Arches, Drops & Races
For the last 3 years I’ve been decorating a large restaurant in Mayfair early AM before it opens. The venue is made up of several smaller restaurants each serving different styles of food. Previously they’ve ordered 5 large drops and it’s been a tight turnaround to finish before 10am. This year they doubled the order […]
This balloon drop at The Roundhouse in Camden was a little different because Google wanted big balloons. When we drop smaller 11″ they get jumped on and burst but when BIGGER balloons fall everybody wants to bop them back up into the air and punch them around the room. The Roundhouse itself is a spectacular […]
We’ve been installing arches for Selco at various of their store openings. These are a 1 day promotion so we put the arch in at 6am and return at 6pm to take it down. This included 2 arches in Southampton & Weybridge on the 30th November when storm Clodagh hit the UK. The arches just […]
For this ceiling fill I was given the dimensions of the required space: 5 Metres x 15 meters = 16ft x 50ft = 800 Square Feet If a 12” balloon is 1 square foot we needed 800 to fill the space, so I suggested 1000 to allow for slight overlap. Once this was confirmed I […]
As on previous years Brighton was the location for the final Colour Run of 2015. We were in luck with the weather although we have installed helium arches here on very windy days. 30th August – Colour Run Belfast To save risk of a flight delay we traveled over to Belfast on Friday afternoon […]
Amazing to help celebrate 9 spellbinding years for Wicked this September 2015. They dropped 2000 Emerald Green balloons and were lucky enough to watch the show, it’s a fantastic story and the songs just blow you away. We’ve rigged this drop for the theatre production Wicked on 15 occasions at The Apollo Theatre, Victoria, […]
I thought it would be fun to send a 9 metre balloon to edge of space with a camera attached. I’m not really into space stuff but a couple of Dads (Mike & Jonathan) from my daughters School seem to know every star, so I asked them for some help with this mission. We got […]
This was a standard balloon drop installation very similar to the theatre work we do. This drop consisted of 2 x 750 Metallic Gold balloons lifted into the ceiling area of this famous Blackpool landmark. The drop was for the Biba 2015 awards and the client wanted one net across the front of the stage […]
We printed and inflated 4000 balloons for the annual festival in London Chinatown. We arrived early and setup a workstation including pre-cut ribbon, helium cylinders and inflating equipment. 5 Experienced balloon crew were required to keep pace with demand as we were hand tying, no plastic valves were used. We managed to build a stock […]
We installed this 7000 balloon drop at the Liverpool One shopping mall overnight on 21st July. We started at 10pm and worked though to 6am before waiting for the afternoon drop. This shopping mall drop was spread over 5 nets to achieve maximum coverage. 3500 Of the balloons were stuffed with tickets of which 500 […]
The short answer to this question is 1 day….. but you might get lucky depending on your weather conditions. It seems the sun is more damaging than the rain but a combination of both is a killer. As I’ve used these arch frames more and more Ive started to push my luck with how long […]
This all Gold drop was to mark the opening of a new wing at Dundee University. As we’re based in The Midlands there was a fair amount of travelling involved but we like an adventure. We had to cost in 2 days travelling and hotel accommodation but the final results were spectacular. We stretched our […]