Leisure Supplies Show Review 2025
Introduction
This was the best show in at least the last 3 years in every measurable way.
Sometimes I write these reviews and try to be as gentle as I can be about the over-all show as well as the exhibitors. When I’ve got no other choice but to be brutally honest because something is stand-out obvious or misleading to people, then I call it out - But even then I do it in the mildest way possible and provide balance where I can - as I don’t like upsetting people and I genuinely want the shows to succeed; As well as the manufacturers that support it.
This year there’s no bad bits to hide or gloss over, there’s no exhibitor that showed poor products. Numbers where way up - It’s the most people I have seen at a show in a long time - But not just bigger numbers, different people - I can usually recognise most people and see regular faces, but this year had a tonne of people I couldn’t name and it looked like people came from further afield - There was different people walking around speaking in different European languages.
It felt like people where spending more money than ever - I saw manufactures trying to negotiate with customers asking them to wait until the end of the show to take the show display pieces away with them. I arrived 20 minutes late to the doors opening and someone had already bought £20k’s worth of bouncy castles purely on a whim and quick walk-around.
Innovation was there, too - There was new things to see. You had to look harder for it on some stands than others, but it was there.
There was a bunch of new inflatable games (which I love), new types of bouncy castles, cool new assault courses, lots of new artwork and styles, business coaching and mentoring services, new rodeo bulls and electronic games, new 3D ball pools, bargains and hidden gems to sniff out, new exhibitors, returning exhibitors and very nearly a punch-up in the carpark! Basically everything you could ask and hope for in a show.
I’ve written up a little bit about each manufacturer below, but as always I may have over-looked some or not felt competent enough to write about them; If I have missed you out then it isn’t a dig, it’s purely a legitimate over-sight.
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