Puddles the flying Penguin is the result of Exclusive Ballooning’s 15th Birthday Facebook competition where we invited online designs for a character balloon and said we would turn the winning design into reality. Our winning design is based on a character from a sketch by UK based artist Tom Moore.
The balloon was built in Spain by manufacturers Ultramagic and you can see his production from sketch to reality here. At 70,000 cubic feet and flying over a unique collapsable basket and burner, Puddles was designed and built with portability in mind with a number of lightweight design features keeping the envelope weight to around an amazing 60KG.