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Babe is a 1995 Australian-American comedy-drama film directed by Chris Noonan, produced by George Miller, and written by both. It is an adaptation of Dick King-Smith's 1983 novel The Sheep-Pig, also known as Babe: The Gallant Pig in the US, which tells the story of a pig raised as livestock who wants to do the work of a sheepdog. The main animal characters are played by a combination of real and animatronic pigs and Border Collies.

History with the Macy's Parade[]

He debuted in the 1998 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (Alongside Wild Thing and Dexter's Laboratory) and was the second character balloon that year (after Big Bird and before Barney the Dinosaur). He only appeared in 1998 to promote his movie, Babe: Pig in the City. The balloon was later redesigned into Hamlet the Balloon School Pig, but had only appeared for test flights.

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