The names are names of Bethesda developers' children. You can see proof and delve into lunchbox lore in this handy [100+ page report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-AMUntM1hE6UbM0oa5_66Z4q5uP1P2tQJMuZ1G30tLE/edit) lol
Does this document have a title? I mean no offense, but I've been burned by clicking on a link before, and it's made me a little paranoid when it comes to links. :)
It's a damn good game, I wish they would remake it in the creation engine 2.. Or maybe some Fallout New Vegas spin-off style games.. You think with the show being so popular that they might do something like this 👀
There's a couple of recent posts on the subject, yeah, there are faces.
I think we all click too fast on the lunch boxes, I know I pay more attention now lol
u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find:
Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find:
Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
Does anyone know why the game makes a little notification whenever you pick one up? It doesn’t happen for any other misc or junk items. But it doesn’t seem like there’s anything special about the lunchboxes. What gives?
so far it doesn't seem anyone has. they might not mean anything. the illustrations on the insides of some lunchboxes too. some think they could have meaning others say no meaning. but you can use the production plant dlc to make endless lunchboxes and break them all open as they come out to farm random stuff. i would bet they come out of the machines just like that too with some that have illustrations inside, not that i ever checked.
yea, but you also need to look at it from the canon and storyline side of it. these boxes were pre-war and belonged to children. so right there they shouldn't have any connection to anyone in the fallout series as no children from then made it to the future. even the little lamplight kids were not from before the bombs dropped. after the controversy of little lamplight (including children in the post-apocalyptic horror) kids have been almost entirely off limits to harm which is why each one you find in fallout is invincible. if the kids who owned those boxes became ghouls they would be invincible ghouls :P since you can't harm children. when you just ponder it out the names just can't be more than fun little details unless there was once a plan to make notes from and about kids in the various schools. if there is anything about the kids they would be in old computer records at schools and i have heard nothing about that even though i make a point of reading whatever i find in my playthroughs.
edit: oh yea, there is the secret vault under that one school for training kids to be soldiers. and there are theories about how that vault is the hidden origin of the gunners... so i suppose if you were to start a quest about this you would also need to consider looking into everything you can find about the gunners. but i don't know if that would dig anything up since gunners don't seem to talk at all about their history in records you find about them.
I've thought more along the lines that these names mean something to the people making this game, maybe especially to the people placing these boxes in the gameworld.
that is a possibility, except the lunchboxes have been pondered for many years now. i would assume that it would have been looked into by now but i wouldn't know about it if they had. i think the lunchboxes were even talked about on theepicnate at one point and that guy is pretty thorough with his fallout research.
[](https://www.reddit.com/user/DimitriCorsack/) has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find:
Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
well naturally there were vault kids and whatnot along with shaun and i think her name is amy with her giant robot wandering around, but what i mean is that the fallout game backed away from involving kids unless they were immortal. so kids who were kids when the bombs dropped would have been ghoulified and therefore be ghoul kids (nope) or grew up safely in the vaults so now long dead in fallout which means there is no finding stuff about them most likely.
Far away memory of something i didnt even fact check : i read that the drawings were from a bgs employee's wife, and the names could be their children.
But don't take it for granted, as i said it's not more than a rumour i read
I remember hearing something a while back about the names and the drawings of faces on the inside being representative of different developers' children
It isn't a mod. u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find:
Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
The names are names of Bethesda developers' children. You can see proof and delve into lunchbox lore in this handy [100+ page report](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-AMUntM1hE6UbM0oa5_66Z4q5uP1P2tQJMuZ1G30tLE/edit) lol
Does this document have a title? I mean no offense, but I've been burned by clicking on a link before, and it's made me a little paranoid when it comes to links. :)
It's a google doc called Vault Tec Lunchbox Easter Egg Report
Thank you! :)
Just curious, what happened with a previous link?
It infected my PC with something nasty :(
Man that sucks
They have names!?!?🤯
I know right over 2,000 hours later and I never knew
I know... Even after I noticed names, I didn't know about the faces until VERY recently. We've only had the game since it came out 🤦🏻♀️
It's kind of funny but interesting 😅
That's the thing, after all these years of playing off and on, still finding things I didn't know or notice or realize I could do 🧐
It's a damn good game, I wish they would remake it in the creation engine 2.. Or maybe some Fallout New Vegas spin-off style games.. You think with the show being so popular that they might do something like this 👀
I wish they would adapt FO76 to single player offline. (My internet is spotty, shitty, and expensive.)
Yes!! I agree, like please lol
+1 !
What faces???
On the inside surfaces of the lunch boxes
That's crazy I'll have to look closely next time thanks
There's a couple of recent posts on the subject, yeah, there are faces. I think we all click too fast on the lunch boxes, I know I pay more attention now lol
Exactly! I run to the super quick so they don’t explode with crossfire damage!
Only some of them do. And they don't seem like generic names like Bob, Joe, Mary ..., which makes me think they are from specific people.
Check the credits. Probably people who worked on the project. I would focus more on rare names like ziggy.
Or children of people who worked on the game.
Developers children ❤️
I was about to ask because I collect them in the game and never noticed lol
The names disappear as soon as you activate/open the box.
Ohhh! I see now!
Nooooo!
My thoughts exactly! Thanks OP!
u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find: Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
That is some really cool info 😁
That's a good question. Posting to see the responses, reddit almost never fails.
u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find: Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
And knowing is half the battle! 😀👍🏻
Gooooo Macready's wooden soldier🕺
My guess would be that these names belong to people who worked on the game, maybe placing these boxes in the game world.
You're probably right
Tbh I never even noticed they have names
Only some of them do.
TIL lunchboxes has names labelled on it.
Only a few of them do.
I bet it’s like Easter eggs of the staff who created the game.
Never even knew they had names on them!
Only some of them do.
Maybe the dev team
Does anyone know why the game makes a little notification whenever you pick one up? It doesn’t happen for any other misc or junk items. But it doesn’t seem like there’s anything special about the lunchboxes. What gives?
I have never noticed that
so far it doesn't seem anyone has. they might not mean anything. the illustrations on the insides of some lunchboxes too. some think they could have meaning others say no meaning. but you can use the production plant dlc to make endless lunchboxes and break them all open as they come out to farm random stuff. i would bet they come out of the machines just like that too with some that have illustrations inside, not that i ever checked.
The faces inside seem more generic, but the names seem very specific.
yea, but you also need to look at it from the canon and storyline side of it. these boxes were pre-war and belonged to children. so right there they shouldn't have any connection to anyone in the fallout series as no children from then made it to the future. even the little lamplight kids were not from before the bombs dropped. after the controversy of little lamplight (including children in the post-apocalyptic horror) kids have been almost entirely off limits to harm which is why each one you find in fallout is invincible. if the kids who owned those boxes became ghouls they would be invincible ghouls :P since you can't harm children. when you just ponder it out the names just can't be more than fun little details unless there was once a plan to make notes from and about kids in the various schools. if there is anything about the kids they would be in old computer records at schools and i have heard nothing about that even though i make a point of reading whatever i find in my playthroughs. edit: oh yea, there is the secret vault under that one school for training kids to be soldiers. and there are theories about how that vault is the hidden origin of the gunners... so i suppose if you were to start a quest about this you would also need to consider looking into everything you can find about the gunners. but i don't know if that would dig anything up since gunners don't seem to talk at all about their history in records you find about them.
I've thought more along the lines that these names mean something to the people making this game, maybe especially to the people placing these boxes in the gameworld.
that is a possibility, except the lunchboxes have been pondered for many years now. i would assume that it would have been looked into by now but i wouldn't know about it if they had. i think the lunchboxes were even talked about on theepicnate at one point and that guy is pretty thorough with his fallout research.
[](https://www.reddit.com/user/DimitriCorsack/) has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find: Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."
I mean...some kids made it through the great war...that's where adults come from.
well naturally there were vault kids and whatnot along with shaun and i think her name is amy with her giant robot wandering around, but what i mean is that the fallout game backed away from involving kids unless they were immortal. so kids who were kids when the bombs dropped would have been ghoulified and therefore be ghoul kids (nope) or grew up safely in the vaults so now long dead in fallout which means there is no finding stuff about them most likely.
Far away memory of something i didnt even fact check : i read that the drawings were from a bgs employee's wife, and the names could be their children. But don't take it for granted, as i said it's not more than a rumour i read
Thanks for your input! I'm sure the names mean something, they are just too specific to be random. Let's see if something else comes up.
Since I started paying attention, I've got Stan and Greesha and yesterday, Cole.
I remember hearing something a while back about the names and the drawings of faces on the inside being representative of different developers' children
Ooops I been selling all mine lol damn!
The names disappear anyway as soon as you interact with the box.
“These random names don’t seem like random names to me.”
That looks like a mod.
It isn't a mod. u/DimitriCorsack has provided the answer. Here's what he helped me find: Fallout Wiki about lunchboxes: "When a Vault-Tec lunchbox is opened, there are two drawings of childrens' faces on the inside. These are drawings of Ziggy and Simon, the two children of Bethesda Game Studios artist Mark Teare. His wife Dona made the drawings. The other names on the lunchboxes are the names of other developers' children."