Originally Posted By WDWtechie During Illuminations: Reflections of Earth at the part where the globe opens up and the torch rises up and fireworks shoot out the top of it was where the pyro misfired. The first launch from the torch went off fine, but then the second launch two of the fireworks misfired one went out to the left and one went straight down instead of straight up. We have dertermined that the casue of the misfired pyro was do to light rain early that day that got into the barrels of the second round of pyro and soaked right through the side and bottom of the barrels thus leaving the side and bottom week to vulnerable to the high temperature of the launched pyro which made them not go up but go out and down. We now are going to replace all launching barrels with a stronger barrel type. Right now all of the pyro barges have a mix of pvc pipe. wood barrels and plastic barrels. There has never been a problem before with these barrels. The ones in the torch were the first ones to have a problem since the show started. All barrels are now going to be pvc pipe. This happened on Tues Jan 17 peformence not to many people noticed it though but i had a few come up to me that were the last ones to get out of the wrold showcase area who while waiting to leave started to watch us move the barges and globe off the lagoon and check all the barrels for any fireworks that did not fire during the show. I was on a boat checking the perimeter barrels around the lagoon. I was close enough for them to talk to me. They said to me, "where those fireworks coming out of the top of the torch supposed to shoot out and down?". I said no it was a technical glitch. And they said ohh. So if there was anyone there that night and say them misfire that is what happened. We replaced only the barrels in the torch for tonights show but all of the barrels will be replaced with pvc pipe for tommorows show.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Well, it's good to know that they are constantly upgrading the saftey things that we can't really see. It just goes to show that what we don't see is what makes the things we do see so amazing.
Originally Posted By Indigo Thanks for the report. Rumor has it that some changes (improved lighting effects) are coming now that there is a sponsor on board? Can you verify that info? Some say the changes have already been made.
