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Jewers Doors makes specialist hangar doors for various airports and over the years we have made and installed inflatable hangar door seals at Heathrow Stansted and RAF Brize Norton. These seals allow the airlines to fit several different types of planes nose first into the hangar, just enough to do the maintenance checks without taking up the whole hangar.

RECTEC had never had an inflatable before and were very hesitant to take the plunge. Luckily for us they decided at the last minute to go for it and we had about 10 days to sort it for them. In a small 3m x 2m corner spot, it was a tight squeeze but really helped them draw customers over.

On 11th October the Pricess Royal came to Edgbaston to formally open the new Marine & Sea Cadets Boat Station .

We had 6 days to get 6 crowd spheres made! Luckily we have worked for Lidl before so the branding was easy. It's always worth asking even if your timings are really tight - we like a bit of pressure!

Global Experience Specialists (GES) is a global exhibition and trade show services company based at the NEC in Birmingham. They wanted a 3m sphere to float above one of their stands.

Transport for New South Wales (TFSW) in Australia approached us as a referral from ANCAP (the Australian New Car Assessment Program), who had purchased our inflatable Mazda CX-3 a couple of years ago.

The British Heart Foundation is an existing customer and they came to us to see if it was possible to make a Jazz apple as a water buoy.

1.5mW rugby ball backpacks for CMS Marketing

A bespoke 1-person gunge tank is a first for us.

We launched this 3mH hot air balloon replica at the NEC this October as part of the Curry's trade show, for our agency friends Fresh.

With panto season around the corner we will be making many beanstalks in 4m, 5m and 6m sizes for our theatre friends. Its a standard design so we can make these items in less than 2 weeks if we have to.

This 12ft indoor blimp was a real eye catcher at the NEC this August, with fully printed fins to look like solar panels!

6m x 4m sealed arch launches North Devin Hospice's Autumn campaign of events

A corporate event on the Boathouse on the Thames, near Canary Wharf, was the venue for these 2m JD branded buoys.

We have been busy this summer with our outdoor blimps. We offer installation or for Ireland, delivery only. DIrect print or detachable panels.

Walker Communications in Ireland askes us to make a football shootout with full gradient print for their client Fibrus.

Southampton Uni Open Days and weekends occur 3 times a year - in July, September and October.

Adventure Cinema asked us to produce a 3m sofa for their sponsor Ring, for use at open air cinema events

GMB 2.5m helium cube at Durham Miners march

Giant arch placed at King's Cross as a Bag Check in entrance fior visitiors en route to the Paris Olympics

Here are a few examples of the exhibition spheres we have done this Spring

Derbyshire County Cricket Club came back to us to request a new design of shootout to add to the speed cage they already had from us in 2022

Below you'll find a slideshow of a few of the cold air sealed inflatables we have produced this Spring. Cold air sealed inflatables can be in PVC or heavy duty tarpaulin. They are inflated with a handheld fan then are sealed shut making them portable.

Our outdoor 20ft long blimps continue to be a popular feature this summer. In PU nylon, branding can be direct or on detachable side panels. We offer rental or purchase options.

We've done a few versions of the Magnum ice lolly over the last couple of years. This summer's design is a warm gradient print with internal LED option.

5m tall giant hands for Bru-C's UK Tour starting in Plymouth and Bristol on 25-26 May.

Our lovely clients Ocean Beach were back again with their latest concept for their VIP summer events in Ibiza.

P.O.S promotional product replicas ideal for giveaways at trade shows

1.5m, 1.8m and 2m spheres on stands for Imperial Cancer Research

We have done a few crowd spheres for clients in the last couple of weeks. They are an ideal budget branding tool for promotional events and photoshoots and we can turn them around in about a week.

2m crowd spheres at the Louvre, Paris 28/5/2024

Giant elephant outside Selfridges Manchester for Citizens Advice Bureau

Exhibition spheres. Advertising balloons at the NEC, Excel, Olympia.

Inflatable Lidl cubes. Eurosciences Crop Nutrition Bottle. Lightbulb for SPARC, University of Bangor. La Roche Posay Anthelios 1.2mH Tube. Thatchers Apples

Hot Air balloon replicas. S2 Events, suspended hot air balloons

Buoys for open water. Booms and barriers.

Helium special shapes at the NEC. Blimps and spheres

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

Our 10ft and 12ft long indoor PVC blimps are an exciting alternative to exhibition spheres

Ombudsman undergo a brand name change

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.

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 ...

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. 

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.

4.5m cold air sealed giant hat, safely suspended above our client's exhibition stand.We will take our hat off to that!

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. 

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...

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. 

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 ...

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.

For the 3rd year in a row we have installed these 1.5m dia battery lighted LED spheres at the Awards ceremony.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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. 

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Partnered again with CSM, these fruit are part of the latest Lidl campaign. We can do pretty much any fruit you like!

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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. 

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...

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. 

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...

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.  

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.

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.  

One of our recent projects was this football ptich for a returning client. The pitch itself is 10m wide by 15m long.

Here at imagine we cover many categories of inflatables. A few weeks ago a returning client approached us for these eight colourful  water barriers.  

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. 

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. 

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.   

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. 

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 

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...

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....

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...

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

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 

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...

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.  

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

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.