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twm Regular user of wine. 109 Posts |
I first did 'magic tricks' about 60 years ago, but still consider myself a newbie. Most of my adult life, magic has just been for family and friends. But now I'm retired, I do shows for the grand childrens birthdays (only if they plead with me to do it of course!).
Next one, the (6 year old) birthday boy wants to be my assistant. So current plan is this: Start by telling the audience that I sent my new apprentice to check on my magic trunk, but he and the contents of the trunk have disappeared. Show a trunk to be empty. Cries of 'Let me out' then come from the trunk, and he, and my kit are found inside. Both of us do cut and restored rope. My rope finishes with a knot in the middle. His is fine. Bemused I ask him to hold my rope while I look at his. While I am examining his, he runs his hand down mine and removes the knot (we will rehearse this well, and I'm sure he is up to it). I'm planning to use a 'break-away' wand which remains solid for my assistant, but collapses in my hand. So the general plan is to build him up at my expense. I always end with what I call 'The Magic Sweet Factory'. The effect is always to start with an empty container and end with it full of candy. I do it a different way each time, but it's always the climax - it's a sort of tradition I built up with my own children, and now am repeating for their children. Looking for suitable effects for in between - similar to cut and restored rope, that I can successfuly guide a 6 year old through, or effects that I can do in his hands, and make it look as though he has done the magic. Anyone got any thoughts please? Twm |
HerraTaikuri New user Helsinki, Finland 60 Posts |
Sounds like some great grampa-grand children time to me
The routine above seems already very nice and well thought, but if you want to ad something, you could maybe try egg bag? You show the bag empty and try to produce something from it and of course can't, then your grand children produces something from there |
twm Regular user of wine. 109 Posts |
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On 2011-03-02 15:32, HerraTaikuri wrote: Oh yes! Perfect. The egg will be in place before I hand him the bag, so he doesn't need to learn any more. I don't want to overload him! Perhaps he could pass the empty bag back to me after removing an egg. Gives me a chance to load a second egg and repeat the process. Thanks! |
Mr. Woolery Inner circle Fairbanks, AK 2149 Posts |
Linking rings. The way I did it with my son's birthday, I failed to link the rings, sent him to get the instructions from the table, handed him the double, had him do the link while I tried to find the instructions. With some basic misdirection, you can swap the rings out while you keep getting it wrong and he gets it right. He doesn't even need to know how it is done.
Mismade flag. You keep pulling out the messed up version, he finally gets the right one. Almost any volunteer trick could work this way. -Patrick |
twm Regular user of wine. 109 Posts |
Yep. Thanks. Long time since I've used the linking rings, but I would enjoy that. That should see me through. If my assistant does three tricks successfully, I can pretend to give him some kind of certificate. Then I could tear mine up, and if I think he's up to it, he could restore mine for me. That maight make a fun ending.
I'm starting to excited about this show. Thanks everyone for the help. Twm |
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