As well as the usual order for mechanical bulls to get out, we have had two custom projects on at the same time.
The first one was for Tecate Light, they are sponsoring the PBR tour and wanted to showcase there beer. Can you think of a better way to do that than a 4 foot replica rodeo beer can, just like a mechanical bull! If you are going to see and of the remaining PBR events, make sure you go jump on and have a ride.
The other job is a new direction for the company. We have been asked to design a magic carpet ride that will utilise the multi ride system that we created way back in 1990. The brief was to create a magic flying carpet that can seat 4 people, with a custom program to control the ride. This magical carpet is set against a green screen, you ride the carpet seeing yourself on a television flying over a city scene. You can then buy the DVD to take home! This is being developed by an English company based in Blackpool and could be replicated the world over. Im sure it will be. Imagine flying a magic carpet around the sites and sounds of Las Vegas!
I will have some photos in the next week or so of the ride, im sure it is going to look impressive in its new home in Blackpool!
With us having to change a few details for the Magic Carpet it pushed forward our development of the Touchscreen Control Console. You cannot walk down a street without seeing some kind of touch screen, so we began to develop our own version, as always innovating the leisure industry. What the new console enables us to do is have up to 30 different program rides in there, varying in speed, so you could have a slow steady control for Angus McRodeo our mechanical bull for kids, or a faster ride for the rodeo bull or mechanical surf machine. As well as that, you can record the best time of an event at that particular venue! So for regular events you can see who the longest rider is at the end of the month!
Apart from that I am heading back to the UK factory tomorrow to sign off on the magic carpet and check on production before I fly out to Colorado for some snowboarding.
Anyway, there are plenty of new web updates at www.therodeobullcompany.com , if you have any suggestions or anything you'd like to see on the site, drop me a line and i'll see what i can do.
Until then continue to follow us on twitter
Mike
