Daedalus

... you can tell theres not much in there just by looking at them!

At least you have a pretty good idea what you are getting - there is no real windowdressing on these rockets, they are just small. What I really hate are rockets that look 10 times bigger than these and still have nothing in them. Honest(ish) small fireworks.

Maybe commonsense has prevailed.

But I'd keep on signing anyway!

Phil, you have another signature. Frankly I am sick of the draconian and ineffectual laws passed by this government in the name of the war on terror. I don't expect this petition to do any good as they don't seem to give a damn about these petitions, but still more than happy to sign up for it.

Thisis an interesting link to your rights under section 44 - basically you don't have to give your name and address, nor do you have to co-operate with the police. Certainly they do not seem to have the ability to delete, or make you delete, photographs on your camera (which presumably, would be destruction of evidence if they were to try and charge you).

Well I have just bought the following for some fillers:

Sky Jubilee Roman Candle Battery £4.99 - says it fires comets. I had hoped for a replacement for the Benstar Cosmos cake- no such luck it is smaller with about a 10 mm bore and weighs next to nothing.
Purple People Eater Roman Candle Battery £9.99 (or 2 for £16.00) - cheaper than retail price from an all year shop. Reasonable size - I would say about 20mm bore. Should be OK as this is part of the TNT standard range.
Colour Explosion Roman Candle Battery £9.99 (or 2 for £16.00) - about 9" square, estimate about 10mm bore again, probably a reasonable replacement for the Benstar cake.

Time will tell, but Lidl is definately not as good as it was in 2008.

Just had a look in passing. The Sonic Blast cake is about 9" square and 16 shots but you can clearly see the amount of window dressing - looks to have about 14 mm bore tubes at best and spaced out by at least an inch between tubes. At £15 each / 2 for £20 wildly overpriced. The 300 shot Super Missiles were £30 each / 2 for £40 - available individually elsewhere (all year round) £14.

I haven't bought anything from ASDA for quite a few years but this is certainly their most underspeced and overpriced year yet. Rated as top of my 'to avoid' list so far.

Not sure what to make of that £50 selection box, or it's "noise level."

Well it clearly says "tremendous firepower" and "complete aerial display selection" so it must be true, we wouldn't want to see anyone using dodgy advertising would we !!!

I have fires several of the cakes in this pack from a TNT Brown Box (contents of split packs, returns etc. for not very much money) and they are OK for small size fireworks. That said last year I did fire 3 of the 16 shot Party Times and 6 of the 6 shoters all at the same time as a mid-display section for a small friends display - at those prices that was about £60 of fireworks - this pack would be adequate value as a buy 1 get 4 free offer!!! at full price and not event on BOGOF it is mad pricing.

This year the supermarkets all seem to have gone for TNT and a pretty poor selection of their range at that. This looks to be the worst year ever for buying from non-specialist firework shops. Glad I already have all I need for this year, though I may try a couple of the Lidl fireworks just to see how they compare wih last years Benstar cakes (anyone know what the Sky Jubilee and Colour Explosion are like?). No new spec rockets for me this year !