Lift Your House With Balloons: We Aren’t Making this Up

Lift Your House with Balloons By Movoto Real Estate

Back in 2009, Pixar Animation Studios released the immensely successful “Up.” The comedy-action film went on to be nominated for five Academy Awards, becoming only the second animated film to receive the honor, behind Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.”

In short, “Up” was a landmark film, both beautifully rendered and beautifully told. The film follows curmudgeon Carl Fredricksen, who attaches balloons filled with helium to his home until he and it are lifted away on an exotic adventure.

As a company that deals with homes, Movoto Real Estate had to ask: How many balloons does it take to lift a house? Fortunately, great minds have already tackled the question. This, however, didn’t stop us from building on fellow balloon enthusiasts’ work and calculating how many balloons it would take to lift some of the world’s most famous structures–imaginary or not.

If you’ve ever wanted to strap balloons to a lawn chair and go for an early morning ride, you’ll be glad to know that it’s possible. Cluster ballooning is a hobby/sport in which a harness is attached to a cluster of helium-inflated balloons and then to a person.

So if you’ve ever wanted to spend a day blowing up balloons for an adventure, remember to bring a BB gun to help you get back down.