Exploding Balloon Wall
Back in November 1994 I took on a challenge that took my company to new heights, Exploding Balloon Walls. Now these were not new ideas it was just you never heard about many of them. My client wanted me to reveal a new drug logo but was very specific about what they wanted and the theme of the conference was “Mission in Protium” and the sound track would be Mission Impossible.
This was to be one of the most nerve-racking jobs of my life. Now it was not my first balloon wall, I had done several prior to this and they usually consisted og about 10 – 12 large 36″ latex balloons to reveal a disco or small logo. But this one was different as we needed to reveal the entire stage set and logo so the wall needed to be BIG. I did my working out and estimated I would need about 80 x 36″ latex balloons all sized to 32″.
The entire wall was built by Myself & Dave Saker, Nick Thompsett did all the wiring and pyros and took 8hrs to build . We also had to rig 20 exploders in the ceiling each filled with 100 x 5″ balloons and 5000 pieces of flutter to be detonated at the end of the conference.
So in brief it was blow the set up at the start of the conference and make a mess at the end. Enjoy the video.
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Hey Matt
Was it really 1994 – wow.
You forgot to mention that the very first pyro we fired was a small pretend fuse – and it didn’t work, it didn’t fire.
Your client and us 3 dudes went white with fear – the reality hit us that this was not going to work.
As you can see on your awesome video everything else fired perfectly and we lived to fight another day.
Cheers David
Yep 1994 Sakes.
I do remember the fuse bit, scared the S*%t out of me, freaked the client out 100% but the whole job was awesome. I remember during lunch we went down to the beach and just sat there and said nothing, we were speechless. Then the afternoon session and the exploders in the ceiling, just to much excitement for one day. Still feel nervous even when I watch this clip.
Just thought, no Health & Safety forms to fill out on this job, no method statement, those were the days
Great post Matt,
Fantastic Video,
How did you manage to control the explosion of all those Balloons amazed it didn’t blow somebodies head off.
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