Over The Moon(Pie) For A Sweet New Year’s Eve Celebration

By Emmett Burnett

Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a MoonPie!

The 12-foot, 600-pound electric pastry has enough LED lighting to guide ships at sea. As thousands cheer, the iconic cake of Carnival illuminates the past, shines on the future, and has a good time doing it.

This is MoonPie Over Mobile, the celebration that puts the happy in Happy New Year.

Now in year 11, the Dec. 31 spectacle blends Mardi Gras-like festivities with a Times Square ball drop. Overlooking it all is the mammoth simulated confectionary disc suspended from the top of the RSA Trustmark Tower, 34 stories above downtown Mobile. Meanwhile back on Earth, the good times roll.

“Attendance depends on the weather,” says the event’s marketing director, Kinnon Phillips. “We have experienced New Year’s Eve nights that were freezing and then some like summer. But on a good clear evening, 50,000 people are possible.”

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