Saturday I went to the Redbull Flugtag, which was held at Hyde Park, with Louisa and Toni. It was a free event but tickets had to be drawn from the ballot to limit the numbers to 80,000 (craziness), and I was lucky enough to get drawn (granting me 4 tickets)!
The gates opened at 10:30am, and we met at 11am and already the crowds had taken most of the best spots! We got a pretty close pozzie but unfortunately had some tree issues impairing our view… We couldn’t see the performances of each team but had a good view of their homemade “flying machines” scooting off the ramp – and falling down 6 metres into the cold water below. There were 40 teams on the day (whittled down from 2000 entries) some really great and funny ideas and a lot of effort must’ve gone into creating them, all for their 60 seconds of fame…and the chance to win £5000. All of the flying contraptions were super size and homemade from chicken wire, plastic, cardboard, wood etc and some of the most memorable ones include a toilet, pink handbag, dinosaur, chicken, spaceship and my fave, a giant disco ball.
The gates opened at 10:30am, and we met at 11am and already the crowds had taken most of the best spots! We got a pretty close pozzie but unfortunately had some tree issues impairing our view… We couldn’t see the performances of each team but had a good view of their homemade “flying machines” scooting off the ramp – and falling down 6 metres into the cold water below. There were 40 teams on the day (whittled down from 2000 entries) some really great and funny ideas and a lot of effort must’ve gone into creating them, all for their 60 seconds of fame…and the chance to win £5000. All of the flying contraptions were super size and homemade from chicken wire, plastic, cardboard, wood etc and some of the most memorable ones include a toilet, pink handbag, dinosaur, chicken, spaceship and my fave, a giant disco ball.
Later we realised we probably would’ve been better watching it from afar on the big screen, but I guess since we were at a live event the point was to see it live!
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Anyone got some more pix of the amazing disco ball of Gabriel Bailey and Max Lawson (the Funkadelics). Glad you liked them too
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