Dynamo: Magician Impossible

Wayne_Rooney said:
For the polo one, I imagine the necklace was glued to his neck or the necklace had a fake layer of skin attached, but how did the polo get there?
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There is adhesive on the neck. Press the necklace there and pull upwards, the skin from just above will cover the necklace and it'll look like its inside

The polo is already inside/through the necklace but stuck at the back of his neck(he has a collar to hide that)
He opens the necklace, puts his left hand behind, takes the polo in his left hand and slides the necklace through his fingers (so now he has the polo through the chain but at one end of it)

swallows the one in the mouth, acts a bit and then when he pulls the chain from his neck, he releases the polo from his left hand which then slides to the middle
 
The weight lifting was shite. The guy was clearly in on it and pretended to struggle, or the weights weren't real
 
prateik said:
^^ dont read if you dont want some of it spoiled
Walking on water is a ramp.
Phone is a bottle is a stooge. Everyone is in on it. He replaces the bottle with one that has a phone in it (the person behind him passes it on), throws the original phone inside his jacket and shows the bottle with another one in it.

Some of the close up tricks were well performed, but a lot was fake. Much like blaine.

The fact that he used a ramp isnt annoying. Every trick has a secret.
The annoying bit was him using stooges when he didnt need to, just to make it more dramatic.

The tan line trick coudve been done on his own. Even the devil's bottle at the beginning (where he blows into a bottle and it breaks) was faked. He couldve picked a random bottle and done it, but he wanted to ask a random person for his bottle (had to be a stooge) and performed his trick

still a decent watch.. just saw episode 2 on thebox. might watch it over the weekend
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Just watched a few, and read through this thread.

So if the bottle is switched and another phone goes into the bottle, how does the persons mate then call the phone and it vibrates in the bottle? The phone that is in the bottle IS the persons phone, as it rings?
 
prateik said:
like I said, everyone is in on it.
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So if everyone is in on it, why doesn't anyone just do what he is doing? And how does he persuade the celebs to be in on it aswell, surely they wouldn't give him the time of day if he fakes all his tricks
 
gormless said:
How does he do them then? :confused:
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For the Rio one, he tugs the other bounces coat who then moves over and he crawls around the door frame and comes up the other side.

The walking on water he was walking on perspex.

The one with the tattoo he just rubbed off some shit that he put over the eye to make it look like it was closed when the real tattoo was open and he just rubbed off what he had smugded on it.

The dollar bill he did the same thing, he peeled off it to reveal the Brooklyn underneath it that he had put on before hand.

The £2 coin one he used a magnet messing with the polarity, it's a popular trick and the coin was under the glass at all times until he pushed and it released the magnet and the coin fell.
 
Jonno said:
So if everyone is in on it, why doesn't anyone just do what he is doing? And how does he persuade the celebs to be in on it aswell, surely they wouldn't give him the time of day if he fakes all his tricks
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I dont mean everything on the show is faked. Was talking about everyone in that particular trick. Bits of the show is real (tricks/sleight of hand).

This show used a lot of stooges and edits tho. Was annoying.

Anyone could do the tricks that are completely faked, but the rest needs a lot of practice.
Understanding how is done is one thing, replicating it is a lot harder.

and the celebs arent all 'in on it'. Haye probably had no clue how the polo trick was done, or why he wasnt able to lift the man.
Some celebs are(have to be). The one with Rio was clearly faked. Even the people outside the store were stooges. They were pretending to be amazed :rolleyes:.
Rio gets free publicity
 
It annoys me when magicians resort to "tricks" that involve completely faking something, with stooges in on it. I prefer stuff that is possible to explain without "the other guy was in on it".
 
And thats why I prefer the Penn and Teller show (fool us)
That is much better.. a lot of great tricks too.
 
prateik said:
I dont mean everything on the show is faked. Was talking about everyone in that particular trick. Bits of the show is real (tricks/sleight of hand).

This show used a lot of stooges and edits tho. Was annoying.

Anyone could do the tricks that are completely faked, but the rest needs a lot of practice.
Understanding how is done is one thing, replicating it is a lot harder.

and the celebs arent all 'in on it'. Haye probably had no clue how the polo trick was done, or why he wasnt able to lift the man.
Some celebs are(have to be). The one with Rio was clearly faked. Even the people outside the store were stooges. They were pretending to be amazed :rolleyes:.
Rio gets free publicity
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The truth is heartbraking :(
 
niMic said:
It annoys me when magicians resort to "tricks" that involve completely faking something, with stooges in on it. I prefer stuff that is possible to explain without "the other guy was in on it".
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Yeah me too. Penn and Teller is more my kind of magic because there is nothing set up other than the ability to fool the audience with what ever is in front of them
 
Good magician with some things but this is far too annoying to watch with the stooges and set-ups. I think the show is aimed at the kind of people who are... well, guillible people.
 
Well, a person came upto me and asked if I'd seen the walk on water episode. He was wide-eyed and amazed. I blinked a couple of times, and asked him if he knew it wasn't real. Never before have I seen a smile disappear quicker, and he spent the next 5 minutes trying to convince me it is real, and that it was filmed, in front of people, he said it's a gift.

Are people really this stupid? How can you lack the sense to think that the man can actually walk on water, what the feck is wrong with people?
 
Same. Then again his program didn't help him. Using stooges makes it all shite.
 
A show revealing how to do all the tricks would be the tits, it would piss off any magician and be fairly interesting.

Anyone remember the masked lad a good few years back who revealed a lot of his tricks?
 
There is no 'charm' in what he does. The stooges are so blatant in the smaller tricks, and the tricks like the walking on water are so plain rediculous that you're automatically assuming things like there being some form of ramp or platform etc.

When I watched that trick there was not one point in time where I was impressed or entertained, as opposed to the latest episode of Penn & Teller, where there was a guy with a classic cup and ball (or oranges in this case) act. Throughout that entire act I was impressed, despite seeing similar things hundreds of times before.
 
KiD CaNtO said:
A show revealing how to do all the tricks would be the tits, it would piss off any magician and be fairly interesting.

Anyone remember the masked lad a good few years back who revealed a lot of his tricks?
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Didn't he die?
 
What exactly is the point of the walk on water trick?

It's very clearly not a trick, and certainly not real in any sense, so we already know it's fake and just a use of props the entire time? What is meant to be good about that? I could go out and achieve the same thing tomorrow if I brought the right materials.

Same with camera tricks and stooges, that isn't magic, or skill, but editing and having people on board, that's as shit as me making my mates pretend I'm a really good magician.

Not sure why he just doesn't stick to the sleight of hand stuff, which does take skill and craft, which I can applaud, and makes me wonder how he does it.
 
Hectic said:
What exactly is the point of the walk on water trick?

It's very clearly not a trick, and certainly not real in any sense, so we already know it's fake and just a use of props the entire time? What is meant to be good about that? I could go out and achieve the same thing tomorrow if I brought the right materials.

Same with camera tricks and stooges, that isn't magic, or skill, but editing and having people on board, that's as shit as me making my mates pretend I'm a really good magician.

Not sure why he just doesn't stick to the sleight of hand stuff, which does take skill and craft, which I can applaud, and makes me wonder how he does it.
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I'd imagine it has something to do with big television corperation's that are funding his series demanding more and more 'impossible' tricks.
 
But there is impossible tricks, and just plain stupid. I thought it detracted from the show, having that clip in there.
 
Hectic said:
But there is impossible tricks, and just plain stupid. I thought it detracted from the show, having that clip in there.
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There are people stupid enough to believe in the stupid tricks though, like you mentioned. :lol:
 
I know, and it makes me sad. I just don't know how it's possible for someone to believe a man could walk on water, and be satisfied with moving peoples tan lines, and making phones appear in bottles.
 
That's what I mean about the charm of magic. We all know it is not real, but all that guy has is a couple of decks of cards and his bare hands, yet still managed to fool two of the world's greatest ITK's (get in at use that outside the transfer forum!) as to how he actually did his trick.

When watching this other knobber walk on water, well there is nothing to really be entertained by or speculate about, because you know it is impossible for him to be doing what he is doing without him actually walking on something that is not water...

Also, these mind reading things he does (i.e. think of a song etc.) Are we supposed to believe these people are not stooges?
 
Does anyone know how he does the trick where people cant lift him? Did it to david haye and another guy, cant work that one out????
 
It's not a "trick", per se. It was perfected through martial artists ages ago. The martial art of Ki (something).

There is another way of doing it too, where you get lifted from the elbows. In that one, all you have to do is tense your elbows when you wanted to be lifted and relax them when you want to stay grounded (absorbs the lift). Dynamo's way is actually quite stupid, he just leans wildly off centre. The principle is sort of the same as trying to lift a chair by grabbing the bottom of a single leg with one hand. You can lift a chair one handed but the balance makes it really difficult.

If you watch Dynamo do it, you'll see he's leaning forward a hell of a lot. The people trying to lift him don't notice because of how they're standing though. That said, it's a lot more difficult to pull off than you think.
 
What I don't understand is how did he get his own show? There are plenty of magicians out there and they're very fun to watch. But Dynamo has absolutely no charisma, no entertainment value. He just looks awkward and withdrawn from everything. What idiot decided that he should be on television?
 
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