in favor of the nationally known Macy's moniker. The 2005 holiday season was known as the last year of "Rich's Great Tree", even though the tradition continued as "The Great Tree at Macy's" (after two years as the Rich's-Macy's Great Tree). After two years of incidents involving the tree (the 2011 tree snapped upon installation, and the crane removing the 2012 tree collapsed, causing damage to the store), Macy's announced in November 2013 that the Great Tree would be replaced with a smaller artificial tree and placed in the corner of the mall parking lot, officially ending 65 years of Atlanta tradition. Atlantans can expect the new tree to grow higher with years, as Macy's is planning to keep adding tree footage with the years to come as its budget allows, since they can acquire three-foot (nearly one-meter) sections locally from the Alpharetta-based manufacturer. 2020 brought changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic: officials had set up the tree behind closed doors. The original tree Each year through 2012, the tree itself was an eastern white pine, usually around tall, and contained several miles of electrical wiring, thousands of stringed lights, hundreds of basketball-sized ornaments and mirror balls, and dozens of strobe lights for effect. It also had a huge lighted tree topper seven feet (two meters) in diameter, previously a snowflake, and now a color-changing LED star since becoming Macy's. For 2009, it also had 125 snowflake ornaments and 125 metallic red Macy's stars, similar to the décor used inside its stores for the Christmas shopping season. It required hundreds of gallons of water (well over a thousand liters) each day (depending on the weather and humidity), along with bottles of aspirin to keep the tree fresh (though it is unclear how effective aspirin actually is). It was secured so as to withstand wind gusts of up to . The tree was selected over a year before it was actually intended to be cut and used, so that it could be used as the backup should something happen to the tree that was previously selected. It was generally picked from somewhere in north Georgia. The 2009 tree was planted in late 1983 after being used indoors as a family's first Christmas tree. The Pink Pig The Pink Pig was an amusement park ride of sorts that was a miniature suspended monorail sized for children. Adults would be hard-pressed to fit