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Erwin wrote:My finger hovered over the button this week but the wife reminded me of last week's "knitting needles in eyes" promise. Tribute to Pete Postlethwaite BBC2 1930 = infinitely preferable.

Haven't heard much criticism of Barry and Stuart; am I the only poster here who finds them completely devoid of personality?

God no!, I can't stand them.

Well, it can't be that bad. My sister-in-law wants to learn the spike-inna-cup trick. I advised her to practice

aporia wrote:Well, it can't be that bad. My sister-in-law wants to learn the spike-inna-cup trick. I advised her to practice

Five of Hearts Magic are e-mailing details of the various versions they make along with a link to youtube showing that section of Saturday's show .

That was a horrible version of Russian Roulette! What is the point of covering the spike when the edges of all the bases are still visible?

Jon Allen wrote:What is the point of covering the spike when the edges of all the bases are still visible?

None at all from a magician's point of view but the spectators probably wouldn't be quite so clued up. My better half, who knows only a little bit about magic, immediately queried why all the scare stuff about it going wrong and impaling hands etc. We know that's happened in the past but there's no way the BBC would show a routine where it actually took place so it's obviously hype and if it had gone wrong not only would there be a lot of law suits flying around, the routine would have been replaced by something safer! To be honest, I was more concerned about all those ickly fwuffy wabbits, some of those kids looked dreadfully hungry....

Lord Freddie wrote:Well N-Dubz are on next week so that should be enjoyable...

WHO?!?!?!??!

russellmagic wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:Well N-Dubz are on next week so that should be enjoyable...

WHO?!?!?!??!

C'mon Andy, you must know who Dappy is??

Lord Freddie wrote:

russellmagic wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:Well N-Dubz are on next week so that should be enjoyable...

WHO?!?!?!??!

C'mon Andy, you must know who Dappy is??

Aint he Bugs Bunnys friend, you know the duck?

taffy wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:

russellmagic wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:Well N-Dubz are on next week so that should be enjoyable...

WHO?!?!?!??!

C'mon Andy, you must know who Dappy is??

Aint he Bugs Bunnys friend, you know the duck?

The duck has a slightly higher I.Q.

Mandrake wrote: To be honest, I was more concerned about all those ickly fwuffy wabbits, some of those kids looked dreadfully hungry....

seing as they are all local kids, Thats hardly surprising. We are talking about my home town after all.

Lord Freddie wrote:

taffy wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:

russellmagic wrote:

Lord Freddie wrote:Well N-Dubz are on next week so that should be enjoyable...

WHO?!?!?!??!

C'mon Andy, you must know who Dappy is??

Aint he Bugs Bunnys friend, you know the duck?

The duck has a slightly higher I.Q.

I worked on the ticket through window with Chris and Sam and was there for the filming. Shame I didn't get a credit in the titles.

As for the themes, only the main big illusion from each magician had to fit the theme. The other tricks in the show could be on any subject/theme.

Congrats on that ticket effect Angelo. Its been one of my favorite single effects so far.

Thanks Dale!

Paul Wilson talks openly about The Magicians in this podcast. Hopefully you can all apreciate what has been done and the difficulties that were encountered in putting together a challenging 5 episode show:

http://www.linkingpage.com/magicnewsfee ... ilson.html

I listened to the Pod cast earlier on. Its a good interview and worth listening to.