What do they eat, Purina Unicorn Chow?

George,

Lucy tells me that we had to have the hollow tree. The unicorns eat Keebler Chocolate Chip Cookies made by elves.

Bob

I should have known... unicorns have good taste!

Oh, thank goodness!!! I thought you said they taste good. (...stupid dyslexia...)

Check out ABC Gumball on Wolfmagic website. Pretty costly, but it's definitely a good looking contraption.

Yikes! No, I think I got over that while watching the first Harry Potter movie!

Doug- By all means, you can use my idea. The funny thing is...this idea was birthed one day while I was in my HAZMAT Technician course as part of my Firefighter 2 certification proccess... I was doing a little daydreaming that day... and this idea just popped up! I've thought of designing a complete Fire Safety/HAZMAT awareness show to cater to school assemblies with similar designs and ideas as this S/C!!!

If you send me an email, I'll send you a concept design I drew up in "paintshop"

Bryan

What do you think about a rabbit production from a square circle ?


I like to use the square circle in kid parties to produce toys , small bears, sweets etc. or gifts (especially for the birthday kid).

The box could be a drink machine, and the final production could be a Norm Neilsen Coke bottle or a wad of silks with a "stolen" 2-liter bottle. My highest recommendation, however, goes to the Recombobulator - a magnificent piece of work!

Amos McCormick

In the book "Magic and Showmanship", Henning Nelms an idea for a square circle that looked like a piece of electrical scientific apparatus. It's called the Instant Incubator. In any case even if this is not the sort of image you want, he gives good ideas in this book on how to get ideas to create props appropriate to your character.

This is where I disagree with Henning. To me, a piece of scientific apparatus, or a scientific reason for something happening, is not magic. It's science.

Superman didn't fly by magic. Captain Picard didn't make his cup of Earl Grey tea appear by magic. People didn't beam up and down to planets by magic. Mag lev trains don't levitate by magic.

But why does Harry Potter's broom fly? Did JK ever give us a scientific reason?

I suppose (as a spectator) I could accept a "scientific device" if the performer presented it in such a way that we know he's pulling our leg, like, "I'm telling you this is a subatomic particle orbit destabilator, but you know (from the way I'm telling you) that it's not." This falls into Whit Haydn's idea of telling a lie that they know is a lie, and is totally different from what some performers did during the late Victorian period, when they offered "real" scientific explanations for their magic.

When making this, is there any "special" type of black velvet you neeed to use to make this or will any nice black velvet from a fabric shop work for lining the interior?

Any will do... Do know that velvet does have its own "grain" or "pattern"... Try to keep it all going in the same direction with your inner circle, and it will work quite well!

-Bryan

Does anyone have any plans for a square circle? Dimensions and such. I too would like to build one, but since I am not too mechanically inclined, a friend of mine has agreed to construct it for me. But he needs to see what I can't say...LOL

In a month or two, I plan to make a small run of these for anyone interested... I 've seen a lot of people asking for Square Circle ideas and plans... I don't plan on putting a huge price tag on them... If anyone is interested, please PM me... Otherwise, I will be selling them on eBay...

-Bryan

p.s.- I will only make a basic model so you can take them to the next level with your own creative juices!

Magicians have special powers and they can use these powers to make everyday things do extraordinary things. But there are also magical objects, with magical powers, that can help the magician do things. Perhaps a magic wand either directs the magicians powers, or intensifies them. But magical (or "enchanted") objects may also have special powers of their own. Sometimes the magician uses those powers, but sometimes they do magical things on their own accord.

I don't know what your Square Circle does. It might make invisible things visible. It might teleport visible things to it's location. It might create new things. Or it might be a portal to another realm. But whatever magical powers it has, there is no reason why it has to look like an ordinary object. It's not; or at least it doesn't have to be. Of course, part of it could be an enchanted oatmeal box and the other part a special box you need to keep it in.

That said, there is a difference between objects that look magical and those that just look tacky -- or worse. The tube doesn't have to feature a badly stenciled picture of a Chinaman's face while the box looks like a jail cell -- complete with bars.

Thom
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Performance idea I picked up watching Tora demo. I never would have thought of this on my own. So all credit goes to Tora! While showing the tube empty in one hand, you reach over and stick your hand down in the square in front of the f***e. There should be enough room to get in there. Spread fingers and your hand will kinda go around the f***e. Wiggle your fingers in the square while holding the tube pointed at the audience. You are apparently showing both pieces "empty" at the same time. No one can really tell how far back in the box your hand is if you dip in and out just long enough for the image to register. So simple!

Check out Axtell's Green Machine, it is a great routine and the props are large and colorful, a nice price too.
Also based on the recycle theme, it could easily be adapted to nuclear waste. Etc.

http://www.axtell.com/gm.html