Drive-In Cinema and Big-Screen Gaming Hire in Aberdeen

Once you've got the Big Screen Van booked for a private hire, there's an add-on layer worth knowing about: it doubles as either a pop-up cinema or a multiplayer gaming rig, and both cost less than most people assume.

We connect an onboard PlayStation 5 Pro and Xbox directly to the LED screens, so multiple players can join in at once on a screen considerably larger than anything in someone's living room. It's a static hire booking plus £100 +VAT, aimed at private parties, birthdays and community events where "bring your own console" isn't going to cut it.

The same add-on rate, static hire plus £100 +VAT, converts open spaces, car parks or fields into an outdoor cinema. The part people usually don't expect: we handle all the public screening licensing and local authority paperwork ourselves, along with the audio transmission logistics. That's normally the part that stops people from running one of these off their own back, sorting the legal side of a public film screening isn't trivial, and we've already done it.

A hired projector and screen setup depends entirely on the weather holding, needs a generator, and still won't match 19 sqm of daylight-bright LED. Since the screens are already part of a booking you're likely making anyway, the marginal cost of turning it into an event rather than just a display is low.

Both add-ons sit on top of a static private hire booking, so start with a private hire date and location, then add gaming or cinema on top. Community groups, HR teams planning a staff day, and event organisers building out a bigger programme are the most common bookings for this one.