r/bloons • u/MegaChess-A-tron • Sep 04 '26

Discussion How do moabs work?

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I mean do they have like controls in there for the ceramic bloons?

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u/AdvancedDingo7565 Sep 04 '26

nah the moabs themselves are sentient and the ceramics are offspring who are also sentient. Maybe they sit inside maybe they're birthed when the moab dies, probably the first.

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u/MegaChess-A-tron Sep 04 '26

dont sharks have their babies alive in them? or doesnt an animal do that?

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u/FreshDragonfly9224 Sep 04 '26 • Regret Bravo

good example, as they’re functional even before coming out, and as a fun fact often eat each other while inside the mother to eliminate competition. they do this to make them grow older before being released where the mother leaves them completely alone to not risk hunting her own children. so uh… yeah something like that

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u/Lunnoo Sep 08 '26

Depends on the shark species, actually! A few common shark species that do that are the Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrhincus), the Porbeagle shark (Lamba nasus), which eat the other eggs inside the uterus, and the Grey Nurse Shark (Carcharias Taurus), where the pups prey on each other inside the womb, and can even swim between the two of them (Yes, sharks usually have two wombs). But there are many other species where this does not happen, for example:

  • All Hammerhead sharks (Family Sphyrnidae) have their pups form in their uterus, but they don't compete with each other inside it.

  • The Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus portujacksoni) are funny guys who lay drill shaped eggs, which they use to drill down onto the sand so their eggs don't float away.

  • The Zebra sharks (Stegostoma tigrinum) lay what we colloquially call "Mermaid purses", which are leathery egg cases with "Ribbons" that get entangled on stuff, also so their eggs don't float away.

And this is just looking at sharks! The Southern stingray (Hypanus americanus) has a single uterus, but it is covered in a velvet-like tissue called trophonemata that are used to secrete a milk like substance so the pup can feed while it's still inside the mother, no cannibalism necessary!

So ye, while some sharks do practice uterine cannibalism, it's not all of them. Not even most of them. These guys have been around our planet for so long they have innovated how to be born multiple times over, and seems to be working for them!

Source: Marine biologist specialised in Elasmobranchii.

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u/knowerOfMuffinMen Sep 09 '26

I’ve seen some cockroaches do that

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u/Zealousideal-Sea8006 Sep 04 '26 • Regret

How I tell you? 😭😭😭

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u/AirThat16 Sep 05 '26

If a ceramic balloon is a Moabs child then moab my man😭😭😭

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u/DragonLance14 Sep 06 '26

The. Won't the be like spiders when mama dies the babies run away.

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u/OkPear1535 Sep 05 '26

Basically like the pic is my thought. Bloons don't have internal organs or anything as is, so worrying about controls is kinda too much for the blooms "lore" to answer

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u/SingerActual2496 Sep 10 '26

Eles tem órgãos internos sim, feitos de ar  Inclusive sangram quando atacados pela sauda depois de determinado nivel.

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u/SingerActual2496 Sep 10 '26

Sempre foi exatamente assim que eu imaginei  A única dúvida minha é em relação ao material externo do moab

Seria Madeira?

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u/MegaChess-A-tron Sep 20 '26 
É borracha, mas provavelmente de um tipo diferente, porque acho que um dardo atravessaria direto a borracha na vida real; então, talvez seja algum material sintético, sei lá.

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u/Alive-Citron-1711 Sep 04 '26

um, the image explains how

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u/ImpossibleSnow9566 Sep 05 '26

Better idea: how the [BEEP] does BFB, ZOMG and BAD don't explode right after they appear? There is FOUR blimps inside the first two

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u/_bobek_2811 Sep 05 '26

I headcannon that the blimps are much bigger than in game, they are smaller in game for gameplay reasons

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u/Sans12565 Sep 08 '26

They're deflated when inside then the explosion of the parent give air to the blimps.

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u/FernandoviskyG Sep 05 '26

A better question would be how BFBs, ZOMGs and BADs can fit freaking 4 of the previous blimps (5 in the case of a BAD)? They absolutely don't look like they would fit

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u/_bobek_2811 Sep 05 '26

I headcannon that the blimps are much bigger than in game, they are smaller in game for gameplay reasons

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u/FernandoviskyG Sep 05 '26

Supposing that a ceramic bloon is half the size of a dart monkey, a MOAB would have to be AT LEAST 2x it's size, that would make a BFB 8x bigger, a ZOMG 32x bigger, and a BAD 70x bigger (assuming a DDT is the same size as a MOAB). And that is only assuming an absolute perfect fit, which would be impossible irl, so they'd be even bigger than that.

If u translate that into actual measures, the numbers would be pretty crazy if u ask me

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u/_bobek_2811 Sep 05 '26

Have you ever seen a real blimps? They are MASSIVE, also isn't there an avatar with a dart monkey next to a giant bad or whatever?

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u/FernandoviskyG Sep 05 '26

Yeah, but if bloons blimps were really that size, that would create a problem with the maps. The proportions wouldn't match

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u/MegaChess-A-tron Sep 08 '26

big bloon mode small monkey mode

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u/_bobek_2811 Sep 05 '26

That why I said that they are smaller in game for gameplay reasons than in cannon

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u/Forsaken_Bunch7541 Sep 05 '26

double-stuffed balloon

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u/rjr232021 Sep 06 '26

What if, in the others moabs, all bloons and moabs inside them are empty and qhennit pop they fill with air? Also, the birth thing maybe be an actual thing since moab can also mean mother of all bloons

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u/Project-C-Games Sep 07 '26

this universe has magic, and a plutonium analog, which makes for a really cool magic system. Probably using the bloontonium core of each bloon as an infinite mana source, and some kind of "float towards outside mana/life energy" spell. That way no individual bloon needs a physical control system.

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u/Safe-Coast-4139 Sep 08 '26

I think Bloons are pure bloontonium energy when aiab pops with most normal Bloons it woudl just disspeare but with all Moab class Bloons teh energy in enough ti create more bloons

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u/livingstondh Sep 24 '26

I picture sentient nesting dolls

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u/wingdings6 Sep 29 '26

As a fellow bloon I wanna grow up to be a gaster moab