Balloon Boy

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“	Hi.	”
	— One of BB's few quotes while active in the second game.

Balloon Boy, abbreviated to BB on the Custom Night screen, is a new animatronic and an antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 2.

Appearance

Balloon Boy is a human-like animatronic with a round body, peach-colored skin, large blue eyes, an orange triangular nose, red-brown hair, and a toothy grin. Like the other new animatronics, he has blushed cheeks, which are colored rosy red.

He wears a red and blue vertically striped shirt with two black buttons down the middle. The propeller cap he wears also bears the same pattern. He wears blue pants and simple, brown shoes. His arms are stubby and thin with fingerless, round hands. In his right hand, he holds a large, red and yellow striped balloon, and in his left hand, he holds a rectangular sign that reads "Balloons!".

Behavior

BB is completely inactive on Night 1, meaning that he will only start to move on Night 2. He starts in the Game Area and will eventually come to the Office via 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.

Balloon Boy is the only animatronic in the game that will not kill the night guard, but rather disable the lights (the Air Vent Lights and Flashlight). When the lights are disabled by Balloon Boy, the player is especially vulnerable to Foxy's attack, as he can no longer be stunned with the now disabled Flashlight. Putting the head on while he is looking into the Office through the vent until the player hears him crawling back through the vents will prevent him from fully entering the Office. Upon exiting the vent, he will return to the Game Area, and his cycle will repeat.

However, the player should be advised that the banging noise might possibly be an animatronic besides Balloon Boy entering or exiting The Office or vents. After that, once Balloon Boy enters, his body will be fully visible, and nothing will make him leave, therefore making the entire night almost impossible (unless the player is close enough to 6 AM or if Foxy never enters the hall, which may rarely occur if Foxy's A.I. is set to 0 on the Custom Night).

He will not enter the Office if the player puts on the Freddy Fazbear Head while he is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot. If the player pulls up the Monitor while BB is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot, he will enter the Office while laughing constantly. Once inside, he disables the Flashlight, as well as the Left and Right Air Vent's blind spot lights. This leaves the player susceptible to Foxy's attack, 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 night guard survive.

From the Custom Night, night modes where BB is active are listed as follows:

New & Shiny
Night of Misfits
Freddy's Circus
Cupcake Challenge
Fazbear Fever
Golden Freddy

Trivia

BB is the only animatronic in the game who doesn't directly attack the night guard. Thus, he is one of five antagonists without a jumpscare. The Others being Phantom Mangle, Phantom Puppet, Circus Baby, Bidybab, Lolbit, Electrobab, and the miniature versions of Nightmare Freddy.
- In the third and fourth games, however, Phantom BB and Nightmare Balloon Boy have jumpscares, unlike the original BB.
BB is the first animatronic in the series who speaks in full words, with a non-distorted human voice.
- All BB's original sound files without the echo effect are taken from SoundDogs.^[1]^[2]^[3]
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.
BB is one out of the two animatronics introduced in the second game whose eyes never change to glossy-black, with the other being Toy Bonnie.
- However, there is a rare chance that upon death, Toy Bonnie's eyeless screen is seen, making BB the only new animatronic to bear their real eyes all the time.
- Furthermore, if one takes in account the similar eyeless screens of Freddy Fazbear and Foxy in the same game as well as the Night 3 cutscene, in which Bonnie and Chica appear to have no eyes, BB is the only one of all the antagonists to always have intact, human-like eyeballs.
- In fact, no part of BB's endoskeleton is ever seen.
It is possible that BB's constant giggling and talking lures the newer animatronics into the Office since Phone Guy mentions that they are attracted by noises and move toward where the people are.
BB is the only animatronic that doesn't appear anywhere in the Death Minigames.
BB is one of four animatronics who do not appear in the hallway before entering The Office, with the others being Toy Bonnie, the Puppet, and Chica.
BB, Freddy, Toy Freddy, and Foxy are the only animatronics to return to their starting locations during the night.
BB's figurine (obtained by beating Night 7's Night of Misfits preset) shows him with a round, red nose that reaches his eyes, instead of his small, triangular nose.
BB is one of only two animatronics to be featured as an unlockable figurine (as opposed to a plushie) that is awarded to the player after completing a specific Custom Night preset. The other being Toy Bonnie.
When BB is in the Office, while Bonnie, Chica, Toy Freddy, or Freddy is in the Office at the same time, he cannot be seen. However, his laugh can be heard.
- Golden Freddy and BB can be seen in the Office together on rare occasions.
Similar to the toy animatronics and the Puppet, BB was scrapped at the end of Night 6 due to possible malfunctioning.
BB is the only animatronic not mentioned by Phone Guy.
Some members of the community have compared Balloon Boy to the Villager from the Animal Crossing series, specifically his Super Smash Bros. incarnation. Both have a similar appearance (small, large round head with triangular nose, stubby arms with spherical hands) and both attack in a more indirect way, compared to the other characters, that includes the usage of balloons.
- The Villager also has a popular alternate interpretation as a psychotic killer underneath a more innocent exterior, to which Balloon Boy has some similar attributes.
His laugh is sometimes audible when he isn't moving.
It is unknown how BB actually causes problems with the lights.
BB and Toy Freddy are the only two animatronics who only appear in one camera feed in the trail from their starting position to the Office, being the Left Air Vent and Game Area, respectively.
BB can leave the Game Area and the Left Air Vent without causing a static error.
- The same is also true for Foxy.
BB is one of five animatronics to not be seen in a party room, the others being Toy Freddy, Foxy, the Puppet, and Golden Freddy.
BB is one of shortest animatronics from the entire series. Others being Plushtrap, Nightmare Freddy's miniature versions, Bidybab, Electrobab, Minireena and her second counterpart, Bon-Bon, and Bonnet.
When Toy Bonnie enters the Office, BB appears to momentarily disappear and reappear after he leaves.

Errors

When BB is seen in cameras and the Left Air Vent blind spot, he has black buttons, however in the Office he has white buttons. This may be because of the lighting though it is most likely an error.
BB's hand clips through his sleeve while he is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot.
- His hip also clips into the floor while he is in the Left Air Vent's blind spot.

References

↑ SoundDogs.com - 272689_SOUNDDOGS__gr.mp3: "Hi."
↑ SoundDogs.com - 272688_SOUNDDOGS__gr.mp3: "Hello."
↑ SoundDogs.com - 614563_SOUNDDOGS__la.mp3: *laughter*

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Balloon Boy makes his second appearance in Five Nights at Freddy's 3. He appears only in the box filled with empty animatronics in the Office. His appearance does not affect gameplay and is only there for aesthetic purposes.

Drawings of BB can be also seen on CAM 03 and CAM 08.

His role is majorly replaced by his phantom counterpart Phantom BB.

Appearance

BB's head is clearly empty with a lack of eyes as well as his nose, making it somewhat resemble a skull. His body is not visible in the box. He also lacks his hat.

Minigame

BB's biggest appearance is in the minigame "BB's Air Adventure". The player can access this minigame at any time on any night, by going to CAM 08 and double-clicking the drawing of BB on the wall.

In this minigame, the player (playing as BB) must collect eight red balloons scattered throughout a map. Seven can be collected by simply walking to the right, and upon doing this, an exit door will appear. Touching said door will end the minigame, or the player can continue the minigame, as instructed below.

Once the first seven balloons are collected, the player can jump out of an invisible exit at the top left corner of the room. Once the player does this, they will fall to a black-and-white area, until they hit the ground, in which case they can proceed to the right to discover another "room" with a color-changing balloon. The player must touch this balloon to end the minigame.

Once the player acquires the birthday cake from the minigame Mangle's Quest on Night 2, they must return to BB's Air Adventure. They must collect the seven balloons again, jump through the invisible hole again, land on the red balloon platforms, and walk over to a seemingly-deceased child. Approaching the child will cause a large cake to appear. The child will stop crying, look up at BB, and the minigame will abruptly end. This unlocks one of the children in the Happiest Day minigame.

Trivia

The sound byte used to lure Springtrap to certain areas in the third game is BB's laugh.
From "BB's Air Adventure" minigame, there are three silhouetted BBs streaming with grey tears. If the sprite was brightened and saturated two times, it appears to be brilliant blue in color while the tears are white. This is also true for Shadow Bonnie (from the end-of-night minigame after completing Night 4), a Puppet-resembled figure (from "Mangle's Quest" minigame), and dark-looking cupcakes (from "Chica's Party" minigame and the end-of-night minigame after completing Night 2).

While the original Balloon Boy doesn't make any appearances at all in Five Nights at Freddy's 4, his nightmarish counterpart, Nightmare Balloon Boy, does play a significant role for the Halloween Edition in the "Fun with Balloon Boy" minigame.

It is also speculated that the kid with a balloon from the fourth cut-scene is actually Balloon Boy before he became an animatronic.