Very nice pictures reloadable. Love the picture number 6 ! I can see the Olympic Stadium and La Ronde perfectly illumianted ! Is it a flash effect or what?

To the admin: I still have the same problem with the download, I can download only 19 minutes... I will try with anoter computer. I guess the problem is mine, not yours. However, could you tell how many Megabites is the video? Is it 194 MB or more?

Thank you.

What a pleasure it is to be back at La Ronde and back posting here in the forum.

I feel that my review for Panzera's display to open the 2009 competition can be brief, not only because I share very similar feelings about the display with Fred, who has already posted a well-informed and detailed review, but because it was an out of competition display that proved to be outside the caliber of what we have come to know as the International des Feux.

The display felt like it was made from a cookie-cutter, or was something out an Ikea box. A readymade that requires minimal effort on the part of the designer. The contest, open to the public, to select which songs they wanted to hear is evidence of this. The musical selections felt largely interchangeable as a result. The francophone section was quite bad while the classical and film score sections were moderately well done. However, for me, the display's greatest flaw was that it had absolutely no thematic direction. It was meant to be a crowd pleaser and I believe Panzera succeeded in this respect. The grandstands were packed; based on Trav's video, De Lormier and Notre Dame seemed very busy. The common viewer who witnessed this display probably went home very happy.

To touch on some of the positives now. The product used was quite impressive. Some of the colours, notably the blue during the "Le Grand Bleu" sequence was spectacular. Also, as Fred mentioned, those Panzera candles never cease to amaze. The finale, for what it is worth, was pretty good too.

But most of all, the thing to be happiest about is that the display, whether enjoyed partially or thoroughly, ought to be the weakest of the 10. Here's to a great next couple of months!

Tyler

Finally found out that the last song from Panzera was the theme from Pirates Of The Carribean. Usually I know Italian firms often use italian music to go along with their finales. Cause italian music always ends powerfully. But I remember from 2006, Italy put Madonna. Panzera in 2003 put Bethoven and in 2004 was music from my mom's country of Ireland. Very nice photos Reloadable Shell. Rovira is right, number 6 caught my eye! Nice photo of the explosions too, you can see the setup on Ramp 1 in some of them.

Pat

Hey guys,

It's so nice to be back into the feel of fireworks competition and to share each others feelings about the different displays. By the way, I must start by congratulating Paul with this new design for the website.....the dark blue background with the yellow writing along with shells exploding makes me feel as if I were on the bridge, watching fireworks, which is just GREAT!!! That is one great improvement to the site, which makes it very close to perfection!

This show by Panzera was simply amazing and is sure a wonderful way to start an international firework competition. They had nothing to gain since they are off competition but still, they displayed an intense show and a provocative finale which made me scream my lungs out (and gladly, my voice could not cover the sound of those numerous salutes exploding during the finale, making this guy very, very, very HAPPY)!

Way to go Panzera and thank you for bringing such delight to all of us!

.....and thanks to all of you in this forum, for sharing your thoughts on the subject!

Pierre