--- title: Minion Toy Helps Save Girl's Life by Cushioning Her Fall description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life canonical: https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-18T14:43:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:29:16.108Z og:title: Minion Toy Cushions Colorado Girl's 3-Story Fall og:description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life og:url: https://time.com/3963556/minion-toy-colorado-girl/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 500 og:image:height: 281 og:image:alt: stuffed minion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Minion Toy Cushions Colorado Girl's 3-Story Fall twitter:description: The quirky movie characters may have saved a life twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5f5e8abab4d08483/69885b80196cf41aaa0372a3/stuffed-minion.jpg?branch=production&width=500&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Minion Toy Helps Save Colorado Girl's Life by Cushioning Her 3-Story Fall > Sponsored content. 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The mysterious yellow creatures who aid supervillains played by Steve Carell and Sandra Bullock on film came in handy in Colorado on Thursday, when a 5-year-old girl playing with a Minion stuffed toy [fell out of a third-story window,](http://kron4.com/2015/07/17/police-stuffed-toy-minion-cushions-girls-3-story-fall/) the Associated Press reports. Though she ultimately broke her arm, she held on to the Minion as she fell. Colorado Springs police credit the cushioning power of the critter, in part, with saving the girl’s life. It’s more good news for the all-powerful Minions, who this month saw their eponymous movie earn the all-time second-highest box office debut for an animated film. \[[_AP_](http://kron4.com/2015/07/17/police-stuffed-toy-minion-cushions-girls-3-story-fall/)\] **Read Next:** [_Why There Are No Female Minions_](http://time.com/3955233/female-minions/) ## Transcript You came for the queen's crown, did you? Well, you're gonna have to get through me. [ LAUGH ] [ UNKNOWN ] Taking the top spot this weekend was Minions, bringing in an estimated $ 115 million dollars. That's the second best debut weekend all time for an animated film just barely following behind Shrek third which brought in $ 121 million in its debut. The minions' $ 115 million debut was also the fourth best open this year. [ NOISE ] Which is saying something, considering this summer had two of the top three opens of all time. All your dreams come true. Respect, power. Banana! Banana! And our little pill- shaped friends are doing even better across the pond. After just two weekends in theaters, Minions' foreign box office tours sits at a cool $ 280 million. But, Minions does have its problems. Critics haven't rated the film nearly as high as its two predecessors, with many complaining there's just not enough there for a full length film. We have an asset out of containment. [ MUSIC ] Jurassic World finally fell from its top spot at the box office, after four weeks at number one. It brough in an estimated 18 million dollars this weekend , and pushed its domestic totals to 590 million dollars. Jurassic World, Furious 7 and now Minions are all part of Universal Pictures best year at the box office since the turn of the century. 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