The Flying House From 'Up' Is Real (VIDEO)

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Even if the movie already came out two years ago, we still love reading any daily news about Pixar’s ‘Up!’](http://www.moviefone.com/movie/up/30386/main) because everything about that movie is just wonderful.

Case in point: National Geographic TV is developing a new series entitled ‘How Hard Can It Be?’ – their on take on ‘Mythbusters’ science-in-action experimentation – and to kick off the new series, which premiers this fall, they finally determined if Carl Fredricksen was a genius or just crazy, by attempting to fly a real-life house with hundreds of balloons.

They used a 16-by-16-foot replica of Carl and Ellie’s house and hooked it up with three hundred helium-filled weather balloons; altogether, with balloons included, the cartoon-come-to-life structure stood 10 stories high.

But did it actually fly? Check out the video after the jump.

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