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...oh go on then...a dwarf theme...

Tyger, Tyger burning bright...who has set your tail alight?
Two dwarves dressed as Seigfried & Roy flame-thrower an equally small tiger...in a flash the tiger changes into a full-size one, and eats the dwarves...

Rowan and Martin's Cough-In....
Two dwarves are in one normal sized coffin, they are cremated and the ashes are placed into an urn. Given a shake, an audience member is asked to name a body part and from which dwarf. When you open the urn, there is the same body part, with a tag on stating the dwarf's name (rowan or martin)...

These are all veyr funny

Here we go...

Ambitious Clothes - Pants Transposition

At the end of your distinctly average ambitous card routine, the signed card vanishes from between the spectators hands. You then let them see the deck, it really has gone! Next you produce a cheque book from your sock (which has been in the shoe since the start of the trick!), and sandwiched in the cheque book is their selected card! You show that it really is their card, then you go ahead and 'pull' their signature off their card and 'paste' it onto a cheque which you write out for £1 million!

Next you admit that it would be unfair to take this money "and it will probably bounce anyway" as you say this you screw the cheque up into a ball and bounce it on the ground and high up into the air like a bouncy ball. When the cheque ball gets to its highest point, it pauses for a moment levitating 10 ft up in the air!

The ball spins around frantically. The performer says "that's why I prefer...", the ball then explodes "CASH!!!". From within the £1 million cheque ball explosion, come 1 million £1 coins!!!!

The coins fall to the floor and greedy spectators run to grab them. But then you say "no no wait! They are not yours. Look at the coins a little closer". When the spectaotrs look at the coins they see that it is not the Queen's head on the coin but the spectors head!

Then all of a sudden the coins fly up from the ground and the spectors' hands and spin around each other in the air. Then they all clash together and out of the explosion of money falls the spectators wallet, watch, glasses, coat, trousers everything! For the first time it is noticed that the spectator is completely naked with only your pants to protect their modesty! Yes!! And of course you are now wearing their pants!

In an instant the spectator is dressed again and photos of the incident are automatically emailed to all their friends even if you didnt take any!

No gimmicks. No stooges. Everything is real! They really end up wearing your pants! You really do end up wearing their pants!

Installment 6

When Gerald the Wonder Wildebeest isn't performing amazing illusions or doing work for charity, he often takes the opportunity to visit his friends and relatives at the local plastic zoo. Following a recent conversation with his old friend and creative advisor, Orange Oscar the bath time Octopus, he hit upon this fantastic and innovative idea. Which, in association with Flashy Industries, he now offers to the magical community at an introductory knock down rate.

There's a Sucker born a minute!

Sometimes even the best of us make a mistake, you lose the spectator's chosen card before you can reveal it is the only one bearing a picture of Tom Selleck, the coins in your favourite Matrix refuse to budge no matter how much chip grease you add, or after introducing yourself to the Duchess of Lardtree you suddenly realise that you forgot to remove the cornflakes from your overgrown nasal hair.
Instead of losing face, wouldn't it be great to have an all purpose 'out'? Something you could simply pull out of your pocket that would save the day?
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When something goes wrong simply reach for inside your jacket and pull out our cleverly designed emergency carrying device (or jar). Inside you'll find a small and extremely sickly looking squid called Felicity. Grasping the slimey squid between your fingers, you beckon a volunteer closer and in the immortal words of David Blaine you tell them to "Watch closely"...
Suddenly Felicity's eyes bulge, she inflates to ten times her normal size and with a huge gush of fishy air she gives birth to thousands of tiny baby squid which cling to your volunteer's face. Machine-gun-like she continues to shoot forth her offspring until your volunteer is completely covered, from head to toe in a seething, squirming mass of seafood... Imagine their delight!
But that's not all, just when everyone thinks that's the end of this visual feast the infant squid start to hum Wagner's "Ride of The Valkeries" in a rich fishy baritone voice. An exhausted Felicity, sighs and with a look of resignation on her little squidy face, gives one collossal and final push. To everyone's disbelief and wonder she fires out your volunteer, unharmed and unscathed. If that wasn't enough, he's now wearing a signed Gerald the Wonder Wildebeast Baseball cap! Then with one final fishy flourish the Baby Squid Choir elegantly vanish, leaving a tired Felicity, thunderous applause and a very happy magician.
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Hmm, you lot are a hard act to beat. So I won't bother trying. Instead, imagine this...

Milk candle transposition

You walk up to any table bearing a lit candle, and take an unopened carton of milk from your pocket. You give the milk to the spectator to examine (it really is a bottle of milk that you bought from the shop earlier, most bottles will work for this trick!!!) and after they are satisfied that it is normal you place it on the floor 6 feet away from the table. It is then covered with any item of clothing which the spectator will lend you (it really can be any item of clothing, as long as it is big enough to completely cover the milk!!!).

At this point you direct the spectators attention to the candle, which has been on the table and lit since before you even entered the building (it really can be any candle, red wax works best!!!!). You talk about the strange properties of milk and flames, and how they are in fact chemically related (they really can be chemically related!!!) and how you can make them occupy different places in space with ease, if you know the secret. Taking a fire extinguisher from the wall beside the table (it really can be any fire extinguisher, although the trick can be harder with CO2 ones!!!) you warn the spectators to stand back as you point the nozzle at the candle flame and mutter the magic words....

Then you vanish.

Works in most restaurants/bars/oap homes.
Virtually angle proof.
2 second reset in private.
Same principle can be used to make doves turn into golf balls.
May damage candles.
Milk not supplied.
Not suitable for people of a bronchial disposition.

RecordRed Delivery by EckoZero

Don't you hate it when the postman rudely awakens you with a "Recorded Delivery" that needs signing for?

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Wait for the postman to come, and ask him if he has any mail for you. If the answer is no, assure him that if he checks, he'll find something for you.
He looks, and finds a blue deck of Bicycles in his mailbag, complete with stamp and address label.
You open the cards, and give them a shuffle.
"Pick a card" you say. He does, and you get him to sign it for you.
Show the card cleanly in your hand, and with NO MOVES WHATSOEVER, it vanishes!
The postman steps back in amazement.
Ask him to check his mailbag again, and this time, he finds a giant jiffy bag addressed to himself.
He opens it, and from within falls his signed card, now on a red backed card!
"How did that happen?" you smile.
The postman takes another step back.
You make a magical gesture to his mailbag, and upon checking he finds his entire mail bag full of his RED CARD! Each one of the hundreds of cards are signed!


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Oh.
Dear.

Methinks Mike Skutt will have a lot of reading to do from TM alone, never mind any other places where ideas are being posted !

Methinks I have too much time on my hands...

It's a great thread! Also, a DVD well worth getting if you ask me http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic9329.p ... t+sessions

The Piggollo
Five pigs of various sizes are each shot through the skull, blowing through these holes reveals a tune that the spectator was only thinking of...

Also features as an extra - torn and restored bacon

This your audience will really fry!!!

Based on the original effect below...

And I thought I was a good balloon modeller! Blimey! My pig model isn't a patch on that one!

Love the Pig

And here's another one that came out of my fevered brain as i was walking home from the station this afternoon:

Sankey's Sanctum

A deck of cards is placed on a table, along with a folded card in a paperclip and a card bearing the photographic image of Jay sankey.

A spectator freely selects a card, which is then signed and returned to the pack. You take the picture of Jay and explain that you are going to use this famous magician's effigy to find their signed card. As you go to push the card Sankey-up into the pack the photo comes to life as if by magic, and a real miniature Sankey leaps forth onto the table, much to the awe and astoundment of all present! The impish maestro dashes across the table to the paperclipped card which has been in plain view the whole time and (pausing only to contort it's face and make strange squealing noises in a manner that could only be attributed to the vast overconsumption of, at the very least, too much 'waccy baccy') pulls the paperclip from the card and holds it above it's head in it's tiny hands to reveal that the card is in fact their signed card!

After waiting for a couple of seconds for the audience to register this amazing feat, you snatch the signed card from the ickle Jay and use it to swat him like a bug!!! The audience winces in horror but you quickly turn the card over to reveal that Little Sankey has vanished and the card you are now holding is now the original photo card, with no sign of it's preternatural inhabitant. All that is left is to spread the pack to show that their signed card is now face up in the middle.

Then you vanish.

Ok. It's my problem, not yours. I've decide it will be impossible to pick just ONE winner for the contest so I have decided to up the prize packages!

First Place: Sankey/Skutt DVD, Autographed copy of "Serendipity" (Mike's lecture notes, also with a DVD), and a special Mike Skutt Mystery Prize. I'm not sure what it's going to be, but it will definately be special! Could be toast, could be keys to a new car, could be keys to new toast...something!

Second Place: Sankey/Skutt DVD

Third Place: Serendipity Lecture notes and DVD

Of course, it's not about the prizes. I think we have shown ourselves to be a damn creative bunch. If we put our heads together we could probably cure cancer, but instead we chose to lift two cards as one and wear plastic thumbs on our real ones...all in the name of entertainment!

No matter how good we get at our craft or how successful we become in our lives, remember: don't take yourself so seriously! There will always be someone better than you. Just relax and have fun!

All my best,

Mike Ammar Jr.

Mike, thats very generous of you.

Oh, and I personally don't think of us as especially creative; just people who are bored at work.

well i am still working on mine...I want it to be one very good one

though don't wait up for it - I don't plan to get working on it until tomorrow