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APRIL 2018 - Edition 45 VANI SH FROM THE EDITOR Internatonal Magic Magazine PUBLISHER Paul Romhany & Joomag EDITOR-IN-CHIEF & DESIGN LAYOUT Paul Romhany THANK YOU TO Chipper Lowell ASSOCIATE EDITOR / LAYOUT FEATURE Hal Meyers PHOTOGRAPHER FOR COVER Chris Hopkins ASSOCIATE EDITOR Nick Lewin ASSOCIATE EDITOR Ben Robinson STAFF WRITERS Jeff Christensen, Chris Murphy, Gregory Edwards, Ben Robinson, Paul Romhany, Rico Weeland, Nick Lewin, Louie Foxx, Mark James, Hal Myers EDITORIAL SUPPORT EXECUTIVE Hal Myers, Ben Robinson ADVERTISING COORDINATOR Paul Romhany & Sydnie Anderson CREATIVE DESIGNER & LAYOUT Paul Romhany MARKETING EXECUTIVES Steve Hocevar CIRCULATION & SUBSCRIPTION Harry Morgan ADDRESS 1183 Blind Bogey Drive Qualicum Beach, BC. V9K1E6 CANADA COPYRIGHT All rights reserved. None of this magazine can be reprinted electronically OR in hard form without the permission of the editor. DISNEY IS MAGIC We (my family and I) have just returned from an amazing trip to Disney World. There is no doubt in my mind that Disney knows how to create the feeling of magic. I don't quite know what it is but when you see a character such as Donald Duck you get the urge to yell out, “hey Donald”, as though he is real. Perhaps seeing it through our sons eyes played a huge part … but, I must admit that when we met Mickey Mouse we were in awe. The Mickey we met at Magical Kingdom was like no other we'd seen. This one actually spoke to us, his eyes blinked and his mouth moved. It was quite possibly one of the very best illusions I've ever seen. When it was our turn to meet and greet him we just stood there unable to move because my wife and I both felt this large mouse was real. My theory about Disney World (and the same can be said for Disneyland) is that it makes you feel like a kid again. I am sure there are secrets to how they do this within their parks. The one thing I noticed is they play on all our senses; from what he hear, smell and see. It was a much needed vacation to reenergize our batteries. In the last edition of VANISH I did a short piece on Multiplying Bottles. In the article I mentioned Lance Burton's version with the silks tied around the bottles that change places. Thanks to David Seebach and Rick Swaney they were able to give me a little more information as to where this idea originated. Rick wrote the following: " A couple years after I acquired my set of Peter Diamond bottles I attended a lecture by Patrick Page. One of the tricks he presented was a handkerchief transposition. He exhibited a bottle with a handkerchief tied around the neck. He removed the handkerchief, then covered the bottle with a tube. He vanished the handkerchief and removed the tube to show that it had returned to the bottle. The method was a duplicate handkerchief tied on a nested bottle. My idea was to use that method to achieve a gag I had seen in a Bugs Bunny cartoon and incorporate it into my multiplying bottle routine. After a few transpositions I attempt to “prove” it’s the same bottle by tying a yellow handkerchief around it. After the next transposition, there’s the handkerchief, but it’s red (first laugh). I ask what’s wrong and immediately transpose it back to show the handkerchief is still red (second laugh). According to Magicpedia, Marconick published a trick called Bottled Silks in Marconick’s Original Magic in 1967. Maybe there’s a connection between that and Patrick Page’s trick. I don’t have Marconick’s book so I don’t know if his effect was related to the multiplying bottles." Paul Romhany VANISH MAGAZINE www.VanishMagazine.com 7