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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts 
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It makes you wonder what consumers think of Preparations A-G!
If it doesn't pass the market test, it's like winking at a pretty girl in the dark. Nobody knows it ever happened but you. Bob |
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts
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I guess "cute and sweet" is good for you... but to me they aren't cute and sweet, but highly entertaining and sure foolers.
Posted: Oct 3, 2006 8:49pm I just thought of a cheap and easy way to have someone catch an imaginary coin, toss it toward a bucket (either held from the bottom by you or on a table by itself) and have a coin seemingly arrive with a loud KLINK. Then, after X number have done so you pick up the bucket and pour out a lot of coins. Almost no cost and little work. However, I think it diminishes the real essense of the trick where you, the magician can pluck coins out of the air. Altho you could combine these two ways. See my post in Secret Sessions.
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yachanin Inner circle Cleveland, OH 2105 Posts
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Hi Pete,
Thanks for the ideas and "thinking outside the bucket" (loved that line). I'm putting together a new children's show and I want to use this as my closer. I want to tell the children (at the end of the show) that "After I do a lot a magic like I've done today, sometimes there's a little magic left over, just floating around." I will then say something like "Let's see if there's any magic left over today." I'll reach up and produce a coin and say, "yep, just like I thought. Let's see if you can do it. I want you - pointing to a specific child - to reach up and see if you can grab a coin from thin air and throw it to me... I'll catch it in this bucket. Great! Now you try it. Wonderful! Now you. etc." Well, you get the idea. After the coins are all caught, I will dump them out and pass them around for souvenirs (they will actually be tokens with some magic symbols -- top hat, bunny, etc.). What do you guys think? Thanks again. Regards, Steve
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Bob Sanders 1945 - 2024 Magic Valley Ranch, Clanton, Alabama 20504 Posts
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On 2006-10-03 23:25, yachanin wrote: That's a great idea! Go for it! Bob |
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts
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Reminds me of a show Charlie Miller was doing when he closed with the Miser's Dream. He gave one of the kids a coin, and then each kid shouted "I want one" and poor Charlie wound up giving all his coins away that day (real money)!
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Joshua Lozoff Inner circle Chapel Hill, NC 1332 Posts
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On 2006-10-03 12:44, John Bowlin wrote: I wish I had listened to you. I got the gaff bucket from Hank Lee. It looks ridiculous. Luckily, they're a great shop with a very fair return/exchange policy. |
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JeffMac Veteran user Sudbury, ont 350 Posts
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Sorry to add a little late. But I really gotta come down on the no gaff bucket on this one. It's such a simple trick with SO much inherent misdirection there is really no need for any kind of gaff. I've been doing misers dream at the end of the night for years while picking up tip's. I'm definitely not working "cute" as these are the all Drinking age students I perform for and cute doesn't really sell with them. It's all in how you sell the coins going to the bucket. If you do the whole mystified expression thing that McBride does (No slight against him, He's amazing just working a different crowd with a way bigger persona.) It may not come off the way your wanting it to. Just sell it in your own style and you'll make it fit no problem
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Joshua Lozoff Inner circle Chapel Hill, NC 1332 Posts
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JeffMac,
Thanks for the tips. How many coins actually end up in the bucket. The reason I was looking for gaffs originally, is tht I wanted to pour a ****load of coins from the bucket in the end, and all the thumbpalming in the world isn't going to fill that bucket. Is it? |
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travisb Special user Vancouver, BC 548 Posts
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Just a thought... Why not start with the bucket full of coins to begin with (and don't show it empty, obviously), then at the beginning openly take a bunch of coins out of your pocket and drop them in (to cover the sound discrepancy when you start dropping coins into an already full bucket). You could say that these coins are some coins you produced earlier, or something. You steal your coin or coins from that initial open load, go into the routine, and at the end you can pour out way more coins than you ever produced, since the bucket was full from the beginning.
Some "suggestive" patter could help give people the impression that the bucket was empty to begin with. Apparently that actually works. -Travis |
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts
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Without knowing your style, wardrobe, tables, audience distances, etc. it is difficult to solve this problem.
If you check the second edition of Bobo's Modern Coin magic you will find Charliei Miller's NO LOAD way. This is good for about a dozen coins... to add more you need to have a coin load, from say a dropper, holder, maybe under you jacket (one on each side?) where you can make steals and just produce them in large amounts dribbling them into the bucket, say from under a kid's nose. You could just pick them up as you move something out of the way on a table... there are lots of ways.
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JeffMac Veteran user Sudbury, ont 350 Posts
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I just switch hands and have a new load ready it's pretty easy in the way I perform it as I am doing more of a picking up real coins and trowing them invisibly into a bucket (I know not really a true Misers dream but more or less the same effect.
Still If I was going to do a coins from anywhere kind of production You can still go to pocket to pick up small loads, D***s palm a few, show apparently empty as you switch hands and your good to go. |
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Joshua Lozoff Inner circle Chapel Hill, NC 1332 Posts
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Pete,
I have a couple of coin droppers on the way from Tannen's. But then I heard bad things about them from Mike Gallo and others. Have you used anything like these. It looks like the droppers will deliver one at a time to me (and if I use palming coins, I think it will hold quite a lot). And then there is an item called a Gondola that will dump 12 into my hand at once. I thought of that for the end. Are you familiar with either item? This will be on a stage, so it's possible that pockets and environmental loads may work as well or better than these devices, but I thought I'd give them a try. I can't picture getting away with reaching into my pocket in a stage situation. Close-up, maybe. I will be wearing an untucked button-down shirt and a shirt-jacket over it. Not quite as long as a suit jacket, but formal looking and thick enough to pin things inside of it if necessary. Quote: On 2006-10-06 23:38, Pete Biro wrote: |
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