BRUNSWICK -- It's time for holiday music, pumpkin pie and gigantic inflatables. Local company Inflatable Images is launching projects for two of its biggest clients this week: Macy's and the Cleveland Indians.
Inflatable Images will have four new inflatables in today's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, co-owner David Scherba said.
The first is a 25-foot re-creation of a cartoon Smurf that Macy's ordered to promote "The Smurfs" movie, which will be released in 3D next summer.
Two of the inflatables are elves and a fourth is a jukebox, which Scherba said likely will sit along the parade route on top of awnings.
In addition to the new ones, the parade will feature several Inflatable Images works, including the M&M's characters, that have been used several years in a row.
The business, which manufactures cold-air inflatables and not helium balloons or floats, has provided holiday, cartoon or pop-culture-inspired creations for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for about 20 years, Scherba said.
In Medina County, Inflatable Images might be better known for creating the various blow-up creatures that sit on top of the Bill Doraty Kia dealership in Medina Township.
The business also creates signs, banners and inflatable bounce houses that are available for rent.
"Inflatables have become part of mainstream America when you look at entertainment," Scherba said. "If you're 25 or younger, you likely have a memory of having an inflatable at a birthday party."
The Cleveland Indians organization also has been a long-standing client of Inflatable Images, Scherba said, but its recent order is new. Starting the day after Thanksgiving, Progressive Field will be turned into a winter wonderland for the Indians' first-ever Snow Days.
For the occasion, the Cleveland Indians turned to Inflatable Images to create a 12-foot inflatable inner tube and a 25-foot creation of the Indians' mascot, Slider.
"We used to do all their field covers and outfield fence padding," Scherba said. "We're really excited about something new and different they're bringing to northeast Ohio."
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