You’ve seen Tillman & Friends skateboard, snowboard, skimboard and dock dive in the past three parades. Now Tillman & Friends want to show off their surfing skills on the 2012 Natural Balance Float.
"Just Imagine" Tillman & Friends surfing on real waves on a float the morning of the Parade! It will be "Surf’s Up" for the four-legged pals wowing the crowd. Just when you think they have done it all, Tillman & Friends will surprise you all over again.
"Surf’s Up" is our theme and it signifies that anything and everything is possible especially when you have Tillman & Friends having the time of their lives surfing on real waves on the world’s longest and heaviest float.
FLOAT BUILDER:
Fiesta Parade Floats co Beverly Stansbury
FLOAT DESCRIPTION:
Height: 30 Feet
Width: 18 Feet
Length: 116 Feet
Just Imagine ---Tillman the bulldog skateboarding! Check = did that in the 2009 Rose Parade. Tillman & Friends snowboarding down a floral “snow” covered hill. Check = did that in the 2010 Parade. Well, then imaging dogs skimboarding and dock-diving on a float driving down Colorado Boulevard on New Year’s morning 2011. Check = did that too! So --- let’s Just Imagine Tillman & Friends actually surfing on 65 foot long waves in a 80-foot long ocean of water on the longest (116 feet) and heaviest (over 100,000 pound) float ever in the history of the Rose Parade! It is hard to imagine but a feat attempted is a feat well done. The world record-breaking Tillman, holder of the Guinness World Record as the fastest skateboarding dog, is going for 2 new Guinness World Records while entertaining us on the 2012 Natural Balance Rose Parade float. Natural Balance will attempt to break it’s own world record as the longest Rose Parade float entry in history (awarded in 2010 at 113 feet long) in addition to the record for the heaviest float and with the most water ever used on a Rose Parade float. They hold that title for their 2011 Rose Parade float entry weighing in at 84,300 pounds. Sponsored by Dick Van Patten’s Natural Balance Pet Foods, Inc., Tillman & Friends are having fun in the sun, as it is “Surf’s Up” on this 116-foot long float set in a tropical floral setting. Training since October, the dogs will actually surf on 65-foot long waves in over 6,600 gallons of water on a float weighing more than 100,000 pounds. A specially designed “wave” machine is incorporated into the design of the float and creates a wave every minute. Lining the 11’ tall “sea” walls are colorful sculptures of oversized floral waves, seashells, fanciful sea-life creatures, orchid blossoms and tropical ferns. Whimsical floral palm trees and shooting stars gives an old-style “Hollywood” welcome for the canine stars. Modeled after a 1946 Ford Sportsman, the convertible Woody sets the stage for float riders and is used as inspiration for the mini dog carriers that travel the length of the float to return the dogs and their surfboards back up to the crest of the waves.
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FLOWERING:
Shells are artistically produced in cornhusk, hot pink sinuata statice, sesame and millet seeds. Dolphins are petaled in silverleaf protea leaves with blue sinuata statice, yellow strawflower petals, white sweet rice and glossy black seaweed creating many of the fish. Sculptured orchids are created in crisp white coconut chips and purple dendrobium blossoms and the sea gulls have individual feathers of white carnation petals. Vibrant yellow strawflower petals create the body of the convertible Woody. The wood panel areas on the side of the car have been fashioned entirely from brown-toned roses including Leonodis, Coco, Chocolate and Sahara. Shiny silverleaf protea and eucalyptus leaves are used for the glistening chrome. This fun filled, action packed float incorporates the colors of the Pacific Ocean to bring a glow of sunshine the morning of the Parade. The hues of a tropical sunset are designed into the 11-foot tall sea walls with the use of over 25,000 roses and 20,000 specialty anthuriums grown especially for the Natural Balance float. The fanciful palm trees of chopped chartreuse lichen moss have floral centers of over 10,000 Golden Oncidium orchids, golden hybrid Vanda orchids and James Story orchids.
Shells are artistically produced in cornhusk, hot pink sinuata statice, sesame and millet seeds. Dolphins are petaled in silverleaf protea leaves with blue sinuata statice, yellow strawflower petals, white sweet rice and glossy black seaweed creating many of the fish. Sculptured orchids are created in crisp white coconut chips and purple dendrobium blossoms and the sea gulls have individual feathers of white carnation petals. Vibrant yellow strawflower petals create the body of the convertible Woody. The wood panel areas on the side of the car have been fashioned entirely from brown-toned roses including Leonodis, Coco, Chocolate and Sahara. Shiny silverleaf protea and eucalyptus leaves are used for the glistening chrome. This fun filled, action packed float incorporates the colors of the Pacific Ocean to bring a glow of sunshine the morning of the Parade. The hues of a tropical sunset are designed into the 11-foot tall sea walls with the use of over 25,000 roses and 20,000 specialty anthuriums grown especially for the Natural Balance float. The fanciful palm trees of chopped chartreuse lichen moss have floral centers of over 10,000 Golden Oncidium orchids, golden hybrid Vanda orchids and James Story orchids.
The hues of a tropical sunset are designed into the 11-foot tall sea walls with the use of over 25,000 roses and 20,000 specialty anthuriums grown especially for the Natural Balance float. The fanciful palm trees have floral centers of over 10,000 Golden Oncidium orchids, golden hybrid Vanda orchids and James Story orchids.
Shells are artistically produced in cornhusk, hot pink sinuata statice, sesame and millet seeds. Dolphins are petaled in silverleaf protea leaves with blue sinuata statice, yellow strawflower petals, white sweet rice and glossy black seaweed creating many of the fish. Sculptured orchids are created in crisp white coconut chips and purple dendrobium blossoms and the sea gulls have individual feathers of white carnation petals. Vibrant yellow strawflower petals create the body of the convertible Woody. The wood panel areas on the side of the car have been fashioned entirely from brown-toned roses including Leonodis, Coco, Chocolate and Sahara. Shiny silverleaf protea and eucalyptus leaves are used for the glistening chrome. This fun filled, action packed float incorporates the colors of the Pacific Ocean to bring a glow of sunshine the morning of the Parade. The hues of a tropical sunset are designed into the 11-foot tall sea walls with the use of over 25,000 roses and 20,000 specialty anthuriums grown especially for the Natural Balance float. The fanciful palm trees of chopped chartreuse lichen moss have floral centers of over 10,000 Golden Oncidium orchids, golden hybrid Vanda orchids and James Story orchids
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