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EFFECT:

An empty Coca-Cola bottle (regular plastic type) is shown, placed in back pocket and held tightly by a willing volunteer

A deck of playing cards is examined and shuffled by another volunteer, a card is selected and signed, marker vanishes...selected card is shuffled back into deck.

Magician holds the deck of cards in his right hand, with his left hand he reaches into his back pocket and retrieves the empty Coca-Cola bottle and slams it violently against the deck of cards.

The bottle is shaken, not stirred, lo and behold what do you think is heard?

A FULL deck of playing cards inside the bottle but wait, there's more...

Magician then reaches into the side of the plastic bottle and slowly pulls one card through the side!

It is the signed selected card!!!

Oh yeah, everything can and is examined in this routine...in laymens eyes it truly seems like a friggen miracle!




Eveything can be given away as a souvenier.

So do you think people would buy this?

depends on the price, but sounds cool, your effect?

johnny Mystic wrote:Oh yeah, everything can and is examined in this routine...in laymens eyes it truly seems like a friggen miracle!

This sentence will put off a lot of people.
And you really should make a video so we can see what really happens.

Would i buy this? Not in a million years. Effects into bottles are sooooo 2002..

It sounds to be honest, a little illogical...why do you do it? What does it display? Is it just an odd thing to do? Do you get to do more odd things?

Not for me, thank you sir.

Sounds like it'd work on a similar principle to airtight. And I don't use that!!

Your best bet would be to approach a dealer that also markets new products and who will have a better idea of the market and what sells. Try somewhere like World Magic Shop.

Just because one person or group won't buy it does not mean that others won't.

I agree that a video clip of it being performed would be a good addition and at some stage you'll probably need one.

Duplicity wrote:Would i buy this? Not in a million years. Effects into bottles are sooooo 2002..

It sounds to be honest, a little illogical...why do you do it? What does it display? Is it just an odd thing to do? Do you get to do more odd things?

Not for me, thank you sir.

It is what it is...a magic trick, why spend time digging so deep into something so trivial? it's a trick...

and an opporunity for some fun byplay with a volunteer, possibly two if your brave enough to perform this with two people standing on either side of you away from tables and what-not.

As a matter of fact it was around the year 2002 that I started playing around with card in bottle effects, using my own methods of course. Over time I've watched many videos online of many card in bottle effects...

I didn't like what I saw in any of them...so I started out creating my own, some well known names in magic really appreciate what I've done as I've shared the methodologies with them.

so 2002...that made me chuckle!

I think the question should be not WOULD YOU buy this but

WHY WOULD YOU buy this.

If i wanted a bottle effect i might consider it before passing it by because i cannot rationalise WHY i would this!

Personally, no. Thats not taking anything away from the effect - I think it sounds like a great little effect, but I am assuming it is a gaffed bottle. As someone who works professionally, I wouldnt physically be able to carry a coke bottle around with me when working. Also, when the full deck is in the bottle, can you take it back out?? I dont want to sacrifice a full deck of cards for one effect.

Thats not to say other people wouldnt buy it, but I dont feel it is a "workable" effect.


Mark

No gaffs, gimmicks or slits in the bottle, magnetics, mechanicals or what-nots.

The deck cannot be removed without actually cutting open the bottle.

The bottle and chosen card can be given away as souveniers or just the card, the bottle kept for other performances. I have met with a couple clients and left them with the bottle it is still on their desks and I got the gigs...

Free Beer!!!

Instead of using soda bottles I'll use a half pint whiskey bottle, the flat kind, they fit better in pockets!

Free Beer?

ah-yup...instead of a full deck make just one chosen card appear in an empty half pint bottle.

Go to the local pub, perform this one version of card in bottle I've created, leave the bottle with card in it for the pub to keep, they will talk about it for years to come and you may end up getting some free beer out of the deal...if ya play your cards right that is.



I came up with this version for a reason, I had visited a local watering hole (pub) and was regailed with tales of wonder and awe. Appaerntly another magician had been there and performed the coin in bottle. These people thought it the greatest thing since sliced bread.

I went home and came up with something along the same lines but able to leave them with something to actually show people when they tell them about the magician that came in and did this trick...ya know if I were smart I may mark all the cards in my deck with my name and phone number on the back of each card, hand written with magic marker...that way the name is remembered along with my number.

You asked for opinions - i gave you mine. Stipulate if i am omitted from any further opinions you may seek. It will save us both a lot of time.

Do you just use those tiny, tiny cards? That's cheating...



Shoot a video - send it onto a quality magic company. Or, if possible - market it yourself if you can. Video download and so on. Then it's the fine line of pricing. Higher, meaning you'd sell less, but keep it kinda exclusive.

Or sell it low, and have at it - everyone who does any kind of street/bar magic may buy it - you'd earn more, potentially - but then if it leaks out onto youpube - then its just a question of time before some urbanite with too much money and/or stupid parents...and its reveal-o-time!

johnny Mystic wrote:

Duplicity wrote:Would i buy this? Not in a million years. Effects into bottles are sooooo 2002..

It sounds to be honest, a little illogical...why do you do it? What does it display? Is it just an odd thing to do? Do you get to do more odd things?

Not for me, thank you sir.

It is what it is...a magic trick, why spend time digging so deep into something so trivial? it's a trick...

and an opporunity for some fun byplay with a volunteer, possibly two if your brave enough to perform this with two people standing on either side of you away from tables and what-not.

As a matter of fact it was around the year 2002 that I started playing around with card in bottle effects, using my own methods of course. Over time I've watched many videos online of many card in bottle effects...

I didn't like what I saw in any of them...so I started out creating my own, some well known names in magic really appreciate what I've done as I've shared the methodologies with them.

so 2002...that made me chuckle!

But it does have a ring of truth to it.... 2005 was the year of object in bottle, 2006 was Levitation Year, 2007 it was ACAAN, etc.

Sorry but HAVE to ask ...... what was 2008?..... lol...

F x

One thing I've tried to do with these card-in-bottle tricks is make the workings as simple as possible. With the methods I've employed set-up is easy and all you need is some cards and bottles, you'll be armed with this info for life and the props are easy to obtain.

I too am curious as to which trick was the IT of 2008.

johnny Mystic wrote:
I too am curious as to which trick was the IT of 2008.

it was anything that made you look like Derren Brown!