Tim Burton's Franken-balloon to debut at NY parade | Inquirer Entertainment

Tim Burton’s Franken-balloon to debut at NY parade

/ 10:40 AM October 22, 2011

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Tim Burton has designed a floating freak show of a balloon for this year’s family-friendly Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City.

With pointed teeth and jagged stitching across his face, B. is the Frankenstein of balloons.

A Burton-created backstory distributed by Macy’s says the balloon boy was “stitched together from rejects of old birthday party balloons.” The parties were thrown for children at a London hospital. But B. wasn’t allowed to join in the fun. Instead he watched the French short film “The Red Balloon” repeatedly.

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B.’s only dream was to fly and make a child happy — just like in that movie.

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Now B. will get his chance at November’s parade through Manhattan.

Burton has directed several films, including “Edward Scissorhands,” ”Alice in Wonderland” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

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