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Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Magic Trick: Disappearing

The Wall Street Journal

November 26, 2025

Volunteers train at ‘flight schools’ to learn to deflate balloons in minutes. Don’t inhale.

- By Amira McKee

If volunteers don't deflate each balloon fast enough, the next one will 'walk right over the top of us,' one deflator said.

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This story is from the November 26, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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