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Actually - the Gellar thing was meant as a joke.

byron0512 wrote:Here's a challenge to follow this theme. You go into Mcdonalds and you have NO magic gimmicks with you.

name 10 tricks that you could perform with mcdonald's own throw away stuff (straws and the like)

1.) hmm - MacDonalds - let's see. Take a straw, put it in some coke and make it move around and eventually 'climb' out the coke. (No It used here)
2.) Make a coin disappear
3.) Buy a burger - open the burger and show the coin you've just vanished inside. (I know it's throw away stuff - but techncally a McDonald's burger should be classified as throw away stuff)
4.) Eat the burger (ok. that is more of a stunt and should fall under geek magic)
or
5.) Do any effect with the burger that you would usually do with a piece of cardboard. (get people to write on it and do a centre tear, you get the idea)
6.) Tear up the burger wrapper (or the burger, same thing really) and restore it (ok this requies some prep - but nothing that can't be found there)
7.) Get some napkins and do Sponge Napkins (thanks to Greg Wilson)
8.) Tell people you can predict it's going to rain - then light a napkin and wait for the sprinklers to come on.
9.) Disappear really quickly
or
10.) Perform an escape from the set of handcuffs that's put on you because of above effect.

11) Effects with the containers of creamer/milk - see Penn & Teller for one gross use of such items.

12) Effects with the sugar/sweetener sachets, having a chosen coin marked and vanished only to be found again in a freely chosen sugar sachet.

13) Shells & peas with the little cardboard sauce containers (if your local McD's has such things) - you may need to provide your own pea!

13a) Using a PK ring and gaffed pea or other object (coin?), how about a very small chop cup routine?

14) By arrangement with someone else, how about getting your spec to mentally think of a card. You write something on your napkin and when they tell everyone which card it was they open the napkin to see the words, 'See under the Burger at the table next to you' When they do so their selection is written on the box under the person's burger.

15) Using the napkins, how about 'vanishing napkins' which everyone in the store will understand but the spec probably won’t. (Hint, face them away from a window for this one!)

One of my favorite is to act like you're going to vanish a coin but you end up making the cup or salt shaker you placed over the coin vanish instead.

Also I like making the spectator's signed coin appear in a bread roll

One of my favorite is to act like you're going to vanish a coin but you end up making the cup or salt shaker you placed over the coin vanish instead.

I like this one - you can push the salt shaker through the table. Only problem is that in the uk you dont get salt shakers. Could do it with a paper cup though.

Loved the ideas taneous. You know, funnily enough I had the thought you were havin' a laugh.

Keep the ideas coming - lets come up with the perfect top 10, and the resources to perform them. We can all then be set next time we partake of the 'cardboard' fast food (Disclaimer - I am insane therefore Mcd's shouldn't hold any comments against me ... we do still have freedom of speach, don't we?)

Could do cups and balls with upturned shake/coke cups. Just have to dry them out first.

I was also wondering about some sort of prediction rolled up inside a straw, sealed in the paper wrapper.

There's a fun version of the 'bullet catch' which uses signed paper balls blown through the straws. You need a pair of goggles though to make the right moves, but perhaps they could be fashioined from some straws and cups?

Another great trick is "Vanish 5000" by Paul Harris. It´s somewhere in his Art of Astonishment Books. All the sugar from the small packets disappear in your hand. Needs a little bit of preparation, but it is nearly impromptu and you do it without a TT.

I developed a nice one coin routine just based on sleight of hand... is very nice to do

something else would be an impromptu version of the cups and balls using tee cups and grapes, or toast bread (squished together)

golosan wrote:Another great trick is "Vanish 5000" by Paul Harris. It´s somewhere in his Art of Astonishment Books. All the sugar from the small packets disappear in your hand. Needs a little bit of preparation, but it is nearly impromptu and you do it without a TT.

For what it's worth, Vanish 5000 (which is a great trick) is either Gregory Wilson's or Brad Stine's, though it appears in one of the Art of Astonishment volumes. My recollection (sorry, it's not in front of me) is that Harris reserved room in A of A for stuff by other magicians, including a few effects by Wilson; for one of those effects, Wilson credits Stine either with the inspiration or the original version. I'm not sure if Vanish 5000 is the effect that Stine had a hand in.

Linking rings with donuts!
P.S: I know this threads old, I couldn't help it!

How did someone mention Paul Harris and McDonald's in the same thread without his wonderful effect from Art of Astonishment 2. I think it was called McGimmick or something, where the spectator clearly sees that he has picked up a chocolate milkshake, and yet when he closes his eyes and he tastes, it's vanilla !

This is just a mind blowing effect I've performed soooooo many times, even to strangers at McDonalds. An apt example of Paul Harris' brilliance.

byron0512 wrote:

One of my favorite is to act like you're going to vanish a coin but you end up making the cup or salt shaker you placed over the coin vanish instead.

I like this one - you can push the salt shaker through the table. Only problem is that in the uk you dont get salt shakers. Could do it with a paper cup though.

Here's Eugene Hamburger performing this, or something much like it, I presume:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUnJO2WcSlw&NR=1

Certainly an object larger than than the coin (a glass, in this case) vanishes.

A friend of mine used to perform this all the time. It's very easy and totally impromtu.

Mr. Hamburger was flat out blatant in his vanish.

To channel Lady of Mystery for a moment, vanishing a glass can be found in Mark Wilson's CCIM. They key is getting the silk or napkin to maintain the shape of the glass.