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Your favourite magic trick?

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  • #2
    oeb
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1pNtmYguA


  • #3
    PullMyFinger!
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    oeb wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un1pNtmYguA

    The leaves and the other bits that fall are on a timer maybe?


  • #4
    oeb
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    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    The leaves and the other bits that fall are on a timer maybe?

    Could be. Seems overly mechanical for this day and age though.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
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    Mines as I've said is David Copperfield flying illusion
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qX0ZhzJBU
    Cheesey out the door but I don't think you can get a more spectacular effect.

    Also Harry Blackstone's voice is awesome.


  • #6
    PullMyFinger!
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    King Mob wrote: »
    Mines as I've said is David Copperfield flying illusion
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8qX0ZhzJBU
    Cheesey out the door but I don't think you can get a more spectacular effect.

    I loved that trick until I read how it was done, its far to easy to find Copperfield's "reveals" on the interweb.
    Also Harry Blackstone's voice is awesome.

    Yes bigtime. I think its his whole stage presence that makes that trick a favourite of mine.


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  • #7
    [Deleted User]
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    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    I loved that trick until I read how it was done, its far to easy to find Copperfield's "reveals" on the interweb.
    I know how it's done and still think it's fantastic! The amount of planning and work that goes into really pay out with possibly the ultimate illusion: having a man fly.

    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    Yes bigtime. I think its his whole stage presence that makes that trick a favourite of mine.
    yea it's quintessential magician without being cliche.
    "Of course it's impossible, that's why we do it!"


  • #8
    PullMyFinger!
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    This was voted the best of all time for a Channel 4 special "50 Greatest Magic Tricks"

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



    False legs on the right hand side obviously, but whatever he did with his bottom half on the left hand side is a headscratcher and worthy of the accolades alone.


  • #9
    [Deleted User]
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    Yet more Copperfield


  • #10
    PullMyFinger!
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    Thanks King.

    Part of what makes Copperfield the best (imho) is his showmanship and it shines here.

    Here's a trick that I cant figure out fully, and Im getting better at it ;)

    The
    father and son are definitely actors
    but for the trick to work the way it did then
    a whole section of the audience had to be in on it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEqM8z1wgA


  • #11
    zuroph
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    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    Thanks King.
    Part of what makes Copperfield the best (imho) is his showmanship and it shines here.

    Here's a trick that I cant figure out fully, and Im getting better at it ;)

    The
    father and son are definitely actors
    but for the trick to work the way it did then
    a whole section of the audience had to be in on it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEqM8z1wgA

    dont see why you think that? at what point?


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  • #12
    PullMyFinger!
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    zuroph wrote: »
    dont see why you think that? at what point?

    The
    film had to be done ahead of time. So in that regard the section he threw the ball to had to be in on it as well as the small boy so that when the picture is shown on the island it all fits. The girl looks to throw the ball to guy wearing the Celtic top for a reason. This one really has me puzzled :)


  • #13
    PullMyFinger!
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    And just so this doesnt become the Copperfield Thread, here's some great slight of hand from Paul Daniels

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


  • #14
    Red Sleeping Beauty
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    I liked this trick. It's similar to the trick where you throw the deck at a window or at a car window ? No idea how this one is done :pac:



  • #15
    [Deleted User]
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    Had a similar idea except with shop mannequin and a lot more fondling.

    But after seeing Keith Barry live, I don't think anything too fantastic is going on.


  • #16
    Red Sleeping Beauty
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    PullMyFinger! wrote: »
    Thanks King.

    Part of what makes Copperfield the best (imho) is his showmanship and it shines here.

    Here's a trick that I cant figure out fully, and Im getting better at it ;)

    The
    father and son are definitely actors
    but for the trick to work the way it did then
    a whole section of the audience had to be in on it
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcEqM8z1wgA

    Didn't Derren Brown do something similar with throwing a paper into the crowd ?


  • #17
    zuroph
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    nah, derrens one was a lot easier to track.


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