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Fireworks A-Z Buyer's Guide Fireworks A-Z Buyer’s Guide 2010 Free Edition By Bob Weaver • FireworksLand.com • FireworksCatalog.com This free edition of Fireworks A-Z Buyer’s Guide contains my descriptions of approximately 3,855 fireworks, up through and including 2006. My new web site, FireworksCatalog.com, contains descriptions of approximately 2,807 additional fireworks which are not in this file. It also includes 1,772 photos and 707videos. The best program for viewing, searching and printing this file is Adobe Reader. To search through the file for a particular name, number, word or phrase, make sure you are using Adobe Reader 6.0 or higher. The search function in lower versions is inadequate for this purpose. You can download Adobe Reader for free at this page: www.adobe.com/reader All contents Copyright 2010 by Bob Weaver You are allowed to print out copies of this file, and give away printed copies for free to anyone. You can make copies of this file on disc, and give the disc to anyone, and you can put the file on your web site, as long as it is intact. You are not allowed to sell copies of this file, or sell printouts of this file. You are not allowed to extract text from this file and use it in any publication, or in any advertising materials (printed or in-store), use in any catalogs, or put the text onto any price list or web site. Bob Weaver FireworksLand.com [email protected] Fireworks A-Z Buyer’s Guide, Free Online Edition by Bob Weaver • FireworksLand.com 00 Buck Shotgun Shell 100 Yellow Ribbons 10,000 MHz Feedback Single-tube Aerial. Winco brand, Multi-tube Aerial, 200 gram. Multi-tube Aerial, 200 gram. Winda #JP-635. Brothers brand, #BP2941. 49 shots, brand, #5221. 16 shots, 30 seconds. Shoots up a cluster of firecrackers 28 seconds. Each shot breaks into a very nice bright which, collectively, form a pretty loud If you’re looking for a fan-shaped effect, red chrysanthemum break with a small cluster of bangs in the air, about 10 feet get this cake. All shots are at angles. amount of crackle in the break. (Last above the ground. Basically an aerial First a row of 7 yellow pearls with white tested in 2001) firecracker pack. (Last tested in 2002) comet tails are fired, one at a time along (Shown on PYROvideo #2 and on “The the row, so the angle of each shot is dif- 101st Airborne Mortar Kit Best of PYROvideo #1, 2 & 3) ferent from the one before. Then the Reloadable Shell Kit. Phantom next row of yellow shots is fired all at brand, #G-319. 1” Mini Fountain one time, for a 7-shot fan shape effect. The first reloadable shell kit I’ve ever Base Fountain. Lightning Bolt brand, Then a row of red pearls with white seen which is designed for daytime use. #LB-F013. 10 seconds. comet tails is fired, one at a time down Each of the six cylindrical shells in this This is a box of five small fountains, one the row. Then the next row is 7 red kit ejects a parachute, from which each of red, green, gold, blue and silver. pearls all fired at the same time. Then a hangs a smoke cartridge. (Last tested in Each fountain is approximately 1.5 row of green pearls with white tails fired 1999) inches tall and 3/8 inch in diameter, and one at a time down the row, then a row stands on a small paper base which is 117 Candle Barrage approximately 3/4 inch in diameter. Roman Candle battery. Vulcan This is the free edition of Fireworks A-Z brand, #MC117. 18 seconds. Each one gives a color flame of that Buyer’s Guide by Bob Weaver. My new color for about 10 seconds. I was expect- web site describes 2,807 fireworks that are We don’t believe there are 117 shots in ing more, such as crackle, strobe or not in this file. To buy a membership in it, there. Nice barrage, however. Mostly red maybe a change in color. But it’s just please visit FireworksCatalog.com. and green. (Last tested in 1995) one color. They don’t last long enough to be useful for creating something else Fireworks videos • DVDs Buyer’s Guides • Links 12-shot Rack such as a set piece (picture). (Last test- Fireworks T-shirts Multi-tube Aerial, 500 gram. ed in 2005) Free articles Zenith/Black Cat brand. 12 shots, and 41 seconds. 1.5” Artillery Bomb more! All the Zenith/Black Cat shell effects Single-tube Aerial. Great Grizzly (which are apparently made in the U.S.) brand, #GG0279. on one 12-shot mortar rack. Green These are single-shot shells, four to the chrysanthemum, blue peony, silver pack - Green Chrysanthemum Break, chrysanthemum, blue falling stars, red Multi-color chrysanthemum break, Red chrysanthemum, and blue chrysanthe- Chrysanthemum break and Crackling mum. All have silver comet tails on the Break. The multi-color break included way up. (Last tested in 2002) color stars and some crackle. The Crackling Break includes a large 14˝ California Candle amount of crackle. The Green Chrys- Hand-held Fountain. Thunderbird anthemum was a very impressive green brand, #T6018. 37 seconds. break with white trails of stars. Pretty Visit the world’s best fireworks web site! Thunderbird. I’m a sucker for any fire- decent shells, equal in quality to many FireworksLand.com works you can hold in your hand as they 1.75-inch shells and even surpassing are going off. This is the first hand-held some of them. (Last tested in 1999) fountain I’ve tried that includes a whis- of green pearls fired all at once. The tle. The red, green and yellow flames are 10 Parachutes by Day final row is crackling mines fired all at large and blindingly bright. A 3-color Parachute. Link Triad brand. one time. No breaks, it’s all pearls and torch, with one whistle. I liked this one Most refused to open, and fell to the mines, but a nicely designed display. a lot, not only because of the brightness ground quickly. (Last tested in 1996) Unchanged in 2003, except the row of of the red, green and yellow flames, but crackling mines at the end are not fired also because it’s the only hand-held 10 Report Repeater all at once, they are fired in a row, fountain I have tested so far that Roman Candle, single. Black Cat although very quickly across the row. includes a whistle. (Last tested in 1998) brand, #BC-502. 5 shots, 17 sec- Still a good one. (Last tested in 2003) onds. (Shown on PYROvideo #1 and on “The 143 Candle Barrage Shoots out five shots, each of which Best of PYROvideo #1, 2 & 3) Roman Candle battery. Vulcan gives two reports in the air - possibly brand, #MC-143. 143 shots, 41 sec- more than firecracker reports, but not onds. more than the 129.6 mg. report limit Starts as a red fountain with a short for aerial reports. No colors or any other whistle, then changes to a green foun- effects. (Last tested in 1999) tain, then it becomes a battery of roman candles, with red and green color pearls Visit FireworksCatalog.com for more! Page 2 of 310 by Bob Weaver • FireworksLand.com Fireworks A-Z Buyer’s Guide, Free Online Edition by Bob Weaver • FireworksLand.com going up, and a little crackle from the 2-Color Palm Tree, #200 2000 fountain fountain. Some of the shots that go up Single-tube Aerial. Zenith brand. Multi-Tube fountain, 200 gram. break into tiny, soft reports. Like an Somewhat lower altitude than most. Brothers brand, #BP4195. 163 sec- improved version of the old 100 ball Nice rich blue with white flashes. (Last onds. Magical Shots Barrage. (Last tested in tested in 1995) There are fountains in both ends of this 1999) piece. One end starts first, and goes 2-Color Space Jet through a variety of color, crackles and 15-shot All-In-One-Shell Flying Spinner. brand. 13 seconds. whistles. Then the other end does the Single-tube Aerial. brand. Plastic body. Two stages; not as rich same thing. These fountains last almost All in one and one whistle for all. spray as Rozzi Silver Jets. Flies up with two minutes between them. Finally, a Fifteen glittery comets meanwhile. gold spray and a green flame. (Last test- strobing flame inside the center illumi- (Last tested in 1995) ed in 1995) nates the red paper windows which spell out “2000,” and that goes on for anoth- 16-shot Rack, #200 shells 2-Color Space Jet er 45 seconds or so. (Last tested in Multi-tube Aerial, 500 gram. Starr Flying Spinner. brand. 13 seconds. 1999) brand. 16 shots, 76 seconds. Plastic body. Two stages; not as rich Made in the U.S.A. Alternates between spray as Rozzi Silver Jets.. (Last tested 2000 fountain red peony breaks and blue peony breaks, in 1995) Multi-Tube fountain, 200 gram. at a slow pace. (Last tested in 2003) Brothers brand, #BP4200. 114 sec- onds. This is the free edition of Fireworks A-Z A unique fountain that spells out “2000” 18” California Candle Buyer’s Guide by Bob Weaver. My new Hand-held Fountain. Thunderbird web site describes 2,807 fireworks that are in colored flares across the front. You brand. 31 seconds. not in this file. To buy a membership in it, light the fuse, and all the color flares Starts with a silver whistle for a few sec- please visit FireworksCatalog.com.
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