It has certainly been an exhausting but exciting few weeks! We were very thrilled to be approached by the world-famous designer Anya Hindmarch to help her bring her Chubby Hearts project to life across the Capital. Anya conceived the Chubby Hearts over London as a declaration of love to the city. Her idea was to suspend giant inflatable hearts over certain …
ABC Inflatables owned the 2017 Lord Mayor’s Show!
ABC Inflatables absolutely owned the Lord Mayor’s Show in 2017! Taking place on Armistice Day – 11th November – ABC produced all the inflatables used in this year’s parade. In addition to the new inflatables we made for the show, clients from previous years also asked us to inflate their inflatable pig and inflatable van we made for them previously – …
ABC is preferred manufacturer of Inflatable Beanstalks!
We have never been so busy as we were in October making inflatable beanstalks. We made three this year for Jack and the Beanstalk pantomimes – one for Covent Garden, one for The Lyric in Hammersmith and one for a theatre in Newcastle on Tyne. As you can see they are really big, varying in size from 20 feet high to …
Inflatable Mirror Balls for VMWorld Conference Barcelona
In September, we were asked to produce four giant 4m diameter silver inflatable mirror balls to be suspended in two of the large halls at the Fira Exhibition Centre in Barcelona. These giant chrome-finished spheres were to be used at the global conference called VMWorld and proved a really eye-catching and stylish way of filling the space above the stands …
Inflatable Heart Balloons for London Pride Parade
August must be the month of love! We made a repeat order of inflatable hearts for our very good clients VHI in Dublin. Don’t they look great painted with the VHI logo? And then we made an inflatable heart each for Starbucks and Citi to use at the London Pride Parade. We were really pleased to be creating inflatables to …
Inflatable Cigarette Characters for GASP
We had a busy month in July including a repeat order for a large number of inflatable cigarette characters from our long standing clients at GASP – a charitable organisation that educates about the dangers of smoking. These 500 fun inflatable cigarette characters go in to chemists, doctors surgeries and anywhere else that educates and discourages against smoking. Don’t they …
Pink Floyd Pig on BBC One Show
Exciting News! We have been flying the Pink Floyd Pig ‘Algie’ again. Did you see us on the BBC One Show? Last year, we were asked to fly Algie from the roof of the Victoria & Albert Museum to promote the forthcoming exhibition of Pink Floyd at the V&A from May to October 2017 – see our August 2016 News . This time we …
Inflatable Hot Air Balloon for Irish Eurovision Entry
We were particularly honoured to be asked to make the central theme for the Irish entry to the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. This year it was held in Kiev in the Ukraine which posed some practical and logistical problems! The inflatable Hot Air Balloon Replicas are at slightly different sizes to allow for any issues with staging and we made them …
Exhibition spheres for Glazpart
We have a long standing working relationship with our near neighbours at Glazpart here in Banbury. They have just ordered another sphere to be helium-filled to float over their exhibition stand, as they are were so impressed with the reaction from their customers to the last one we made for them. They are only 1.8m diameter which is the smallest …
Two New Blimps for Hampshire Tile Warehouse
March saw us make two more new blimps for our good friends at Hampshire Tile Warehouse. We have made the hulls in our supplier’s stock blue PU coated nylon blimp material and the fins in orange ripstop nylon – the same material that they make spinnakers from for sailing boats – just one of many colours available. And what’s more we don’t …