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shaneking New user Sydney, Australia 61 Posts |
What is the best quality three way colouring book for young children on the market?
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MagicB1S Inner circle Knoxville Tenn. 1039 Posts |
I use this one. http://www.costumes4less.com/Fun-Magic-C......map=LA43 I have had the same one for ten or more years and it is still going strong. some people make there own using photos of themself and then have an ungimmicked one to hand out or sell after the show for the children to color themselves.
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
To my way of thinking, the best quality coloring book would not be a book with printed colors made on smooth paper, but a book made from the same crumby paper that kids' coloring books are made of, and that appears to have been actually colored with real wax crayons, preferably by children. See Jim Gerrish's "Coloring Book Revisited" in the Kids Magic Section of my site.
You should not (in my very humble opinion) be looking for a "coffee table quality" book but something real kids can really relate to. At the end of Jim's routine, the colors vanish, the crayons reappear, and the book and crayons are given to the birthday child or some other lucky youngster as a reward for helping.
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dgcuff Regular user Canada 191 Posts |
Mmmyes, Professor, I take your point, and it's a good one. Only notice that the title of this thread is in fact three way coloring book, which is not something that gets focused on in Jim Gerrish's "Coloring Book Revisited."
I formerly ran a site of links to help Canadian magicians, magicinfo.ca, but I retired it in 2022.
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Well, that depends on which three ways you are counting. Jim's book routine begins with black and white line art drawings, like the ones you find in most coloring books with which kids are familiar. That's step 1 (the coloring book begins blank - that's step 1). By the time the coloring book goes to step 2, the line art black and white drawings, Jim's step 2 are pictures that look like some little kid has scribbled all over them with random crayon scribbles. Every kid remembers the time when his or her coloring book looked the same way before they learned to draw within the lines. Step 3 in both routines are the correctly colored drawings, but the coloring book looks as if it is factory printed and Jim's coloring book looks as if it has really been colored by crayons (that's because it has!). The three ways are there, but you have to know what you are counting.
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dgcuff Regular user Canada 191 Posts |
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On 2010-07-28 05:01, Spellbinder wrote: Again, fair point, but in this case, you are talking about a 3-step effect, and the OP asked about a 3-way book... which, again, is not present in the Gerrish article you brought up. I'm not saying or implying that the routine is inferior in any way to using a 3-way book, I'm just saying that it does not use a 3 way book.
I formerly ran a site of links to help Canadian magicians, magicinfo.ca, but I retired it in 2022.
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Never underestimate the power of the coloring book. I have about a dozen like the one Bob Swislosky links to above. They are approximately 30 years old and still working for a living.
However, the more interesting story deals with impact. In the last year I have taking steps to do better estate planning and getting specific personal property to specific people who value it. Magic props make up part of this. When I asked my kids what they wanted of my magic inventory, the ONLY thing my 25 year-old daughter wants is a coloring book! Bob Sanders Magic By Sander PS --- For those of you who know me, you know that there is plenty to pick from. |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
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On 2010-07-28 07:39, dgcuff wrote: You're absolutely right. It uses sleight of hand, much too complicated to learn for those who expect magic to come in a package from a magic store. I am obviously in the wrong thread, and probably on the wrong forum.
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dgcuff Regular user Canada 191 Posts |
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On 2010-07-28 09:48, Spellbinder wrote: I did manage to detect your sarcasm there, but yes--you're in the wrong thread, not because the OP isn't capable of learning sleight of hand, but because he asked about a specific prop, that is a three-way colouring book. Topic drift is a big problem in practically every forum I have ever been in. If you ask what is the best-made scotch and soda on the market, someone is guaranteed to come along and tell you that you shouldn't use it, and that you should try their gaff-free routine. At least this kind of person admits up front that their routine is gaff-free. But it doesn't answer the original freakin' question. And neither have you. You're too keen to push something you happen to sell, and only on your third post did finally clearly mention that it doesn't use the item being asked about. Start a thread on colouring book routines or a thread on creating your own props, and I'll be there to join you in your praises of Jim Gerrish's "Coloring Book Revisited". But not here.
I formerly ran a site of links to help Canadian magicians, magicinfo.ca, but I retired it in 2022.
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shaneking New user Sydney, Australia 61 Posts |
After reading these threads I now think that my question should really have been "what is the best routine to use to maximise the impact of the magic colouring book (2-way or 3-way, I don't care)
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dgcuff Regular user Canada 191 Posts |
Shane,
Have a look at the effect that we were discussing, Gerrish's "Coloring Book Revisited" if you'd like a routine that allows you to end clean. There are other goodies in the same article--a couple of crayon effects, for example.
I formerly ran a site of links to help Canadian magicians, magicinfo.ca, but I retired it in 2022.
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mike storz Inner circle Orange, CT 1353 Posts |
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On 2010-08-01 07:57, shaneking wrote: from personal experience I truly believe Silly Billy's routine is the absolute best. For older kids, I've been considering Cody Fishers coloring book Monte. I think that's the name... |
magicgeorge Inner circle Belfast 4299 Posts |
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On 2010-07-28 16:34, dgcuff wrote: I wouldn't call this topic drift at all (although I agree drift is quite rife on here but threads usually end up on a totally different subject not a variation on a theme) if the OP is asking about a 3-way colouring book (that he has yet to buy) then I see no reason not to offer alternative methods to achieve similair results, in fact it seems logical and could well be helpful to the OP, and claiming that that is off-topic is just being a bit AR about semantics. |
dgcuff Regular user Canada 191 Posts |
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On 2010-08-02 05:47, magicgeorge wrote: You're right, and I was in the wrong, but I'm still right. Sorta. If I ask you about a gimmick to perform 3 Fly, and you recommend an effect that uses sleights, then me butting in is me being AR. As is me claiming that it's off-topic. If I ask you about a gimmick to perform 3 Fly, and you recommend an effect and do not mention, even when asked to clarify, that it uses sleights and not gimmicks, then I don't think that's AR. I'm not saying that you or anyone else has to agree with that. But it's where my head is at.
I formerly ran a site of links to help Canadian magicians, magicinfo.ca, but I retired it in 2022.
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