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A soaring success!


As the season begins to taper off, it’s tempting to look back at summer holidays gone by – family trips, amusement parks, sweets – everything seemed so big and bright as a child! Big Bounce Presents is one company looking to capture that feeling – but rejuvenated with a modern twist and a fresh, rotating concept. And it’s one that’s already taking America by storm. Hannah Hart reports.


“People love to have fun and act like kids, even when they’re a bit older.’ says Cameron Craig, one half of the team, alongside Grahame Ferguson, that created Big Bounce Presents and The Big Bounce American Tour – a powerhouse of inflatable amusement experiences. “It’s all the simple things you loved when you were a kid, but we make it larger than life.” Originally, Cameron and Grahame had no blueprint


to work from besides one of leisure’s core tenets: who doesn’t love to bounce? So, the pair, each utilising more than 20 years’ experience in the event industry, started with a dream to tour America with an inflatable attraction. After 18 months of research, design and manufacturing, that tour launched in 2017. When asked where the initial idea for Big Bounce


Presents sprung from, Cameron and Grahame both highlight their experience at music festivals. “It’s an answer that Grahame and I can probably


repeat in our sleep!” Cameron says. “We were at a family festival and we saw a little kiddy bounce house. One thing led to another and we thought: wouldn’t it be cool to have one that’s big enough for the whole family?” From there, the pair was on to something that


became the biggest bounce house in the world. One that can host mum, dad and the whole family, the whole neighbourhood, even. Big Bounce Presents has become a community event as well as a Guinness World Record holder.


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On the bounce In the space of only two years, Big Bounce Presents has seen staggering growth. Thirty-thousand visitors attended the 2017 US tour, which visited 15 cities, a feat that was eclipsed in 2018, with 60 stops along the way, and a total of 140,000 bounce-happy attendees. Currently, 2019 is predicted to meet and exceed this curve. The tour will reach 40 markets, and is on course to attract an audience of over thirty-thousand. Grahame cites the colossal bouncer itself as the main impetus


for this year on year increase. “We made a conscious decision to expand the offering and event footprint, and that’s taken us from the small event in 2017 up to this year’s event which is about a 200% increase in size from 2017, and almost a 100% increase from 2018.”


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