Editing Air Bag

{{distinguish|Windbag (enemy)}}
{{species infobox
|image=[[File:AirBag YS.png|200px]]<br>An Air Bag attached to a [[Mystery Crate]]
|first_appearance=''[[Yoshi's Story]]'' ([[List of games by date#1997|1997]])
|relatives=[[Balloon Bully]]}}
'''Air Bags''',<ref>{{cite|author=Leung, Jason, Terry Munson, and Scott Pelland|date=1998|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|title=''Yoshi's Story'' Player's Guide|page=10}}</ref> also called '''Balloon-in-the-Boxes'''<ref>{{cite|author=Prima Bath|title=''Nintendo 64 Game Secrets, 1999 Edition'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide|page=101-102|date=April 7, 1999|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=0-7615-2103-8|quote=When smelling a Question Mark Box fails to excite Yoshi, you know how you have to get creative. In this course, tossing an egg at the odorless Question Mark Box (like the second one) causes a Balloon-in-the-Box to pop out. Smacking his X-shaped bandage with two eggs will make him burst, thus freeing the melon he’s hoarding.}}</ref> and once referred to as '''[[Balloon Bully|balloon bullies]]''',<ref>{{cite|date=January 1998|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us|title=''[[Nintendo Power]]'' Issue 104|page=[https://www.superluigibros.com/images/media/nintendopower/104_yoshistoryfeature//yoshis_story_nintendopower104_pg7.jpg 16]}}</ref> are giant pink balloon enemies that reside in [[Mystery Crate]]s in ''[[Yoshi's Story]]''. Their name is based on the name of the real-life {{wp|airbag}}, found in vehicles to prevent injury during a collision.

==History==
===''Yoshi's Story''===
Exclusively found in the second half of the [[P. 1-Beginning|Page 1]] level [[Surprise!!]], Air Bags are found within Mystery Crates that the [[Baby Yoshi]]s cannot push or destroy via [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]]ing. Air Bags can be revealed by shooting an [[Yoshi's Egg|egg]] or one of [[Huffin Puffin]]'s chicks at the crates. Once revealed, Air Bags attack by blowing a strong gust of air at a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] that deals no damage, but it can risk pushing them into enemies. To defeat an Air Bag, the Yoshi must [[Egg Throw|throw an egg]] or one of Huffin Puffin's chicks at the pair of bandages on its belly twice. Upon defeat, the bandages fall off and the Air Bag deflates until it disappears, leaving a [[melon]].

===''Super Mario-kun''===
An Air Bag also appears in the [[Super Mario-kun Volume 19|19th volume]] of ''[[Super Mario-kun]]'' as an obstacle protecting a [[Special Heart]]. [[Yoshi (species)|Red Yoshi]] defeats it when one of his shoes accidentally flies off and impacts the Air Bag's bandage.

==Profiles and statistics==
*'''Website:''' ''This one huffs and puffs. Look just below his eyes. X marks the spot where his treasure lies.''<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20000301190142/http://www.yoshisstory.com/page1.html|title=Yoshi's Story: Page 1, Beginning|publisher=Nintendo of America|language=en-us}}</ref>
*'''Shogakukan guide:''' フーフーと息をふきかける風船オバケ。ばんそうこうは要チェック！<ref name=Sho/>(''A balloon {{wp|obake}} that breathes on you with a whoosh. Check out the band-aid!'')
*'''Nintendo 64 Spieleberater:''' ''Der aufgeblasene Ballonkopf hat ne schlecht geflickte, schwache stelle in der Pelle!'' <ref name=German/>(''The inflated balloonhead has a badly patched, weak spot in its skin!'')
*'''Nintendo Magazine : Le seul magazine officiel Nintendo 64:''' Un petit défi : lancez un œuf devant les caisses ornées d'un point d'interrogation. Un gros ballon apparaît. Tirez sur le pansement... Vous avez gagné le melon !<ref name=CLYFR/> (''A little challenge : throw an egg in front of box decorated with a question mark. A big balloon appears. pull on the bandage... You win the melon !'')

==Gallery==
<gallery>
Story Air Bag.png|Model from ''Yoshi's Story''
YS-Surprise!!-Icon.png|Surprise!! level icon in ''Yoshi's Story''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=ビックリン<ref name=Sho>{{cite|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|title=「ヨッシーストーリー 任天堂公式ガイドブック」 (''Yoshi's Story Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'')|page=[[Media:Yoshi Story Shogakukan P4.jpg|4]]}}</ref>
|JpnR=Bikkurin
|JpnM=Portmanteau of「びっくり」(''bikkuri'', surprise) and Japanese endearing diminutive「~りん」(''-rin'')
|Ger=Blasilo<ref name=German>{{cite|title=Nintendo 64 ''Yoshi's Story'' Spieleberater|page={{file link|Yoshi's Story German Guide Enemies.png|19}}}}</ref>
|GerM=From ''blasen'' ("to blow") and "Silo"
|Fre=Gros Ballon<ref name=CLYFR>{{cite|title=''Nintendo Magazine : Le seul magazine officiel Nintendo 64''. Issue 4|date=1998|publisher=Nintendo and {{wp|Arnoldo Mondadori Editore|EMAP France}}|language=fr|page=[https://download.abandonware.org/magazines/Nintendo%20magazine/nintendomagazine_numero04/Le%20Magazine%20Officiel%20Nintendo%20N%C2%B004%20-%20Page%20025%20%281998%20Mars-Avril%29.jpg 25]}}</ref>
|FreM=Big Balloon
}}

==Trivia==
*In an issue of ''[[Club Nintendo (magazine)|Club Nintendo]]'', the Air Bags are described as mini-bosses.<ref>{{cite|url=archive.org/details/club-nintendo-ano-07-no-03-mexico-ver.-2/page/n21/mode/2up|title=''Club Nintendo'' Ano 07 No 03|quote=Para vencer más fácil a los minijefes de la 2a. parte de nivel [los que salgan de algunas cajas azules],''[...]" (''To more easily beat the minibosses in the 2nd part of the level [the ones that come out of some blue boxes],''[...]){{page needed}}}}</ref>

==References==
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{{Yoshi's Story}}
[[Category:Balloons]]
[[Category:Animate objects]]
[[Category:Air creatures]]
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