COVID is causing widespread fireworks cancellations, so this is the year to look back at amazing displays.

For your consideration:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6gWYvm8tCW8

This display has a false finale around 8 minutes, a dramatic disaster at minute 19, and the cameras saturate during the finale, because fireworks should always beat cameras in a bare fisted match, even after a catastrophic launch failure.

Also, they have big slow gradient sweeps on a few of the big ball shells, which I hadn’t seen before.

Finally, we have the historic element: Back in the 90’s Columbus pioneered putting a MIDI endpoint in each shell to synchronize the fireworks with the music. I think they also were some of the first to get blue shells and the happy faces.

Surely, HN can do better.