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The Great Balloon Race

123 statements
23 feature instances
20 referencing feature instances

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The Great Balloon Race	label	The Great Balloon Race
The Great Balloon Race	page	TheGreatBalloonRace
The Great Balloon Race	comment	The Great Balloon Race is a 1975 children's book written and illustrated by Belgian author Gommaar Timmermans.The book follows the improbable adventures of our heroes, Professor Aristotle Pilaster, his faithful dog Plato, and his young navigator Charles Montgolfier-Escoffier on the great international balloon race from France to Egypt.They must try to defeat the evil Count Pommodoro in his war balloon, the Mako Shark PT-700.
The Great Balloon Race	fetched	2023-07-18T08:13:24Z
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The Great Balloon Race / int_226cf294	type	Midair Repair
The Great Balloon Race / int_226cf294	comment	Midair Repair: After their envelope is hit by buckshot while flying over Cyprus, Charles is forced to climb up on to it and sew up the holes while the balloon is flying over the Mediterranean.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_237a1777	type	Exploding Calendar
The Great Balloon Race / int_237a1777	comment	Exploding Calendar: Used to show the time passing as Professor Aristotle Pilaster waits for someone to reply to his newspaper ad:
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The Great Balloon Race / int_24d94c	type	Dread Zeppelin
The Great Balloon Race / int_24d94c	comment	Dread Zeppelin: Count Pommodoro's Cool Airship is the war balloon, the Mako Shark PT-700, which looks like an armoured flying shark bristling with weapons.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_333b48a6	type	Thememobile
The Great Balloon Race / int_333b48a6	comment	Thememobile: Most of the entries in the race reflect their country of origin. For example, the Greek entry has an envelope that looks like Greek columns, and a gondola that looks like a bathtub with prop modeled as a Archimedes screw.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_3ec10530	type	Wacky Racing
The Great Balloon Race / int_3ec10530	comment	Wacky Racing: An international balloon race from France to Egypt, with little in the way of rules or oversight, a route that takes the competitors over an active volcano (amongst other hazards), and ends at the Great Pyramid of Giza, with the winner landing atop it (although that was an accident and not a victory condition).
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The Great Balloon Race / int_4c8e67e4	type	Emergency Cargo Dump
The Great Balloon Race / int_4c8e67e4	comment	Emergency Cargo Dump: After the Soaring Sylvia is shot while passing over Cyprus, the envelope is punctured and starts losing gas. Arostotle and Charles are forced to throw every nonessential item overboard in order to shed weight and stay aloft. Items jettisoned include their luggage, the cooking gear, and their sextant.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_60aa4e65	type	Balloon-Bursting Bird
The Great Balloon Race / int_60aa4e65	comment	Balloon-Bursting Bird: Count Pommodoro sprinkles birdseed atop the balloons of the Greek entry, causing birds to peck holes in the envelope.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_60fb097	type	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat
The Great Balloon Race / int_60fb097	comment	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat: Count Pommodoro could have won the the race if he had just continued on to the finish line while the Professor and Charles were repairing their balloon. Instead, he decided to stop and cut their balloon adrift to ensure that they couldn't finish at all. However, the Professor and Charles manage to get back into their balloon after he has caught it loose, and when he returns to the Mako Shark PT-700, he discovers it has been disassembled by the Arabs.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_6163afd9	type	Reliably Unreliable Guns
The Great Balloon Race / int_6163afd9	comment	Reliably Unreliable Guns: The Greek rebel leader on Cyprus drops his shotgun when his bicycle crashes, and the gun goes off, shooting the Soaring Sylvia.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_61b9028c	type	Sinister Scythe
The Great Balloon Race / int_61b9028c	comment	Sinister Scythe: In a Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat moment, Count Pommodoro steals a scythe to disguise himself as peasant and then uses the scythe to cut through the mooring lines on the Soaring Sylvia, setting the ballon adrift.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_674586f6	type	Trouble Magnet Gambit
The Great Balloon Race / int_674586f6	comment	Trouble Magnet Gambit: Done twice by Count Pommodoro. The first time he sprinkles birdseed atop the balloons of the Greek entry, causing birds to peck holes in the envelope. The second time he sabotages his rival Aristotle Pilaster by attaching a Turkish flag to the bottom of his gondola; causing him to be shot at as he flies over Cyprus.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_7b7f1657	type	Canine Companion
The Great Balloon Race / int_7b7f1657	comment	Canine Companion: The Professor and Charles are accompanied on the race by the Professor's dog Plato, whom Charles has to keep taking out to find a tree.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_7d34f23a	type	Reckless Gun Usage
The Great Balloon Race / int_7d34f23a	comment	Reckless Gun Usage: When the starting cannon fails to go off, the mayor peers down the barrel to see what is wrong. The cannon then goes off and the mayor is carried off in a state of shock.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
The Great Balloon Race / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: The villain is the evil Count Pommodoro who systematically sabotages all of the other balloons in the race.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_981d0040	type	Message in a Bottle
The Great Balloon Race / int_981d0040	comment	Message in a Bottle: The British entry gets stranded on top of a mountain. The captain sends out a message in bottle, with the bottle dangling from a small balloon.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Great Balloon Race / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Count Pommodoro's final act is to attempt to shoot down the Soaring Sylvia with a machine gun. He succeeds, but the balloon lands on top of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, which is the finishing line for the race.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_c4976d7c	type	Vehicular Sabotage
The Great Balloon Race / int_c4976d7c	comment	Vehicular Sabotage: Count Pommodoro sabotages most of the other balloon's in the race. For example, the Dutch lose a piston, then a driving shaft, and finally the entire basket drops off.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_e933b1f7	type	Follow That Car
The Great Balloon Race / int_e933b1f7	comment	Follow That Car: In Egypt, Count Pommodoro hijacks a taxi and commands the driver:
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The Great Balloon Race / int_e9d6eff8	type	Cool Airship
The Great Balloon Race / int_e9d6eff8	comment	Cool Airship: Pretty much all of the entries in the race qualify, with most of them being a Thememobile appropriate to their country of origin. Special mention goes to the British entry, which is an actual battleship suspended beneath a balloon.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_f168fc9d	type	Pet's Homage Name
The Great Balloon Race / int_f168fc9d	comment	Pet's Homage Name: Professor Aristotle Pilaster's Canine Companion is named Plato.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
The Great Balloon Race / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The Professor's Citroën 2CV: largely due to the damage inflicted on it while trying to find the starting line. When they finally arrive, the guard at the gate is astounded that it is running at all, only to discover that Charles has pushed it for the last 10 miles.
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The Great Balloon Race / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Great Balloon Race / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A civil war erupts on board the Bolivian entry and continues even after the gondola is no longer attached to the balloon. Every so often, the gondola will sail past the main characters; the civil war still raging. The last illustration of the book has the Bolivians now sailing up the Nile; still fighting.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Balloon-Bursting Bird / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Canine Companion / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Children's Literature / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Cool Airship / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Dread Zeppelin / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Emergency Cargo Dump / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Exploding Calendar / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Follow That Car / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Message in a Bottle / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Midair Repair / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Pet's Homage Name / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Reliably Unreliable Guns / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Sinister Scythe / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Trouble Magnet Gambit / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Vehicular Sabotage / int_d29e0237
The Great Balloon Race	hasFeature	Wacky Racing / int_d29e0237

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