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canaday Special user Florida 738 Posts |
Airplane Mode - George Iglesias
$70.00 https://www.murphysmagic.com/product.aspx?id=68112 The Hype: A spectator is invited to participate in an amazing experience in which he will travel using his imagination. First of all, the magician mentions an item you find inside of an airplane that we always see, but we never read, and we should, we are talking about the emergency card. This is always located in front of our seats and we are too lazy to read it, but it can save our life in case of an emergency. This information is very important, therefore the magician hand out a real emergency card and invites the spectator to open it and actually read it, while the spectator does so, the magician addresses the audience to say that a destination will now be secretly chosen by the spectator. The magician now displays many boarding passes with different tourist destinations, boarding groups and seat numbers. The viewer selects one completely at random and the journey begins. The announcement of the pilot ready to take off is heard, the spectator is asked to buckle up and enjoy the flight. The magician asks the spectator to close his eyes to, relax and get some sleep, but a second later he asks him to open them again (There is a baby in the back-seat crying) so to relax he now shows him a list of different drinks available at the flight, he will now choose one. The magician now shows a tray with a bag and invites the spectator to say out loud the drink he has chosen (example: whiskey). When the magician lifts the paper bag, he has failed because there is only one orange box juice there. Now the magician continues and ask him to take the airplane magazine that has all the movies available inflight and to please secretly choose one. Now he asks him to focus on the film, the main actor, the soundtrack and other details, magically the magician begins to read the spectator's mind revealing one by one all the things he is thinking. Then the magician guesses the exact number of the airplane seat where he is on, his boarding group and finally the destination of the flight, city and country he is traveling to. At the end magician finishes with a question. Do we write our own destiny or is it already written for us? At the beginning the magician handed over an emergency card and asked the spectator to read it, but did the spectator really read it? Now when the emergency card is opened you can see in the drawings of the entire printed card everything that has just happened, all the "free choices" of the spectator are printed on the card and even better to be more sure, now the magician opens the card and it becomes a giant poster that reveals everything that just happened in the routine! But wait, there is more, now the magician asks the spectator again which drink he had originally chosen, the spectator will say whiskey and now the magician to the spectator's great surprise, will lift the orange juice box that turns out to be just a giant shell to show that inside there was a whiskey glass since the beginning of the act. Maybe our destiny is already written, don't you think? Includes: 1 Special airplane emergency card 1 Special set of 30 boarding passes 1 Airplane movie magazine 1 Airplane drinks list 1 Orange juice box (for a kicker ending) 1 Instructional online video Easy to do! Pack very flat, plays very big! My Take: If you are anything like me. Covid-19 has given you a bad case of cabin fever. I am sure many of you have lost bookings or trips because of it. We had a cruise scheduled and paid for and it was canceled. (Fortunately we got a full refund). We all want to get out and do things so what better routine to perform than one that takes you far away to exotic places. The trip prediction has been explored before by such as Dan Tong with his Flight Plan in 2003 (he also used the same method to let you name the killer in his routine based on the game, Clue) And also Cruise Control by Larry Becker and Lee Earle. Unfortunately these are both long out of print and unobtainable. But now George Iglesias has ridden in on a white horse to rescue you. I have had the pleasure to review a couple of George's effects before and I have found that, without exception, the effects are mystifying, entertaining and very well constructed to last. What more could you want? Instruction is via a 35 minute video which, while not providing a performance video, tells you everything you need to know to perform this. In the package , you also receive a block of 24 Boarding Passes (which look extremely legit), a Safe Travels flyer listing all the safety procedures in place during your flight. a list of drinks available and a book showing your choice of in flight movies. The routine is designed to simulate just what is done on a flight and the order you would expect. Your pass shows you your destination and seat number, the drink list is quite extensive and the list of movies is always fun to look at. The three main parts of the routine are all accomplished with different methods to make this harder to back engineer. All are extremely easy to do. No memorization and you don't even need a cue sheet. George has designed a beautiful routine that is actually easy enough to be done by a beginner but keep in mind, if you want this to be successful, to learn it thoroughly and be able to spin a good yarn. Also, unlike a lot of serious mentalism routines, this is fun for both you and your audience. It is a real fooler but it offers the opportunities for a lot of laughs. Also, depending on your style, this can be done quickly or it can be stretched into a full act. In the video, George gives his usual detailed explanation plus his tips. One thing I think he is proud of that actually fooled me before I watched the video is the safety pamphlet. You are told that there are hints hidden with the brochure. Even knowing this, I missed a few of them. Once you are told, it is impossible to unsee them. With a little audience control, your volunteer can take a look at the brochure. If you have ever tried to read one of these on a trip, you know your eyes will glaze over and you will not look at it in any great detail. The same thinking happens here. A quick look will be taken and since it looks just like the ones on the actual flights, it will not be examined closely. The props are of very good quality. You even get an orange juice carton for the appearance of the selected drink at the end. However, you can pretty much use any clean carton. Fruit punch, chocolate milk or whatever suits your fancy. And I really like the prop for choosing the beverage. This is really clever and should just fly by almost every audience. All props (except the boarding passes) are plastic coated to last a lifetime. (I suppose you could laminate the passes but I feel that this would take away from the illusion of actual real passes. There is a slight possibility that the choosing may go a bit off script but George gives you a brilliant out to save the routine.) I have only become aware of George recently but everything I have seen by him is great. The routines fool, they are very entertaining, fun to do, fun for your audience and very well constructed. This also seems to be a better value than some of George's other effects (not to denigrate them). He has routines offering much less in the way of props but billed at a higher price. All of them are great but this has my vote for best value of anything out of his stable. If you are a mentalist or even looking to add a little mentalism into your show, this is a routine that should be added. So kudos, George, this has my recommendation. |
georgeiglesias New user Miami USA 100 Posts |
Hello!
And thanks so much for taking the time to review Airplane Mode, it is my pleasure to share it with the magic community. I have been performing this routine with great success so I am pretty sure magicians will like it and perform it in their shows. I am very happy to share with all of you tips and ideas to perform this new act and routine. One magician friend suggest me to create a private Facebook group to share ideas, tips, videos and so everybody can also share their own experience with Airplane Mode, so I did! This is the private Facebook group, the idea is that all the owners of this trick can join and share, I’ll be more than happy to communicate with you thru out this page. Feel free to ask to join to accept you and to invite to as many magicians you want to join the group to talk exclusively about Airplane Mode. Best regards to all of you! George Iglesias. Join FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/190164052652402/?ref=share |
moselzauber New user Germany 10 Posts |
George Iglesias created today a private AirplaneMode-facebook-groupe!
https://www.facebook.com/groups/190164052652402/?ref=share Join it, so we can discuss our ideas, videos, fotos a.s.o. ***...to late |
canaday Special user Florida 738 Posts |
Thanks, George. Love your products. Keep up the good work. Had to throw a little plug in for Dan Tong. He is one of my closest friends. I had lunch wiht thim the other day at his house. When I told him about your routine, he brought a copy of his out. Good thinking but the props were really basic. Send me an email address and I will add you to the newsletter. themagicportal@gmail.com
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dbaltes1520 New user 56 Posts |
Thank you for the review. I love travel effects and have several. Your review helped seal the deal on this effect by George Iglesias and I have a show scheduled for June 2021 - hopefully will be able to entertain a few with this! Thank you again.
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canaday Special user Florida 738 Posts |
We have a cruise booked for next Octolber. Let us hope that neither of us is disappointed.
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reignofsound Inner circle Glasgow, UK 2199 Posts |
Ok received mine and a couple of glaring issues.
1.Sydney is spelt Sidney?? 2. The force boarding passes have 14c as the seat number and 13c on it as well. This isn’t great as any astute spectator could notice this. Devil is in the details after all. Not really keen on performing this as hardly looks professional. |
georgeiglesias New user Miami USA 100 Posts |
ATTENTION! IMPORTANT NOTICE! BOARDING PASSES FIXED!
Hello everybody! Let me begin by thanking each of you for purchasing Airplane Mode, I cannot tell you how happy I am with this routine, not only because of the great comments and reviews, but with the great reactions and good time I am having with it presenting it in my shows in the past three years. This is a great routine that will give you great mileage and fuel for your shows. As you can read by the title of this post, I want to inform you that we realized back on Wednesday Nov 18th, that there was a little misprinting with one of the lots sent of Airplane Mode. The issue relays only in the forcing boarding passes (22 of Cairo) (So we have take immediate action) Originally I designed the trick to used seat number 13C. This trick was produced and sold out in Blackpool 2020 with great success. (All those units went out OK) Then, for this new release worldwide, we decided to change the seat number to 14C, as the prediction states, so we just realize only a few days ago, that one of the lots produced have a misprinting problem in the boarding pass. Alltough the place and number to force in the boarding pass at first view is OK, since it is printed in Big Bold letters in the right side 14C (where you force) in the left side in small letters under the group number, it can read in small letter 13C still, possibly causing a confusion. This is a mistake made from the printing company and since it is so small, was not detected by us. Good news is that we took immediate action! Without hesitation the same day Nov 18th we present our claim and ask the printing company to reprint all the boarding passes again. This was donde in record time, the very same day! So, we received the new badge the next day on Nov 19th, pack them and ship them to Murphys, they are receiving all the replacement packs this week and will inmediately distribute them to all the magic shops. (SO If you are reading this message, and it happens that you own a unit that have this issue, NO worries! Just contact your magic shop and they can give you very soon one of the replacement packs free of charge) The replacement pack includes (Only 22 Boarding passes Cairo 14C set) for you to replace the ones in your pack and problem solved! Remember all those free replacement packs are shipped already to Murphys and will ship very soon to your shops. Also new units being shipped have been corrected and double checked, so problem have been solved very fast. BUT WE NOT ONLY HAVE DONE THIS IN ORDER TO SOLVE THIS LITTLE ISSUE, BUT ALSO THINK IN GIVING YOUR MORE SOLUTIONS. We produced this past days an instructional video explaining this situation and giving 4 great, easy and fast solutions for you to solve it at home (Of course all of this in the meantime you can get a replacement pack for free from the magic shop you bought) Here it is the video for all the people that have received this units: Boarding Passes easy fix Explanation Video: www.vimeo.com/twistermagic/boardingpassfix And to download all the assets here is the link: www.twistermagic.com/downloads/AM.zip We apologize for this inconvenience, the problem have been immediately solved. At Twister Magic we are always taking care of all details, even, if there is a misprinting problem caused by the printing company, we always take immediate action and give solutions to our customers. We want magicians to be happy with our products and to perform our products, and that have been a constant during the past 12 years in the market. We are customer service oriented and love to provide top notch magic for performing magicians. Best regards. George Iglesias. |
peirceman Regular user 114 Posts |
Wow, I have been doing magic for 50 years, and have never seen this quick of a reaction. Issues like this are usually ignored or explained away with performance suggestions. Nicely done George.
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bernardo_jas New user 82 Posts |
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On Nov 18, 2020, moselzauber wrote: I bought the effect 1 month ago, and I saw this post, with this group on facebook, but I got an error trying to login, is it still active? |
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