I am wondering if any of you have managed to incorporate baloon sculpture with your mentalism routines? I have a routine where I hide three different coloured balloons, sculpted into three different species of animal in different parts of the room. My blindfolded assistant enteres and can find not only where the baloons are, but can correctly reveal the animal and the colour.
I am sure you have guessed the method by now - but have any of you combined balloons with mentalism?

Yes

Riggs has a great idea in one of his Gods with Feet of Clay

Greg

Sebastian Black has a humorous take on a chair prediction in his chair loons effect.

I have incorporated balloon modelling and a headache. I tried it once and nearly burst all the blood vessels in my head!

I have used regular balloons for mentalism. I ask children, it is a childrens show, if they can hear the difference between hot and cold. Most say no but I ask them to listen out to the hot tap running. As the water heats up the sound of the running tap changes. I don't demonstrate, I havent got a tap! but a teacher or adult confirms. Then I claim I can hear the different between colours. Does the teacher know how I do it? Of course not! She doesn't know magic like me.

Five different coloured balloons are on stage, blown up. I am blindfolded and a child volunteer bursts balloons one by one with a pin. Listening hard I reveal which colour made the noise.

It is not amazing mentalism and you all know the method. But it is a nice routine for kids who like bursting balloons. And it is a 'bit' educational when discussing sounds.

Sebastian black chairloons is a winner, and I believe that aldo colombini got a mental effect using balloon twister

But where do you get a 5 co******nt bag? Or do you use somethig else? Please share cause this effect woul be really funny to perform.

Thanks
Ezzet

Yes I did change the c****m part

So, air heads are in?

Bob

Kennedy did a very nice routine with a balloon dog in his one man show when I saw it last July.

I pm you hope you like it mate

I mean, I hope....

Great idea mindgames. Thanks alot.

Ezzet

Michael Fraughton also has a routine called Balloon Hounds from Hell, I think, in his great book, THE DARK WALTZ.

Yeah - the riggs one is great, I especially liked it when he almost dares you to draw genitalia on it...

I used to combine both for kid shows, with help from a routine that Trevor Lewis put out. I think it was called “Twisty”… or something like that. It involved jumbo playing cards with various balloon animals displayed and could be played as a sort of prediction or telepathy thing. Of much more importance was all the bits of business you could inject along the way with just one measly 260 balloon. It was a fun routine.

And like Docc Hilford said, you could do twenty minutes with one of those things, IF you wanted to.

Steve

Yup, It is pretty *** freaky.....

In My Routine I presente jumbo cards of different REAL wild animals,and have a Cage with a Silk covering them,Show a tiger,elephant etc in the cards,the card that the person chooses perfectly match with the animal in the cage,i f**ce one card that have a balloon tiger,and exactly in the cage is the balloon tiger,i hope help you,
Thanks,
Hansel!