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  • Being a professional magician for 31 years, I know how the trick is done, and I can assure you it is not a camera trick.

  • Dude your full of BULLSHIT, THOSE PEOPLE COULD BE ACTORS OR ANYONE, SO GO FUCK YOURSELF!!!!

  • It's so easy, as the video gets to 0:17 the camera cuts and when the camera does cut he starts the video again but with the bird cage not in his hand, SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @YouNameitNumber1 man i have no idea how it's done but at least i don't just say stuff that come to my mind....NOT A CAMERA TRICK...watch the people and you will see that it's not!!

  • @YouNameitNumber1 I think you are deceived, which you are. Tommy did this so well he had you think exactly what he wanted you to think, "No way, vanishing a bird cage can happen like that with his sleeves rolled up, it must be camera tricks",  Lol, Great job to a wonderful performer.

  • He looks like David Stone

  • Gotta love them L&L spectators...

  • @TheCupsAndBalls It shot behind his back. The girl in the pink shirt and brown skirt actually looks behind everyone after it disappears. Just keep your eyes focused behind his right wrist.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules ...You seriously think David Blaine and Criss Angel are better than Tommy Wonder??? Agreed that Teller is brilliant but Tommy Wonder is one of THE greatest of all time!

  • I think the girl probably figured it out, but some spectators are paid to watch. Usually the ones right in the front. They aren't in on the tricks, but they could be getting paid or getting something free for clapping and nudging other people with a "Did you see that?" They're just as amazed as well of course.

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  • this dudes mis direction and smoothness is uncanny dearlord

  • pause directly at 0:17 and u can see the frame where the cage dissapear. a part of the cage is moving right to his right sleeve. thumbs up so everyone can see.

  • hey that black guy is from all of bill malone's videos as well!

    Amazing trick.. no idea how he does it, but i secretly want to know.. but it is just so tastefully intriguing!

  • it goes right behind him. with something elastic. the girl in black saw it, and looked there. take a closer look on ... 3. it has something from "prestige", or "prestige" has something from tommy.

  • bice try but if you leav it on pause and go ones sec different they all change position ..nice try stopping the camera weak my little bro can do this fkn jk

  • he killed the bird crushed it like in prestige

  • Its a pity that if you watch closely you can see where it goes :-(

    This is NEARLY what real magic looks like :-)

  • Its not sleight of hands, but a masterpiece of construction.

  • serriously where did it go?

  • @MrDiamondback watch closely between tommy and the woman on his left. In that space you will see the box dissapearing.

  • It swings around the back of his right side, past his elbow. It's blatant when you slow down the video. I'm guessing it's a very fast string mechanism, coupled with a very fast cage-collapse mechanism and a very good performance.

  • It should be quite the same as in The Prestige. Look closely at his amr when the cage is disappearing, you can pause it can you will see something being retracted. That is why the girl in pink is looking at the back after the trick is done.

  • yeah!!!

  • girl in pink is hot

  • haha HOLY SHIT

  • Tommy Wonder...

    A LEGEND !!..such an insparation to see him doing what he was born for.

  • ebay name magikonrad i have got this trick for sale.

  • the version in the prestige involved sleeves.

  • you obviously don't know who Tommy Wonder is.

  • Yeah keep thinking that it is a camera trick. That's what we want you to think.

    For your information, Tommy Wonder is not Criss Angel. Tommy Wonder was (RIP) argueably the greatest if not the greatest sleight of hand artists in the world ever.

  • @Scorpio706 we?

  • @Scorpio706 Yup, he's great, but don't call him the greatest :) Most of us probably know who was the greatest ever :) (If you don't know, type "greatest sleight of hand artist ever" in google and click "I'm feeling lucky ;))

  • @Scorpio706 It's not a camera trick, the cage spring folds flat and it shoots back behind him on his right side using a strong elastic pull.

    This is often done up the sleeve, it's just a variation on the sleeve vanish to fool people who know that one.

    The girls are in on it though they act suprised as they are L and L stooges just like all the specs. There are a lot better magicans than this guy, like David Blaine and Criss Angel and Penn and Teller who do much more modern tricks

  • And you are? Definitely not a magician, I hope not, especially when you expose the fine art of magic and especially when you are so dead wrong on the variation of this trick. You might as well hang out with the Masked Magician and be great pals,

  • @magicofscottwolf Yes I do a lot of magic & I am great pals with people who expose stuff in the spirit of education for magic students. The bird cage is under tension of a spring or elastic. That's why he has to keep holding on to it. It collapses shut into a slim package & then is is pulled away by strong elastic behind or under the performers clothes. Often it goes up the sleeve by extending the arms but not in this version. We expose lots of effects to help new students.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules Sorry, but I have worked in conjunction with highly respected magicians such as Andre Kole, and I am very opposed to reveal anything on public domain. If a student wants to learn from me, than I will bring that student in and teach him or her as I have done in the past, with a charge of course. Expose's like this are only for the curious and not the serious. Revealing secrets on public domain just shows me and all the other hard working professional your true character.

  • We will teach students the methods without any charge. We give our time for free to help people. Your path is the path of money, charging, and greed. Our path is the true path of magical education. By exposing on You Tube, 100's and 1000's of students get to know. You can teach but a few.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules If someone truly wants to learn, than they have to go through the blood sweat and tears that I have gone through to learn. Exposing on public domain is unprofessional and unethical and does no good in helping the art of magic. So by no means will I ever post anything that reveals the secret. I took an oath and I am sticking by that oath.

  • @magicofscottwolf You are a dinosaur. The new way of learning is we expose everything on the internet for free. No money is involved for young students to learn the principles of the methods. Then they can decide what effects may suit them & what they may want to buy for future study. But they won't waste money buying stuff which is unsuitable as has happened in the past. As for "ethics" yours are the ethics of greed ie If you have the money, you can buy the method, pro or not.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules These young students you're talking about... What are they going to do when they try to be professional.. but cannot because you've flushed the ethics of the business down the drain?

    If you show someone an common sleight, alright. If you show someone how to do the cups and balls, alright. But when you "expose everything" you're being a major douchebag.. like people who do not understand magic at all and thinks it's all about secrets and money.

    FUCKS

  • @ItchyQuick Don't worry, laymen aren't interested , they won't remember. And the ethics you speak off are the ethics of greed.

    To all the young magic students out there, ask and I will expose for you all the effects of Tommy Wonder. No longer do you have o to pay top dollar to learn some basic cornerstones.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules I am a young magician, and I'm telling you to shut the fuck up and stop disrespecting the art.

  • @ItchyQuick Yes but you don't represent the majority of young people who have a limited budget and who want to learn about methods without paying. You are probably an easily influenced person off low intelligence who has been brainwashed by magic books into believing that one has to buy expensive books or DVD's to progress. Of course that's what they tell you in a magic book - they want to to sell more books!

  • @CaraBrimleyRules Sure I don't represent the majority of young people, because most of them have the same opinion of magic as you.

    A person doesn't have to buy expensive books or DVDs to learn magic. That's bullshit that you're pushing as an excuse for exposure.

  • @ItchyQuick Yes. That's why we are helping them. Giving the public what they want in the spirit of education is admirable and altruistic.

    People are encouraged to spend a lot of cash on DVDs by most of the magic forums & dealers because they are run by greedy smug magicians and like selling old effects and old principles for new dollars. Anyone with the cash can buy them, they don't have to be interested in magic. That's a business of greed not of education. Let education be free!

  • @CaraBrimleyRules What the fuck are you.. the Magic Socialist?

  • @ItchyQuick No I just believe in a free education. Not one gained by buying old public domain methods from unscrupulous traders. Students end up with a hyped up but really bullshit cheaply manufactured effect which may not suit their performance conditions or skill level. They can't return it because the trader says "you have the method". In no other sphere are people ripped off like this. They may have the method but they could get old public domain methods for free when we expose them.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules People are ripped off like that all the time, in many "spheres". All it takes is one sucker, and there's one born every minute. If you want to expose those people who're greedy cheats, and educate young magicians about this sort of bullshit.. I have no problem with that. But your attitude concerning magic ethics won't do at all. It'll lead directly to a bad reputation.. and missing out on working with experienced magicians who do follow the code of ethics.

  • @ItchyQuick You use the words "ethics" as though it is something good. It is not good in this case. It is ethics of business & money. It is the ethics of greed & sales.

    Take an old public domain effect & two customers. Customer A has no real interest in magic but likes to know how things are done so he can heckle magicians. Customer B is a young but talented student who practices magic diligently. Customer A has money. Customer B does not. The dealer sells to A. It is all about money not ethics

  • @CaraBrimleyRules You are fucking clueless.

    This is part of the ethics of magic: "Popularity and money should not be priorities."

    Just goes to show that you don't know your ass from a hole in the ground.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules If you could only understand that what those people are doing.. just out for the money, they don't care about magic only money, IT IS UNETHICAL.

    UN ETHIC AL

    Shun them. Preach against them. Do whatever. But stop trying to use the actions of unethical people to speak against ethics.

    Go click the link on my channel and read the ethics.. you might agree with them more than you think.

  • @ItchyQuick The ethics of business are different from ethics in their broadest sense. A large part of the magic industry consists of taking old effects and recycling them in different guises to new generations of young mainly teenage males. The reason they don't want the effects revealed is so they can recycle more and sell more to unsuspecting newbies. By exposing methods to newcomers, I am helping to break this cycle and enable them to chose wisely and buy magic which really suits them.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules I'm sorry you got ripped off and turned into a coplete asshole.

    Do what thou wilt.

  • @CaraBrimleyRules For hundreds of years new magicians have taken a limited amount of knowledge and built onto it with practice and experience. Many of them have become great magicians without having everything exposed to them.

    When you put so much emphasis on the secrets you're influencing others to do the same, those people will never understand magic and never be anything but wannabe magicians.

    You're stifling creativity and promoting laziness with your misconceptions.

  • @ItchyQuick On the contrary I encourage creativity. If effects become well known as you say they will, the incentive will be there to make new ones. & by giving people a toolbox of methods & ideas I am giving the building blocks from which new effects will be born.

    The double lift - lift two cards as one!

    The chop cup - has a magnet in the top to conceal a ball with steel core!

    The pass - secretly transpose the two havers of the deck eg To bring a card to the top!

    More to follow!

  • @CaraBrimleyRules How about the trick in this video? You won't be able to use your excuse here, because even if they know the method.. THEY'LL STILL HAVE TO PAY 50$ for the DAMNED CAGE, UNLESS YOU'RE GOING TO EXPOSE HOW TO BUILD THE DAMNED THING. Good fucking grief.

  • @ItchyQuick It wouldn't be worth trying to build this. As you say, better to buy the prop if one is interested in performing it. Although I have seen detailed plans on the net which were available for free (can't remember where though!) But knowing the method helps the student with the ideas of a pull or wire. The classic silk pull (tube attached to elastic) or the Raven (magnet attached to elastic) use similar ideas. Cross fertilization from similar methods is useful.

  • LoL no its not a camera trick its even simpler then that

  • It's not a camera trick. Plenty of magicians do it in live performences.

  • what the fuck...? O_o

  • Actors always smile too much.

  • impossible!

  • If you enjoyed this trick then don't try to find it out (it's easy btw).

    As with all tricks the satisfaction comes from the mystery, not the answer.

  • HE'S A WITCH!!!!!

    lol jk, my favorite part is the "holy shit!" in the background!

  • he died?

  • sadly yes

  • =O(

  • wat the fuck .. ??

  • wrong, you assclown!

  • HEY, THE MAN WAS A GENIOUS, DONT TRY TO DISCOVER THE SECRET OF HIS ACTS. HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR HIM

    TOMMY WONDER DIED THE 26th JUNY of 2006. FOR LUNG CANCER.

  • still wrong.

    Cheers,

    ~Chris

  • lol at 20 seconds you can hear a guy or girl go whoa shit! lol.

  • lmao yea heard that. what a joker! gd spot m8.

  • who's a retard?

  • WHere is he performing this!?!?!?!?!?

  • Tommy Wonder is outstanding!!!!

    This is an amazing piece

    and for all of you trying to explain and understand how it's done

    Can you please give it a break and just enjoy the performance??!!

  • I second that!

  • And I heartily third it.

  • the best presentation

  • the two girls on the left give out the weirdest laugh

  • No, please be careful, the one they used on the prestige was used with sleeves and pipes running down them. and they could have spectators touching the cage. This one you cant. And the other version they used on the prestige is now illegal in all English speaking countries. That is, if you use a bird. and a table.

  • I mean wtf, it is there, the next frame it's gone, that man's a genious!!

  • haha. some was like "holy s@#$! you can hear it loud and clear!

  • A trick similar to this was on The Prestige! However, that mechanism wouldn't have worked here.

  • tommy wonder was my uncle. He used to come to our house and do tricks. Amazing up close.

  • I think I have an idea of how he did this. It seems to be a modified version of 'The raven'.The only difference is, the cage went into his Dinner jacket rather than up his sleeve (where it wouldn't have fit)

  • you obviously don't know much about magic. tricks like these have been around for years and years before the raven.

    i must say. this trick is a HUGE set up for something so quick. i also thought to myself... why would i cary around a bird cage with no bird in it?

  • And you know a lot about magic do you? I know tricks like this have existed way before the raven. I only thought of it as a suitable analogy. There is probably an elastic wire connected to the cage. Upon releasing the cage it slips into his DJ

  • Oh and by the way, vanishing tricks have existed for the last 2000 years.

  • yes i do know a lot about magic thank you. including that i have seen the explanation of this very effect on a tommy wonder dvd. and there you go. 2000 years. that proves my point. the raven hasn't been around for that long.

    it's not an elastic. it's not even close. it's a very elaborate set up. and no it doesn't slip in the side of his jacket.

  • ok ad hominum wins

  • TheCupsAndBalls - Sorry I don't have the clip. Thanks for all your nice comments.

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