This year's Thanksgiving Day Parade featured a few surprise guests, who are notably less squishy and known to children than their suspended in air companions:
The good news is that it seems no giant balloons were harmed in the making of this parade.
Spidey is fine...
Thomas was unfazed...
Snoopy, who's been in this parade since 1968, was just like, "Wait... those guys are still popular too?"
Ronald McDonald seemed to be the only character concerned about the threat posed by the heavily-studded rockstars, and was like, "Yo, I've gotta go..."
Let's just hope they don't let Gene Simmons poke our beloved Doughboy in his squishy, floaty tummy.