Sega Toys helps you create your own fireworks

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Here's something to consider for the next Fourth of July if you're still feeling the recessionary pinch or want to avoid the holiday throngs. Sega Toys' Uchiage Hanabi Fireworks Projector (15,540 yen; $166) brings the pyrotechnics and fiery colors right into your (preferably darkened) living room, complete with sounds but minus the cordite tang.

Powered by four AA batteries good for three hours, the device measures about 7x8x8 inches. I'd take a rain check, though, on customizing my own fireworks by drawing on the special plates, since they'll just come out looking like toxic fallout on the walls.

The Uchiage Hanabi projector comes with five projection lenses plus special plates you can customize.

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[tek-ed]

while the light show that the fireworks give is nice, you just don't have fireworks unless you have that big *BOOM* of the explosions...without that, fireworks are nothing more than fancy flashing lights....

[njjay2008]

I want Gandalf's fireworks!