Reshiram and Zekrom Balloons To Join Pikachu In Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade

Dear international readers, America has a holiday coming up where we eat a ton of food and then pass out that’s supposed to commemorate a nice fable that we tell small children to avoid explaining a much more nuanced and politically charged historical situation.  There are other qualities to Thanksgiving, however, like football (American football, you know, handegg?), and a very serious parade in New York City.  So serious it had to be rickrolled by a Cartoon Network show.

Well, in addition slow moving decorated vehicles covered in awkwardly lip syncing celebrities, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade also famously features balloons.  A fifty foot tall Pikachu has been a member of the floating company since 2001, and this year he is reportedly going to be joined by a couple of new faces.

Reshiram and Zekrom, the legendary Pokémon from the upcoming (in America, anyway) Pokémon: Black and White will be appearing as balloons, but fortunately will not be to scale, measuring only 14 feet tall.  They will be the only other Pokémon to get a Macy’s Parade balloon in their honor.  Pikachu has been accompanied by a poké ball balloon before, but that isn’t exactly good conversational company for the yellow fellow.

(via Kotaku.)

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Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

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