Dan2310

Hey,

Ive made this topic to add a sort of review of how my Birthday display went which took place last night. I thought that it may be useful for anyone else who has fired there display or has there bonfire night display to add a review of theirs on after it has taken place.

Right, so I got the majority of my fireworks from The Firework Warehouse. I decided to stake out all of my fireworks in the day and this included waterproofing each firework and then adding a plastic bag over the top to keep them dry. I got this all done by 5pm before it started to go dark.

Right so I started my display around 6.45pm, Il just do a small review of each firework that I fired to give you an idea.

3 go for a spin (standard- wheels) - Good set of wheels at £5 for 2 packs. Used 1 pack of these wheels in my display, the smaller 2 were like something you might get in a larger selection box and the larger wheel was quote good with nice effects. Overall good for the price if you like wheels!

Hurly Burly (standard- cake)- Didn't realise these were 5m garden fireworks at first and when I realised I was expecting them to be rubbish but I lit one and it was brilliant! Gold crackle shots at first then a change to a couple of rather big bursts (which reached quite a height!) they were a very good firework for the price and I got these for £6.99 BOGOF. Highly recommended!

Dynamine (Rage, mine combination)- This was a firework that looked like dynamite and looked as if it was going to be poweful. I thaught it was a very good effect with 6 mines one after the other at first with sparks (sorry dont know pyroish name) dropping down to the ground as part of the effect. Then after those 6 mines an unexpected shot went up really high. Big coloured burst with a nice bang! More of a nice firework than a loud one but very nice to look at at that! Got two of these for £12.99, worth it as its like 6 mines and a shot tube in each firework.

Army Cube (Cube, Cake)- One of my favourite fireworks of the night. The noise was brilliant from it, high pitched whistles with nice big bursts (looked like Catherine wheels in the sky before burst!) also the 4 shots at the end all together really made a brilliant end to the firework! For £12 it would be something I would buy again and again!

Parallel Universe (Black cat, cake)- Another great cake, five shots first of all with nice blinking effects, very big bursts and nice noises also. Then around 7 or 8 shots all went up in the space of 2 seconds (think this may of been a fault). It was brilliant, all 7 bursts at ones. Amazing! Recommended at £15.99 for just the one and its now £16.99 bogof at firework warehouse!

25 carat (weco, cake)- This was from Lidl and I decided to add this to my display as an extra, I am so glad I did. These are exelent fireworks for the price, really sky filling and you wouldn't think for one minute that there a £6 supermarket products.

Broken arrow (Cube- cake)- Well I am so glad I kept this one til last. Over all of the years that I have had fireworks or watched others from the garden I have never seen anything like it. Each shot goes up and half way there is a very large amount of crackle gold then as it reaches some hight there's a night BIG burst with a big bang! Towards the end of the firework the effects of the burst change and just get better then the finale of the cake! AMAZING, four shots large crackle half way up then four massive bursts all with the crackle effect. It really did fill the whole sky! I really thought that there was going to be some car alarms going off due to the noise! £20 each but worth every penny!


Overall I had an AMAZING display 10x better than I expected. Everyone was praising for such a good display and what I was so happy to hear was people say they were well worth the extra money (in the past I have spent around £40 from supermarkets etc). I was soo happy with the comments and what made it even better was that we had people and a group of kids outside on the street and another group of people in a garden down the road screaming we want more we want more after each firework. You could also hear WOW after each burst from these kids/ adults out on the front. Ive never had this before and was amazed that others were highly enjoying my display!

I now cannot wait for bonfire night, I thought I may have been a bit disappointed at first as the stuff Im firing is mostly from Lidl but setting of that 25 carat has made me completely confident that it will still be a good display!

I have taken pics of set up and the aftermath of the fireworks this morning so I will make sure I upload them later tonight!

Thanks for reading

Edit: Pics!

Set up:








Morning after:






Finally to finish off 2 pics from the display taken by me, sorry about the quality was rushed, just to add these were only 5m fireworks and people watching were much further back anyway.



Think that Wheel through the arch pic looks great

Also, I was very surprised by the amount of mess left on the next morning I was expecting to come down and find the garden full of bits, instead there was just a few bits around! Seems that fountains/ supermarket small cakes seem to make more mess than proper fireworks lol!

Hey!

Visited The Firework Warehouse today which is located in St Helens! Was my first time buying from an all year seller.

Thought it was a great shop, and after my visit I will never buy from a supermarket again!

Right, so I needed some pyro for a family birthday coming up in the last week of October, so I thaught that I would visit to see how it went. I picked up few peices and was very happy with prices and quality (look) of the fireworks!

Here's a pic of what I bought on my visit.




Oh and if anyone read my post on dynamine firework, here;s a pic of them, they are in fact one whole firework with one fuse. Don't know what the effects will be like but they should hopefully be good!





Also managed to pick up Parallel Universe too which sounds good, here's 'what it does' lol!


Anyway, Im hoping to get back to The Firework Warehouse again to buy for bonfire night!

Hey,

Been looking at the 2010 range from absolute fireworks, and I must say, some of it seems amazing!

For example

Starburst, a 50 shot cake

http://www.youtube.c...u/2/rkugYAqcuF0

When watching that you wouldn't think it was just £20 to buy, I have been watching a lot of videos recently and have seen a lot for around the £20 mark but this seems to beat them all!

Just got a real bonus too as I have just found out that The Firework Warehouse are stocking this cake this year !

So, is it just me or is this a great value for money firework?

Twister which is another 50 shot also looks great for the same price mark.

There are also a lot of brilliant value for money cakes of around the £10 mark available from Absolute this year also. I think these will be my main brand I will be buying from this year as some of the stuff just seems amazing!

I am debating on whether to buy both twister and starburst to have as my final two cakes (£40) or does anyone think I would be better with two or three sub £10 cakes instead of twister? My budget for this year will be £100 so as you can see I dont have a LOT. I am after a few cakes, some mines, decent pack of rockets and maybe a wheel or two.

Hi,

I was around last year on the run up to Bonfire night, and I havnt forgot about this site, ive been checking out every few weeks since last year

Anyway, just thaught I would make a topic to ask about 2009 Supermarket fireworks.

So, does anyone know or have any clues of which brands supermarkets will be selling this year?
Last year BM Bargins had some good Men Shun stuff, but I hear that they have gone into administration, so i wonder what brand they will have? I hope they get some good stuff in again this year, I also hope Aldi have a good range this year!

Lidl, I baught the Cosmos cake for a reduced price for new year, and thaught it was great for the price, so I hope they have some of them again.

Thanks

Hi, I know its really early, but I am planning on holding a fireworks party this New Years Eve (or New Years day). But I was just wondering if anyone knew if or infact which shops may sell them. I know all year shops will be selling them, but there aint many near us. So, I can't remember seeing any seasonal shops for new year last year, but I saw that Asda were selling a small range (I want to avoid at all costs!)

So, anyway, does anyone know if normally there is any seasonal shops, or if the likes of Aldi etc sell them. Thanks.


Oh one last thing, there is a all year fireworks store in Prescot near us called PJM Fireworks, wouldnt know weather to go and check out that shop nearer the time, never really heard from anyone whos been there.

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