connected Telemundo.