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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts 
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On 2011-08-15 00:17, Dr_J_Ayala wrote: I think you are over thinking or wishing for something special. I believe you just described the "Shrinking Glove" that has been on the market for years. The difference is the clown just added some thinking for a different routine that is more then the instant or quick change. Good thinking on his part. Here is a reference to one version of the trick. http://www.spsmagic.com/products.asp?product_id=t060 You did not mention if the clown was wearing the gloves, but that is normally how the gloves are shown to begin with as the same size. |
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Dr_J_Ayala Inner circle In search of Vlad Dracul and his 2169 Posts
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On 2011-08-15 00:39, wmhegbli wrote: I will say that I do remember it very accurately as to how it was performed because it was that one particular effect that really sparked my interest in magic when I was a child. Not sure why, but it did. You are right in that the clown was wearing the gloves from the start of the show, and up until the time at which that effect was performed. I just never really looked up the routine before, so I was not sure if it was his own or if it was a marketed effect, a spin-off of one, etc. I did however like his premise of washing the glove in a soap box to make it shrink. Very good thinking indeed! Thanks for the information William! |
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts
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Well if this is from your childhood, it may not be the Shrinking Glove, as this has only been on the market since the late 80's or early 90's. It may be something totally different.
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Dr_J_Ayala Inner circle In search of Vlad Dracul and his 2169 Posts
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On 2011-08-15 11:29, wmhegbli wrote: It very well may be the Shrinking Glove - I am not 30 yet. |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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OJ used the shrinking glove during the murder trial too! It worked!
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Magicray69 Veteran user Tampa Bay 369 Posts
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I believe Peter Pitt used it quite often. Great trick. One of my favorite 'sucker' effects.
There was a time I had the blues,
the reason was I had no shoes. Until I met upon the street a man who had no feet. |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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Surprise! After just 32 years, this month I reconnected with the magician who set me up with the version of Soft Soap I have used all these years. It is fantastic for audiences that either can't hear or do not speak your language. (Today that also includes children and old folks! LOL)
Bob Sanders Magic By Sander |
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stempleton Inner circle 1443 Posts
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On 2011-04-07 16:25, magicians wrote: Finally got a version using silks with this box, and just had to laugh..."80 loads per box." Oh wait...it's "32 loads." Hope the proofreader didn't double as the chemist for this detergent  |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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This is still one of my favorite routines that has no language barriers if you can act at all.
I combine it with What's New to leave me clean. Bob PS --- I make my boxes from colored posterboard. |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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Old classics are so versatile until the routines never seem to end. Currently I am retooling one of these old Soft Soap (I call mine Spot Out.)routines in white to use teeth (drawn on the silks) to clean dirty teeth like new for the 16 dental theme shows I have in February for Dental Health Month.
Valentines, also in February, will be themed around mending broken hearts. Of course in October everything is themed around Halloween with Orange, Black and Gold. How do the rest of you use color changes and artwork to fit seasonal themes with Soft Soap? It may take some planning ahead, but it is worth it. |
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Higgenbottom New user 84 Posts
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Stempleton: There's only 32 loads per box if you want your clothes "Amazing clean in only one wash" but 80 loads if you don't care whether they get amazingly clean in just one wash!
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mtpascoe Inner circle 1932 Posts
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On 2007-04-03 23:22, Robert Kohler wrote: With home printers, you can buy thin cardboard and run it through your machine and print it. I don't know the sizes so it might not work. A printer might print out a large size with a few boxes on one large sheet. Buying in bulk might keep the price down, but check out their prices to see if it will be possible to do it this way. |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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I get two boxes for each piece of posterboard. The printed parts are glued to the boxes.
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ummer21 New user 51 Posts
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Soft Soap, popcorn box. Etc. It's an easy gimmick..same as paper bag trick in Mark Wilson's Encyclopedia.
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jimgerrish Inner circle East Orange, NJ 3209 Posts
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The advantage of using real detergent boxes from the Dollar Store is that when you open them in front of the audience, they actually contain detergent powder which you pour out into a wastebasket because "you prefer to wash your clothes by magic." If you line the small wastebasket with a plastic bag, the soap powder doesn't go to waste. Take it home for your laundry.
Anyway, Spellbinder has several versions of this in his Dollar Store Magic Book 2 on Silk Dying, but I also have an impromptu version included in my Kid Show Magic "Happy Clappy Whacky Wizard Washing Machine" e-Book. I describe a camping trip in which the Wiz Kids lost some of their performing props in a rainstorm (more like a flood) and were still able to perform using this impromptu version and some detergent boxes from the Dollar Store. The method is described in the e-Book. However, the point I want to make is not about the boxes but in using a perfectly good washing routine on silk handkerchiefs. To me, the trick only makes sense if you can take a kid from the audience and wash his socks, t-shirt and the underpants from a Professor Cheer's rope trick and have them shrink, develop holes, and so on. There's not much fun in dying silk handkerchiefs, but when you do it with actual clothing, it is extremely funny, especially to an audience of kids.
Jim Gerrish
magicnook@yahoo.com https://www.magicnook.com Home of The Wizards' Journals: https://magicnook.com/wizardsTOC.htm |
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Stephon Johnson Special user Razorback Country 544 Posts
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This is a fantastic effect. I constructed my version of it from an effect called "Magic Dye" from a Henry Hay book (I believe). It changed three white silks into three colored silks, and gave excellent instructions for making your own gimmicked silk and box. It really is exceptionally easy to make your own boxes.
I have often debated in my mind as to whether it is better with a gimmicked silk, or if it is more deceptive using a tube with a thumb loop to remove the load behind the transformed silks. The latter certainly make it easier to show each transformed silk openly without risk of exposing the gimmick. If there are any Gospel performers out there, write me. I have an excellent routine with this for presenting the Gospel of Christ. Blessings! Stephon
WHAT IF you wake up tomorrow with ONLY the things that you THANK GOD for today?
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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Stephon,
I hope Lucy and I get to see you at the Cavalcade of Magic at the end of March. Bob |
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Bill Hegbli Eternal Order Fort Wayne, Indiana 22797 Posts
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On 2013-01-20 21:18, ummer21 wrote: Really? Are you sure? |
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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Not the same method as the popcorn box AT ALL!
The box is NOT GIMMICKED! |
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Stephon Johnson Special user Razorback Country 544 Posts
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Bob,
It would be fun to attend, but I do not have that weekend off. Has it been a year already since Cavalcade? Wow! I hope it is a smash success!
WHAT IF you wake up tomorrow with ONLY the things that you THANK GOD for today?
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