Great to hear from you again Marc! I bet you are counting down the days until your holiday back here on Samui! Never mind… it will be worth the wait… just think of all those lovely fireworks you are going to shoot! The first beers are on me my friend! 
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Mr.b
Hi Patrik… I hope you are looking forward to helping us out with your mum’s firework shoot! We will make you an ‘official’ temporary member of ‘Blue Team’ (the shooting team that is shooting for you). Get your button pressing finger ready!
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Mr.b
Samui is a great place to get married, as, despite the fact it is so built up compared to only 5 or so years ago, there are still some beautiful, quiet and romantic beaches here. Obviously others feel the same too, as the number of weddings is increasing month by month. This month – apart from the private parties and other shoots – we have 12 weddings booked! I must admit that I think it is great to be a part of someone’s very special day. It is so romantic to see so many people so in love and having a wonderful wedding on a ‘tropical island beach’. I really do feel that it is an honour to be part of such an important event in people’s lives, and it is great to think that we are giving them yet another wonderful memory of their ‘special day’.
The Firework Shop – for Safety – Quality – Service…. For Weddings : Corporate Events : Birthdays : or simply for Fun! -
Mr.b
La-on (‘Laarn’), myself, and the staff of both our firework shops would like to wish everyone – particularly our fellow ‘Pyro-nuts’! – the merriest of Christmases as well as the healthiest and happiest New Year!
Despite our best efforts to limit ourselves to only a handful of shoots this New Year’s Eve, we have ended-up with 8… not being able to turn down those who didn’t realise that they had left booking us way too late!
Putting our foot down at 8 shoots didn’t quite work either, as we are also ‘assisting’ a further 4 shoots (2 more resorts and 2 private parties) by lending them each a wireless remote firing system so that they can shoot their own fireworks (bought from us of course!) safely – and have fun pressing buttons of course! We will be setting the 4 shoots up for the customers, and getting everything ready for them so that all they have to do is switch on the remotes and get ready to start shooting at midnight!Last week ‘Blue Team’ shot a wonderful display for the opening of a resort in Lamai… they made me really proud! (Aaaaw! lol). It was a ‘Big Do’, with some rather important guests – including a good friend of ours, the Chief of Police of Samui – so we were determined to give the owner – Boris – a really special event!
The firework display was to be set to music – Boris’ choice, which – although great for fireworks – consisted of 2 songs, each well over 5 minutes long! The actual display was going to be around 4 mins 30 secs in total, so I had to cut down the music to suit (I use a great free software programme called Audacity). It took quite a few hours of playing around and cutting the music, but I eventually managed to get in down to a total of 4 mins 30 secs. Now all we had to do was choreograph the fireworks!I must admit that I do like choreographing firework shows… it brings out my artistic side lol… !!!
We also made Boris a very special Lancework set-piece, consisting of a damn-near perfect representation of the resort’s logo and name… it looked great!BUT… I am a firm believer that ‘self-praise is no recommendation’, and therefore I am never really relaxed or happy until after the firework display, when we can judge the success of our hard work and efforts by the reactions of both our client and his opening ceremony guests. We may believe we are wonderful at what we do, but if our client isn’t 100% delighted with our efforts, then we have – I believe – failed them.
Fortunately that has never been the case – we have no place for arrogance or self-importance – as we always put the needs of our customers first.
Thankfully, Boris was more than delighted with the choreographed firework display, telling us that his guests all agreed that the show ‘was fantastic’! Ok… NOW I’m happy!
The sequencers performed very well during the show, and showed their worth during a particularly frenetic bit of the music, which would have been difficult (impossible) to keep up with (fireworks-wise) by manually pressing buttons! Great bit of kit those sequencers, and we may well be investing in a few more over the coming months.
I will try and get some video of our New Year’s machinations up on the site, but, untill then, keep smiling, and enjoy the pyromaniacs main night of the year… New Year’s Eve…. YEEEEE-HAAAAA!!!
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Mr.b
Fireworks are dangerous, and there is no room for arrogance and big egos. So… who CAN you trust? Koh Samui’s original pyro-experts… Koh Samui’s true pyro-professionals…
The Firework Shop, that’s who!
No bullshit, no big egos, no arrogance… just the safest, most exciting, and best value fireworks and firework displays on Koh Samui… shot by a trained and experienced professional-minded staff team.
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Mr.b
I’m not really a Christmas person, and it is so weird to see everyone here dressing up with Santa hats, and wearing red and white! Even the staff at Tesco are dressed in Christmas gear! I prefer New Year… to me it has ‘real’ meaning… the start of a new year – rather than all the commercial rubbish that Christmas has turned into. So, the Christmas message from me is… BAH HUMBUG!!! lol lol
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Mr.b
Click on any of the red headings on the right of this page (Under ‘CLICK ON A SUBJECT BELOW’) to find out why The Firework Shop is the island’s leader in professional firework displays for all budgets (from 6,000 baht up to 100,000 baht+) and the supplier of the island’s safest and best value fireworks!
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Mr.b
Well…..! Our teams are all booked-up for New Year’s Eve (and have been for some time). However, we promised to limit ourselves this year to only 6 shoots on New Year’s Eve, simply due to the fact that the logistics of operating more than 6 teams is a *^%$# nightmare! lol We also (quite literally) ‘sell-out’ completely on New Year’s Eve anyway, so limiting our shoots is not a problem… in fact, we would make more money by NOT shooting displays!
BUT… we have to keep our teams busy, and shooting displays is what we do best, and – at the end of the day – is the most awesome fun too! However, New Year’s Eve is still some weeks away, and we have quite a few bookings to keep us busy before then (mainly weddings – which I love, as it is always great to be a part of such a special day in people’s lives). So keep an eye-out for the best firework shows on Samui, with the biggest and most exciting firework displays… as they are sure to be ours! On the other-hand, if you see a display ‘padded-out’ with lots of low-level multi-shot cakes (used in an effort to make the display last longer), then you know it isn’t a display from The Firework Shop!
The Firework Shop… ‘You deserve the most professional, the safest, and the most exciting and dramatic firework display for your special event… no matter what size your budget… so don’t settle for anything less than the most professional, the safest, and the most exciting firework displays from Samui’s professional pyro-experts – The Firework Shop.No souvenirs… No trinkets… No ‘B.S.’… only the best firework displays (and best value fireworks) on Samui!
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loopylou
(“No trinkets, no souvenirs, no B.S.”)Hey, I rekon u is talkin bout the gobby geezer who ses he is the best in thailand and sells antiques and discount fwks in lamai? If it is u is right on.. who wud buy DISCOUNT bombs? He he mad, like firewks can kill u mate no messin. Best in Thailand? BShit, he only sells common Cat3 fwks!! I seen the fireworks for the kings birthday last year in Bankok an they was amazing, and I know it weren’t the discount firewks geezer from lamai he he a first level DH for sure. You got a nice site mate, no bullshit and very pro. You get my vote! From looplou’s Droid
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Mr.b
Just for clarity I thought that I should post a couple of pics of a few of the wireless remote firing systems we use… A ‘certain person’ on Samui brags of having ’22 electronic firing units’.. these being exactly the same kind units that The Firework Shop actually lends to customers who want to shoot their own fireworks… the units being very nice and easy to use ‘hobbyist’ systems for amateurs wanting to shoot their own fireworks. However, they are a far cry from the professional wireless firing systems that are used by The Firework Shop to shoot the professional displays we provide… 2 kinds of our wireless remote control firing systems can be seen in the pics below…
This wireless remote firing system is capable of utilizing 10 'slave' units (four of which are shown), with each 'slave' capable of firing more than 100 fireworks... meaning that this system can fire more than 1,000 fireworks from up to 10 different places, at the same time! (Rather more than '24' eh? lol)
Another example of a wireless remote firing system we sometimes use... with the control desk having the ability to shoot 10 different 'sets' of firing units, each 'set' consisting of 12 cues, and each cue capable of firing up to 5 fireworks (still with me? lol). This means that each of these systems can fire up to 600 fireworks each!
These are the small hand-held wireless systems that we rent to customers wanting to shoot their own fireworks. Each system can fire up to 24 fireworks (as used by the contributer below). They are great little 'hobbyist' systems for amateurs to use, and are therefore easy to operate... as 'Mr.R' (who commented below) will surely know
For info. that might be of interest to other ‘pyro-nuts’ (like myself!) out there in web-land, we also use numerous 10 cue sequencers along-side the wireless remotes… each sequencer being fully-programmable!
Just so you know! lol lol
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John
Nice!
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Mr.b
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Patrik 3:32 am on February 10, 2012 Permalink |
Hey Alan thank you for including me in the firework exploding. If it is possible could my button be a big red one.;) Patrik