Riakeo Vengeance – 116 Shot Garden Firework Battery (HF-116-2213H)

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Riakeo Vengeance (HF-116-2213H) – Graham’s Honest Review

Right, sit down for this one – literally, because at ninety-five seconds you’ll want a chair. One hundred and sixteen shots and ten distinct effects, which I had to write down to keep track of properly.

You get red tails into red/blue dahlia with white strobe, green tails into purple/green with golden strobe, more red into white plum, golden tails into ti-gold coconut with strobe and red plum, lemon dahlia with golden chrysanthemum, crackling willow with red strobe, a big brocade crown sequence in four colours, and finally silver spinner tails into red/blue dahlia with silver chrysanthemum to finish. I won’t pretend I remember which order they all come in by heart, but they’re all there, and they’re all good.

For the record

• 116 shots, 30mm tubes
• 95 seconds – the longest in the range
• Ten different effect types across red, blue, green, purple, lemon, gold, silver
• F2, 1.3G, 1.8kg NEC

This is the one for Bonfire Night if you want the neighbours talking about it well into December. It’s a lot of firework for the money.

25 metres minimum, and bring a chair if your knees are anything like mine.