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KeirRoyale Special user Denver, CO 550 Posts |
I am using the Silly Wands and one of my favorite routines is where you hand the wand to the kid and after telling him that it is important for him to have the "small" wand and to absolutely positively not pull on the wand to expand it when your back is turned the kid pulls on the wand and expands it.
The thing is I cannot get the kid(s) to pull on the wand and expand it! I start by putting the wand in the kids hand (and pulling on it when I walk away to show them that it expands) I set if up so that I am very sarcastic about telling them that they should NOT have the "big" wand. I always do the routine that I am using the wands in after Capehart's Misers Dream (thus setting a pattern of the kids already knowing that the sarcasm means that they should do the opposite of what I am telling them to do) I have even tried whispering into the kids ear that he should pull it apart. Any advice???
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MikeHMagic Inner circle 1007 Posts |
Perhaps you could tell the volunteer, repeatedly, "Don't you pull that all the way open" then tell the audience, " And don't you tell himher to pull it open, don't....just don't"
Mike "Gus" Harvatt
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jimhlou Inner circle 3698 Posts |
I just bought one of these. I think it may be a real laugh getter.
Now that I've read your post, I'm going to pick an early arriving child at my show this Saturday and prep him before the show. This may be considered using a "stooge", but we'll see how it works out. Jim |
Gordyboy Loyal user British Columbia, Canada 216 Posts |
Maybe before the show look around and see if there's someone there that can get the child's attention when they have the wand and motion them to stretch it?
My son and I do a show together, and there are parts where I'm doing things and he's encouraging the kids to "misbehave" when I'm not looking. That way the jokes on me and the kids think they're in on it with my son making me look foolish. When I look at my son he's always doing his best to look innocent, but when I'm not looking at him he's motioning the kids to do what they think I don't want them to do. |
BIGmagiclV Veteran user 375 Posts |
After they "break" my break away wand, I hand them the expandable wand, telling them we need to go to plan B. I tell them this is an indestructible wand and no kid on earth can break it. I then turn my back and of course, they start to bend or pull. Sometimes I put it in their hand and while holding their hand and wand at the same time, I pull the other end and expand it myself. works out either way.
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KeirRoyale Special user Denver, CO 550 Posts |
Great ideas so far everyone, BIGmagicIV I like your suggestion a lot, I will have to give it a try...
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magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
I love that wand. It's so versatile. I've a couple of cracking gags for it.
If you want to do the joke you're talking about (I don't do that one, I tend not to encourage the children to misbehave, they'll do that without my prompting..) I think volunteer selection will be important. A rowdy 8 year old boy will do it but a polite 5 year old girl won't. G |
MoonRazor Special user 843 Posts |
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I have the same problem, maybe set it up before the show. It is clear that is what silly billy does on his dvd. |
rookrulz New user 91 Posts |
My advice, don't do it that way. Kids have been told for years to listen to adults and do what they say. When you give him a command then he has seconds to decide if he wishes to obey the adult (like he has been told) or disobey and have fun. You are seeing children who do not want disobey. You have to have the perfect kind of character to get them to do it without the guilt and it sounds like your "character" is not like that. You have to build up that persona throughout the whole show THEN do gags like that.
That trick comes with about 100 other uses for the wand, I would just pick a different use. Louis Meyer |
KeirRoyale Special user Denver, CO 550 Posts |
BIGmagicIV - I took your advice today and it worked like a charm. I told the volunteer that there is no way they could break, bend or reshape the wand once I snapped my finger and that was all it took.
Both David Kaye and Chris Capeharte promote routines where the magician sarcastically tells the kids not to do something and they in turn know that they are supposed to do the opposite but for some reason I could not get it to work with the Silly Wands. Thanks to everyone for their input though...
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Bagatelli New user Germany 73 Posts |
I didn't have problems with this situation.
I give one of the wands to the child, telling that this wand is able to get stretched in length. "But only, if you are strong enough, I am strong enough" Don't look to the child, but you will hear the stretch-sound and can get further as you want. |
BIGmagiclV Veteran user 375 Posts |
Thanks for saying I'm better than David Kaye and Chris Capehart! I'm glad it worked out for you.I tried the Kaye/Capehart ways too and although a lot of their stuff really works, that particular thing never did for me.
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jimhlou Inner circle 3698 Posts |
Well, I picked out an 8 year old girl before the show, REHEARSED the bit with her, and then during the show, guess what? No stretch! She finally stretched it later in the routine after prompting from my assistant. So I'm rethinking this part of the routine. However, the kids howeled with laughter when the wand got stuck on my thumb and I couldn't pull it off.
Jim |
KeirRoyale Special user Denver, CO 550 Posts |
Yeah Jim, the wands are great! I love them even more now that I know how to get the kids to stretch them even when you tell them not to.
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LMLipman Elite user Falls Church, Va. 443 Posts |
I do it pretty much the way Silly Billy does in his routine. I give the child the wand and pull it as I turn away. Then I tell the kid to stretch it so he/she knows how it can be stretched.
Then I reach for a SECOND wand and give the small unstretched wand to the child and take his, which is now somewhat stretched. I stretch the wand and then start gesturing to the kids in the audience and frantically say "Don't tell him/her to stretch it." The more frantic I am, the more the kids scream to the kid to stretch it. I find that it works about 80 percent of the time. There are just some kids who are too stage struck or whatever to do it, but keep working at it in your shows and you'll hit the right tone. I had trouble with it at first, but now it works almost all the time. Then, of course, after the kid stretches the wand once I take it away and hand him/her a compressed wand and frantically tell the audience again not to tell the kid to stretch it. By the time we've stretched the wands three times, the kids are in a frenzy. And my helper (usually the birthday child) has gotten one over on me. Larry Lipman Lorenzo the Great! |
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