Vault-Tec Bobblehead

The Vault Boy bobblehead figures were promotional Vault-Tec items.

Twenty of them can be found in the Capital Wasteland. There is never any karma loss or risk of retaliation for taking a bobblehead. Once found, you can store the bobbleheads on a Bobblehead Collector's Stand in your house in Megaton or in your Tenpenny Tower Suite.

Two of the achievements/trophies involve collecting Vault Boy Bobbleheads. The first achievement or trophy is named Yes, I play with dolls and is awarded for collecting 10 of them, players then earn the second achievement/trophy called Vault-Tec C.E.O. for finding all 20 of them.

Effect
Each of the Vault Boy bobbleheads in Fallout 3 permanently increases one of the 7 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. statistics by 1 point or one of the 13 skills of the player character by 10 points. The bobbleheads will not increase a statistic beyond the maximum of 10 (stats) or 100 (skills). Keep that in mind when planning your character, or their bonus might be wasted i.e it is inadvisable to max out any of your SPECIAL stats before leaving the vault, as any subsequently collected bobbleheads and their associated effects will go to waste. Also, with the addition of the new Almost Perfect perk that becomes available when level 30 is reached (Broken Steel dlc required) it is possible to raise all S.P.E.C.I.A.L. stats to 9. If the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bobbleheads are picked up before this perk is activiated the stats raise only to nine, but, if the character waits until after this perk is added to pick up each S.P.E.C.I.A.L. bobblehead raise each to 10 to make a fully maxed out character, The Bobbleheads are very small but with this guide finding them is a breeze.

List
Every individual page includes a video for location.

Point Lookout
In the Point Lookout DLC, several "fake" Bobbleheads appear (called Schmault-Tec Bubbleheads) during a hallucination sequence as part of the main questline. These bobbleheads cannot be added to inventory, but give the player sarcastic messages. For instance, when finding the the Luck Bobblehead, it says, "Dead mother, life in a post-nuclear Wasteland and not a friend in it. Yeah, you arent exactly blessed."

Behind the scenes
The bobbleheads were also used as a Fallout 3 promotional item by Bethesda Softworks and are included in the Collector's Edition of the game. They are identical to the ones in-game, but have arms crossed in front.

See: Fallout 3 promotional items.

YouTube Videos

 * Video guides for obtaining all twenty Bobbleheads

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