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[pritch]

Hello! Long time no see guys. Tonight and last weeks I have done two small fireworks displays in my local park. The first costing £20 and tonight costing £30. I would like to list a few fireworks that are most worthy of any professional display. As in massive palm bursts with huge flash reports plus a few others. Ok so here they are. Please add your own to the list.

NAME
Mars Attacks.

TYPE
Cake

DESCRIPTION
Ok this one was my favourite. Large green and a couple other colour palm bursts in the sky each with a very loud bang. Obviously not as big as a 12 inch professional shell but the flash burst made them go pretty big in the sky!


COST
£9-£12 if I remember but ive also a feeling this could have only been £6. If so get a few!


NAME
Golden Jubilee

TYPE
Cake

DESCRIPTION
Lots of loud bangs with gold crossette kinda breaks, lots of glitter and palm bursts going off real fast. This was my second favourite. At the end it shoots up 3 flash charges at the same time for an enormous bang as loud as any! A great one to use for the finale!

COST
£9-£12




NAME
Jewel of the Nile

TYPE
Cake

DESCRIPTION
Lots of fairly large spider shaped bursts going from purple to green! Not very loud but possibly the most visually appealing


COST
£9-£12

[Mixologist]

What were the makes out of interest?

[pritch]

Hmmm cant remember sorry!

[sizzle]

This is going to sound like blatant advertising but it's not, when RegimentalPyro went over to China last year he picked out stock for our local shop SP Fireworks, this included some new products for their new "Professional Range" which is Cat 3 stuff aimed at people who want to do professional shows. I've tried a few cakes from this new range and me and Regi used a few in our display last year. The best I believe is this:

Name: Let's Go Psycho

Type: Cake

Shots: 140 Shot.

Description: Fires red, yellow and green burst very rapidly in a Z shaped with mines and lasts around 30 seconds (if I remember correctly)

Cost: £48.99 (to UKPS members)

[pyrotrev]

Can I suggest we state the calibre amongst the details?? - useful for getting an idea of the size of effect.
We use a fair smattering of smaller Cat 3 cakes in our displays, normally firing them in multiples/fronts. I could list loads, but an example would be:
Name: Tourbillions
Type: Cake
Shots: 19/30mm
Description: High firing big fat silver wriggly things - quiet
Brand : Kimbolton
Cost: £9 ish retail

[Reb]

Hello! Long time no see guys. Tonight and last weeks I have done two small fireworks displays in my local park. The first costing £20 and tonight costing £30. I would like to list a few fireworks that are most worthy of any professional display. As in massive palm bursts with huge flash reports plus a few others. Ok so here they are. Please add your own to the list.

Well here goes my two penneth, Raptor mines by next generation (cosmic group) 19 shot mine cake available in two varieties (hunting and angry raptors)
expensive @ £50 (retail) but very nice, great depth of colour, my personal favourite being the "hunting".
I would guess each tube being about 60mm in diameter (maybe slightly less ,maybe slightly larger), very effective anyway.

Menshun's obsession @ roughly £25-£30 retail very impressive 30 shot cake good height and big bursting effects
not sure of shot size but it is on the large side, good colour depth

Menshun's darkness invader is also rather good, 19 shot @ £10-£15 retail, again good height and impressive breaks as well as good colour depth.

And if we are talking suitable for professional display's why not a next generation "extravaganza" nearly £100 and if you like the colours vivid and the breaks large and a nice variation of effects from one item, then its well worth a look
we had one in 2006 and I was very concerned about forking out for the thing (value for money), but from my point of view it was worth every penny!!

regards
Reb

[Mixologist]

I dont know if anyone else has ever bought consumer mines, but in all honesty im always dissapointed with them. I occasionally get a 100mm one from Sandling and they are good but the price rather outweighs performance me thinks. So for what its worth i bought quite a few of the 3 fingered jack mines, £10 for 3 mixed effects and they are from The Firework Emporium, you can watch a vid of them on the website, they have an awesome height and break to them im not sure of the calibre off hand but i think it is 50mm each they certainly pack alot of stars, the only bad thing about them is the fountain start so if you want instant ignition they may not suit.

[karlfoxman]

The best mines I have ever used are the Kimbolton ones, stunning effects and colours! Might be pricey but I believe you pay for what you get. And of course you can re-use the tubes they come in.

Edited by karlfoxman, 25 February 2007 - 06:43 PM.