Balloon Land, also known as The Pincushion Man, is a 1935 animated short film produced by Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks

Ub Iwerks, A.S.C. was a two-time Academy Award winning American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, creator of Mickey Mouse, and special effects technician, who was famous for his work for Walt Disney....

 as part of the ComiColor Cartoons

ComiColor Cartoons

The ComiColor Cartoon series was a series of 25 animated short subjects produced by the Ub Iwerks studio from 1933 to 1936. The series was the last produced by the studio; after losing distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1934, the Iwerks studio's senior company Celebrity Pictures had to distribute...

 series. The cartoon is about a place called Balloon Land, whose residents (including popular entertainment icons such as Laurel and Hardy

Laurel and Hardy

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 and Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

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) are made entirely out of balloons. The villain in the cartoon is the Pincushion Man, a character who walks around Balloon Land popping the inhabitants with pins.

Notable appearances

• Several scenes from "Balloon Land" are shown during the films The Devil’s Gift
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  and Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders
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• A portion of it was shown on an episode of Pee-Wee's Playhouse
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  , and it was also featured in the 1981 taping of The Pee-Wee Herman Show made as an HBO special.
• The cartoon is also featured in the live revival of Pee-Wee's 2010 stage show at Los Angeles' Club Nokia theater. It is introduced during the first act break by the King of Cartoons.
• Parts of "Balloon Land" are shown in the Shining Time Station
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  music videos: "What Am I Afraid Of?" from the episode: Scare Dares and "Bad Guy" from the episode: "Bully for Mr. Conductor".