Tournament of Roses Floats - Notable Recent Floats

Notable Recent Floats

• a spectacular Bollywood wedding scene featuring a bride riding in a palanquin carried by twelve men, a groom atop a giant animated elephant and an ensemble of Bollywood dancers (Sierra Madre, 2009).
• working roller coasters (2003 and 2009 Cal Poly Universities; 1998, Downey)
• a 50-foot (15 m) replica of the Statue of Liberty (2006) by Honda advertising their slogan "The Power of Dreams". Honda's other recent floats have included a car transforming into a spaceship (2008) and ASIMO (2009).
• British Petroleum (BP) (2008 or 2009) presented a group of dinosaurs with a 10 foot flame being ejected from a 20 foot erupting volcano.
• a robotic chef with moving arms
• a complete tropical paradise, filled with animals
• a working water slide(1993 La-Z-Boy "School's Out!")
• a nearly 100-foot-tall (30 m) Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, 2004
• Anaheim city's float that included the Stanley Cup that the NHL's Anaheim Ducks had won last season, hoisted by player Brad May. (As the regulations state that the outside of the float must exclusively use organic material, ABC commentators speculated that the city got an exception to display the Cup.) (2008)
• In 2010 the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim commemorated a float to the 2010 All-Star Game at Angel Stadium
• The 2010 Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance float, featuring snowboarding bulldogs, measured over 113 feet (34 m) long, setting a Guinness world record for longest single chassis float.
• The 2011 theme float was decorated with the help from participants of the CBS television show Amazing Race, broadcast on Sunday, December 12, 2010. The final "roadblock" had one team member of the three finalists decorate one of three sections of the float with chrysanthemums and roses, and then covering a sculpted rose with natural material. When finishing to the floral decorator's approval, they would receive their next clue from the 2009 Rose Queen Courtney Lee. During the parade, "Up with People" rode and performed atop of the float. For the second year in a row, the 2010 Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance float, featuring skim-boarding bulldogs was Certified by Guinness World Records as the "WORLD'S HEAVIEST FLOAT," the float features over 4,000 gallons of water and is heavier than a 747 airplane.
• The 2012 Dick Van Patten's Natural Balance float, featuring surfing bulldogs, will be deemed the World's Heaviest and Longest Rose Parade float. All of the Natural Balance World Record floats have been driven by the same team. One of these drivers lives in Vermont and flies to Pasadena every year to drive in the Rose Parade. 2012 will mark the 35th consecutive drive in the Rose Parade for this individual.