How was this magic trick done?

fryup

Anyone have any idea how this trick was achieved??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu4PLlgzvPk

AboutaWeekAgo

It was magic afaik

Littlekittylou

AboutaWeekAgo wrote: »

It was magic afaik

yup

AnonoBoy

Photoshop.

Or that train carriage is full of shoes.

Or she's not a real woman.

Or he's the devil.

Honey Monster

The shoe is a lie.

eviltwin

She's in on it

Duggy747

Sorcery

NoMore MrNiceGuy

She could be a plant.

Toobz

i like the way she takes the rest of the deck too as the ace was there

Realt Dearg Sec

There is no shoe

Honey Monster

NoMore MrNiceGuy wrote: »

She could be a plant.

She's definitely a woman.

kingchess

We should follow the shoe.

Earthhorse

It's not necessary for her to be a plant for the trick to work I wouldn't think. The shoe is handed off to someone else who then passes it through an open window to the person on the train as it slows.

biko

She's Harry Potter!

Dtp1979

She's a plant. Part of the act. Ace is highest card. Simple. Buy 2 pairs of the same shoe. Broadcast it on the internet and he's famous

Ken.

The magic of editing a video.
/thread.

Banjo String

Chinese lantern.

Mountainsandh

Let it be known that I heroically resisted the urge to post the "Aliens" meme. Pretty chuffed.









Plant.
No feet shot when he magics away the shoe, even if shoe is passed onto train, she would be in full view of shoe handler, so she's in on it.

mikom

This is the answer I believe.

It must work like this – the magician pulls people out of the crowd who are wearing the type of shoe his assistant on the train has – an accomplice at the station probably texts the shoe size to the guy on the train. He asks the girl to pick a platform – he probably relies on the power of suggestion - she repeats the platform number she has just heard in the incoming train announcement – if she doesn’t pick the right platform – he just does a less impressive trick.

In a countdown show, John Lenahan (the magician), spoke about how someone in the youtube comments worked out the trick.

vicwatson

I thought id like this, but not a lot

fryup

mikom wrote: »

In a countdown show, John Lenahan (the magician), spoke about how someone in the youtube comments worked out the trick.

he said it was on a website forum not necessarily youtube

the girl should know whether the shoe is hers or a brand new one, nah there's got to be more to it then that i reckon

dxhound2005

Youtube did not exist when the programme from which the clip is taken was broadcast. 2003 on the BBC. Probably not much texting happening then either.

deco nate

mikom wrote: »

This is the answer I believe.



In a countdown show, John Lenahan (the magician), spoke about how someone in the youtube comments worked out the trick.

I was watching that show the other night, what website did you find the answer on?
He said" someone on a website posted the answer but at the end of his post said... But you would be crazy to do it that way " and no one picked up on it. Was it really youtube?
I thought he was talking about a magician website.
Anyway fair play for finding this.

Edit :beaten to it by the 2 posts above!

Pat Mustard

Just after the magician held the shoe in his hand, the young woman held up the big red hankerchief and the magician turned to his left briefly, pretending to look at the train. I guess that he tossed the shoe aside at this point because he didn't have it in his hand after that.

Then I guess that an accomplice picked up the shoe, ran back with it and got it to the fella with the cushion before that train door opened. The train was coming into the station and it was moving very slowly. I'm not sure if it was one of those trains where the windows can be opened. (EDIT: looks like it is, so the shoe could be passed in a window.)

I'm not sure whether the young woman was an accomplice or not. She seemed distracted by the magician's patter and by holding the hankerchief, so she even if she wasn't an accomplice, she might not have noticed the magician tossing the shoe aside quickly.

If she was an accomplice, a matching shoe could be sourced easily, which would make the trick much easier to do.

EoghanIRL

Camera men behind him or someone else is in on it . Magician got the shoe and threw it back.
Otherwise the girl was in on it.

The Backwards Man

Fairly easy to do, you pick someone wearing the right shoe, make it look like they are picked at random, make it look like they pick the platform at random, and you're on a winner.

No one is going to object 'oh that's not my shoe, I have a piss stain there on mine' when there's a camera on them.

enfant terrible

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Fairly easy to do, you pick someone wearing the right shoe, make it look like they are picked at random, make it look like they pick the platform at random, and you're on a winner.

No one is going to object 'oh that's not my shoe, I have a piss stain there on mine' when there's a camera on them.

Or she works for them.

Even easier.

Steve_Carella

All done with mirrors.

wylie

He picked her because of the shoe.

Littlekittylou

Why do you want to know? It doesn't matter. You know it's done someway. That's all. He has some thingy majiggery....that's all. It's done with a thingy.

How does the internet work. The thingy ! You could if you had a book about it learn it.

Doesn't matter the important thing is you know it's the thingy. So who cares.

I will imagine a hundred things more interesting than the thingy. The thingy is going to be a let down. The thingy is boring.

How did he do it?

Well he had a thing and some people and the other thing and a scheme and it all worked out to look like that.

GOT IT?

But really it was magic. And who cares. I am bored now anyway.

Littlekittylou

Wow thingies are amazing!

Earthhorse

Whenever people are asked how a magician did a trick involving a volunteer the answer is almost always "plant". They seem to think this is simpler but it isn't really unless you want to have a huge number of people on your payroll.

ardle1

I'd like to see the platform CCTV.
The End.:P

philstar

i don't know how that trick was done....

....but what i do know is that girl is the image of Boy George, isn't she??

NoMore MrNiceGuy

Earthhorse wrote: »

Whenever people are asked how a magician did a trick involving a volunteer the answer is almost always "plant". They seem to think this is simpler but it isn't really unless you want to have a huge number of people on your payroll.

She didn't make much effort to not choose the bottom card. An ace.

Plants are very common in fact. Even the great Derren Brown uses em.

hardCopy

Pretty sure the guy in the wig was a plant

NoMore MrNiceGuy

The train was a plant.

Earthhorse

NoMore MrNiceGuy wrote: »

She didn't make much effort to not choose the bottom card. An ace.

On the other hand forcing a card is a trivial thing for a magician to do.

NoMore MrNiceGuy wrote: »

Plants are very common in fact. Even the great Derren Brown uses em.

I'm sure many magicians do but they're not necessary for every trick.

Padraig Mor

Whatever he did, it happened at 1.36 in the video, when the shoe is obscured by the red cloth, and he looks over his shoulder. We never properly see the shoe in his hand again after that.

Duckworth_Luas

It was twins all along

NoMore MrNiceGuy

She’s a plant. The shoe didn’t actually disappear. She would be in a position to see what happened. We weren’t.

When you do the handkerchief tricks, with small palmed objects, at the end of the trick you can show both sides of the handkerchief because no special equipment is needed. The object is always not there when the magician seems to do his trick, its been previously palmed.

With larger objects there are special handkerchiefs or an internal wire or cardboard cutout, which seem to maintain the shape of the object you are “disappearing” after you have in thrown it away. In those cases you never show both sides of the handkerchief when finished, you hold it up in a way to hide the internal apparatus. See what he does at the end. Never see both sides.

However the actual object needs to be thrown away, in a quick move, which happened here ( at 1:37) when he turned to his left quickly just as she covered the shoe and his lower body from the camera with the handkerchief.

There is no other way to throw away the shoe, and there is no way she could be fooled by it. He threw it on the platform or on the tracks. The platform was booked ( because the train didn’t coincidently turn up just then either), and then the train turned up. No need to hand the shoe into the carriage, as they knew what size and make it was..

Note that about about 1:40 he seemed to have the shoe, but it was some kind of (cardboard, probably) prop, which then folded up into the handkerchief.

The skill here is mis-direction and he did that and throw it away very well.

recylingbin

There is no shoe
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=5ahkis&s=8#.VJF_CXvSpyg