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Wicked 12

Can’t believe I’ve been doing these Wicked drops for 12 years. It’s been like a balloon drop apprentiship with each event getting easier and faster to install. I just wanted to say thank you so much for everything you did for us yesterday.  The balloon drop looked amazing!  I’ll send you over some photos when […]

16v11

Here’s another entrance at The Alexander Stadium for Uk Athletics using 16″ balloons. Here’s an example of the same location with 11″: This shows the difference between 16″ & 11″ balloons on a 7 pole arch. Bigger arches are sometimes too flexible so I helium filled the 16″ Red & White to get more lift […]

Mamma Mia

For the launch of the movie “Mamma Mia Here we go again” the theatre show had a special night. I installed this entrance arch and some bunches in each bar to dazzle up some preview screens of the new movie. This was an install at 5pm and de-rig at 11pm….. so I got myself some […]

Royal Academy

We supplied 80 x 36″ Lime Balloons helium filled to The Royal Academy, Piccadilly. Arriving at 6am 3 crew had all 80 filled & ready for 8.30am. They lasted well for 24 hours but then the extreme heat kicked in. The hot weather cooked the moisture from the latex and made the balloons brittle. They […]

EID 2018

This year we completed another 20 arches for EID working over 3 days. Again we were not sure if EID may land on Thursday 14th June so we had to make all 20 arches on the 13th. Note to self for next year – 3 crew made 10 arches in 2 hours once all the […]

21

Unusual for me to do a private party but here’s a 21 made with aluminium rod, free standing on base plates and poles. The back wall was a mixture of air and helium filled foil balloons spilling out onto the ceiling. I connected the balloons together with small cable ties. Apart from the 10 helium […]