Thanksgiving in America is a time for giving thanks in appreciation for all of the blessings heaped upon us throughout the years. It is marked by deer hunting, football, bountiful feasts with family and friends, and of course, parades. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is a tradition that started in 1924 and has been a much anticipated annual event ever since, except for the years it was suspended for WWII. In 2010, it was marked with a number of floats and balloons from the gaming community.

One of the largest featured balloons in the parade was a Pokemon’s Pikachu with a Poke ball. While Pikachu is probably the most classic and well-known Pokemon figure, two other, smaller balloons joined him this year: Reshiram and Zekrom. The figures, while reminding the Gen X people in the crowd of their gaming roots, also served as a sneak peak to the Pokemon Company International’s pending releases Pokemon Black and Pokemon White for the Nintendo DS. These games mirror the ideas of the classic color-coded series for Nintendo’s Gameboy, which were released in the nineties.

Pikachu has been part of the parade for ten years.

Pokemon in Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2010

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