This section covers items from the Black Cat range of fireworks. Please also see the Dual section for items which come under the joint Black Cat and Standard label.

Here is a quick link index to reports on this page:
Fountain Pack [Splendid Flower, National Pride, Rainbow Fountain] - Mine Pack [Mine Of Meteorites, Multi Colour Mine, Mine Of Serpents] - Sky Sentinel - Glittering Spinners - Thunder Pack [Whistling Airbombs, Ruby Thunder] - Temple Of Zeus - Temple Of Apollo - Fire Nymph - Sky Nymph

In addition, the following items from this range are currently reviewed singly in our main review index: Krakatoa, Ring Shell rocket, 24 Shot Purple Fish, Ruby Thunder, Green Bamboo, Pyramid Pack (Jewel Of The Nile, Pharaoh's Gold & Silver Pyramid), National Pride, Mine Of Serpents, Return Of Hale Bopp and Skyline Spectacular (plus some older items)


FOUNTAIN PACK

£4.99 each
£29.94
This pack comprises of National Pride, Rainbow Fountain and Splendid Flowers which retail as individual items. These are multi-effect fountains rather than cones and note that they are classed as category three fountains. The video for this shows three sets of fountains but note from the set up shots that there were two fountains in each position. These appear to be 2 x National Pride, 2 x Splendid Flowers and 1 x National Pride + 1 x Splendid Flowers, so possibly there was no Rainbow Fountain fired here.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [2.4Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [6.3Mb]

MINE PACK

£5.49 each
£32.94
This pack comprises of Mine Of Meteorites, Multi Colour Mine and Mine Of Serpents which retail as individual items. The video for this shows three sets of mines but note from the set up shots that there were two mines in each position. The set up shots are not clear as to what effects are in each position.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [744Kb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [2.1Mb]

SKY SENTINEL ROCKETS

£10 per pack of two
£35 (assuming seven fired)
The set up shot shows different labelling to the BC catalogue. The catalogue shows a pack labelled as "Silver Willow" and "Whistling Fish" and you can see these effects in the video along with the gold effect which is shown in the set up shot. I would say there were seven rockets in the video (possibly eight) giving a total cost of £35 or £40 to recreate the exact same effect. Note that the gold effect was stunning but did not translate well to video or the stills.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [650Kb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [2.2Mb]

GLITTERING SPINNERS

£6.99 each
£27.96
This is a 24 shot cake. The long exposure shots show three cakes in action but the number of shots in the video clip would indicate there were four cakes fired from left to right (so the pictures capture the beginning and end of the barrage where three cakes were active at the same time). Although there were four cakes fired, as the effects are the same you can follow them in sequence from left to right and get a very good idea of how a single cake would perform from the video clip.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [2.3Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [5.8Mb]

THUNDER PACK

£13.99 per pack of two
£41.97
This pack comprises of two 24 shot cakes, Whistling Redbombs and Ruby Thunder. The Black Cat catalogue states these come (to the trade) packed as 6x2 for an RRP of £13.99 each pack which implies you get one of each for a total of £13.99, but to complicate matters we have found and fired a single one (Ruby Thunder) from a retailer one which is reviewed in the cakes section (so retailers may split these). The set up shot shows one of each together, so it looks like these were paired up and fired together in three positions (six cakes). It is virtually impossible from the video to determine individual effects but check out the Ruby Thunder review, subtract those effects and you are left with Whistling Redbombs :-) If you want to replicate the video clip here, you'd need three packs, costing an RRP of £41.97, so you could compare the combined effect to a SIB for example.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [2.1Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [5.1Mb]

TEMPLE OF ZEUS

£14.99
£44.97
This is a 36 shot cake. The video clip gives a great indication of the effects of this one but the actual number of cakes being fired is a hard call. Two cakes would be 72 shots and there are easily more than this in the clip but the pace at times is so rapid it is hard to make out 108 shots (the next multiple). Overall I would guess that unless some of the shots have a dual effect, then there are three cakes in action here and although the first long exposure shot shows two cakes, if you look at the left hand trails it would show that a cake underneath it had just finished, supporting the fact there were three.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [1.8Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [5.3Mb]

TEMPLE OF APOLLO

£14.99
£44.97
This is a 36 shot cake (same size and price as Temple Of Zeus). Three cakes are fired here, but with some time between them, so as the clip goes along you can get a good idea how the effects change in each individual unit.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [2.1Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [6Mb]

FIRE NYMPH

£10.99
£43.96
These are big bore 19 shot cakes and were paired up and fired from two positions, so a total of four cakes are being fired in the video clip. The two pairs are quite well spaced so you can get a good idea of how, for example, two of these would look fired together or a general impression of the effects Fire Nymph contains. To replicate the exact barrage shown here though, you would need four units costing £43.96 RRP.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [1.5Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [3.8Mb]

SKY NYMPH

£10.99
£43.96
This is another 19 shot cake (same size and price as Fire Nymph) and again these are fired in two pairs to give a total of four units. The effects are completely different than Fire Nymph so I recommend you download clips of both of these 19 shot cakes before buying them.

Windows Media Clip: Right Click here and save [1.3Mb]
AVI (DivX) Clip: Right Click here and save [3.4Mb]


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