Highlight Trade Evening

Originally Posted by PureParty

not seen a firing list yet, was supposed to get an email today alas its not arrived

sent you the list.

[»PureParty]

many thanks, hope the weathers fine for you all!!

[Masterchief]

Just got back, were you there Graham?

WIll fill you all in in the morning

[Masterchief]

Thankyou to Highlight...

Highlight were very accomodating, nice to meet the team and Steve the MD also Roy Musk (Insurance Experts) and one or two others.

While the venue (as exquisite as it was) didn't allow for shells the products were generally of a high standard, a few lines standing out in particular, my impressions as follows:

From the Cat 3 range (high end Cat 3 aimed at professional displays):

Knock out - 25s - 18mm - Pokey Brocade and colour mine lift to aerial bursts nice cake, imagine a vertical spread.

Wolfpack - 100s version of the above.

Humma humma
Brazilliant
China syndrome
Singapore sling - 56s - 14mm Exceptional for the calibre good mix of low noise effects

Blue blitz - 80s - 20mm - Completely stealing the night for the cat 3, a very very good low noise rapid firing z-fire blue comets to MC glittering fish, very well paced and a top product

From the Cat 4 range:

75mm mines - R G B P Y S - Very high quality and punchy, very tight clean star column and good flat top achieving impressive height.

100mm mines - R G B P Y S - Again very good quality and incredibly loud!

Firefly - 200s - 20mm - One of the best cakes all night, very intense rapid firing LOUD green star silver tails to green and silver bouquets, green was one of the nicest greens i have seen in a firework, for Andy P this was the items selling point, Highly recomended

Double Vortex Volley Fire - 128s - 25mm - All i can say is FOOK and incredibly LOUD (well overloaded with flash) screeching tracers fired in groups of 6 shots repeatedly to immensely powerful red crackling palms, one hell of a finish, jaw dropping stuff and a must buy!

Red bouquets - 138s - 20, 30, 40mm, red tail to red break, firing sequence, 7 in a fan, 2 in a V, single shot, fleur de lys. Exceptional cakes, impressive pace and available in Green, MC, Red, Purple, Crackle, Golden Crown and RWB, highly recomended.

Meander in cloudland - 150s - 30mm - Gold chrysanthememum with soft silver crackle, really nice skyfilling effect.

Golden tail to golden palm - 80s - 30mm - Well performing V cake good bushy gold effect, 4 shots on each flank at once.

Golden Crossette - 100s - 30mm - Sovereigns Kruger park on steroids.

Double Dragon Shellcake - 49s - 48mm - Nice pastel and gold breaks, would go very very nicely undeneath 6" pastel umbrella shells expensive however.

Homeland waltz - 50mm - 245s - Colour tails to salutes and colour peony and chrysanthemum with glittering
pistils, 5 breaks per tube, making 245 breaks! Good middle of the show wake everybody up type of cake, LOUD

I was very disapointed with their 50mm 49s brocade cake, random timing, slooooooow pace, low breaks just generally a very unpredictable cake with weak effect.

[Mixologist]

Well.... No shells says it all really for me!!

Venue was lovely though.

Blue Blitz is a great cake. Also really liked Aquarius.

Unlike Masterchief i thought the mines were too bright at the start, need dulling down on the brightness and more colour, not for me i`m afraid. Also the lift was probably over the top in all fairness.

Homeland Waltz has i think changed from last years version... it was more pop than bang in the middle i felt. Still a nice cake though.

Double Dragon was very nice, but as said expensive.

Candles were poorly timed and reaching various heights again.

Our Favourite for the night was Meander in Cloudland.

Some good bits, some not so good bits, but a worthwhile trip all the same.

[Masterchief]

Unlike Masterchief i thought the mines were too bright at the start, need dulling down on the brightness and more colour, not for me i`m afraid. Also the lift was probably over the top in all fairness.

Agree with the OTT lift but i felt it cleaned the plume up so to speak, these mines (as with all things) have their place in particularly pyromusical choreography where clean punctuation is required.

Yes shame about the lack of larger calibre items.

Did you see me there mixo?

good old homeland waltz i tend to use one in most shows, looks like ill steer clear of the 2" brocade cake, and we have most of the other stuff well, and vortex volley fire top cake, shame they didnt have any of their other double dragons on show either.

[Andy_P]

Will post more later (it's Mother's day!), but regarding the mines, I thought the 3" were excellent, but the more powerful 4" ones were more "ragged" in shape and spread, and the lift percussion detracted from the effects a bit.

[Mixologist]

[QUOTE=Masterchief;210458]

Did you see me there mixo?

To be honest i dont know who i was looking for lol!!! I had an England Rugby top on...!

The mines would be ok for pyromusicals agreed. However when you look at the Kimbolton mines in comparison they are alot more.... pretty for want of a better word.

Did anyone else think some of thier items were very very smokey? Or the trees just trapped the smoke? Some of the Cat 3 stuff seemed smokey to us.

[Masterchief]

I was opposite you on the next table in the back right hand corner, wearing white shirt and had a blue lanyard. Next to the guy with the blue hoody

I agree with you on the mines, it was the crispness and form that appealed to me, all personal preference of course