4 Ways to Captivate Audiences with Inflatable Wildlife & Animal Replicas

Creative Ways to Captivate Audiences with Giant Inflatable Animal Replicas

Whether you’re planning to wow crowds at a new museum exhibit or educate children on a nation-wide tour, custom animal replicas can help you communicate your message in a giant way. Here are four creative ways you can captivate audiences with inflatables at animal-related events.

1. Suspend Your Inflatable Replica Above the Crowd
Many museums and aquariums suspend inflatable wildlife replicas from high ceilings inside their main entrance hall. Not only is this a powerful way to introduce a new exhibit, it helps to create buzz throughout the community and increases overall ticket sales. The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis suspended a 65-foot humpback mother whale and her slightly smaller daughter in their Welcome Center to announce a new exhibit and large format film.


2. Attach Your Inflatable Creature to a Permanent Structure
Inflatables can be combined with concrete structures like vehicles and buildings to create a dramatic, and sometimes shocking, effect. Seedling manufacturer, Syngenta wrapped a 70-foot inflatable nematode around a mobile trailer to promote Avicta Complete, their new line of insect and disease guarded corn seeds.


3. Welcome Visitors Inside Your Inflatable for a One-of-a-Kind Exhibit
Often overlooked is the option to turn your inflatable wildlife replica into an exhibit space. Calgary International Children’s Festival designed a giant inflatable whale with a built-in reading area. The giant inflatable allowed visitors to go inside the belly of a whale to learn more about this massive oceanic animal.


4. Traditional Ground Installs for Indoor Exhibits and Outdoor Events
Indoor and outdoor “ground” installations are the most common way inflatable animals are used. Sports retailer, Cabela’s uses giant wildlife replicas such as pheasants, bucks and bass to attract sportsman from far and wide to their grand opening events.

Whether they’re hung, mounted or wrapped around an audience; large scale animal inflatables captivate audiences and deliver messages in a giant way. Contact us today to learn more about using custom animal replicas for your animal related events.

Renton Western Wear Uses Inflatable Cowboy Boot to Increase Attention

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Inflatable Cowboy Boot for Renton Western Wear

Who: Renton Western Wear
What: Giant Inflatable Cowboy Boot Replica
Where: Tacoma, Washington
When: May 2008
Why: Increase Foot Traffic and Attention from Motorists Passing By
Inflatable Product Line: Inflatable Product Replicas

Renton Western Wear had approximately 50,000 cars passing their location daily. By placing this inflatable cowboy boot on the stores rooftop they increase customer traffic and overall sales.

Looking to increase traffic and sales at your retail location? download our free eBook, Getting Started with Custom Inflatables.

Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week: 6 Inflatable Arches Work Hard for MS Society’s Fundraising Events

The National Multiple Sclerosis Society works to gain awareness, host fundraising events for research efforts, and to end MS forever. The MS Society uses inflatable arches to create eye-catching start and finish lines that are both professional looking and easy to manage.

Fundraising Events hosted by the National MS Society involve Bike MS, Walk MS, and the Challenge Walk. Each event helps to make a difference in the MS community. Many of the MS fundraising events inflate archways as a start and finish line, to direct traffic, as well as offer a great photo opportunity for all involved.

Looking for an inflatable arch to use at your next fundraising event? Download our free eBook, Getting Started with Inflatable Archways for Racing Events.

From Football Fields to the Slopes: Sports Marketing Inflatables Caught On Tape

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Leverage the Visual Power of Sports Marketing Inflatables with Video

Sports marketing professionals know custom inflatables increase exposure at live events, but they don’t always consider leveraging the visual power of inflatables in videos before, during and after the event.

Check out two cool videos of sports marketing inflatables-in-action we found just this week: FRS Healthy Performance and Vans Canada. Both companies used the power of inflatables to promote their products and brands at live events.

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FRS Healthy Energy – Drink Shaped Inflatable Football Toss

FRS Healthy Performance recently sponsored the 2012 All-Star Football Challenge held at SportZone in Indianapolis. This unique event, televised on ESPN2 during Super Bowl Sunday, allows college football stars to compete in high-energy skills competition. A custom football throw station in the shape of the FRS Healthy Energy bottle was used during the FRS Healthy Performance QB Scramble. Athletes ran through obstacles and then launched a football towards the inflatable throw station. By using an inflatable product replica FRS was able to increase brand awareness and impress football fans everywhere!

Video: Inflatable FRS Football Toss at All Star Football Challenge

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Giant Inflatable Vans Snowboard Boot Replica

Vans Canada uses a 20-foot inflatable snowboard boot replica during Hi-Standard Series to promote their footwear & apparel. The Vans Hi-Standard Series consists of four stops where talented riders showed up to shred with style to earn cash and prizes. With the vans boot replica inflated next to the launch jump riders and the boot were captures in photographs and on film and then posted throughout social media.

Video: Inflatable Snowboard Boot at Vans High Standard Series

If you’re looking to extend the impact of your sports inflatables to social media channels, take a page from the FRS or Vans playbook: roll the tape.

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Minnesota Twins Baseball Increases Crowds with Inflatable Bobblehead Mascot

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Inflatable Bobblehead Replicas Are a Hit at Twinsfest

Who: Minnesota Twins
What: Inflatable Twins TC Mascot Bobblehead
Where: TwinsFest in the H.H.H. Metrodome
When: Spring 2001
Why: To Attract Crowds to TwinsFest
Inflatable Product Line: Inflatable Mascots

The Minnesota Twins Organization and Community Fund turned their mascot, Twin Cities Bear, into an inflatable bobblehead replica to get fans pumped during a two-day fundraising event. This inflatable was a hit for photo opportunities and helped the Twins Community Fund raise more than $100,000 for charities.

If you would like to learn more about inflatable mascots download our free eBook, Getting Started with Inflatable Mascots.