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Wilktone Loyal user Asheville, NC 258 Posts |
I was looking through closeup material I own for some fun things to perform around Halloween and noticed everything I have that fits (that I can or want to perform) is card related. I was thinking of trying to take existing coin routines and restructure the patter to fit something. Here are some ideas I came up with, but I will need to play around with it.
1. A typical coins across becomes the "murder victims," who get picked off one by one. 2. I forget the name of the Roth routine, half dollars are changed to English penny and set into a glass, one by one. At the end, all English pennies have change back to half dollars. Could become a story about humans (half dollars) being turned into zombies or vampires (English penny). In the end when you kill the original vampire (make the last coin disappear), all coins return to their human state. 3. Coin through silk could be a ghost moving through walls. Anyone else playing similar ideas? Or know of existing routines with a plot that can fit a Halloween theme? Dave |
Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
Peter Samuelson has a great wild card routine with the plot being Invasion of the Body Snatchers, that could be applied to coins. I do my Twilight Zone Wild Coin which can be halloweenish.
S.E.M. (The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth) is a sun and moon routine unlike any other. Limited to 100 sets, here is the promo:
https://youtu.be/aFuAWCNEuOI?si=ZdDUNV8lUPWvtOcL $325 ppd USA (Shipping extra outside of USA). If interested, shoot me an email for ordering information at rubinsteindvm@aol.com |
Wilktone Loyal user Asheville, NC 258 Posts |
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On Oct 22, 2015, Michael Rubinstein wrote: Thanks, Dr. Rubinstein. I love Samuelson's wild card presentation and had considered that as one of the tricks I could do. I even better like the idea of this plot with wild coins. I had started to learn Kainoa Harbottle's Wild Coin routine a while back (edit-it is his Homing Coin. I still think it could work), but have since let my practice on it slip. I will have to brush the dust off of it. I'm not familiar with Twilight Zone Wild Coin. Where can I find it published? Dave |
Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
Twilight Zone Wild Coin can be found on my Penguin Live lecture, available as a download or on dvd, or the NYCMS dvd series. Here is the performance (and sorry for all the duplicate posts, I don't know how that happened):
https://youtu.be/RAIKFYIYkW8
S.E.M. (The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth) is a sun and moon routine unlike any other. Limited to 100 sets, here is the promo:
https://youtu.be/aFuAWCNEuOI?si=ZdDUNV8lUPWvtOcL $325 ppd USA (Shipping extra outside of USA). If interested, shoot me an email for ordering information at rubinsteindvm@aol.com |
bigfoot Special user 502 Posts |
Dan Harlan had a great matrix routine that is very halloween feeling. It's about a mass murderer we will just say his name is Jason that travel from tent to tent trying to kill the person inside. They vanish just before they are stabbed. It's quite humorous as well as magical.
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ZachDavenport Inner circle Last time I posted I had one less than 1196 Posts |
I like your second idea, but it should be werewolves, not vampires. Then when you say the sun comes up, they change back.
Reality is a real killjoy.
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Wilktone Loyal user Asheville, NC 258 Posts |
Hey, all.
Dr. Rubinstein, I have your Penguin lecture already and had forgotten about that effect. Lots of good stuff in there, too much for my memory. Bigfoot, I recall the Dan Harlan story from one of his Every Trick in the Book series, I think. I'll have to hunt for it. Anyone remember off hand where it is? ZachDavenport, I like your werewolves idea better than mine. It fits the effect much better. Anyone else have any thoughts on taking existing tricks and adapting them or know of some others that already fit? Thanks, Dave |
J-Mac Inner circle Ridley Park, PA 5338 Posts |
I can picture a Thieves and Sheep variation where it ends in a mass murder. Heck, I might even add a little stage blood for effect!
Jim |
funsway Inner circle old things in new ways - new things in old ways 9981 Posts |
Several effects using an "invisibility" theme could refer to Ghosts instead
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Aus Special user Australia 996 Posts |
Wilktone I took up the challenge and came up with a coins to glass Halloween presentation.
Basically the premise of the presentation is based on a custom primarily associated with the ancient Greeks and Romans where a coin was placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. It was said it was payment or bribe for Charon who was In Greek mythology, the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the rivers Styx and Acheron that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead. It was said that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies that were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years in some sort of purgatory state. Get some adhesive stickers and write some names of known dead people or names that at least can convey a story that can be injected into the presentation and attach these labels to one side of each of the coins and before each coins travels tell a chilling story of each of their deaths at the conclusion of which a audible clink in the glass can be heard as the coin travels. Built up nicely I feel it would have the potential to be quiet the tension builder of a routine. Magically Aus |
Mb217 Inner circle 9519 Posts |
Just takes a little routining to do a ghost-thing in vanishing and reproducing a coin…A little storytelling would work well enough.
If you want to go further, there is a wonderful little coin effect called "Nightmare Coins" by Doc Hilford that would completely fit this Halloween need. Pretty easy to do too, great storyline, and just a nice bit of work. *Oh, and welcome to the Café, Wilktone.
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DanHarlan V.I.P. 998 Posts |
My routine (referred to earlier) is titled "Horror Matrix" and can be found in my More Than Meets the Eye notes, and on the L&L Publishing "World's Greatest Matrix/Coin Assemblies." But, in the spirit of my favorite holiday, here's a shock... the entire script follows! Enjoy.
MAGICIAN: A group of four teenagers decided to go camping, [Puts coins at corners of close-up pad] and play a little cards. [Flourishes] They set up camp in the middle of the woods. Each teen had their own tent. [Covers each coin with a card, sets deck aside] Although the teens were "in-tents," it was supposed to be a quiet night, but [becoming more psychotic] they didn't realize that a lunatic had escaped from a nearby mental hospital and was wandering through the woods... with a knife! [Produces switchblade] He quietly crept up to Suzy's tent while she was sleeping, and threw it open. [Snaps up card and stabs knife where coin should be, but it's gone] Fortunately, Suzy had decided to spend the night with Bobby! [Turns over other card to reveal two coins. Replaces card] The lunatic continued to the next tent. He peeked in to be sure someone was there. [Lifts card showing coin. Replaces card] Chris was sound asleep. The lunatic grabbed his knife, flung open the tent, and stabbed. .. [realizing coin is gone] but Chris also decided to spend the night with Bobby! [Shows three coins] I'd make some comment, but I don't know if Chris is a girl or a boy, so I'll just say, "What a nice 'change.'" [Replaces the card] Frustrated and angered I, I mean, he ran to the next tent and slashed it open, [Stabs knife through back of card] only to find it empty. [Lifts impaled card] Jimmy had joined the jam. [Shows four coins] Yes that's right, the four teens had all gathered together to ... play cards. How nice. Of course, once the lunatic discovered that all four goobs were sharing the same tent, it was an easy matter for him to slice each one into lunchmeat while their friends looked on in horror. I love a story with a happy ending. |
Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
You can try to create a Cannabal coin routine based on Cannabal cards. A vanish sequence can be done to the story, And then there were none. There are zombie dollars available on the 'net that lend themselves to great halloween plots. Also, coin to impossible location like coin into halloween candy. Curse of the chinese amulet with a chinese coin. Just some quick ideas to whet your whistle. Or, how about my voodoo revelation? Here is the performance from the NYCMS dvd series (updated verson on the Penguin lecture):
https://youtu.be/-amvZLs_7MI
S.E.M. (The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth) is a sun and moon routine unlike any other. Limited to 100 sets, here is the promo:
https://youtu.be/aFuAWCNEuOI?si=ZdDUNV8lUPWvtOcL $325 ppd USA (Shipping extra outside of USA). If interested, shoot me an email for ordering information at rubinsteindvm@aol.com |
Aus Special user Australia 996 Posts |
Actually Michael I was going to suggest a cannibal coin routine but come from a slightly different angle. I was going to apply that theme to a wild coin routine where each coin change is seen as the cannibal coin devouring the other coin hence the change. Lighten the theme a little by having some condiments like salt and pepper or a marinade and apply them to each coin in a mock fashion before each change taking place adding a comical element to the routine.
You could extend the cannibal routine with a Hannibal Lecter theme by having an extra coin that sits isolated under a up turned glass since this coin can't be allowed to associate with other coins because of it's cannibalistic behavior. Cover the glass with a paper cover then introduce the other coins in a row on the table ready for the wild coin sequence. Peer back under the cover of the glass with a shocked look to find the coin vanished under the glass, the cannibal coin has escaped, then proceed with the wild coin routine. If your doing a David Roth routine where the coins change back at the end simply say that's what COULD have happened if he got out, tip out the coins out to show them transformed back to their former selves then lift the up turn glass to show the cannibal coin back under the glass. Granted a little more convoluted then a straight up cannibal card style coin routine but I feel thematically more enjoyable for the lay audience. If the up turned glass is unpractical us some Buddha papers or a coin fold. Magically Aus |
Scotte New user 13 Posts |
You could draw a ghost on a coin(think pacman ghost) and then do a 'ghost through hand' routine. Also don't forget about trick or treating, coins to chocolate coins. Maybe a misers dream into a plastic pumpkin. If you could do that and make all the coins turn to chocolate coins it would be pretty cool..
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bigfoot Special user 502 Posts |
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On Oct 23, 2015, DanHarlan wrote: Thank you so much for this it really is a great routine. So much fun to watch. If you can find it Marc Desouza put out a routine years ago that was a spell bound type routine called werewolf coins. I used it for a very long time as a everyday carry around routine and it always played well. |
Michael Rubinstein V.I.P. 4665 Posts |
Silver Extraction would work for a ghost coin routine. Spellbound could be used for a Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde effect.
S.E.M. (The Sun, the Moon, and the Earth) is a sun and moon routine unlike any other. Limited to 100 sets, here is the promo:
https://youtu.be/aFuAWCNEuOI?si=ZdDUNV8lUPWvtOcL $325 ppd USA (Shipping extra outside of USA). If interested, shoot me an email for ordering information at rubinsteindvm@aol.com |
Wilktone Loyal user Asheville, NC 258 Posts |
Thank you everyone for the great ideas. I'm trying to come up with about 6 Halloween themed tricks to perform informally this next week and wanted to get at least one or two coin plots in there.
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I can picture a Thieves and Sheep variation where it ends in a mass murder. Insert "baaad" pun here. Quote:
Wilktone I took up the challenge and came up with a coins to glass Halloween presentation. I love that, Aus. I enjoy anything mythology related anyway and that sounds like a fun theme for a coin trick. Quote:
If you want to go further, there is a wonderful little coin effect called "Nightmare Coins" by Doc Hilford that would completely fit this Halloween need. Pretty easy to do too, great storyline, and just a nice bit of work. Hildord's book "Band of the Hand" looks like it might take a little effort to find. Probably won't be able to find it in time for this Halloween season, but next for next year... Quote:
My routine (referred to earlier) is titled "Horror Matrix" and can be found in my More Than Meets the Eye notes, and on the L&L Publishing "World's Greatest Matrix/Coin Assemblies." But, in the spirit of my favorite holiday, here's a shock... the entire script follows! Enjoy. Thanks so much for posting that. I have "More Than Meets the Eye" (gotten quite a bit of value out of it). Off topic, I recently had my first formal magic performance in over 30 years and included both your Multiplying Billiard Balls routine from Tarbell (with my own original music) and The World's Saddest Trick (as my closer). Thanks so much for the fantastic teaching on Every Trick in the Book. Quote:
You can try to create a Cannabal coin routine based on Cannabal cards. I will have to play around with this idea. Quote:
Or, how about my voodoo revelation? I thought of this too while watching your Penguin lecture for Twilight Zone Wild Coin routine. [quot]Also don't forget about trick or treating, coins to chocolate coins.[/quote] This is a great idea. You get to leave the audience with the chocolate coins. Thanks again, everyone! Dave Quote:
*Oh, and welcome to the Café, Wilktone. Smile Thank you, MB. |
cperkins Special user 700 Posts |
Practice like crazy and do some head shots...thru one ear and out the other...ear to ear and out your eye ala Mickey Silver. Paint one side partially red (nail polish) and show them this side after you send it thru a time or two....perform it with a little drama and make it a painful experience with good build up.
Done with great illusion...they will freak!!!!! cp
To see a difficult thing lightly handled gives the impression of the impossible.
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Bill Mullins New user 90 Posts |
Not a coin plot, but . . .
Mike Close has a paddle trick with a Vampire theme in Workers 3. It was reprinted in MUM several years ago, and is called "Down for the Count". |
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