| “ | Hello? | „ |
| ~ Balloon Boy calling out for someone. |
| “ | Hi! | „ |
| ~ Balloon Boy greeting the player. |
Balloon Boy, or BB for short, is a major antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 , a minor antagonist in Ultimate Custom Night and a supporting antagonist in Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery. A plastic figurine of him called Lucky Boy also appears as a supporting antagonist in the Fazbear Frights novel anthology series.
In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, he has three skins known as Swamp Balloon Boy, Frostbite Balloon Boy, and Jetpack Balloon Boy.
Appearance[]
Balloon Boy is a human-like animatronic with a round body, peach-colored skin, large blue eyes, a triangular brown nose, reddish-brown hair, and a toothy grin. Like the "Toy" animatronics, he has rosy red, blushed cheeks. Balloon Boy is notably the smallest animatronic in the series. He wears a red and blue vertically-striped shirt with two white buttons down the middle. The propeller beanie he wears also bears the same pattern. He wears blue pants and simple, brown shoes. In his right hand, he holds a red and yellow striped balloon, and in his left hand, he holds a sign that reads "Balloons!".
As Swamp Balloon Boy, Balloon Boy's appearance changes to that of a figure made out of mud and covered in plant life. In addition, his eyes only hold empty pits, his mouth bleeding out into small cuts in the side while also having small teeth, and his sign now simply reading "ROT".
As Frostbite Balloon Boy, Balloon Boy's appearance changes to a small humanoid made out of snow. With no eyes and a large, toothy grin, Balloon Boy also carries an oversized snowy mace and a sign that reads "Avalanche!" made out of ice, while its entire body (with a notable section near the lower-right torso showing only it) and mace is covered in large icicles.
As Jetpack Balloon Boy, Balloon Boy gains the appearance of that of an aviator, with a classic aviator helmet covered in gears and other mechanical bits (with a broken eyepiece alongside them), a body similar to that of a classic aviator jacket (with "fur" along the hood and arms, with straps in the middle), an exposed chest with a white lightbulb in the center, white legs to resemble pants, and brown shoes with gears along the sides. His balloon is replaced to that of a hot air balloon with two bolts and various gears on it, while his sign turned to metal (also with gears on it) and now reading "LET'S FLY!"
Biography[]
Five Nights at Freddy's 2[]
Balloon Boy in the vents.
Balloon Boy will not begin moving until Night 2. He starts in the Game Area and will eventually come to The Office via the The Left Air Vent. With each of his movements, the player can hear him saying "Hello", "Hi", or simply giggling. BB will not show up on any cameras except the Game Area and the Left Air Vent, keeping his path of approach hidden.
He will not enter the Office if the player puts on the Freddy Fazbear Mask on while he is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot. If the Monitor is pulled up while Balloon Boy is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot, he enters The Office, laughing constantly. Once inside, he disables the Flashlight and the Left and the Right Air Vent's blind spot lights. This leaves the player susceptible to being attacked by Foxy, as well as being unable to check each vent's blind spot for other animatronics. Once inside The Office, BB will not leave until the night ends, should the player survive.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3[]
Balloon Boy's severed head alongside various other remains belonging to former animatronics.
Thirty-three years after the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 location has closed down, Balloon Boy is now only a head. His remains (And everything else) is burned down, destroying his body and freeing the spirit.
Ultimate Custom Night[]
Balloon Boy returns in the game Ultimate Custom Night. He behaves somewhat similarly to his Five Nights at Freddy's 2 incarnation. He will attempt to reach the player via crawling through the bottom-right ventilation shaft of the office. The player must then close the door of said vent shaft until they hear Balloon Boy collide into the door producing an audible thud noise. If the player fails to do this however, Balloon Boy will successfully enter the office and, like in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, will laugh maniacally whilst disabling the player's flash light. The difference however is that unlike in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the flashlight will only be disabled temporarily, preventing a guaranteed game over.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted[]
Balloon Boy running away from the vent after emerging from it.
Balloon Boy appears in the Five Nights at Freddy's minigame section. Just like in the second game, he will disable the lights when he enters in the office.
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery[]
Balloon Boy appears in the AR game Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery as one as the animatronics the player can encounter and send after other players. Here, he can actually kill the player as well. Balloon Boy is an uncommon animatronic to encounter. He will walk around the player, laughing, saying "Hi," and "Hello?" and making balloon deflating sounds. His main difference from other animatronics comes from his height, being significantly shorter than the other animatronics, forcing the player to look down to spot him. The player must locate his static to find him. When he haywires, the player must quickly look away to avoid a jumpscare. He will fake charge the player on occasion, staying invisible. If he materializes during a charge, the player must shock him to avoid a jumpscare.
As for alternate skins, Balloon Boy currently has three, those being the Swamp Balloon Boy, Frostbite Balloon Boy, and Jetpack Balloon Boy costumes.
Other Media[]
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones[]
After being brought by Twisted Freddy to the underground pizzeria, Charlie hears somebody saying "Hi." and "Hello.", and meets a boy holding a balloon, whom she mistakes for a real child. She then comes across an horde of Balloon Boys who start swarming her. Their appearances are altered and distorted by Afton Robotics, LLC illusion disks. When Charlie's friends finally find her, the Balloon Boys try to attack them as well, but end up being destroyed by the original Freddy Fazbear.
Fazbear Frights[]
Sergio's Lucky Day[]
Lucky Boy (a Balloon Boy variant) is found in a dumpster by Sergio, an engineer dissatisfied with his life. The toy presents himself as Lucky Boy and tells Sergio it's his lucky day. Sergio decides to bring the toy with him, and, finding his words motivating, decides to buy a lottery ticket. The following day, Sergi's boss allows him to rest for a while away from work; later the same day, Sergio finds out he won the lottery. He asks Lucky Boy what he should do with the money he won, and the toy tells him to spend it. Sergio does so, buying a new car, a new watch and a new truck. He starts to feel happier and to idolize Lucky Boy, always asking him what to do. Following his advice, he breaks up with his girlfriend Violet, and leaves the architectural firm he works at to found his own company. Following Lucky Boy's advice,he also gets in contact with real estate agent Claire and asks his rich father Tony for a loan. Tony grants his request, but warns him he'll have to pay back in labor if he's not able to settle the debt in time. Sergio starts dating Claire, but their relationship is short lived: when both of them are on a car, Claire threatens to throw Lucky Boy out of the window. Sergio reacts by swerveing his car in order to get the toy back, resulting in an accident. Sergio, now alone and short on money, just wants to get back with Sophia, the girl he has loved since high school. After finding out there's going to be an high school reunion, he resolved to go to meet her. Finding many parts of his body unattractive, he asks Lucky Boy what he should do with them. The toy tells him to cut them, and Sergio follows his advice, collecting scissors, razors, knives and other tools to mutilate himself.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)[]
Balloon Boy as he appears in the film.
While the Balloon Boy animatronic does not appear in the 2023 movie, a small figurine of him appears as a reoccurring gag throughout the film. During Mike Schmidt's first shift as the security guard, he finds a small figurine of Balloon Boy inside his locker. Slightly creeped out, Mike turns the statue around to prevent it from looking at him before shutting the locker. Later on in the film, while Mike is investigating the supply closet on the third night, he notices a bloodstain from Bonnie's murder of Hank. While observing this, Mike fails to realize that the Balloon Boy figurine has been moved to observe him, prompting him to get startled and turning it back around. At the movie's end, the taxi driver from earlier in the film can be found sleeping in his car, only for someone to unlock the car doors and enter in the passenger seat. That someone turns out to be the Balloon Boy figurine, terrifying the taxi driver and setting the film to a close.
Whether or not the figurine is haunted or if it's being moved by someone is unknown, though it's somehow able to sneak its way into a car without a trace of anyone else around.
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Trivia[]
- Balloon Boy's has a hallucinated counterpart in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 called Phantom Balloon Boy.
- Balloon Boy is often considered to be the most hated Five Night's at Freddy's character due to his annoying presence.
- Balloon Boy is the only animatronic to not be mentioned directly by phone guy in FNaF 2.
- Although Balloon Boy is often a nuisance, he is not aggressive, and is the only animatronic who does not directly attack the player. Thus, he is the only animatronic without a jumpscare prior to Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery.
- When he is in the Left Air Vent, the balloon and sign he holds disappear. He appears to somehow retrieve them when he comes into The Office.
- Balloon Boy is one out of two Toy animatronics whose endoskeleton eyes never show, with the other being Toy Bonnie.
- Out of all the animatronics, Balloon Boy can stay in the player's office the longest.
- It is possible that Balloon Boy's constant giggling and talking lures the newer animatronics into The Office, since Phone Guy mentions that they are attracted by noise and move toward where the people are.
- Balloon Boy is the only animatronic who does not appear in the Death Minigames.
- Strangely, an animatronic resembling Balloon Boy can go under The Office table on occasion. However, its eyes, eyelids, cheeks, and hat are a different color. This is thought to be a hallucination, or a different animatronic all together. Fans have graced this animatronic, whom they interpret to be a female version of Balloon Boy, with the nickname Balloon Girl or JJ.
- JJ then became a character of her own, showing up in both FNAF World and Five Night's at Freddy's: Ultimate Custom Night, where at the latter she will cause the doors to stop working.
- Balloon Boy is one of four animatronics who do not appear in the hallway before entering the Office, with the others being Toy Bonnie, The Puppet (although can be seen via hallucinations), and Chica.
- Balloon Boy's figurine (obtained by beating Night 7's Night of Misfit' preset) shows him with a round, red nose that reaches his eyes, instead of his small, triangular nose.
- When Balloon Boy is in The Office, while Bonnie, Chica, Toy Freddy, or Freddy is in The Office at the same time, he cannot be seen but his laugh can be heard.
- Balloon Boy is one of only two animatronics to be featured as an unlockable figurine (as opposed to a plushie) that is rewarded to the player after completing a specific Custom Night preset, the other being Toy Bonnie.
- Just like the other toy animatronics, Balloon Boy was scrapped at the end of Night 6 due to possible malfunctioning.
- Circus Baby, the Bidybabs, Electrobab, and Little Joe (the toy hanging in the control room of Baby's stage) have a resemblance to Balloon Boy.
- Balloon Boy was the last character in the base roster for Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery to receive a skin, only receiving his first costume (Swamp Balloon Boy) on November 25th, 2020.
