UK - Ali Baba is a major new creation to the tableaux this year at Blackpool Illuminations. Designed by Graham Ogden and the Blackpool Illuminations team, eleven James Thomas Engineering PixelPar 90s saturate the feature in continuous colour.

The all-weather PixelPars are rigged facing the construction, animating the characters via complex programming sequences - bringing the busy seafront traffic to a halt.

The huge complex scene features moving illusions, authentic sound effects and a giant illuminated waterfall. Housed deep in the water, a submersible IP68 PixelPar 90 provides the radiance to light up the waterfall.

Illuminations manager, Richard Ryan enthuses: "The PixelPars were selected for this project due to their outstanding build quality and technical flexibility. Blackpool promenade is an extreme environment and to be frank only high quality well designed fixtures are ever adequate for the task of operating in these conditions. We are very happy with the performance of the units, the tab looks awesome."

(Jim Evans)


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