I was emailing back and forth with a friend in magic and he is extrememly busy! His cases were flooded as the theater flooded... Therefore, all of his equipment got ruined... of them is a Norm Nielson "Vanishing Bird Cage"...Does anyone know if Norm is still building these? What would it take to repair the damaged one? Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Bryan

Norm still sells them but it doesn't look like he has any right now. Here's the website: http://www.nnmagic.com/magicitems/stagemagicpage_cage.htm

I would e-mail to see how quickly one can be manufactured, if necessary.

Michael

Bryan,

Usually the theater's insurance will cover the replacement of such items, if the flood was not intentional.

Bob Sanders
Magic By Sander

Hey there Bryan, Thanks for putting the word out. The person in question is a close friend and he is stuck right now.He will have full use of all of my illusions and equipment if needed. Bob its kind of a unique situation and will tell you more when I can....but needless to say a complete show was destoyed. Brian

Posted: Jan 18, 2006 2:01pm
Oh and it looks like Norm will build him another one...just for him. Brian

Brian,
That is great news... about Norm building him another cage... My heart goes out to him. I would be devistated if this happened to me and my show is worth not even a third as much as his!

Bryan

Hey there Bryan, Luckily I lively kinda close to him and he will have full access to my entire show excluding the glove act. If he gets any up comming events he will be covered hopefully...LOL He is in good spirits concidering the drama. Brian

Hey Guys,

Thanks for your support! You'd all be shocked if you knew how the cruise director on the ship basically told me to **** OFF! I was shocked! He didn't want to deal with the insurance. The production manager, the captain, the security... nobody would help. It was quite frustrating!

My props arrive on the 24th... I have the next day to fix them, and then I'm on the road again... hopefully some of it will be salvage-able.

Thanks again for all of your support guys. I'll keep you updated on how it all comes together.

Dave

What props were damaged?