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Oktoberfest
Burbank uses an annual open design contest. Anyone, anywhere may submit a concept drawing. After all the entries are recieved, a two-step selection process takes place. First the Board of Directors screens the designs for theme-appropriate content and buildability. Next, the entire membership votes on the selected designs. The membership voted for Oktoberfest. Parade viewers will all enjoy the German oompah-style band and costumed dancers.
Oktoberfest is a world-wide, world famous and internationally celebrated festival.
Oktoberfest: A Passport to International Celebration. |
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Height: 30 feet
Width: 22 feet
Length: 45 feet
A happy German man is sipping from a great tankard as the fraulein refills his mug from a cask. A pair of squirrels play their alpen horns to the live oompah band. Live dancers will perform on stage as dolls wave their handkerchiefs to the crowd from the windows of the chalet. A bird pops in and out from the peak of the chalet to tell the crowd that Oktoberfest is here. Outwalkers dressed in authentic costume will dance and escort the float.
Celebrating a 200 year old German wedding celebration that is known throughout the world as Oktoberfest. |
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The raffia-haired Fraulein is clad in a dirndl (dress) of yellow orange strawflower along with yellow button mums and crushed orange marigold petals. Her apron is lavender with Florigene Moonlight carnations. Her right hand holds a bronze strawflower cask as she pours beer made from bronze strawflower into a stein of mahogany Ti leaf. The suds are a combination of white carnations, dendrobium orchids and raw cotton. The safflower red-haired Gentleman sports a hat made from dill weed with a cockade of burnt palm fronds, yellow oncidium orchids, and white dendrobium orchids. His jacket is dill weed with lapels of ground green peas and yellow button mums for buttons. The red hat and bowtie are covered with red tulip petals. His lederhosen (pants) are made from lichen. A live oompah band is seated on a beer barrel stage of crushed walnut shells, bulgar and coffee. The barrel ends are covered with peach carnations. Above the stage is a floral arch of light and dark blue hydrangeas, purple and white cattleya orchids, white gerberas, dendrobium orchids, pink Esperance roses, shocking pink and azalea gerberas, yellow oncidium orchids and maize gerberas. Standing on the barrel ends, the Squirrels are covered with bronze cushion poms and beige uva grass. They are wearing hats and jackets of ground peas with antique gold fenugreek seed trim. The Squirrels blow alpen horns of golden yellow strawflower. The elegent Chalet has a shingle roof of crushed red lentil, flax seed and coco shells. The facade is farina with antiquing in crushed Sahara roses. The walls are ground yellow peas. Curtains are crocheted raffia. The rose windows are shades of pink statice and strawflower. The base of the float is formed in flagstones made from four types of roses: Azafran (orange peach), Message (cream yellow peach), Sahara (antique beige), Cherry Brandy (rusty orange). The Coat of Arms is made from four types of roses: Sweet Akito (pale pink), Anna (light pink), Sweet Unique (medium pink), Ravel (hot pink).
Flagstone Roses: CherryBrandy (Rusty Orange) 2850 Azafran (Orange Peach) 2850 Message (Yellow Peach) 2850 Sahara (Antique Beige) 2850 Total: 11400 Coat of Arms Roses: Sweet Akito (Pale Pink) 275 Sweet Unigue (MediumPink) 275 Anna (Light Pink) 275 Ravel (Hot Pink) 275 Total: 1100 Barrel Ends: Carnations (Peach) 2875 Total: 2875 Squirrels: Poms-Cushion (Bronze) 6000 Stage Curtains: Poms-Cushion (Purple) 5000 |
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