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For years now, I thought it would be cool to do a float for some of the local parades, but that is winter thinking.
Spring hits and gets busy and the float idea goes on the fritz.
We are having the 100th anniversary of our local city and there is a logo etc and flags and promo items.
We have a 16 foot landscape trailer and I am going to take the 5' gate off the back. Since it has a tube rail, I was going to run banners down each side and the front and make a 6-8 foot tall replica in 3-D of the logo for the center of the trailer. I was going to showcase some of the local businesses I work with in smaller panels...there is prize money involved...also I want to use it for the county fair parade, which comes first, but may have a different theme...they haven't announced it yet...
I think Paul's little cousins will ride around with their racing karts behind the float and my nieces & nephew will hand out whatever.
I might get my nephew to DJ some tunes too.
I have seen Dan's parade entry with the train for Giggle Ridge in the sign mags. I think we'll just pull the float with the S-10...by that time it should be wrapped!
What have you all done for floats (theme is 100 years of celebration-past present future)? Pics, please?
What have you handed out besides candy?
Thanks!
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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quote:Originally posted by Nikki Goral: What have you handed out besides candy?
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Lots and lots of beads. It takes us about 30 minutes to run our Christmas parade route on our float. We usually budget around having 120 dozen strands of beads per person. It'll literally wear you out trying to throw them all. I don't see how people on Mardi Gras floats throw for hours. Beads are cheap but beads are also heavy. The shipping will put a hurting on you.
-------------------- Pat Whatley Montgomery, AL (334) 262-7446 office (334) 324-8465 cell Posts: 1306 | From: Wetumpka, AL USA | Registered: Mar 2001
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What the heck does that have to do with the parade? It isn't in Green Bay...that's been around for 153 years...it is in Luxemburg...
And yes, the emotional conference, which I have yet to see, may be misconstrued as sappy, but if ya live here you understand it. When you see the players around town shopping etc, you end up developing personal attachments like no where else.
New thread for #4 please.....
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Nikki, I have always participated in our local parades. A couple of years ago we went all out for the Christmas parade. The theme was something like Around the World, we put a big blow up snowman in the middle, with 4 little kid statues around him, on a turntable, (kind of like Frosty the Snowman), it really turned out neat, we won first place! We dedicated it to Cancer survivors, collected donations for Gilda's Club and even made the local news! It was really awesome, the float was great, but the cause was the winner! When people donated, we placed a name on our float. Hopefully the pics will work. First time try
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WOW!!! Thanks Pat! Great idea for the cause and marketing your business too!
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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Alot of Work, but alot of fun too. We did it with some friends of ours that owned a fitness center. Good Luck with yours! I will watch for pictures
-------------------- Patricia A. Raap Raap Signs 2615 Arthur Coopersville, MI 49404 616-677-0158 pat@raapsigns.com Posts: 590 | From: Coopersville, MI 49404 | Registered: Nov 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Nikki Goral: What have you handed out besides candy?
Thanks!
Lots and lots of beads. It takes us about 30 minutes to run our Christmas parade route on our float. We usually budget around having 120 dozen strands of beads per person. It'll literally wear you out trying to throw them all. I don't see how people on Mardi Gras floats throw for hours. Beads are cheap but beads are also heavy. The shipping will put a hurting on you.
the avg float rider here prob rides with on average 60-90 gross of beads if they throw the 33" or so more/less avg beads,if they throw the longer 48" stuff or there aboutsmaybe less bc you throw less of them since youre throwing more one at a time,but also add in doubloons,cups,and whatever else they feel like throwing or can fit up there
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we did a float one yra for mardi gras here in pcola. do you follow wiscosin college football? their coach BARRY ALVERAZ and i went to same high school!!!!
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Here is a black and white of our haunted house float. We have monsters that walk along with it and people in orange shirts that hand out candy and flyers with the dates the haunted house is open.
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It isn't in Green Bay...that's been around for 153 years...it is in Luxemburg...![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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