Meanwhile, Up co-director Pete Docter recently told Ballooning magazine that technicians at Pixar estimated it would take 23.5 million party balloons to lift an 1800-square-foot house like Carl ...

Carl Fredricksen (right) takes off with Russell and Doug the Dog in the new 3-D animated Pixar feature Up. ((Disney/Pixar)) It turns out one of the best movies in recent memory to broach the ...

What I aim to do today, Loyal Theorists, is figure out the actual COST of making a balloon powered flying house WORK! That's right, we are not stopping until this house would really fly!

Studies have already stated that Carl would need a staggering 23.5 million balloons to lift the foundation of his house off the ground, and the most audiences see is 20,622 when the house first ...