Flipper’s Roller Boogie Palace, known for its Los Angeles and New York City locations, has landed in London, offering fun-seeking skaters an AV-rich, club-like experience. Billed as ‘the world’s best rink’, its West London location is decked out with no less than 10 LED screens, five projectors and 200 Lucenti Tubes, all driven by Hippotizer Boreal+ MK2 Media Servers which were bought by the venue owners.
The new two-story, 34,000-square-foot space is able to welcome 2,500 people per day and is set up as a live music venue and bar-restaurant in addition to the rink. Rigged around the main skating area are a number of screens, LED walls, and projections, enhancing the visual feast. The projection surfaces are roller blinds made from Carbon Black, a new fabric with carbon fiber nanotubes woven into the material. This is a black projection surface and with the blinds over the stunning windows gives the option of allowing natural light to flood the venue or have the blinds down to give a more immersive visual experience. Lucenti LED Tubes are rigged in triangle formations above the rink which run alongside club-like lighting and a slamming sound system. The interiors were designed by independent design studio, 93. Production design was delivered by nVisible, headed by production designer, Tim Dunn, who brought Digital Insanity’s Richard Bagshaw in to program the media server solution with client-created content, working with Will Harkin, technical project manager at Creative Technology.
