{"id":13750,"date":"2012-01-02T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13750"},"modified":"2016-07-18T02:44:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T09:44:43","slug":"uss-enterprise-in-rose-bowl-parade-float","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/01\/uss-enterprise-in-rose-bowl-parade-float\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Enterprise In Rose Bowl Parade Float"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek<\/em> fans tuning into today&#8217;s Rose Bowl got a special treat, as the USS Enterprise was part of Paramount Pictures&#8217; 2012 Rose Bowl float entry.<\/p>\n<p>The entry, called <em>Paramount Pictures&#8230;100 Years of Movie Magic,<\/em> paid homage to past studio productions, including <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ParamountFloat010212.gif\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13756\" title=\"ParamountFloat010212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ParamountFloat010212.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-five feet in length, the float included <em>Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s USS Enterprise, the 1948 Ford Deluxe &#8220;Greased Lightning&#8221; from <em>Grease<\/em>, the Paramount Bronson Street gate, <em>Transformers<\/em> character Bumblebee, the WWI biplane from <em>Wings<\/em> and the bench from <em>Forrest Gump<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/EnterpriseFloat010212.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13759\" title=\"EnterpriseFloat010212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/EnterpriseFloat010212.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos of the process of creating the float can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byrnerobotics.com\/forum\/forum_posts.asp?TID=40647&amp;PN=1&amp;totPosts=4\">Byrne Robotics<\/a> where <strong>Rick Senger<\/strong>, who helped to decorate the Paramount float, can be seen decorating the Enterprise, using sweet uber white rice. Onion seed was used for the black colorings on the ship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition0102121.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-13768\" title=\"ArtRendition010212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition0102121-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition0102121-75x75@2x.gif 150w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition0102121-75x75.gif 75w, https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition0102121-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This was Paramount Pictures first ever entry into the Rose Parade. Ten Paramount employees rode on the float during the parade. Click on the thumbnail to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ArtRendition010212.gif\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VMHnWB4mezs\">YouTube video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek fans tuning into today&#8217;s Rose Bowl got a special treat, as the USS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2700],"tags":[2512,3898,2538,3895],"class_list":["post-13750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-enterprise","tag-float","tag-paramount","tag-senger"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/business\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Business<\/a>","tag_info":"Business","comment_count":"17","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13750"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43977,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13750\/revisions\/43977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}