Festive season kicks off in Adelaide this weekend with annual pageant

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It's thought to be one of the world's largest Christmas pageants and tomorrow, crowds are expected to line the streets of Adelaide to get into the festive spirit.

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00:00There's a lot of last minute preparations here underway at the pageant warehouse for

00:07the big day tomorrow and we've been really lucky to get a sneak peek behind the scenes

00:12at these iconic floats here.

00:14Now there's around 85 floats that are patiently waiting to be across the streets of Adelaide

00:20tomorrow.

00:21Last year there were around 320,000 people that were there to watch them and they're

00:25expecting similar numbers this year as well.

00:28Pretty impressively there's going to be around 1,200 clowns, elves and characters to be getting

00:33ready in the morning.

00:35More impressively is the makeup artist behind the scenes who'll be ticking away at that

00:39between 6.30am and 9am.

00:42Now some people might say that November, which obviously it's the second of November when

00:46this is kicking off, might be a little bit too early to get into the Christmas spirit

00:50but we're very keen here in South Australia to kick it all off and I'm sure across this

00:55weekend there'll be plenty of people watching along at the pageant either there or at home

00:59and setting up their Christmas trees too.

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