Transforming Box
Posted: January 22nd, 2019, 10:44 pm
What a boring name for such a great trick! The magician shows an empty cardboard box on all sides. A spectator is handed the box and asked to look inside. “Do you see any flowers, silk handkerchiefs, flags, rabbits, secret trap doors, mirrors?” asks the magician. The helper says, “No.”
The magician takes the box from the helper and suddenly it falls open, showing silk handkerchiefs, flags, flowers, a mirror, and a secret trap door in the center. After the audience laughs and recovers from seeing all that stuff in the previously “empty” box, the “secret trap door” flies open and a rabbit puppet makes its appearance through the door.
After an entertaining puppet routine, all the stuff goes back in the box and disappears, leaving the spectator with an examinable empty cardboard box once more. Why the boring name? That's why it has been a secret "weapon" of The Wiz Kids since 1987. It doesn't sound interesting enough. Only those who have seen it in action know what a great children's laugh-making trick it is. Jim finally decided to release it in The Wizard's Journal #38 - probably the last Journal to which he will ever contribute.
The magician takes the box from the helper and suddenly it falls open, showing silk handkerchiefs, flags, flowers, a mirror, and a secret trap door in the center. After the audience laughs and recovers from seeing all that stuff in the previously “empty” box, the “secret trap door” flies open and a rabbit puppet makes its appearance through the door.
After an entertaining puppet routine, all the stuff goes back in the box and disappears, leaving the spectator with an examinable empty cardboard box once more. Why the boring name? That's why it has been a secret "weapon" of The Wiz Kids since 1987. It doesn't sound interesting enough. Only those who have seen it in action know what a great children's laugh-making trick it is. Jim finally decided to release it in The Wizard's Journal #38 - probably the last Journal to which he will ever contribute.