Please help. I have been looking for a way to do this one certain coins across which to me is very visual. The idea is the basic three/four coins across sequence but the coins are always in view, then they suddenly vanish and reappear. This was on a show by Alistare Cook (monkey boy) on Monkey Magic where he was in a huge storage fridge. Could someone tell me how or where I can learn this because I'm desperate


ESPesially magicboi

Are you looking for a version of 'Threefly'?

Sounds like 3 Fly.


Joe

Check out R. Paul Wilson's Crowded Coins. You can find it at his site for around $10. One of the best non-gaffed 3-fly routines on the market IMHO. It even gives you a coins across in the routine (to show specs what they should be 'looking' for - lol).

I read a post over at

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that states Allistair Cook used the Bob Kohler U3F.

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Even though Bob Kohler is trying to stop it being performed on TV they still used it for the monkey magic fridge trick.

Kohler's version uses a gimmick that might be out of your price range. Paul Wilson's routine uses just the coins. Also check out Kenner's book, Totally Out of Control for another nice version.

3 Fly sounds like the one you are looking for.

I also saw a Slydini type of the effect that you are looking for. Check out Slydini's.

Reed have a 3 fly routine with shell, also very clean.

Tommy ng,

where can you find Reeds 3 Fly routine with shell?

Coin ovations

Also you'll find his international 3-Fly on there as well.

Gary Kurtz's book "Unexplainable Acts", and his video "Creating Magic" have routines that include a shell 3-Fly. They are excellent.

Eric Grossman

I don't want to start an argument so don't take this the wrong way, but if Kohler had not become greedy then this probably would not have happened.

I doubt Lassen (who sells the gimmick) makes you sign any sort of agreement for it. If you are a cunning magician you could still build a powerful 3 fly without Kohler's $150 routine.

I think I once saw a version using a shell on a video called shell shock. Can someone check on that?

Didn't Jon Townsend invent something revolutionary in this vein? Can anyone give me more details on that?

Barry Taylor's "Shellshocked" video contains John Kennedy's "Translocation," which many magicians, me included, think is one of the best and most visual coins across ever.

Jonathan Townsend was the first to create an open hand coins across which was the impetus for all of the 3-Fly variations that have followed (with Crhis Kenner being the first to move the hands to chest level).

Larry D.

I think Jon started with the thought that the head on a half dollar he was using was facing to the right, So the coin would travel to the right.
Three coins started at the left finger tips and traveled to the palm up right hand. Again I THINK that's how it started.


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Joe

The first coin jumps at chest level from fingertips to fingertips. Since the coins are supposed to be flying, and I could not really catch additional coins at my fingertips, which I did try, the second and third coins land on my palm up open right hand.

Chris seems to have liked most of what I showed him in 87. He changed the appearance of the second and third coins to stay in a fan, and added a touch to my one handed vanish at the end. The vanish he published is not mine though, he 'borrowed' that from Geoff Latta. Then again I don't recall him asking me about performing much less publishing anything about my coins across.

Visitors to NYC in the late 1970s would have seen most of the moves and parts of the routine in action had they visited Tannen's or the Saturday afternoon gatherings.

3-Fly is not on Shell Shocked. But as Larry mentioned, Translocation IS. I think that Translocation is probably the BEST coins across ever devised. If you'd like to see a vid of me doing translocation for those of you who do not know what it is go here: http://www.freewebs.com/twistedace/index.htm

It's in the video section, just right click and save as then play with Window's Media Player.

If we ever meet, ask me to show you my variation of "Translocation" which addresses the one part of the effect that I found awkward looking. Scotty York told me that my solution "fixed" the trick. No disrespect intended to John Kennedy as I think he's one of the most brilliant magicians I've ever known. If I were one-tenth as creative as he is, I'd be a happy camper.

Larry D.

Which part Larry? Crossing the hands or the Final coin? I have cleaned it up myself with a second gimmick. I'm a big big fan of barehanded assemblies and have learned as much as I could and created a few cool phases too.