FANL Twenty-Four Band Crowd Set

What changes when the guest list passes twenty

A large room is not a small room with more people in it. Once a crowd passes twenty, you stop handing bands out one at a time and start running a table: box open, bands fanned out by colour, guests pick as they walk past. Three of each shade is deliberate. It is enough that a colour reads as a group from the far side of a hall, and few enough that the room still looks like a spectrum rather than a uniform.

Favours that survive the walk to the car

A paper favour is in a bin before the evening ends. A band with a working cell in it goes home, gets switched on in the back seat and turns up again the following weekend. That is the whole argument for lighting a crowd rather than printing one. Every band in this set ships with a spare cell taped alongside it, so the favour keeps working after the first evening rather than becoming a dead strap.

Running the table on the night

We set two rules for large events and they have never failed us. First, check the battery doors in batches of six before anyone arrives rather than one by one at the door. Second, put the three black RGB bands aside for the people who need to be found: the host, the photographer and whoever is driving. Everything else can be handed out in whatever order the queue arrives in.

How this set is controlled

Every bracelet in the box is its own controller. One button on the outside cycles the light, there is no remote to lose and no sound trigger waiting on the music, so an eight-person table can run three different modes at once. Please press each battery door shut before the event starts and keep the spare cells out of reach of small children, who should be supervised while they wear a band. A lit wrist buys you the security of being able to count a group in the dark; it is not safety equipment.

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