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A Bug's Life is a 1998 computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures. The film was directed by John Lassiter, with Andrew Stanton serving as a co-director and writer. A Bug's Life follows misfit ant, Flik, in his attempt to look for "tough warriors" to save his colony from Hopper and his gang of grasshoppers. The "warriors" Flik finds however, end up being an inept troupe of Circus Bugs. The film was released on November 20th, 1998, grossing $363.3 million at the box office.

History with the Macy's Parade[]

A Bug's Life made its Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade debut in the 1998 Parade, with an all-new float/falloon combination as a promotional tie-in for the film. Entitled "P.T. Flea's Circus," the float features Flik and his ragtag group of circus performers putting on the "Greatest Little Show" in the Parade, featuring contortionists, acrobats and larger-than-life larvi. The float was designed to evoke a makeshift circus ring constructed by the Circus Bugs; reeds of grass extend from around the float, a spider web serves as a net for the cannonball act and the circus' ferocious beast, Dim the rhinoceros beetle, watches on. With a performance by Long Island's June Claire School of Dance, the circus troupe performed a number called "Flik's Machine."

Following closely behind the "P.T. Flea's Circus" float was a falloon of Heimlich the caterpillar, who inched his way along 34th Street as a massive inflatable figure. After only one appearance, the floats representing A Bug's Life were retired from the parade.

The Heimlich inflatable would later be repurposed as a generic caterpillar inflatable, and was placed upon Macy's Broadway marquee during the 2001 Macy's Flower Show.

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