And now we have these climb in balloons in many different colors!

And another great movie from a balloon performance:
The beginning is a bit boring but when MC Hammer comes in the dance is great,

Check out this act of Steve while performing for the popular television show Britains got Talent. I love his act, much funnier than mine in the previous post. If you look up this video on youtube, you’ll find much more acts of Steve and others entertaining with big balloons. Try it yourself! Buy these big climb in balloons here.

Another funny video reply:

Happy new year everybody!

Since we started selling climb in balloons, or balloon eggs, or einsteig ballon (in german) people mail and call me how to get into the balloon. Is it not dangerous? Is it easy? Can I inflate the balloon when I am in? To answer this questions correctly, I decided to try it out myself. So, why not entertain some friends while I am doing it? Here is a little tutorial based on my own experiences.

Go to the tutorial

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Great video by Bruce Airhead, one great big balloon artist. The great thing about it is that you have no idea what he is doing inside, because the balloon is not transparent. We hope to have the climb in balloons  in stock this week!

We get a lot of questions lately about how much weight helium filled balloons can lift. Therefore I summarize the lifting power in this post, for our round balloons

Note: All calculations are an indication. Numbers depend on temperature, helium quality, amount of inflation, exact balloon weight, etc. Be sure to have some spare balloons ready to help with the last grams!

50 cm

This is the calculation for lifting power of a 50 cm balloon:

Content: 65 litres
Lifting: 65 grams
Balloon weight: 30 grams#

Net Lifting: 35 grams per balloon

100 cm

This is the calculation for lifting power of a 100 cm balloon:

Content: 500 litres (0,5 m3)
Lifting: 500 grams
Balloon weight: 160 grams#

Net Lifting: 340 grams per balloon

180 cm

This is the calculation for lifting power of a 180 cm balloon:

Content: 3000 litres (3 m3)
Lifting: 3000 grams
Balloon weight: 400 grams

Net Lifting: 2600 grams per balloon

Approximately!

We are getting a lot of questions lately about how to use climb-in balloons. Last week I saw a video on the internet, of somebody trying to do an act with a climb-in balloon (not one balloon of ours) . The video is kind of funny, but it also shows that it can be a bit tricky. Therefore , I advice to take care, practice and never climb in a balloon when your are alone. Have a friend standby to help you out!

If you like to be original, make people smile, create a party…or just show off, bring some bigger balloons than the rest! Make sure you pick the right color to match with our smaller friends! The balloons in the picture are about 100 cm in diameter.

Last week it was in the news worldwide. “Kent Couch settled down in his lawn chair with some snacks — and a parachute. Attached to his lawn chair were 105 large helium balloons”

It was on CNN , FOX and blogs all over the world like here on core77, . But it has been done before, check out this video

I got an email via the site, with the question how many balloons are needed to lift 100 kilograms. So I did some calculations:

First I wanted to find out how much helium can lift. On this site it is calculated, but the result is in weight, not in volume. Then I just googled for “how many balloons helium lift” and found the how stuff works website

This page tells us helium has a lifting force of 1 gram per liter. I checked it with some other sites, and it seems correct. (but it depends on temperature and air pressure)

To know how many liters one balloon contains, we can use the formula 4/3*pi*r*r*r. In which “r” is the radius.

Our biggest balloon has a diameter of 180cm. So that is 0.9 m radius. Our balloon contains around 3 cubic metres. (see the calculation)
This equals 3000 liters.

Back to the helium. One of our largest balloons can lift 3000 grams, which is 3 kilo’s. For lifting 100 kilogram you need at least 34 of our largest balloons. But if you like to be save and like to rise with a reasonable speed, add a few balloons. 38 will do.

38 biggest balloons will cost around 646 euro’s, but with the standard discount this will be around 581 euro.

Now lets see if it is cheaper to lift the 100 kilogram with smaller balloons.
Lets take our 50 centimeter balloon. This balloon contains 65 liters which can lift 0,065 kilograms. To lift 100 kilo you need at least 1539 balloons. The standard price is 1,50 each, so that will be about 2310 euro. But with discount this will be around 1964 euros.

If you are buying our balloons and try to lift something, be sure to take some pictures! We will be pleased to give you some extra balloons if we can post them on our website

The internet is not very good at showing products at actual size. Brochure, books or posters have predefined sizes. With computers this is different. Some people have a large resoltion and a small screen, others have a large screen, but a low resolution. But I give it a try anyway.

See our largest balloon in actual size *

This image is pretty large, namely 1,7 Mb, so be patient when loading. Don’t forget to scroll!

Ok, this image might be larger or smaller than the image on my display, this is what I use: A 15,4 inch widescreen with a resolution of 1280 * 800px. So the image is 7500px by 7800px which on my screen is about 180 cm.

Last week we had lots of fun shooting the pictures of the balloons on the beach. I asked Ton, a photographer and graphic designer to do the shoot. In the morning it was still raining, and during the shoot the sun was shining only a little. I was a bit worried the light was not so good, but when I saw the pictures I was very content. The cute kid is Jari, almost 3 (actually his birthday is next sunday). When Jari and his mother arrived on the beach, she told me he was in a bad mood all morning, but when he saw the balloons, a big smile appeared! It is really nice to see what effect these large balloons have on people. It seems like everybody things there is a party or something is celebrated. Let me know what you think! We have some more images I will post on Flickr soon.