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Chicken Little is a 2005 American 3D computer-animated science fiction comedy film, produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and loosely based on the original fable of the same name. The 46th Disney animated feature film, it was directed by Mark Dindal from a screenplay by Steve BencichRon J. Friedman, and Ron Anderson, based on a story by Mark Kennedy and Mark Dindal. The film is dedicated to Disney artist and writer Joe Grant, who died before the film's release.

Chicken Little was animated in-house at Walt Disney Feature Animation's main headquarters in Burbank, California and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 4, 2005, in Disney Digital 3-D (the first film to be released in this format) along with the standard 2D version. It is Disney's first fully computer-animated feature film, as Pixar's films were distributed, but not produced by Disney, and Dinosaur (2000) was a combination of live-action and computer animation (which in turn was provided by division The Secret Lab).

History with the Macy's Parade[]

Chicken Little made his debut as a giant helium balloon in the 2004 Parade, being made to promote the release of the Walt Disney Animation Studios film of the same name, which was scheduled to be released in July the next year. However, shortly afterwards, it was announced that the film would be pushed back to November 2005.

During both Balloonfest 2004 and the 2004 parade, the Chicken Little balloon's glasses were incorrectly positioned on the balloon. In March 2005, the balloon appeared at that year's edition of the Macy's Flower Show, with its glasses have been fixed.

As stated above, Chicken Little was meant to be a one-off balloon, but due to the change in date, Chicken Little's balloon would make another appearance in the 2005 Parade, fittingly leading the way for the elegant Walt Disney World Ship of Dreams float. Following this appearance, the balloon was retired.

The glasses of the balloon were later used in the Macy's Parade on Parade Tour in 2006, where they were displayed next to the balloon's scale model and inflation instructions.

The balloon would sit dormant at the Macy's Parade Studio over the next several years, having last been seen in the balloon loft in November 2011.

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