FINAL FANTASY IV
BALLOON PROJECT #584 CREATED: OCTOBER 2017 The innocuously-named Balloon may remind you of carnivals and birthday parties, but this particular creature is anything but fun and festive. Floating around within the Tower of Bab-il, Balloons are sometimes flanked by a Grudger, and other times accompanied by a Mad Ogre and a BlackCat. Like their lesser cousins, the Bombs and GrayBombs, Balloons will detonate when their strength runs low, causing damage to anyone standing too close to the explosion. Cecil and his comrades-in-arms would later encounter them on the surface of the Moon, frequently traveling with the similar-looking Grenades. I made these creatures out of the Wolf Breath toy from the revived Madballs toy line. It's incredibly furtuitous that these things were released when they were! It was difficult for me to amass enough Madballs to build four different iterations of this monster (they were sold in blind bags, making it hard to track down a specific style). I used the hands from a Gasgano action figure from Star Wars: Episode I, of which I happened to have a couple of extras laying around. |
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