Blue pads

Blue pads are one of the four types of pads in the Hot Air Series.

Hot Air 1 & 2
Blue pads appear as a small blue bar with curved edges.

Hot Air Jr.
Blue pads do not lose their colour like red and green pads, but blue pads lose their shape.

Hot Air 1 & 2
Blue pads are the least common pads in the Hot Air Series, only appearing a few times in the game. Blue Pads serve as a resting spot for Hot Air, usually placed in a very treacherous level.

They do not possess any ability. There function of being a resting place is so that the player does not have to repeatedly blow the Hot Air Balloon up when waiting for something, getting tired, and instead can relax.

Hot Air Jr
Blue pads have their purpose completely changed, and unlike the green and red pads that lose there colour, the blue pad is still coloured blue. Blue pads no longer serve completely as resting places, instead, they serve as checkpoints.

This was likely done to tone down the high difficulty the previous two Hot Air games had. When a blue pad is landed on, a flag with a yellow pole and blue flag will pop up. Now, if the player dies, they will respawn here. If the player gains some Stars, and touches a blue pad, if they are killed they will respawn at the blue pad, but with zero stars.

This was done to prevent players from getting a whole bunch of stars and then going on the blue pad, so that if they died they would respawn with the stars they had and wouldn't have to re-obtain them again.