On July 20th 2011, Dr. George Zambelli Jr., Patrick Brault & Kelly Guille put up their months of hard work of display designing in the Montreal sky. This display was expected to be a very large expecting display, with the high extensive use of the larger caliber ramps (varying from 8-12 inch shells).
For afficianados of technical information, the show will be fired using 98 32-cue FireOne firing modules and, being a mainly shell-based show, will feature the largest selection of large shells used in this years competition. Manufacturers include Vulcan, Sunny, PyroEast, Dancing, Lidu and Orillia from China; Pyrofastasia, Zaragonzana and Vincente Caballer from Spain; Grupo Luso from Portugal as well as Zambelli, GPS and Dakota from the United States and finally Matsuna from Japan. With over 152 large caliber shells, it's sure to be an exciting show with some special effects such as "ghost shells".
cited from Montreal-Fireworks.com
What caught my eye, along with the many others surrounding the display, was that most of the segments of this display were mainly composed of repetitive use of medium and high caliber shells. The smaller effects were used frequently, but Zambelli, being a fireworks distributor and doing mostly aerial fireworks displays and not always low ground effects, did not use enough. The theme "The Wizard Of Oz" and the selection of music was quite original. Songs sung by Judy Garland and certain themed soundtracks from the original 1939 motion picture gave it a very nice atmosphere between many different colors and shapes of shells (seeing as how, yellow cubed shaped shells signified the Yellow Brick Road, also the use of sprial shells to signify the brainless scarecrow, hear shaped shells to signify the heartless tin man and kaleidoscope shells to signify the Wizard Of Oz. The use of large shells put me in complete awe due to concerns of what they must have prepared for a finale. Throughout the display, many uses of barrages of titanium salutes were used which got major approval from the roaring crowds.
The finale, was, let's say, typical (as was the display). It wasn't really the large signature Zambelli finale I recall seeing before. Zambelli has outdone certain displays. Rigatta Thunder, Thunder Over Louisville, even the 4th of July displays that certain employees of the Zambelli company had bigger finales than this. This ending was quite dissapointing. That said, I do give credit to the team for their second return to the competition (their last entry being in 1985). It wasn't the best finale of the competition this year (I still think Italy destroyed almost every finale attempt in this years competition), and I'm sure they could have prepared with something more significant. It was the actual first display I saw this year (besides watching the previous displays online). With all due respect for Zambelli and it's very hard working team, this display wasn't the best, and unfortunately doesn't stand a chance in the top 3 of my vote.
For afficianados of technical information, the show will be fired using 98 32-cue FireOne firing modules and, being a mainly shell-based show, will feature the largest selection of large shells used in this years competition. Manufacturers include Vulcan, Sunny, PyroEast, Dancing, Lidu and Orillia from China; Pyrofastasia, Zaragonzana and Vincente Caballer from Spain; Grupo Luso from Portugal as well as Zambelli, GPS and Dakota from the United States and finally Matsuna from Japan. With over 152 large caliber shells, it's sure to be an exciting show with some special effects such as "ghost shells".
cited from Montreal-Fireworks.com
What caught my eye, along with the many others surrounding the display, was that most of the segments of this display were mainly composed of repetitive use of medium and high caliber shells. The smaller effects were used frequently, but Zambelli, being a fireworks distributor and doing mostly aerial fireworks displays and not always low ground effects, did not use enough. The theme "The Wizard Of Oz" and the selection of music was quite original. Songs sung by Judy Garland and certain themed soundtracks from the original 1939 motion picture gave it a very nice atmosphere between many different colors and shapes of shells (seeing as how, yellow cubed shaped shells signified the Yellow Brick Road, also the use of sprial shells to signify the brainless scarecrow, hear shaped shells to signify the heartless tin man and kaleidoscope shells to signify the Wizard Of Oz. The use of large shells put me in complete awe due to concerns of what they must have prepared for a finale. Throughout the display, many uses of barrages of titanium salutes were used which got major approval from the roaring crowds.
The finale, was, let's say, typical (as was the display). It wasn't really the large signature Zambelli finale I recall seeing before. Zambelli has outdone certain displays. Rigatta Thunder, Thunder Over Louisville, even the 4th of July displays that certain employees of the Zambelli company had bigger finales than this. This ending was quite dissapointing. That said, I do give credit to the team for their second return to the competition (their last entry being in 1985). It wasn't the best finale of the competition this year (I still think Italy destroyed almost every finale attempt in this years competition), and I'm sure they could have prepared with something more significant. It was the actual first display I saw this year (besides watching the previous displays online). With all due respect for Zambelli and it's very hard working team, this display wasn't the best, and unfortunately doesn't stand a chance in the top 3 of my vote.
