Most rope tricks can be done using balloons. I do a prediction type effect with 4 different colored balloons using the magician's force technique.

-Wes Holly-

Coin in balloon on my DVD. It rocked at the magic Castle!

Bairefoot

My 2 cents worth; Spikes for Skeptics (Owen); Super Needle thru Clear Balloon. Done right, they are both miracles!

Dove in Balloon.

Lozax,

Some of my favorite magic with balloons that can be done when you're line working are Tenyo's Balloon Illusion (technically, the tube is not gimmicked in the classic sense of the term in that you can hand it out for examination any time you like) and Balloon Detective (Devin Knight), a mentalism trick especially for twisters. Another great balloon trick is Pressure by Garcia in which you pass a cell phone into a sealed balloon. Because everyone has a cell phone, it is easy to borrow what you need (you supply the balloon and a spectator supplies the phone. By itself it isn't much (and will fool only the brain dead), but Christopher Lyle, an excellent magician, came up with a method by which you can inflate the balloon with the phone still in it. It really does strengthen the illusion, and I would never do just pressure without Christopher Lyle's addition.
One other that seems to be relevant is Deep, in which you swallow a balloon. I personally would not do the trick ever because it requires you to stick a balloon into your mouth, something that I constantly caution all my spectator's not to do. However, it does look like a baffling illusion from the tapes I've seen.

Magical things,
Zipper

My Magic Balloons...
By. John Rivav

Effect:
Performer shows a yellow 9” silk. Spectator is asked to sign the silk for future identification. Performer says that he will vanish the silk with the spectator's help. Something goes "wrong" and the silk does not vanish, instead it changes to a yellow balloon.

A second spectator is called to help to vanish the yellow balloon. Something goes "wrong" once again. The balloon has changed from yellow to red. Performer proceeds to inflate the red balloon and burst it with a knife, revealing that the yellow balloon was inside. The yellow balloon is inflated in the same way and burst with the knife, revealing that the signed yellow silk was inside the balloon.

Watch at: http://www.jrmagicstore.com

Funhouse by Wolf Magic currently out of stock but if keep a watch on his website. It will return.

http://www.wolfsmagic.com/Funhouse.htm

Eating a balloon is the ultimate balloon magic trick. Full instructions here: http://www.amazon.com/Easy-Magic-Tricks-......5&sr=8-2

Jeff Hobson's "Live" video has a routine called "The Balloon Bag". It's a whole routine centered around a doggy balloon.

Sorry. Had I looked down the list, I would have seen it was already listed under another topic.

Who doesn't want to eat a balloon! Just think of all the nutrition you would lose if you didn't!

Also, Tivoli has wrote lecture note with magic tricks with balloons ( but only in french ) and Norm Barnhart wrote books with magic tricks inside ...

Ludo.

I think Arthur Tivoli has a DVD out with some balloon magic? if memory serves me correctly.

Graham...Your memory has served you correctly. The Arthur Tivoli DVD is called, "Arthur Tivoli in Tivoliland." It has several balloon related magic tricks and routines. He does speak English on the DVD.

Inversion by Andrew Mayne

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS2cjXcoXk0

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but check out my Popped and Restored Balloon: http://theballoontrick.com

Michael, I just learned your popped and restored balloon and did it at a few parties. It's a really nice trick. I PM'd you a question.

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I also do Michael pop / restored balloon. very nice ., looking for somemore close up balloon tricks.