Looking to celebrate with personal fireworks this holiday season but don’t know what to buy? We asked several local dealers what their personal favorites are to give you an idea what the professionals enjoy setting off:
Name: Jeff Pritchard
Company name: Jems Fireworks
Location: 1618 South 10th St.
Favorite firework: This is America (60 shot reloadable)
Why? “There’s so many of them. They go up and display different patterns in the sky.”
Cost: $135
Other favorites: Colors of America (18 shots), $48; and Enough Said (86 shots), $60.
Name: Matt Bowman
Company name: Indy Discount Fireworks
Location: 738 Westfield Rd.
Favorite firework: Excalibur
Why? “It’s like downtown fireworks, just smaller scale. Guys like it because you can feel the thump (under your feet). Women and kids like it because of the colors.”
Cost: $69.99
Other favorites: Motor Mouth (96 shots), $24.99; Fireworks Fiesta (96 shots), $24.99; and Chicken Blowing Balloons for kids.
Name: Josiah Hawkins, left, and Carl Baird
Company name: Wal-Mart Fireworks Tent
Location: 16865 Clover Rd.
Favorite firework: T6 Artillery (36 breaks)
Why? “TNT has a scale from 0-4 on color, height and noise for their fireworks. T6 Artillery has a four in all categories. It’s really good in comparison to all the other (fireworks).”
Cost: $59.99
Name: Kyle Boonstra
Company name: Logan Street Fireworks
Location: 1008 Logan St.
Favorite firework: Just Stick 500-gram firework (25 shots)
Why? “They’re a really powerful firework. They go very high (and) break really big. Twenty-five shots is more than you would usually get in a firework of that size … It’s very powerful, very beautiful.”
Cost: $49.90
Other favorites: Rage (16 shots), $19.90; and Hat Trick (16 shots), $18.90.
Compiled by Navar Watson
