USA - Full-service production company Toucan Productions has added Elation’s new Paragon series to its rental fleet, utilising the award-winning LED profile fixtures across concerts, festivals, corporate events, and large-scale branding projects throughout Oklahoma City and beyond.
Toucan CEO Chauncy Harris explained the decision: “They are perfect for any customer that needs flexible and affordable profile fixtures. It is a great product, a versatile solution for a variety of production needs, and with a great price point for our market.”
Toucan first saw the Paragon at the LDI tradeshow last December, where it earned the Best Debuting Product Award. Needing a compact, IP-rated fixture, Toucan arranged a demo for a closer look and eventually invested in the Paragon S model.
“For a rental company, it is built very well and will hold up in virtually any environment,” said Harris. “It offered excellent value for the number of features. It’s remarkable how much this fixture can do in such a small form factor.”
Keaton Hamilton, project manager for design & live events at Toucan, highlighted the fixture’s exceptional power-to-size ratio: “The compact design makes it remarkably lightweight given its feature set. The 550W LED engine is impressive, and I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of output from the Paragon S.” He added: “I’m also a big fan of the quad-colour system and the dual prisms operating on two planes.”
An advantage of the Paragon is its IP54 rating, which means Toucan can use the lights outside on summer festivals and events, as well as on tours that play both indoors and outdoors. Hamilton noted its durability: “It feels like a real upgrade in workmanship. The new latch design (pan/tilt locks) and rubber bumpers on the nose show that real thought went into protecting the fixture for heavy use. They really have held up through the weather as well.”
Since acquiring the fixtures, Toucan has put them to work at major events, including the Norman Music Festival mainstage, where Hamilton highlighted their creative effects package, and during the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA playoff run on their way to an NBA Championship, where the Paragons were used for outdoor branding lighting around downtown Oklahoma City. Toucan Productions has been the lighting vendor for Oklahoma City Thunder game presentation activities since the NBA team moved to the city in 2008.