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these things ARE the mutts nutts. the dogs bollocks if you will.
ask Coleman to get in here...i cant describe them...but i love them...
Cole....COLE!!!
COLE!!
OColeycoleycoleycoley!
where for art thou?
I saw magic wands down at spitz last night and i cant decribe them.
but Coleman can.
theres nothing he cant do.
I think.
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Location: Wisconsin, USA
is it fishing line or fine wire
Faith
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Flying Water Muppet
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I'm sure one of the levels was Scunthorpe...
you should read "the child garden" by geoff ryman. Awesomeness.
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You appear to have mistaken me for someone who is partially literate...
But I will put that on my to-read list.
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Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
It'd be neat to see one of these in real life... the only place I've seen it was on the internet, in the 'skillful' hands of Ken Create himself
Otherwise, he thought of someone who could do two of these at once is pretty cool. (this was mentioned earlier in the thread)
Yep, I'd like to play with these magic wands sometime
Now with extra strawberries
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Location: Canberra, Australia
Ok i could'nt handle not haveing one any longer. I Bought one last night can wait for it too get here. Any have and idea about how long it would take one to get to australia.
I saw them a while ago on flow toys and thought about geting one but after reading all of the posts about how cool they are i desided had to get one.
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
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Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Are they hard to make?
It's not the sort of thing I'd like to buy, seeing as it just looks like a stick with a string tied to it.
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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and poi looks like a sock with a ball inside it...
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Geek-enviro-hippy priest
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Location: Diss, Norfolk, United Kingdom
yep! And they are really easy to make, and I don't buy them!
I thought you were going to say something about how I could make your magic wand..... or something....
There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees
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Magic wands! I saw a guy on halloween that danced and did poi and weird plane changing stuff with two of these. It was one of the most gracefully and comedic things I've seen.
Unfortunately I really dislike string and the wands looked terrible if they get tangled
Now with extra strawberries
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Location: Canberra, Australia
yeah i thought that i could probably make one but also the flowtoys guys are doing a cool thing so i thought i would support them in there efforts.
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Macaque of all trades
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My friend samuel is a magician, he's just bought the new technology in wands.. over £100 chrome with only 1hole and a moving internal counter balance,he's gonna send me the spec and teach me some of the true magicians tricks so I don't suck and give away the secrets.
Hopefully I will have 1 in time for play along with how they are madeas someof the tricks he doescan't be done with the normal cheap wooden ones.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Flying Water Muppet
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£100 chrome with only 1hole and a moving internal counter balance,
hollow stick with a weight in it then?
I think the main trick that most people I've seen do this fail to get is: The audience is gonna work out there's a string to your hand at some point, but you can confuse them as to which hand it is... (doing this will also maintain the illusion that it's magic) keep the hands close together, try and move them in ways so that the motion of the stick could reflect, be careful not to pass the controlling hand through the space above the non-controlling hand that 'could' be controlling the wand. always try your hardest to make the non-controlling hand look like it's in control. my 2 pence.
Or you could just pretend it's magic,
or just do poi with them.
or just dance around for fun likes...
anti-spin with them is fun...
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Macaque of all trades
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um Meg,,... the trick is to change the controlling hand which is pretty easy, that way they DO get confused and it is quite easy to do.
you can also do some nice motion free anti gravity stuff which makes it look like it is hovering motionless between 2 hands with magically wiggling fingers, I only found this out talking to my magician friend who does magic tricks more than spinning ones.
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
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this thread is not homosexual in the slightest
I like Languages.
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Flying Water Muppet
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um Meg,,... the trick is to change the controlling hand which is pretty easy, that way they DO get confused and it is quite easy to do.
not with the ones I have.
It's like taking a tight ring off. I'd have to be a pretty good thief before I could do that smoothly...
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Macaque of all trades
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it should be a single loop of thread or fishing line to the wand and you just put your thumb through the loop if you have a ring on your finger people are just gonna say
"oh.. it's attached to that ring on his/her finger"
that way you can pass the loop from hand to hand smoothly and even have both hands in to shorten the thread and change the swing,
(I'm no expert at doing it this was just what I have been shown and told by a pro, as he doesn't want people doing it everywhere and giving away magic circle tricks, he's pretty much given up on D'lites
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Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
Nah my loop has a tiny plastic thing to shorten it and keep it there. It has no ring, it just tightens up to the point of being unable to get it off even when you've stopped and want circulation back in your finger.
Maybe that's not the best design, but it's using black thread instead of fishing wire, so it's best to keep the line down to a single line, instead of a loop. (for use at night obviously...)
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Macaque of all trades
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ahhh aloopmeans you can do so much more slow stuff not like the video's, although you can do that to, Chad was selling wands at play and teaching a few basic tricks, he does some nice stuff with 2.
only problem with fishingline is it reflects the light at night and black thead can be seen.... don't know the best thread to use really,but black seems the best option at night.
I shall try and get info off sam and make one like his and put up a pic/vid so you acn see construction
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Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I understand now.
I like this quote:
Dwight: It's time to prove to your friends that you're worth a damn. Sometimes that means dying, sometimes it means killing a whole lot of people.
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Macaque of all trades
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
glad you understand... that quote means I now don't
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Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I assume this loop runs the whole length of the string and you can make a triangle of it using both hands, hence making the transfer easily smooth?
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
Macaque of all trades
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
yep
1 peice of cotton running through the wooden wand and the ends tied.
the flashy one is 1 peice of cotton both ends going into 1 hole in the chromo tube and tied to a weight which moves up and down. when the wand is slowed and the hand moved towards then wand the weight sucks the loose cotton into the tube and when the thread is released all the thread bar a tiny loop is sucked into the wand (ideal for making it look like there is no thread)
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1 + 1 = 3
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Turbo had a loop on his Broom.
He's the coolest.
Therefore, loop = coolest.
Turbo wins. EVerytime. Except for the first battle against Electro-Rock. who do coincidentally rock. Poppin' Taco was in Electro-Rock with poppin' pete. they both rock. Pete's brother was boogaloo Sam who invented popping. And Sam also founded the electric boogaloos.
Mmmm... popping...
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Macaque of all trades
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indeed Ed loops do rock A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Flying Water Muppet
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Location: Edin-borrow., United Kingdom
I think ed is on a loop....
Does he ever say anything but popping?
"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade
I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.
hehe, 'Member' huhuh
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Something about rubbing a magic lamp... Which fits in with the whole 'Magic Wands' thread thingy...
"I used to want to change the world, now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity..." - Lotus Weinstock
1 + 1 = 3
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Location: Bristol UK
:D
mmmm.... Popping...
Empty your mind. Be formless, Shapeless, like Water.
Put Water into a cup, it becomes the cup, put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Water can flow, or it can Crash.
Be Water My Friend.
Macaque of all trades
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Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom
I think Ed's in love... possibly with a popping broom...
A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.
Dirty Hippie
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Location: Norwich Norfolk, United Kingdom
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Now with extra strawberries
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Location: Canberra, Australia
Ya hooooo
I got my flow toy magic wand today.
It was totaly worth the money to buy one from them as apose to make one my self and i usually make all of my gear.
Their wand has a beautiful rainbow finish is perfectly weighted and has a nice smoothe shiny coating which adds to the magic. I make a lot of circus type equipment for my self but i think it would take me a lot of time and reasearch to make one as cool as this.
now all i have to do is figger out how to use it with out looking stupid.
Jane
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