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In the United States on Thursday, Nov. 25, has one of the favorite family holidays in the population - Thanksgiving Day. According to tradition, across the country on that day held the most colorful and large-scale parades, chief of which is held in New York. Thanksgiving Day - one of the most important holiday of America and Parade Macy’s Thanksgiving Day has become as important a symbol of Thanksgiving, as well as the traditional turkey.

Hallmark of the parade, which has been held for 84-th time are balloons and large, the size of a multistory house, inflatable toys - the heroes of fairy tales, television programs and cartoons. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Hundreds of thousands of city residents and tourists each year are collected along the central streets of New York - Fifth Avenue to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade, tens of millions of Americans watching him on live televised home. Broadcast begins in the morning. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Children watch Thanksgiving Day Parade from the window of an apartment on Central Park. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Since 1924, a parade in honor of Thanksgiving Day in New York organizes the largest chain of department stores Macy’s. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

The hero of the animated film “Toy Story” Buzz Svetik flies in Times Square. (AP / Jeff Christensen)

The parade opened march orchestra from Purdue University. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

The tradition of the parade was founded 86 years ago, when in 1924 the Macy’s department store employees marched in costume from the urban district of Harlem to the main store in Manhattan. Since then, the parade is held every year except 1942-44 period. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Passage of a large group of cheerleaders from Central Park. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

The parade involved hundreds of clowns, lots of bands and orchestras, the stars of American cinema and television, popular singers and performers, famous athletes. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Girls from the Guatemalan musical ensemble Pedro Molina. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Spiderman figure above Times Square. (AP / Jeff Christensen)

Gnome Smurfit during the traditional parade on Thanksgiving Day in New York on November 25. (AP / Jeff Christensen)

Police officers in New York watching the parade. (AP / Tina Fineberg)

According to most of the audience in Manhattan, the top prize Thanksgiving Day Parade in 2010 would have earned Kung Fu Panda - the main protagonist of the American cartoon, released in theaters two years ago. (Getty Images for Nickelodeon / Michael Loccisano)

Some inflatable figures already for several years, but the tradition every year at the Parade debuts new characters. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Children saw the actress and singer Miranda Cosgrove, who rides on a holiday platforms. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

The parade can see anyone as a free entrance to the stands, well, for children - a special place on the roadside. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

The parade is usually observed more than 2 million residents and visitors in New York. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

Uchastnits3a parade shaking hands to children who watch the parade from the curb. (Getty Images / Chris Hondros)

A police officer in New York Valley Melvin with his 5-year-old daughter Carly. Parade Macy’s Thanksgiving Day - a really impressive sight that attracts both children and adults. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

14-year-old Anthony D’Attoma of Dyer Park, NY. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Every year since 1933, completes the Santa Claus parade, symbolizing the start of preparations for Christmas, after Thanksgiving - the beginning of the Christmas season, when you need to buy gifts. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Participants in the parade go to their seats before the start of the procession. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Members of the orchestra at Purdue University have come together before the parade. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Large balloons first appeared in 1927, was among the first was the universal favorite of Felix the Cat. At the parade in 1928 appeared the first “long-playing” balls, which lasted in the air all the way - until the very end. (Getty Images / Mario Tama)

At dawn on November 25 cars that will participate in the Thanksgiving Day Parade lined up along Central Park West. (AP / Craig Ruttle)

Night of November 24, a large inflatable figures Frog Kermit prepare for the upcoming parade. This traditional ceremony of “breathing life” was called “Balloon Inflation”. (AP / Tina Fineberg)

3-year-old Lucy with his father, Jeremy Radtke among the crowd, watching as the figure is inflated with helium in preparation for the upcoming parade. (AP / Tina Fineberg)

According to the creators of owls air toys, preparing for the parade they take several months - a process connected to factories, dozens of professionals. (AP / Tina Fineberg)

Each year before Thanksgiving with a 3 day and late into the evening at the corner of 77 Street and Central Park, passes the preparation of figures. (AP / Tina Fineberg)

Sonderkommando Macy’s department store in preparation for the parade, inflates the figures of helium during the day on November 24. (Getty Images / Mario Tama)

Once the figure, filled with helium, a little will be revealed, it covered a vast network, which retains a shape on the ground by a set of sandbags. (Getty Images / Mario Tama)

The parade is held every year since 1924, except for the 1942-44 years, since the rubber material and helium, used for balloons and toys, at the time were needed for the front. (Getty Images / Mario Tama)

10-year-old Caroline Madigan with her sisters-twins eight-year-old Brin and Riley with the crowd, watching the preparation of inflatable figures. (AP / Tina Fineberg)