--- title: Giant Teddy Bear Drone Inspires Hilarious Internet Reactions description: The Internet is losing their minds over the hilarious sight of this gigantic teddy bear being lifted off a roof by a drone. canonical: https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-17T16:17:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:48.636Z og:title: Giant Teddy Bear Drone Inspires Hilarious Internet Reactions og:description: Yes, really og:url: https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31f3b06256fdcff9/6988f8787cdbac7899d5b9e4/teddy-bear-drone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Lovely teddy bear sitting on a sofa og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Giant Teddy Bear Drone Inspires Hilarious Internet Reactions twitter:description: Yes, really twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31f3b06256fdcff9/6988f8787cdbac7899d5b9e4/teddy-bear-drone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here Are the High-Quality Internet Reactions to a Massive Air Borne Drone Teddy Bear > Sponsored content. 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Antonio Gravante—Getty Images/iStockphoto  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jan 17, 2018 4:17 PM UTC It’s not often that you’ll see a gigantic flying [teddy bear](http://time.com/5065888/russell-stover-bear-statue/) in the sky, but thanks to the inquiring mind of Twitter user (@Cyranek), a humongous teddy bear was air borne via [drone](http://time.com/4788156/selfie-drone/), a visual that the Internet just couldn’t get enough of. According to [_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2018/01/16/dude-drone-huge-stuffed-bear-toy/#tg4.sBeRysqa), Hunter wanted to test out his new DJI Mavic Pro drone and upon finding out that it could carry up to two pounds, tied a plush bear that clocked in at that exact weight to the drone before launching both into the sky off of his roof. “I got curious as to how much weight the drone could carry,” he said. “Googled and found out it could lift two pounds. Me and my roommates were looking around for something to lift, saw the bear. We weighed the bear and found out it was a perfect two pounds.” > [](https://twitter.com/Cyranek%5F/status/953052578128023552) > [](https://twitter.com/Hunter%5FCleary/status/953052223440871424) As might be expected, the Internet had all of the feelings when it came to seeing the massive, floating teddy bear and took to the web to share them. > [](https://twitter.com/TheLonester/status/953325028287774721) > [](https://twitter.com/keila97anne/status/953483302173896705) > [](https://twitter.com/sassomancer/status/953354156185718789) > [](https://twitter.com/Internet%5FFrnd/status/953308138404331521) > [](https://twitter.com/FoxxEmpress/status/953310337129791494) > [](https://twitter.com/aave19/status/953161368693280768) > [](https://twitter.com/GonchiTello/status/953084816920018945) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/"},"headline":"Here Are the High-Quality Internet Reactions to a Massive Air Borne Drone Teddy Bear","datePublished":"2018-01-17T16:17:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:49:48.636Z","description":"Yes, really","url":"https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Bizarre","Drones"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31f3b06256fdcff9/6988f8787cdbac7899d5b9e4/teddy-bear-drone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt31f3b06256fdcff9/6988f8787cdbac7899d5b9e4/teddy-bear-drone.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Lovely teddy bear sitting on a sofa","caption":"Lovely teddy bear sitting on a sofa","creditText":"Antonio Gravante—Getty Images/iStockphoto","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5105800/teddy-bear-drone-internet-reactions/","name":"Here Are the High-Quality Internet Reactions to a Massive Air Borne Drone Teddy Bear"}}]}] ```