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Artistic Fish

Postby nickj » Jun 10th, '04, 17:42



The Effect
The magician shows a small handheld whiteboard and draws a Goldfish Bowl with a fish in it. He mimes tipping the fish out into a real bowl, and lo and behold a real fish is poured into the bowl and the Goldfish completely vanishes from the board!



Cost
$35-$45, one uk place quotes £29 (thanks Google!)


Difficulty
2
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)



Review
The Idea of this effect is pretty fantastic, and I can see it having a great effect on an audience as it stands. I think it could really do with having some kind of justification, why are you drawing a goldfish on the board? Would it work if you drew a blue whale? It just seems to be a little artificial really.

On the other hand, if you could come up with a story (I haven't because I am not good at stories for some reason) this could be a great fairly long playing effect.

It has one major downside though. We had a couple in stock at studio9 and they both broke within minutes of getting them out of the pakaging. It was nothing serious and only took a spot of glue to fix but when you could be paying thirty quid for it you expect it to last at least until you've performed it before it breaks!



Overall
7/10 A great effect, but I think it needs a little more, and the workmanship could really be seriously improved.

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Postby GoldFish » Jun 10th, '04, 23:18

Funnily a Goldfish production was part of the inspiration behind my name, incase you were wondering.

I'll get back in my bowl now...

All the best,

Will Wood
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Postby MagicIain » Jun 15th, '04, 16:00

I think this was performed during the Max Magic series on Sky - I don't have Sky at home and I think I saw it at a mate's house.

The guy performing it was the assistant behind a pet shop counter, selling 'magic board markers' that could create a real pet for the customers.

Nothing fishy about that piece of showmanship...

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