Fireworks?
 

What are your favorite types?

Anything with a wick that goes in the air and blows up!!! :D

I like the big ones that go 'BOOM'!

None at all.

Well - over here in MI - you can't have anything that leaves the ground, spins, or explodes. You re ONLY allowed to have sparklers... :(

You still can get some good stuff if you know where to look though! :D

I like bottle rockets, creater creators, and others...

Does that apply only to private citizens, or are public displays subject to the same law?

I like the sparkly wand things.... (so descriptive...)

OMG I'M SO EXCITING!! lol

The other day, my brother, some friends, and I went onto my roof around 11 and started shooting off bottle rockets and mortars - good times (of course, the legality of such actions in New York State may or may not be in question ;-)). For the 4th of July, people all around me were shooting off fireworks - firecrackers, bottle rockets, mortars, more fireworks, etc. I think there were so many people that the police just gave up on trying to crack down on it. There was this one person a neighborhood or two over - the guy must have had over a thousand dollars worth of mortars and the like. He went on until about midnite or so... I have no idea how the cops didn't find him - a lot of what he used were clear beacons right to his front yard. But then again, I wasn't complaining about it.

To quote the Greats, "Celebrate the independence of your country by blowing up a small part of it!"

Everyone except for the mini-carnival (sp?) we have here.

lol. yea, those things are like, so freakin' cool :D

I forget the name of it but its 75 bucks and you half to put it in a hole 4 feet deep... it's like a bomb... its awesome!!!

You need a license to launch anything big. So public displays can have the big usual stuff, but they need a permit for it.

Actually now that I think of it that poll is false to me... You say legal stuff... In Taxachusetts we don't get to have any fireworks... Well we set them off at my house anyway...

Mortars all the way :) I don't think anyone really cares if they're legal in Indiana or not.. but I do know you have to buy some like 2 dollar slip when you buy them... but I forget what it's for. Maybe some Indiana person can describe what they're for. *ahem* but the point is, fireworks are the best!

I enjoy my own fair share of fireworks, but as a little warning to anyone thinking about doing something stupid,see this website scroll down to the bottom red section and follow the links. WARNING: *VERY* graphic!

Cory

I live in Indiana, and this year it appeared that they stopped the whole buying a slip thing. I remember back in 2001 they made you pay a few bucks for this stupid piece of paper that said you would not light them in enclosed areas, and stuff like that. Last year (2002) they had it where you didn't have to buy the card, just sign a contract (simmilar to 2001's) for no charge.

This year, I spent way to much money at firework stores all over Northwest Indiana, and at no location was I ever asked to buy a card or sign a slip.

Note: Best Firework- Ones you build you'reself. To bad I didn't get a video of my 1800 missle shots. It took 16 minutes. It was pretty cool.

I like little fireworks... the kind that don't just send spinning flaming things at you or make an annoying noise. Sparklers, pagodas (my favorite!) and things like that are fun.

This year, we got the bright idea to put 500 sparklers together. I decided to light the pile, not realizing that these were the old kind of wooden sparklers. Needless to say, the whole thing blew up in a huge explosion, and I think I'm still seeing green spots.

I lost all the hair on my arms and neck. 4th of july, my family and and uncles are at my grandmas. We are lighting off safe and sane stuff to entertain her.
My uncle come out and has these 30 year old mortars, so we decide to take 2 of them and some other not so legal fireworks to an open area. We light of the first mortar, all is fine. Second one, well, my hair grows back.
Turns out that the propellent that should push the mortar up blew out the side and got me.

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I've seen really cool fireworks in funny shapes. They were like smiley faces, planets, all sorts of cool things. And there was music on the radio that made it all the more exciting! :yikes:

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I've come to loathe fireworks in general...mainly because my neighbor has this tendency to set them off every night -- and I do mean EVERY night -- starting halfway through June and continuing until he runs out partway through July.

It's impossible to sleep during that month...Heck, my family has even tried calling the cops on him (we live in Michigan, so everything he's got is illegal) but to no avail. Maybe I should start sleeping with earplugs in...

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My faviorites are definetly mortars, roman candles, and saturn missile batterys. When set off in the right order you can put on quite a show for not much money. Last summer my family had a big party so i spent $200 on fireworks and put on a really cool show. I love doing fireworks shows and i've become known for it in my town. I even built my own electroinc ignition system. I is much safer to use than trying to ignite rows of fireworks by hand. I can ignite 45 fireworks either individually or in groups from the safety of my control panel. Now i'm building a new ignition system from stainless steel and the switch panel is going to be inside an alluminum suitcase. I'll post a picture of it when its done. I am not a crazy pyro however, safety is a huge concern of mine, especially when there are bystanders around. If anyone would like to build their own ignition system just ask me and i'll be glad to sent pics and plans.

Ben Van Selous

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I don't know if this fits the topic, but I love the rockets that don't blow up (i.e., Estes rockets). Fitting the topic: eh, at least it's easy to pull apart those engines and make a colorful exploding rocket (not that I've ever done that. I like my rockets returing in one piece. Which reminds me, I should bring up my "crashing Death Star" story some time).

Fully on topic now: I prefer the pyro displays the WWE puts on at their shows. They always fit the mood of what's going on. I also am a fan of those large public displays of exploding fireworks high in the sky.