{"id":348386,"date":"2026-09-16T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348386\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:22:10","slug":"new-snoopy-balloon-to-take-flight-in-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348386\/","title":{"rendered":"New Snoopy balloon to take flight in Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic Peanuts character Snoopy is getting a new look for the 100th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/macys-thanksgiving-parade-floats\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade<\/a>\u00a0in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The giant balloon is of Joe Cool, who is Snoopy&#8217;s famously laid-back persona, wearing a red sweater and sunglasses. Of course, his famous sidekick Woodstock is tucked under his arm. It&#8217;s inspired by Snoopy&#8217;s daydream of being the coolest beagle on campus.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon was debuted Wednesday morning at Gansevoort Plaza in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/macys-new-snoopy-balloon-hi-res-still-10-28-0418.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"macys-new-snoopy-balloon-hi-res-still-10-28-0418.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A new Snoopy balloon will be featured in the annual Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Macy&#8217;s officials said his sunglasses are about 40 times the size of a normal pair, and he would need a doghouse about 45 feet high to fit inside.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Snoopy and Woodstock have long been a staple of the annual parade. In 2025, the balloon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-balloon-inflation-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beagle Scout Snoopy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as a free exhibit celebrating the comic by Charles M. Schulz has been open since Sept. 2 in the Meatpacking District.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Snoopy in Style NYC&#8221; features a collection of one-of-a-kind Snoopy and Woodstock plush dolls and rare archival pieces highlighting Schulz and his influence on pop culture, fashion, sports and music.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit closes on Sept. 26.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The iconic Peanuts character Snoopy is getting a new look for the 100th Macy&#8217;s Thanksgiving Day Parade\u00a0in New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[130274,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-348386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-macy039s-thanksgiving-day-parade","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}