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Bradacal Special user 591 Posts |
Any good ideas for tricks regarding hamsters or gerbils?
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Magicsharpie1 Regular user 136 Posts |
Is that even possible?
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Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Jim Gerrish's Hardboard and Duct Tape Magic Show - Book 1 is now coming on-line on my site. Already there are a couple of props you could build to make small "critters" appear or disappear.The Flip-Over Box, The Chocolate Bunny Box and the Production Tubes (not quite finished but it will be online next week). The advantage of learning to make the props yourself is that you can take, for example, the Chocolate Bunny Box which was designed for a rabbit and make a smaller version based on the size of your hamster or gerbil. The same box could also be made to acommodate one or more birds of all sizes, not just dove size.
Book 2 continues the livestock props with several take-apart vanishes and a bengal net variation. That will start coming on line around Thanksgiving week. Book 3 scheduled for some time in January, contains a tear-apart vanish, a dove from balloon tray (which is very gentle and so could also be used for balloon to hamster, if the balloon popping doesn't give the little critter a heart attack, a smash box vanish, and a Doll House production of critters or whatever. Check them out.
Professor Spellbinder
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magicleland Regular user 197 Posts |
Don't get a gerbil, they look like mice and people freak, get a DWARF hamster, make sure it's a female cause then its sack does'nt hang out for all the childern to see.
lol but it's true
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Bob Sanders Grammar Supervisor Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts |
Some where here on The Café there is a post I did about using Bo the hamster in school and kid shows with the MAK Candy Factory. It worked well. Bo was a brown and white spotted hamster. He was smart enough to stay in the glass as it was passed around for the kids to see him. I even believe he enjoyed show business.
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Dynamike Eternal Order FullTimer 24148 Posts |
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On 2006-11-05 21:40, Spellbinder wrote: It would be best to use an assistant with those props when using a hampster. Because everything needs to be loaded and unloaded quickly. A hampster likes to move around alot. A hampster will crawl out of the Balloon Tray if it's loaded too early. I use to use hampsters in my act. When I place them on the stand with the rest of the animals, the hampster would always jump down to the floor. |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
Jim's version of the balloon tray requires an assistant. It's not the same as the current Brunel White models on the market, but based on "Ralph & Barbara's Dove From Balloon Tray" as found in Ian Adair's Encyclopedia of Dove Magic, Volume 2 (P147). Jim has made a lot of changes that make the tray seem as if it is only 1/8 inch thick and it will be written up in his Hardboard & Duct Tape Magic Show Book 3.
Jim and I both agree with your assessment - the only solo tricks using a tiny four legged critter should be those which produce said critter inside a cage with the cage being part of the production. This would limit you (among Jim's Hardboard creations) to the Chimney Screen and the Parker Swan Doll House production. If you built Jim's Production Tubes large enough for a small cage, they could also be used. From commnercial Magic Store Props, you chould produce a small cage with a critter from a Square Circle, but I don't know what else would work in that situation for a solo act. Don't include the critter's running wheel with the jingle bells attachment in the production cage or it will announce itself prematurely.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
itsmagic Inner circle middle earth 1117 Posts |
I use a Dwarf hamster production during a Chop Cup routine or Cups and Balls routine. I also produce the hamster from a change bag. These productions are a lot of fun and the kids love them. Choose your dwarf hamster wisely. Stay away from the super fast ones.
My current hamster is very gentle and calm. |
Johnnie Blaze Loyal user 204 Posts |
I heard somewhere that Richard Gere has a few tricks using gerbils
ewwwwwwwwww John |
Spellbinder Inner circle The Holy City of East Orange, NJ 6438 Posts |
A neat prelude to the production of a mouse ( Wizards prefer rats and mice for critters) from your Chop Cup or Cups and Balls is to have the cup start moving about the table on its own volition. Grab the cup, look under and inside it... it's empty. It happens once or twice. The last time, you discover the cause and produce the mouse or other critter. Thread attached with magician's wax is the real culprit.
Professor Spellbinder
Professor Emeritus at the Turkey Buzzard Academy of Magik, Witchcraft and Wizardry http://www.magicnook.com Publisher of The Wizards' Journals |
itsmagic Inner circle middle earth 1117 Posts |
Great idea Spellbinder!!! provides great misdirection for the load too!
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