With Toy Story 3 being so popular with the young kids, has anyone come up with a trick or two that would work off of Toy Story 3? It seems most kids like Woody and Buzz the most. I have thought of a few ideas for a cowboy theme, but not so much for the space hero theme.

That's a fine line your walking using any Disney Pixar copyrighted characters . I'm sure others here more knowledgeable than myself with chime in.

Look for coloring books with the characters. By purchasing them, you have purchased the license that goes with them for your own personal use of the materials. Now you can make personal use of them by incorporating them into your own personal magic, but you cannot sell them. Some uses: The Coloring Book trick itself, made from the purchased coloring books; Qua-Fiki's Magic Storybook, with pages cut from the purchased books to tell your own original story; decorations for props, such as a Hippity Hop Buzz Lightyear and Woody, again using images cut out from the books you bought and paid for. You can also make magic effects with the action figures available in toy shops, using them for Passe-Passe , Topsy-Turvey, find the hidden toy, and productions from tip-over toy boxes, and so on.

I've actually done something similar to this with other themes and using powerpoints instead of magic. If you do not want to take any risks, just be generic such as using a cowboy or space theme and sloting small references in between. You don't have to be overt for people to understand it as I found. With kids, they will probably be even faster to catch on.

Thanks Spellbinder and Kabanning for your ideas. My first idea was to use pictures out of coloring books and putting them on the hippity hop rabbits. Thanks for the additional ideas Spellbinder.

As far as Disney going after me, I doubt it since I have been only doing family functions so far.