Wouf....quel spectacle avons-nous eu droit ce soir! Tout simplement à nous en couper le souffle! Il y a eu de l'action du début à la fin, des sons/bruits de toutes sortes (oui, le spectacle était TRÈS auditif), grincements, pétillements, claquements....j'en avais plein les oreilles! Finalement on nous a fait entendre les nombreuses détonations des "salutes" pendant la finale qui était GRANDIOSE....mais comme c'est toujours le cas depuis un certain nombre d'années, une finale trop courte!

Bravo au Québec/Canada, je suis très fier ce soir, de notre savoir-faire en matière de pyrotechnie!

Voici maintenant mes préférences, en vous assurant de mon objectivité totale:

1. Canada/Québec
2. Argentine
3. Espagne
4. Australie
5. Chine
6. Angleterre

Bonne semaine à tous.

Pierre

Ooops, Pierre, you posted the same topic as I did, only 4 minutes after me. Ah well.

CANADA is #1!
2.ARGENTINA
3.SPAIN
4.AUSTRALIA
5.CHINA
6.ENGLAND

Pat

Hi Pat.....sorry about that....when I checked, there wasn't any thread for the Canada review, so I created one...and by the time I wrote my comments, you had already created yours.....LOL

Paul will fix that I am sure.....

By the way, your ranking is similar to mine, my friend. Wow, Royal Pyrotechnie has really spoiled us this evening!

As you said.......thumbs WAY UP, Québec/Canada!!!

Good night!

Pierre

Paul, delete the other, I'm C&P what I wrote:

Wow. I just came back from one of the most intense finales I've ever seen from Canada. For that matter, out of all countries this year. This is defenatley a Jupiter winner. Flying by James Newton Howard was better presented by Royale than Garden City Display. Much better with the ground salutes thumping with the drums. The finale was intense with the salutes, which was the largest barrage of salutes I've ever seen in my life. Even more amounts than Panzera in 2004. And some big-ass 12" shells (excuse my language) in the beginning. Awesome stutata's. Some noticed debris flew around Notre-Dame street. Some craft paper from the shells flew next to me and some tarp from the covering of the mortars flying around as well. I kept a piece of craft paper as a souvenir Well the finale video is being uploaded I will post the link in a re-edit of this post. I cheered wildly. I'm glad I didn't go on the bridge. Plus my dog went with me and my dad.

Way to go Royale! Thumbs wayyyyyyyy up!

Pat

Hope U.S.A doesn't win!

Here is the link to the finale video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqtTOQQL-hk

Because of my cousins, I had planned to watch this display from Notre Dame street. Well, of course, when we go there by car and leave after 9pm, we never make it. Streets closed and traffic everywhere, always! Watch the fireworks? Yes, yes, great idea! Leave home before 9pm? You get no response!

So, as usual, I had to watch it from Old Port with a crappy view. But based on what I saw, this seemed to be a great show! And the finale was probably the best one of this year. Of course, I had to miss it! Arugh!

My rankings so far remains the same - rated from La Ronde:
(Canada is not included in the list)


1. England
2. China
3. Spain
4. Australia
5. Argentina

Until next time!

Enkil, I had posted a video so everyone can get a glimpse of what I saw, not to mention the other few hundred thousand people behind me. Trav, I don't wanna start withany competition. I don't know where your viewing point was, but from where I was, debris really came down on us. I remember last year, at Portugal's display, there was a man behind me who reminded me of you. Because he talked about types of shells and stuff. So I turned and asked, are you Travis? He was like....Ah well, I had a feeling it was you because he was with someone as well. And he also talked about the thunderstorm that happened earlier during the day before Portugal's display.What are the odds of finding one person out of hundreds of thousands of people catching a view of Portugal's display.

Hope you all enjoy the video.

Pat

Great show from Royal! Perfect weather conditions with just enough wind away from the audience for a change. Very big display and great use made of the whole firing site with a every possible angle and position being used during the show. Video will be available around 2:10 EDT for those who were not fortunate enough to be part of the full-house audience.

Full report (will be hard to write as the show was seamless from start to finish - and what a finish!) will come in the next couple of days.

Paul.

I was actually amazed in how well the weather followed my forecast tonight. Easterly winds, on average, dominated the evening, though we had a slight ENE tilt by 10 p.m., which is why I said for those watching on the bridge, the closer you are to the park is the better. Partly cloudy skies with temperatures remaining at 22 C and humidity levels high. Winds also picked up by early evening just as I thought they would, and clearly, due to direction, smoke was not a problem for those at La Ronde, but a concern for viewers on Notre-Dame. Luckily, however, with the winds picking up, it still made for adequate viewing, though we had to contend with smoke and debris flying towards us! And now, as expected, heavy rains are currently falling in parts of the island, which started happening just around 1 a.m in the West Island and elsewhere across the island.

What a display this was, and what a thundering close was given off after such a powerful 30 minutes. After I left Notre-Dame, my cousin and I said "THAT WAS NUMBER 1, HANDS DOWN!!!!". GO CANADA!!!!!!!!!!! I have a lot to say about the display, but I'll save the comments for later on. lol Glad to see that everyone had such a fantastic evening and loving the fireworks so much at the same time! The display was so active that there barely was ever a moment when nothing much was going on. This was the kind of show that really satisfied everyone, no matter what your taste is! The effects were massive, and the nautical shells were AWESOME (the best, so far!). The towers were also just wonderful in the way they were used. The finale was huge and well set up, especially the way it started with the multitude of bombs at the bottom - I also agree with Enkil that it was the best one this year (it was so loud and powerful!), but it could have been just a little longer with a more dramatic close, but still undoubtedly well done! Because of the wind direction, we had quite a bit of paper and other forns of debris flying around, which brought me back to France 1993. lol

Pat,

Don't worry about that at all, my friend. Feel free to post any video you have! I'll be posting mine shortly - I felt like recording a little more, so my clip is a little longer than usual. Yes, I'm not surprised that we encountered so much debris and smoke thanks to the wind direction being mostly ENE. I had wanted to pick up a piece of debris to keep myself, but I couldn't find any after the show was done. It is fortunate that the winds picked up, or else the fireworks would have eventually been drowned in the smoke! Seems we weren't too far apart on Notre-Dame tonight, Pat!

Pierre,

This was certainly our kind of display, huh? It definitely had the power equivalent to many of the 90s displays that I remember! Aside from vehemence, this display had it all - so much that I don't even know where to start writing. Glad you enjoyed it, my friend! Loads of salutes!

Enkil,

What a coincidence! We were actually at the Old Port tonight until about 9:15 p.m, mainly because my family was driving all over the place to find parking. In the end, we didn't bother, but the way it was going I thought, I, too, would end up watching from the Old Port!! If I had known, I would have gladly asked you to come walk to Notre-Dame with me, but I guess you guys got there too late! This kind of reminds me of 2004. lol I'm glad you liked the finale!

I had a great evening, everyone, and this display was so memorable that it won't leave my head - that's so rare, especially in the way displays have been in the last 5 years! It was also known for its loudness - my ears were ringing at times (I haven't felt that in so many years). Because of the wind direction and speed, the massive 12" shells that exploded felt like they were going to reach us on Notre-Dame! People got intimidated. lol

Other than that, look out for thunderstorms and rain showers continuing to develop tonight and all the way into Sunday evening - some of these storms could become rather powerful, but we'll keep track!

EDIT: Here's the link to my video:

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]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26anuG6_tnQ
[/url]

Trav.

Salut tout le monde

Je m'attendais à beaucoup de Royal et je n'ai pas été décu...Une performance tout à fait EBLOUISSANTE....
Un choix de pièces pyrotechniques variées ,bien disposées sur toutes les rampes de la Ronde..amples..richesse des couleurs , des pièces originalesetc... Royal a utilisé de facon très efficace toutes les possibilités du site de la Ronde . Cà tirait de tous les côtés de tous les angles .....J'ai aussi adoré leurs séquences de poursuites.
La synchronisation était tout simplement parfaite à tous les niveaux.
Tout comme en 2003 , Royal a choisi les musiques de film et un thème qui ne volera pas la vedette de l'originalité. Toutefois une trame sonore de qualité et un bon choix de pièces musicales bien ordonnées dans la mise en scène.
Nous avons eu droit à un feu roulant pendant trente minutes et une finale tout a fait démentielle.
La grande force de ce spectacle c'est une mise en scène très soignée, un rythme soutenu , une gestion habile de l'intensité qui a maintenu l'intérêt des spectateurs pendant 30 minutes . J'ai adoré la qualité des passages entre les moments plus intenses du spectacles et les plus doux.
Il y a aussi des qualités que je recherche dans un feu; originalité, créativité, émotion et enfin surprendre les spectateurs. Tout y était dans cette performance intense de ROYAL PYROTECHNIE.Vous vous en doutez bien....j'étais ravi .
Je ne fais pas de classement car j'ai loupé les feux Chinois et Argentins mais ce que j'ai vu ce soir en compagnie de Francine et de mon Petit Nicolas âgé de 2 ans, c'est une performance majeure qui mérite un JUPITER .

Roger

Paul, I had taken some photos of the display. But I don't know how to post it here. It's pretty complicated. I still dont even know how to enter the link! Can any one help me out with that? It would be greatly appreciated.

Pat

Oh and btw, I made a video for you all of the aftermath last night.

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

Pat: to post a photo just put it in [ img ] http://www.whatever.com/yourphoto.jpg [ /img ]

(take out the spaces next to the square brackets).

Paul.

Hi Paul,

I'm having trouble watching the video of Canada' performance - everytime I try to click on it, it says "Page Not Found". I also tried "Save Target As", but no luck. Can it be fixed?

Thanks,

Trav.

Hey you can fix this by yourself... you just need to edit the link on your adress bar and change it to canada2009 instead of 2099.

Vander

Sorry about that! It was late when I edited and uploaded the changes last night! All fixed now.

Cheers,

Paul.

Hey thanks Paul. You can probably add the photos somewhere here. But here is the link. http://pyromight.wetpaint.com/photos/album/125542/Royale+Pyrotechnie+( Quebec)

There's around 3 photos that I took of the display. The rest was video which is on my YouTube channel.
http://youtube.com/pyromight

Enjoy guys!
Pat