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Roslyn Inner circle UK 3405 Posts 
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Love Big Bang. Can't say the same for Lightning.
My reasons are quite simple, the light just doesn't look like the glow of a light bulb. I've performed it for a few friends close-up and they didn't spot the gaff, but they did feel that there must have been a gaff. That it wasn't the bulb that had turned on, instead the light was coming from elsewhere. From somewhere other than the bulb. The reasons they gave were quite simply the light was different from the bulb's real light. If the Lightning gimmick could be redesigned so that when activated the glow looks like what would really be coming from a bulb I'd be much happier with it. Maybe there's a product on the market I don't know about that does this? Perhaps something that actually turns the bulb on? In short, great idea. Just not realistic enough for me. I love Big Bang though. I have the newer clip, which looks great and makes it completely angle proof!
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Zombie Magic Inner circle I went out for a beer and now have 8733 Posts
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Anyone know if you could you be on stage and float a bulb, have it flicker and light up?
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george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
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Not using lightening you couldn't, its a delay thing.
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Zombie Magic Inner circle I went out for a beer and now have 8733 Posts
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Thanks george1953!
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Fire Starter Inner circle 4810 Posts
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I found it very disapointing that mine completly fell to bit's and I never even got to use it,switch fell apart ,i got it last november, did PM him on here I think he might not be on here anymore though as never got a reply.
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tophatter Inner circle connecticut 3341 Posts
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I have always used a white D'lite and held It behind the light bulb & it works great Try It & let me know what you think . This is an Idea performed by Rocco.
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Zombie Magic Inner circle I went out for a beer and now have 8733 Posts
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On 2013-05-28 17:23, Fire Starter wrote: Chris Smith is a very caring creator/producer and all around nice guy. I don't think he visits this site to get PM's on his products ( pro or con ). If you e-mail direct, he'll address the problem: chris@magicsmith.com |
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Stephen Young Inner circle Thought Illusions 3933 Posts
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Lightning and Big Bang.
Great products. Was there a Big Bang II. I seem to remember seeing something about a newer version. Steve |
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TheAmazingSteveo Inner circle 1578 Posts
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2 Very Good Products!!!
I purchased both of them Big Bang and Lightning. |
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On 2013-06-07 05:02, Zombie Magic wrote: Thanks for the link mate,My fault really I left it too long and should of found the contact link you have posted.I have it but it is in peices after me trying to fix it,never mind I proberly got a dodgy one,lol. |
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Amazing Magic Co Inner circle 1715 Posts
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I happily use both Lightening and Big Bang. I had to contact Chris once on another unrated issue and found him to be extremely responsive and helpful. His customer service and support was truly outstanding and sincere.
Dan. |
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Stephen Young Inner circle Thought Illusions 3933 Posts
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After reading this thread I dug out my Lightning (I hadn't used it for over a year)
It worked perfectly first time. After playing with it half a dozen times, I dropped it o to the concrete floor of my workshop. It ended up in three pieces. The plastic outer case. The back cover and the inner workings. I slipped the parts back together again and it fired up perfectly. A great gimmick. A great effect. Steve |
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On 2013-06-07 04:12, tophatter wrote: I too have used this to good reactions in the past.
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SethHoward Loyal user 277 Posts
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I have a couple of questions concerning this trick and the handling of it. If someone who owns it could PM me, it would be appreciated.
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts
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This is a bit off track, but something in this thread reminded me of something I did years ago when the first D-lites came out. I kind of made my own spirit light. I used the larger Christmas light bulbs... the ones around the size of a strawberry. I would wrap the bulb in a hanky... and let the side of the hanky kind of droop down. Now through the hanky I held the bulb by my forefinger and middle finger and thumb underneath. By squeezing the D'lite it would look like the bulb is lighting up inside the hanky.
So you could do anything where you pass the bulb over objects, cards, etc, and it lights up when it finds the chosen object. Or use it as a lie detector test. Years later, when I was working on a project with Ted K, he said he had the same idea when D'lite came out, but he had a different handling of the bulb in the hanky. Anyway, for those bizarre guys it might be a cheap useful alternative. Greg P.S. I personally found the the red D'lites with a red bulb worked best.
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts
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Oops, here is what I mean by the larger bulbs:
https://www.1000bulbs.com/product/8010/H......1wvD_BwE Greg
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts
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By the way, years later I saw they were selling D'lites that could change colors. I always wondered if you used the hank/spirit set up and one of those changing lites to kind of do a living/dead test or lie detector test. So as you pass the hanky over billets the light turns green. Suddenly, when you pass it over one billet, it turns red. That billet turns out to be the one with the dead name.
Just a thought. Greg
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richburb New user Always something new... except when there isn't. 22 Posts
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Greg, The color changing D'lites/Prisma Lites cycle continually blending from one color to the next while lit. I don't think that would work for what you have in mind. It would be great if they made a light that changed colors by pressing a secondary button, or just changed each time the light was turned off then on again. That would be far more useful. Of course, this is pretty much off topic for this thread.
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MagicallyMe Veteran user Manhattan Beach, CA 356 Posts
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Do you have a video of those two effects being used together that I could see?
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