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[Aftershock]

My final firing order was meant to go as follows:

Heavy Duty
Night Vision - Night Vision
Metal Storm
First Dynasty - Mad Moth
Yandino
Whispering Palms
Six Machine - Star Salute
Broken Arrow - Out Of Control
Open Fire - Shogun
Predator 500 - End Of The World - End Of The World
Tank Buster - Tank Buster
Magneto - Molten Krypton - Molten Krypton
Fire One
Ultimate Devastation
Imperial Invasion - Imperial Invasion
Raging Bull - Hercules - Hercules
Thunderous Finale - Screaming Spiders - Screaming Spiders
The King
The King - The King

Where theirs 2 or 3 on the same line they all got fire together.

Unfortunately one of the Molten Kryptons didnt light so got done on its ownd and the Shogun wouldnt light with Open Fire so those two got done alone aswell.

Alot of the fireworks I had last year so knew what to expect but had quite a few of the new range aswell reviews below on all the stuff that was new to me:

Fire One - O.k wouldnt buy it again as it really needs to be paired up with something to get the impact you expect, breaks arent that big from it either.

Magneto - Very good was impressed with this one, went very well with Molten Krypton as fired at two totally different heights.

Metal Storm - Was good nice bright colours but the wind stopped most of the fish type effects it was meant to do.

First Dynasty - Good firework and quite powerfull but wasnt that much better than Mad moth when fired together.

Six Machine - Really impressed, needs to be fired with something else or in at least pairs but as a supporting firework its excellent as constant breaks going on so ideal for supporting fireworks, will be using it alot next year.

Star Salute - Big Breaks and vivid colours will be on the list next year.

Shogun - Good overall but nothing brilliant or different.

Predator 500 - Doesnt last as long as it says or End Of World lasts alot longer than it says. It is better than End Of The World bigger better effects.

Tank Buster - Absolutely excellent, brilliant Finale on it seriously fills the sky, definately be getting next year.

Heavy Duty - Probably the firework of the year for me, for its price its unbelievable value, great range of effects, great duration and a decent finale, cant complain at price, will probably get a few next year.

Ultimate Devastation - Excellent firework, great sky filler, great effects only if it lasted slightly longer!

Edited by Aftershock, 09 November 2008 - 07:28 PM.

[Prestonboi]

Thanks for the write up.

Heavy Duty - Probably the firework of the year for me, for its price its unbelievable value, great range of effects, great duration and a decent finale, cant complain at price, will probably get a few next year.

Glad you like it. We used it as our starter and it was bloody awesome!!

Predator 500, maybe it's effect was a little greater for us as we weren't really expecting much from it, coupled with that many houses around us had stopped by the time we let it off (9:30pm) so we had the sky to ourselves.

We loved it lol.

Edited by Prestonboi, 09 November 2008 - 08:03 PM.

[Aftershock]

I actually said before lighting Heavy Duty we will start with a small one and couldnt believe how good it was!

Predator 500 was good just it was meant to last longer than end of the world but it was alot shorter but it had really good effects, especially with all 3 at once.

I think after heavy duty I had the sky to myself everyone gave up at that one!

[Bri]

I actually said before lighting Heavy Duty we will start with a small one and couldnt believe how good it was!

Predator 500 was good just it was meant to last longer than end of the world but it was alot shorter but it had really good effects, especially with all 3 at once.

I think after heavy duty I had the sky to myself everyone gave up at that one!

Exactly what i said about heavy duty and exactly what happened after i fired this one first. Think this is one of the most underestimated fireworks this year and will do really well in the future. It has great potential and im already planning NYE display around this one. It certainly wont be getting fired first this time lol

Didn't fire my predator with an End of the world (used them seperatly with rockets going off over the top of them) I thought the Predator 500 was a better punchier firework with the End of the World being longer but more colourful firework.

[Aftershock]

Heavy duty isnt one to be fired first as you say, needs pretty big and expensive stuff to out do it.

Im a fan of the 500 shot cakes, even though they arent big bore they do go on for what seems like forever and have reasonable Finale's to them, if I could fire 4 at once would use two of each at the same time but struggle to light 3 at once on my own!

[David]

I could fire 4 at once would use two of each at the same time but struggle to light 3 at once on my own!

Get yourself the "Launch Kontrol" system, perfect for things like this.

[Aftershock]

Get yourself the "Launch Kontrol" system, perfect for things like this.

Looked at them a few times, daft as it sounds have never used them so worried that they wont work! Plus im concerned I would create so nuts finale involving 20 large cakes and a number of rockets lol

[David]

They tend to work fine- the wires are somewhat fragile- if handled too roughly (as I did when first use them) the connections might not work. However, handled with care it is fine.

You can light 5 fireworks from one box and one remote, or can double up and have several boxes being fired off the same remote- there is a "pro" version.

It is designed to be wired up to 5 fireworks , but you can, say, fire three, then use the last two clips at a later date, although that runs the risk of the wire becoming damaged.

Edited by David, 10 November 2008 - 09:24 PM.