cartoon houses

A while back National Geographic has created a real-life flying house inspired by Pixar’s animated hit film Up. Two world-class balloon pilots launched a 16’x16′ house 18′ tall with 300 8′ colored weather balloons from a private airfield east of Los Angeles. The set a new world record for the largest balloon cluster flight ever... 

It was 1997 when the contest sponsored by FOX and Pepsi that involved a real house modeled after the one of The Simpsons took place. Barbara Howard, a 63-year-old retired factory worker from Richmond won the four-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot house in that contest. On pictures you can find how the house looked more than 10 years...