The Great Cheap, Safe Fireworks Hunt

misscharlie

Si7 wrote: »

Quick update on Melbicks, as of 1PM today pretty sure they still had stock of the following :

Apricot Blossoms
Thundering Space Spiders
Witches Cauldrons
Alien Wars
Glittering Gemstones
Jumping Jelly Beans
Giant Sun Wheels
Whistling Jet Storms
Golden Cascades
Britannic Celebrations
Krakens
Cyclops Rockets
Titan Rockets (these are bigger than Spartacus & Spartacus blow your eardrums out already )

Plotters Kegs are all gone, as are Hornets Nests, Hatching Sea Dragons, Spartacus Rockets, Sparkling Rainbow Mines & Mammoth Cones.

Barnett Hill had Mammoth Cones, Giant Ground Mines 1,2 & 3 & loads of Spartacus* rockets & Kimbolton Zink Rockets.

*On the Spartacus get the FIVE PACK with the thick sticks, the 12 pack Spartacus are only £7.20 for 12 which initially seems better value than the 5 pack for £4.50 but on testing last night they seemed completely different animals - 12 pack rocket/thin stick - OK, 5 pack rocket/thick stick - ohhh yeah...! lol

Thanks so much for this going to pop down in half hour. I've got a budget of £60, which ones are a must? Cheers x

Tappy

trickyrickxx wrote: »

does anyone know if you can pick up BIG indeviduel rockets near dagenham?

Newsbox is very good, they're about half an hour away but their prices are cheap and they stock big items.

http://www.newsboxfireworks.co.uk/

The Sky Thriller Rocket is very good.

Si7

misscharlie wrote: »

Thanks so much for this going to pop down in half hour. I've got a budget of £60, which ones are a must? Cheers x

The must have fireworks are Glittering Gemstones @ £1.94, I'd get two, & Jumping Jelly Beans, again recommend two. That's £9.40 and your big fountains are all sorted

With the balance I'd say :

2 x Apricot Blossoms - £4.04
1 x Witches Cauldrons £3
1 x Thundering Space Spiders £3
1 x Alien Wars (or Kraken if AW out of stock) £7.50
1 x Giant Sun Wheel -£4.50

Total now £31.44

Then from Lidl

1 x Ipanema
1 x 25 Carat
1 x Firefighter
1 x Cyber Box

Total now £60.44

Maybe splurge on a pack of sparkers too if your feeling heady at the end of all that

misscharlie

Aw thank you. Just in time, off now!

Si7

pinkladymel wrote: »

I'm definitely going to LIDL, hopefully today before they sell out! Their fireworks are excellent and I wouldn't have looked twice without you guys :T

(No problem with LIDL.. Just had a rubbish experience with Sainsburys last year - lesson learnt!)

Still undecided on the Firefighter, I might get it and fire it off just for me :rotfl:

So now you're giving me deadlines on firework photographs as well as tempting me to spend more and more money tut tut!!

I would have spent LOADS more but everything I wanted was out of stock

^^ I've done a bit of this already

Dan's recommendation on the Ipanema, 25 Carat & Firefighter would make a superb addition to you stash, cmonnnnnn, you know it makes sense. :rotfl:

Oh, and... STASH PICS :cool:

trickyrickxx

thanks tappy might go give it a look saturday looked at the website before didnt realise how close it was lol

Dan2310

pinkladymel wrote: »

I'm definitely going to LIDL, hopefully today before they sell out! Their fireworks are excellent and I wouldn't have looked twice without you guys :T

(No problem with LIDL.. Just had a rubbish experience with Sainsburys last year - lesson learnt!)

Still undecided on the Firefighter, I might get it and fire it off just for me :rotfl:

So now you're giving me deadlines on firework photographs as well as tempting me to spend more and more money tut tut!!

I would have spent LOADS more but everything I wanted was out of stock

Haha, you have to get a pic on before bonfire night

Hope you get what you want from Lidl, they do look very good fireworks, Ive had weco in the past when Aldi used to stock them and they were always great then! Just to note though, if you havnt already been make sure that they offer the 2 for £12 offer, when we went they said £13.98 (well was more like 45.98) at first for the 2 cakes so we just mentioned they were on 2 for £12 and they got it sorted

I would just go for Fire Fighter! You mightn't be able to get weco next year if no-ones stocking it so get as much as you can while you can!

Edit- I must say I love your signature and I totally agree, that comes after my firework addiction!

simmy17

Just a quick note i let off the Cocktail of rockets they are avrage at best think 4 of the rockets had a bang only 2 with a decent report the rest were

simmy17

The Best rocket in the cocktail of rockets think you get 2 of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7JU4D6hwM

Dan2310

simmy17 wrote: »

The Best rocket in the cocktail of rockets think you get 2 of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn7JU4D6hwM

Thanks for the info, just saw this over on UKFR.

They don't look too good sadly , those ones that you get two of look ok, if they were all like that the pack could be a lot better!