USD 250k’s worth.
Ultra rare. Don’t think you will never see that ever again.
Awesome! They call it a fiasco but I’d rather see something like that than the usual long drawn out display with the 1810 overture playing in the background 
Did they report that over at your place, in Seattle?
At least those exploded, we had one year one that didn’t, they placed it on the beach, but didn’t think about the tide.
I used to work on a few commercial fireworks shows every year. Then, after 9/11 the paperwork and rules got out of hand (all our crew workers were volunteer slave laborers paid with a crappy lunch - they would have all had to have been fingerprinted and passed an FBI background check - at their own expense). We had absolutely the best crew around. Our misfire/dud rate was less than half of anybody else’s.
I always wondered what would happen if they all went off at once… And speaking of San Diego fireworks… I was at a show at a stadium there many years ago. The a-holes shooting it lobbed a rather large shell into the stands.
Then there was the time we were setting up a show and a large lightning storm came through… a dozen (mostly) hairless apes sitting under an EzUp in the middle of an open field with a few tons of sensitive explosives, lightning all around, does not speak well of 5 billion years of evolution. The show wound up being canceled and all the shells went back to the warehouse where some ladies were removing the electric matches from the shells. One person dropped a shell and grabbed the e-match wire. The friction of the e-match being jerked out lit the fuse and the whole warehouse went up… she did survive.
I’ve watched the videos of the 2012 San Diego fireworks several times now. I enjoyed the heck out of it!!
That was weird. I was at 196 posts before this post and now I’m down to 186. Hmmmm.
Hi bro!!
Nice, never knew that we have a pyro maestro here in BLF! 
I like pyros but it’s outright banned here in SG. Luckily my wife is an Indonesian Chinese so i get to go to her hometown in Indonesia (it’s a 4.5hr ride ferry ride). The stuff is all from China (Liuyang) and some from Indonesia, max is some of the smaller 1.3G cakes and we don’t get 2/3/4/8 inchers like what you can get in China (still illegal in the big cities but of course nobody enforces it during Chinese New Year even if the police is right beside you….it’s the new year!).
I have always wanted to do e-matches with the cakes and 1.75” motars, but a 10-ch ignition system costs some usd100 shipped from aliexpress and the worse part is that the igniters are not cheap even when you buy in 1000pcs quantity. And i am sure some of them will break down.
Funny that the e-match would ignite when pulled out….is it the type with pyro content inside or the nichrome wire?
Ok….some stuff for you. Enjoy your Sunday!
PS. I just fractured my right hand ring finger 5 weeks ago due to a compressed plastic container exploding when i was pressurising it. So i think i will stick to the small 1” cakes from now on. Pyros can go wrong any time.
Some nice finales. Go to 1:30 for the “all shells go off at once”.
They probably did but I didn’t hear about it until I watching your video.
Some other nice stuff
I see… little air time about that i guess.
The e-match itself was probably not the problem. It is the quick match that is attached to the shell. Those are flat paper tubes with a fuse and black powder in them. They are designed to be lit by the e-match and burn pretty much instantly. They usually contain some kind of chlorate compounds that are highly sensitive to friction. When the e-match was jerked from the shell’s quick-match it acted like the striker on a strike-any-where kitchen match.
On the first video it looks like a super nova exploded. lol