Sky Lanterns

[Fitri's]

Anyone ever come across sky lanterns before? Is it ok to release them at festival? I've seen fews at several festivals last summer.

[laid back in the sun]

never heard of them and technically they're banned at glasto

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

Heaps at the Stone Circle

[staggerlee]

Anyone ever come across sky lanterns before? Is it ok to release them at festival? I've seen fews at several festivals last summer.

[laid back in the sun]

how do people smuggle sky lanterns in??

[glasto_mongrel_2008]

how do people smuggle sky lanterns in??

[Tim2006]

I was looking into these the other day on the web - Chinese sky lanterns. Thought I might get some but then had a horrible thought that a gust of wind might catch one and set the place on fire.

Think I'm gonna pass and leave it to the experts!

[laid back in the sun]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/20-x-SKY-LANTERNS-NI...A1%7C240%3A1318

these are fairly reasonably priced.... think you can get them cheaper if you buy in bulk direct from thailand or china tho

[DaveMac]

There is an existing thread about Sky Lanterns : >> Here << which is worth checking out.

They looked absolutely fabulous drifting in the darkness over the Festival site on the Saturday night last year.

[Fitri's]

Always should be wise with Sky lanterns. Never release them on windy conditions. Have to let the lanterns really full of hot air, just like hotair balloon take long time to go up...worth to be patience. Same theory..electrophysic. Try visit Sky Lanterns

They were great fun. But as i say, BE WISE!. Nomads Bazaar do 10 for £29.90 inc. P&P. Pretty good deal compare the other...especially including P&P. I'm sure more you buy you will get cheaper and free colourful pens to write messages on the lanterns. I trust they lanterns, always works and they got good selection on colours. They website still new but they been selling at Wood and Off the track last summer. That how i know about it.....look forward for summer again.

Edited March 6, 2009 by Fitri's

[Sam Crawley]

Fitri are you related to Yoda?

Anyway, yes they're banned, and I won't be taking any, but good luck and thank you to all those who do, as long as the weather is right to launch them. I don't see how these lanterns are any more dangerous than fireworks.

And agreed, DaveMac.. it was a magical sight last year in the warm evenings at dusk watching dozens of lanterns drift overhead.. I really have to say it was one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen..

[TheBoyInTheBubble]

Sky Lanterns - definitely the name of an NME band. They'll play quirky, electro pop and try to be mysterious but will really only be trying to hide the fact that they went to public school and the keyboardist's dad worked at Emap before EMI. And the said keyboardist is actually a piano player - those lessons cost a fortune you know.

[laid back in the sun]

what a surprise hes selling them.... at three times the price of the ones in the link i posted earlier

[paulo999]

Look pretty and can start a tent fire.

[harper11]

you can by them at glato cant you?

there were hundereds at stones ect anway

[Fitri's]

Look pretty and can start a tent fire.

[coolethan]

They were being sold in the greenfields for about seven quid a pop last year. They are really lovely. I bought my sister some for her 21st Birthday and we released one - it floated gracefully up in the air. Then back down again. Then it bounced along my neighbours garden and loped off at a sideways angle towards god knows where. A couple of days after that my friend sent me a news story link about a search mission that the chinese government had undertaked to look for a helicopter that went down off the coast... the helicopter turned out to be a skylantern. Bloody things.

(they do look magic though!)

Undertaked???? don't they teach us kids anything in school.

Edited March 6, 2009 by coolethan

[paulo999]

we need Health & Safety regulations for people that can't think

Edited March 6, 2009 by paulo999

[Sam Crawley]

I still think it's a risk vs benefits thing. Have any fires demonstrably been started by these things? How many injuries are caused every year by guy ropes?! Frankly the most dangerous think at Glasto in my opinion is when f*ckwits chuck metal cans filled with beer or who knows what into the crowds..

As long as we find fireworks acceptable, where one fires up a load of red-hot exploding metal into the sky and it lands in random spots all over the surrounding countryside, I don't think we should have an issue with drifting paper bags with a candle in them, there's a lot less scope for danger.

[paulo999]

As long as we find fireworks acceptable

[halvin]

The first rule of sky lantern safety is to always let them off in the middle of a big crowd, where the heat of the people will stop the lantern taking off properly so they'll skim across the tops of people's heads, safely lighting their hair.

Top-tip learnt from the people who set one off during Manu Chao last year.

[Fitri's]

Have a think as to why random floating candles are different than someone with a box of matches.

[Staberinde]

Light half of it so it just goes high enough to clear the superfence and have your mates wait on the other side to collect them

[Sam Crawley]

Professional displays, or people letting them off randomly?

[Fitri's]

Respect the people... Respect the nature surround us...where we are on earth, we will be fine...don't trust me...DO IT YOURSELF!