The Travails of the Astounding!

There’s an old school charm to Snoopy’s get-up. Glad he’s still in the lineup.

Father to toddler: "Oh look, isnt that umm... uhh... oh yeah, Pokey-Man!"

"Oh and look, he has his ball with him, isnt that nice, see?" I didnt have the heart to tell the guy that the ball represent the "Pokey-Man’s" terms of enslavement.

Father to toddler: "Hey, look, it’s Snoopy!"

This clown is pleasantly terrifying. I can see Martin Jaques having a doll-sized version of this in is home.

Father talking to his toddler: "Oh look, it’s...it’s... oh, I think that’s a cat. Yay! Look at the cat, see? Yay, cat!"

Red mouthed from the gush of a fresh kill, Ronald stalks the avenue for another child to eat.

This guy tried is very hardest to get the crowd to start chanting "U-S-A, U-S-A!", but to their credit the New York crowd was either to savvy, unpatriotic (terroristic) or sleepy to oblige.

High wire pirate antics were a definite added treat. Doing acrobatics 10 ft in the air on a lurching float makes you hott. Yes, it does.

As well made as this new addition is, the Shrek float is weird because it really needs to be 15 feet higher for you to get a good view of it. Coming down the avenue all you really saw was a specked green head.

Same thing goes for Kermit, except since the float isnt as thick, it wasnt as much on an issue.