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Jumbo elephant hits Selfridges
Giant elephant outside Selfridges Manchester for Citizens Advice Bureau
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Exhibition spheres are ideal for the Spring shows!
Exhibition spheres. Advertising balloons at the NEC, Excel, Olympia.
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Product replicas and shapes - giant versions of your brand
Inflatable Lidl cubes. Eurosciences Crop Nutrition Bottle. Lightbulb for SPARC, University of Bangor. La Roche Posay Anthelios 1.2mH Tube. Thatchers Apples
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Up, Up and Away! Hot Air Balloons
Hot Air balloon replicas. S2 Events, suspended hot air balloons
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Buoys and booms 2023
Buoys for open water. Booms and barriers.
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Glee Show NEC 2023
Helium special shapes at the NEC. Blimps and spheres
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Our 20ft blimps are ideal for Springtime events!
Our 20ft PU nylon blimps are a very impactful way of promoting your event. Here are a few images from events we have covered in the last few months. RMT Union. Schmitz Cargobull
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Our 10ft indoor blimps
Our 10ft and 12ft long indoor PVC blimps are an exciting alternative to exhibition spheres
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Ombudsman undergo brand name change
Ombudsman undergo a brand name change
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Inflatable vehicles
Inflatable Ford Fiestas for Moshon Data and Iowa State University. Toyota Tacoma truck for Iowa State University and the CDC in the USA. Helium 7.5mL Renault Clio for a live stadium show in Ljublana, Slovenia. VW Golf for Thames Valley Police.
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Sevenoaks Stag Theatre Bean Stalk
Panto season is almost upon us, and the theatres are revving up for their Christmas shows! We just made a 20ft tall beanstalk with beautiful gradient print for Sevenoaks Stag Theatre. The internal fan sits inside the base and there are hooks at ...
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Cranfield University World Sphere
Cranfield University asked us to make them another world sphere for their Open Days, with new print. This 6ft PVC globe is used at welcome events and new students add their sticker to their country of origin. 
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Apetito – UK Care Week
Our friends at Apetito, who make delicious meals for care homes, hospitals and home deliveries, were at UK Care Week at the NEC yesterday. As in March, they flew their 2m sphere above their stand to draw the punters in to their VIP Lounge.
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4.5m Cold Air Sealed Top Hat
4.5m cold air sealed giant hat, safely suspended above our client's exhibition stand.We will take our hat off to that!
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6ft Crowd Spheres
6ft crowd spheres fitted with LED lighting for one of our charity clients.Spheres had a long journey, making their way over to Africa ready to be used for a promotional event.A highly effective product for a fantastic cause. 
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9m PVC Flying Saucer
9m matt black PVC cold air sealed flying saucer for our client in Portugal.Our team took a trip out to Portugal to install ahead of the opening of the exhibition at the gallery.The theme of the exhibition was wild urbanity with our flying saucer...
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4m World Globe Spheres
Our globes are loved by our clients (and us!) and used all around the world.Here's our 4m globes in action, they travelled over to Poland and took centre stage at Adventure Ekspozycje as part of a space exhibition. 
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Giant Bouncer for music video
12m x 12m size x 5m high. Full surface digital print to outside Buckingham palace to one side and Parliament to the other side.Delivered the Giant Bouncer to the film studio, drove the van inside, and laid out the inflatable ready for ...
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Lord Mayors Show 2022
A fairly quiet year this year, just a 4m dia sphere for the Marine and Sea Cadets, and a 2m sphere for the Worshipful Insurers.
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Personnel Awards 2022 – Grosvenor House Hotel, London
For the 3rd year in a row we have installed these 1.5m dia battery lighted LED spheres at the Awards ceremony.
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Christmas display at Carnaby Street
Once again the impressive Christmas display at Carnaby Street in London is in place. Suspended inflatables take centre stage above the street amongst LED light displays. After a couple of years break, Imagine has repeated inflatables previously ...
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Pudsey at BBC Wales - Cardiff
Pudsey Bear had a bit of a holiday in 2020 and 2021 (wonder why?!) but this year he has pride of place outside BBC Wales in Cardiff. We needed to get him up before BBC staff arrived so the lads were on site at 4am this morning – yawn- and ...
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Population Matters - Big Baby
On 15th November the world population will (apparently) hit 8 billion. Population Matters is a campaign group that has campaigned for population control as part of a wider push to sustainability and protection of the environment. We have fl...
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2 new inflatables cars in 1 month
2 new inflatable vehicles went out this month – the Renault Kangoo for Easy Mile in France, and the Toyota Tacoma for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the USA.
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BBC Wales Hat in situ - first outing (between showers)
BBC Wales approached us to help with their World Cup promotional Tour in which Wales plays a big part. Originally they were going to make bucket hats out of fibreglass to put at key venues all over Wales, but of course the inflatable option is a...
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Brewers new store in Shrewsbury
Brewers opened a new store today in Shrewsbury, and their blimp will be flying all day to welcome new customers.Industrial units like this are ideal for blimps as they tend to have roller shutter doors at the rear for storage indoors at night, a...
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Renault Kangoo
Full scale Renault Kangoo van.This inflatable was made via an Agency for Renault for the launch of their New Renault Kangoo model.Imagine specialises in all types of inflatable vehicles be they for purely visual display as this one, or for more ...
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3m Aviator Plane
3m hanging Aviator Plane for our client who installed this in Barcelona. Spain.Bespoke made to the client design with a fast turnaround time.Logistics shipped to Barcelona with Lithium battery fan inflator, and we guided the client in how to ins...
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Camelot Head Office Lottery Ball Spheres
Camelot Head office in Watford.As we run the contract form Camelot for their balls, we were asked to install a number of them at their Head Office for a meeting.Again our installation team did a great job managing the event for the client. 
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Christmas Donald Duck
Lighted Donald Duck for a very long-standing client. 3.8m tallHe is going to be pride of place on their luxury Caravan Park opening.
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Friday Night Live - clouds and hands
We were asked by CH4 to remake the hands and clouds which were in the original show back in the 1980s. Friday Night Live.See attached the original images on the PDF and how we remade the hands for the show.We had a tight turnaround but managed i...
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Pudsey Bear is back
Air testing Pudsey!!!We are back with the BBC after two years no show we are back at BBC Wales with our 10m tall Pudsey Bear.
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Moncler fashion runway October 2022
We had to build a bespoke walling design for a new building that Moncler has taken over at The Strand in London.The building was a shell so we helped the brand cover a zone area in a bespoke wall with a hinged door and runway access for the fash...
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Double door installation at Terminal 5 Heathrow.
Door seal to allow for additional servicing capacity for the new Airbus fleet that has arrived at the new terminal being built.See the link to the video of us air testing the seal prior to install. click hereThis is the 3rd set of Air Craft...
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Stewart Brewing Rugby Posts
One of our valued clients who has had a blimp already at their Loanhead plant in Edinburgh, Stewart Brewing approached us for a branded rugby goalpost to be used in pub promotions linked to stadium matches in the Edinburgh area through October a...
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CeraVe/Roche Posay
Our client asked us to create replicas of the most popular CeraVe products for use at promo events and trade shows. These 1.2mH sealed units have gone down a treat with the client Roche Posay and we will be creating more of their extended range ...
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Audi Q7 for IRST (International Road Safety Training Ltd)
Our NCAP design test target inflatable has come in handy once again for crash test training. This Audi Q7 representation is a really hard wearing reinforced microfilament tarpaulin , an inner beamed structure with a printed outer sleeve to repre...
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Inflatable fruit
Partnered again with CSM, these fruit are part of the latest Lidl campaign. We can do pretty much any fruit you like!
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The Hundred with Bastille
Lord’s Cricket Ground was the venue for the Hundred – a 100 ball cricket match played over 5 weeks during the summer, featuring world class players and teams from all over the UK. Bastille played a set at the end of the day and Imagi...
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Indeed Gazebos
These 3m x 3m gazebos are a variation on the “traditional” pop up gazebo. These ones (we did 3) are sealed welded heavy duty tarpaulin units however, with a removable/interchangeable sheet backdrop for the walls.The letters are also ...
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Commonwealth Games 2022, Birmingham
For our partners CSM we designed, made, installed and supervised a 9m wide tarpaulin arch for the Marathon run, and a 5m diameter helium filled sphere with an LED lighting unit inside, secured at night and in high winds in an inflatable 7m diame...
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Goodwood festival 2022
One of our imagine staff is currenlty at Goodwood  racecourse flying the Qatar airlines blimp. Qatar are the biggest sponsors of the Goodwook event this week. The blimp is a simple design of black on white but really effective for visabilit...
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Commonwealth games Birmingham 2022
See Below link to our timelapse video of the Commonswealth 2022 sphereon Display in birmingham. This is helium filled but we created this tarp cage to store when not flying.Later on the week I will share more images and videos of our other piece...
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Welsh rugby Union barrier and shootouts
We recevied an order from a repeat client of ours the Welsh rugby union. They ordered six throwing cages and six barriers they are due to to be delivered and provided a demo this week. 
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RMT Blimp
After a Covid hiatus, the RMT is running their annual protest days. They are the fastest growing union with more than 83,000 members. Their members are from every sector of the transport industry.The event at Tolpuddle Cottages in Dorset was thi...
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Gladiator obstacle course
See below an tunnel we created to be used as an obstacle at a gladiator charity event.participants crawled through the tunnel as part of the course. 
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London Pride parade
This weekend we performed the ops in the London pride parade from the Royal mint. We took this design from concept all the way to the parade for the Royal mint. It is a 5m helium filled single skinned design. youtube video below. https...
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southampton uni columns
This weekend our operators installed these columns to help directs parents and potential students around the campus on an open day. They were used indoors and outdoors.  
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Zenith tunnels
A client briefed us to produce these construction tunnels. They are to be used below scaffolding to protects workers underneath.  We weight tested them up to 100kg thrown from a height.
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goodyear blimp
The Goodyear blimp was flying at Hillyhead festival in Buxton last weekend. Goodyear purchased this blimp a while back and store here at imagine and we regularly bring to shows for them.  
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Football pitch
One of our recent projects was this football ptich for a returning client. The pitch itself is 10m wide by 15m long.
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Water barriers
Here at imagine we cover many categories of inflatables. A few weeks ago a returning client approached us for these eight colourful  water barriers.  
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Hpin Indoor blimp
See below HPIN 12ft indoor blimp. we printed the clients logo on both sides of the indoor PVC blimp for a show at the NEC in Birmingham. 
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Solar centre blimp
Here at imagine we can pantone match blimps to any colour required. See below our indoor blimp for the Solar centre recently on display at the NEC. 
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starling bank shootout
One of our recent orders was from Starling bank who ordered multiple 5m x4m style shoots outs and a few smaller donut style shootouts. These have internal fans and are made from Nylon.   
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Cooper tyres event tunnel and event arch
Our Cooper tyres arch was 10m wide and the event station to go with it was also 10m diameter. The client loved the event stations awning feature and this was the first time we had created this style. 
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Durham Uni cubes
We received a repeat order for Durham uni for an upcoming open day. these were cold air sealed x2 1.5m and 2 x 60cm 
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Minions film release spheres
We created these spheres ahead of the minions film release. We shipped eight of these to various locations around the world and they were individually painted by artists on site.  See below images from Universal studios in Hollywo...
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walker Crisps blimps
We were approached to create the blimps for the Crisp in and Crisp out campaign for Walkers. we made these pantone matched blimps each with a different slogan. They were flown about Sandwich in Kent. Gary Lineker even made an appearance himself....
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Indeed inflatable gazebos
Doesn't the below indeed pride gazebos look amazing. We were very excited to see the final result here at imagine after working on this from CAD stage through to delivery. The canopy and text are fully removable with the text been inflated and a...
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Fire brigade union spheres
These 2m diameter spheres looked fantastic this weekend in a London union march. We produced these in just a few weeks. Our operating team followed the parade route
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Audi Q7
One of our recent projects at imagine was this Audi Q7 crash block. This will be used in the training of lorry drivers. see below link to our YouTube video of this in action. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-EggrX9RFe4 
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CeraVe bottles
This week we have shipped out these self standing 1.2m high replica bottles. We have added a water chamber to the base to be filled for sturdiness. The bottles are replicas of the CeraVe moisturising lotion and the Roche posay sun screen.&n...
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MG sphere Silverstone
One of our recent installs was the below MG 3M Sphere. They are a repeat client of ours. The sphere is being displayed for the 2022 MG live car show this weekend at Silverstone racetrack.  
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colon tunnel big C charity
Our educational walkthrough tunnel is on display this week down in Suffolk.Please see below a link to the tunnel in action. https://youtube.com/shorts/rcTlEsenh7M?feature=share
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icabbi sphere
See below our latest install at the PHTM exhibition centre in Milton Keynes. A returning client of ours icabbi ordered a 3m helium sphere with internal lighting unit.  icabbi are an online platform used to dispatch Taxis. 
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Apetito sphere
The Apetito sphere is currently on display at Excel in London for the health care plus event. The sphere is 2m diameter, pantone matched to the clients needs with logos printed on both sides. 
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Urban village fete
Our columns were on display this weekend at the urban village fete in Greenwich.The columns made from tarpaulin, cold air sealed and 4 meters high. The external green shapes were created with foam inserts. 
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Paddling pool 5m diameter
 We recently designed this 5m diameter tarpaulin paddling to be used in a T.V. gameshow. We can not wait to see it live in action.   
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Planets at Sofitel hotel
These 80cm dia planets were installed at the Sofitel Heathrow hotel over the weekend for the SaKo Expo. These have 30W mains power LED lights inside with a remote control for changing the colour.
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Pneutrol sphere
Pneutrol are an industrial machinery company. They ordered a pantone matched 1.8 meter sphere below.  We installed this on there stand at the NEC for them yesterday.
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YMCA Brewers blimp
See below images of our Brewers blimp. The blimp is 20ft long and was on display in Reigate for the YMCA fun run this Sunday. The image was taken just before the blimp launched. 
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British Aerospace project
The tunnel below was created for British Aerospace engineers to have covered access to the wings of planes whilst repairing and inspecting planes.   
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BASC Building
We have recently designed this building for the British associated of shooting and conservation. The building can be heated and cooled and is fully re-locatable to new sites.   
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x-lite Cans
See below images of the cans we produced for Irish beverage company X-lite, We produced three cans one for each of their flavours.The cans were 4.2 meters in height and cold air filled. 
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Eklabul platforms
Eklabul are a repeat client of ours. They recently came to use for some new 2m and 3m diameter platforms.
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Gladiator crawl through tunnel
This black 6m crawl though tunnel was used at a gladiator event for contestants to crawl through. Obstacles such as bubble and smoke machines were put at the end to make the task harder. 
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12ft dog
One of our latest projects was to create a 12ft dog. our client used this in a tv production. The ears were moved into various positions using CGI technology.
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Navy blur Pod
This blackout pod was created for an Irish client. It was used along with a tri-pod for a photoshoot. We regularly create structures for the film and photography industry.  
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Mayo bottle
We recently created this giant mayo bottle for a French client. It had a Nylon printed outer layer and inner PVC bladder. Anchor points were added to the sides for stability.   
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Yumyum world custom bounce house
See below our recent install at Yum yum world in Rugby. Yum yum world is soft play area for children. They contacted us for a custom fit bounce house.  
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Lotto balls Watford FC
Camelot’s lottery balls went down so well with their team after the Olympic and Paralympic homecoming events (see earlier blog)  that they now use them regularly at internal seminars and conferences.These 2m dia balls are multipurpose...
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World globe Dublin hotel
When you really need to make an impact, go big! This 5m diameter world globe was placed on the rooftop garden of a big hotel in Dublin in April, in the run up to Earth Day.This massive structure sits on a supporting doughnut ring which also acts...
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Pantone matched moon
We have a template print for all the planets in the solar system . This can be modified to a client’s pantone, and logos overlaid.This is a 1.5m suspended moon in pantone matched orange, with an internal 30W LED light, for a photoshoot.
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Derbyshire County Cricket Club
Derbyshire County Cricket Club wanted to order this back in March 2020 – then guess what happened around then! Thankfully the 2022 season is well underway and this unit will be used at corporate events, fun days and for photoshoots.We can ...
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Open water racing arch
This is a 7m wide tarpaulin arch to be used on water. Popular this time of year for open water racing events .We have a range of primary colours in the 0.60mm tarpaulin and we can offer direct print. Inflation is with a handheld blower.
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Canal and river trust buoys
The Canal & River Trust has partnered with the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham and in the run up to the events, their waterways around the region will be dotted with branded buoys.This is a 1.2m size in a pantone matched tarpaulin, with str...
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Northumbria Varsity event
Many universities are having Varsity events this week, where universities compete against each other in sporting challenges. Northumbria University had a really tight turnaround for this but we turned it around in 2 weeks. This is a heavy duty s...
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Maxol Arch 5m x 4m
Maxol is an Irish oil company. We made a pantone matched 5m x 4m arch for them to tie in with other branding for their promotion at a service station. The arches were on display at multiple sites.  
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Film clear mattress
See below one of our recent projects for the film industry. We created a ten by five meter PVC insert for a swimming pool. This was used to give the illusion of the actor walking on water.  Check out our latest video on YouTu...
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World earth day Stafford
Once again the PriceWaterhouse Coopers 1 tonne carbon bubble had an outing – this time for Stafford Council for a sustainability event in the Town Market Square.This is a 10m diameter nylon sphere, inflated with a constant running fan, but...
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Finishing arch for swimming events - with "tag" banner
For the first time we have made a water arch with a FINISH banner attached so that swimmers can “tag” the banner as they go over the finish line.This style of arch can also be used on land so you could have a FINISH banner higher up ...
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Creating an Inflatable Can
This is a good example of how we follow the process through with our clients. Hard Seltzer is a new brand of low calorie sparkling flavoured water available in most supermarkets. There are 3 flavours: Red Berries, Citrus and Tropical.Firstly we ...
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Lottery Balls Return
Once again we were with our friends at Camelot for another seminar at the Watford HQ and the lottery balls we made for the Olympics Homecoming at Wembley a few months ago provided focal points for the venue inside and outside.
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Carmex Snowrings
Carmex were going to travel to France for the Snowboxx event in early March, but due to Covid restrictions were unable to attend. However these 2-ma snowrings will get their outing next winter instead.
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Thatchers Cider Apple
Thatchers have changed their logo, and asked us to make 12 more giant 2m diameter apples for this summer’s promotional events. They sit on the ground or can be suspended.
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Brewers Blimp tour
Brewers Decorator Centres is rolling out their blimp to many of their stores this summer some existing ones and some new ones too. In the last few weeks we have been to York and Telford and by mid April we will have visited Birkenhead, Morecambe...
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Mammotome Scanner
The GE Artist MRI scanner has another outing, this time for Mammotome in the USA. The scanner is a sealed unit ideal for hospitals, seminars and conferences. It is lifesize. We can make an inflatable trolley to fit, if requested.
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Derby County Cricket Club
This 4mLx 3mW x 2.2mH speedcage will be used this summer season for team fun days, promotional events and youth groups.
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Batman Vengeance
After a long delay in film shooting, we have the results and benefits of Pinewood Studios using our Dark out building working on the 360 degree surround film shoots of key scenes within the new Batman Movie Vengeance.We have not really been able...
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Our Clients Include

Asda
Baku 2015
Barclays
Birmingham 2022
Bosch
Cirque Du Soleil
Coca Cola
Emirates
Fifa
Haagen-Dazs
Kodak
London Olympics 2012
Nokia
Pepsi
Rio Olympics 2016
Russia Confederations Cup 2017
Sochi 2014
Sony
Walkers
BBC