99 Red Balloons

Trophy Number: 20
Image Filename: in_a_little_toy_shop.gif

99 Red Balloons

This trophy is earned by using 99 red balloons in a group.

Trophy Maker

You're entitled to the "99 Red Balloons" Trophy, for releasing 99 red balloons into the sky.

Notes

• Red balloons are an off-hand item, so there is no "Use Multiple" link below the item in your inventory. There are three ways to use 99 of these at once, depending on which browser you use: 1) Right click on the "Use Multiple" on another item in your inventory, or 2) Click on "Miscellaneous" in your Inventory and click on the first "use multiple" link you see before the page loads, or 3) Use the chat-command /goto multiuse.php. All of these will bring up the old "use multiple" interface.
• In addition to the 10,000 Meat installation fee for this trophy, 99 red balloons (100,000 Meat each) will cost you a total of 9,900,000 Meat -- making the grand total cost to acquire this trophy 9,910,000 Meat.
  • It will cost 9,415,000 Meat with either the skill Five Finger Discount or the Travoltan trousers.
  • It will cost 8,920,000 Meat with both Five Finger Discount and Travoltan trousers.
  • Note that Black Day and Sleazy Jellied do not apply to The Gift Shop.
• The following message appears when 99 balloons are used:

  You release 99 balloons into the air.

  You hear a roar as fighter planes scramble from a nearby air base. "This is it, boys. This is war."

References

• This trophy is a reference to the song "99 Red Balloons" by Nena, released in the 80's (originally released in German as "99 Luftballons").
• The filename for the image, "in_a_little_toy_shop.gif," is also a reference to the first line of the English lyrics of the song: "You and I in a little toy shop, buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got..."
• The line, "You hear a roar as fighter planes scramble from a nearby air base. 'This is it, boys. This is war.'" is another reference to the song. The lyrics were about the balloons starting an international incident and described 99 fighter jets being dispatched after the balloons. In the original German lyrics, the end result was 99 years of war.