Back in 1993, during that year's annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, a Sonic the Hedgehog float was damaged thanks to high winds and ended up injuring two people as a result. Strangely, footage of the incident has been practically impossible to come by - until now.
As reported by Kotaku, reports of the crash up until this point have used still photographs of the float or videos of it lying on the ground after the incident. You'd think someone would have captured the event on film though, right?
Well, ABC7NY has now shared archive footage of the 1997 Macy’s Parade, where a Cat in the Hat float also injured four people. It's only shown for the briefest of moments, but tucked away inside the video is a short clip of Sonic's face bursting on a lamppost before falling to the floor in the 1993 parade. Thankfully, the child and police officer who suffered injuries as a result were OK.
You can see it all take place from around the 1:37 mark:
Floats at this year's Macy's Parade survived without too many hiccups, apart from a Ronald McDonald balloon which was blown into a tree before slowly deflating more and more as it was dragged around the streets.
[source kotaku.com]
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I'm sure we would all feel a lot better if it was the old movie version.
I felt very deflated watching this.
'Disaster'? Blowing it out of proportions aren't you?
Rudolph Giuliani not sounding like a crazy lunatic maniac is also astonishing to discover in 2019.
Coming in 2023. The 30th anniversary Movie of the Macy's Parade Disaster. Directed by Micheal Bay.
Insert "ominous foreshadowing of future career state" dig here... 😜
Happy Thanksgiving 🇺🇸
"Get outta here, ya butter!"
Dr. Eggman: I waste years and millions building death robots... And all I needed was a lamppost?!
Haha, that fat Garfield float.
“Watch out! You’re gonna crash!”
*crashes in a lamppost.
“AHHHH!”
Sonic with that supersonic speed and high winds sounds like a disaster.
I wanna know if the woman in a critical condition from the Cat in the Hat incident was okay.
My kids love that book but I knew he was mean!
The Macy Thanksgiving Parade Float of Sonic is officially the best version of Sonic the Hedgehog ever made as discussed by Cybershell.
Can't wait for the Blu-ray version...
@Pod This year they should have had the Garfield balloon pop over the crowd and rain down copies of Garfield Kart Furious Racing. OH, THE HUMANITY!
Knuckles: Oh No!
Gotta go crash
Nice! I heard about this a long time ago, but never thought I would get to see it myself!
Sonic was definitely lucky that lamp got stuck in his eye. It could have gone much worse.
Things never go well for Ronald anymore, do they?
Really guys? A woman is almost killed by that Dr Suess balloon and all you can say is, "LoOk, SoNIC!!!"
YouTube wasn't even operational back in 1993. I was born 2 years later, on August 15th
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