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Prohibition cap in bottle?

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fridoliina

Dec 5, 2007
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Hello!

I have always loved coin/cap in bottle effects and i got Ellusionist factory sealed and i liked it alot, but i often work in bars and there are not many of the bottles needed for that effect around there and i found Prohibition and i was wondering, How is it? any good?
 
It is probably one of my favorite effects that I perform that completely blows people away.

Here is a review on the Cafe:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=185040&forum=111

Review from the E forums by Rabid:
http://www.elusionist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61293&highlight=prohibition

Review from the E forums by Exitmat:
http://www.elusionist.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63529&highlight=prohibition

Here is another follow up post by Charlie recently on the Cafe in regards to Prohibition:
http://www.themagiccafe.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=240738&forum=217

If you cannot access the Cafe, you can see Charlie performing it in this video as well as the demo video that is associated with the effect wherever it is sold. This video was shot during the filming of Charlie's coin effect and sleights video called Covert Coins:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=25751130

In short, yes I highly recommend this effect to anyone who will be around glass bottles on occasion. You could even carry a small glass coke bottle as a prop in your case to demonstrate the effect with the bottle caps. I really can't say enough good things about this effect. It has been a treasure from the moment I learned everything about it from Charlie. Grab it!

--Jim
 
Thanks alot guys =) very nice of you :)

It looks awsome :) What kind of reactions have you got from this? =)

One last question before i order is, is there any hard clean up to do?
 
Cleanup is really a breeze. Charlie covers this in a fair amount of detail and gives you a few options on how to get it done. All the heat is on the bottle at the point of penetration and people are instantly reaching to inspect that bottle, which can be done immediately after the penetration. They can check the bottle out before as well!

This is a comment I made in regards to reactions and performing this multiple times in a row for a growing audience:
Against the norm I did the same thing once during a party totally surrounded. It just so happened that people were coming in from the outside after smoking after the first performance and missed it. Then I did it again. Afterwards those people ran outside and grabbed everyone outside smoking and brought them in to watch. At this point we are probably talking about 15-20 people standing around me now and I performed your masterpiece again and the entire room erupted into chaos. I don't think there is anything else out there I have had more fun doing for people than Prohibition at a party. I can never really thank you enough for putting this out there for me to learn =)
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I will also say I have had people sit there in absolute silence or looked at me like I had a 3rd eye implanted in my forehead. Everyone is going to react in their own special way but this is one of those effects that is fun to perform, not too difficult, and something I believe anyone has the capacity to perform in the right environment.

--Jim
 
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