Mardi Gras in New Orleans is a big event and the 2020 Mardi Gras parade floats will soon fill the streets. They’re made by Kern Studios for 50 weeks so they can be used for two weeks to celebrate Fat Tuesday. The company has been in the business for over 80 years and their team of artists work nearly year-round to get the floats in time. We take a tour through Mardi Gras World, their 300,000-square-foot warehouse where its artists and architects build the floats from the ground up.

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Behind The Scenes Of How New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Parade Floats Are Made

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  1. Random fact: Every single choice you have ever made in your life has brought you to this exact moment, reading this exact sentence. 🤔

  2. Hi Insider, can you make video about this?

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  3. Fact: I live in Mobile, Alabama (mo-beel not mo-byle, if you weren't aware) and we take MG VERY seriously….so seriously in fact that sometimes, if the cable company can't reach the top of telephone poles with the ladders they have on their trucks, they will use MG floats to give themselves an extra lift.

  4. STUPIDITY taken to the extreme – like Mardi Gras – isn't cool anymore. There's a line that should NOT be crossed in order to keep fun fun and funny funny.

  5. Ahh I was there during fall break and saw all the floats and recognized them in the video! I even recognized the tour guide who gave us the tour! I don’t know why I’m commenting this but it’s the first time I see something in a video and I’m like “wow! I’ve been there and met the guy who was interviewed”

  6. Wow in france the thing is just to make some crepes aha, kind of surprising to see this event turn to a whole crazy défilé in the US

  7. Who came here because there from Louisiana and wanted to see what it was about?
    Also this was a good video

  8. I went and toured the place and it was fun. They had a large king cake for everyone to try before the tour then they explained the whole process. They even have a gift shop.

    Though be careful, I went a few years ago and the gps got confused and went to the old place rather than the one seen in the video

  9. I've watched carnival in Brazil and Mardi Gras and always wanted an inside look at the floats….this was eye opening

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