Copperfield's Motorcycle to Girls Illusion

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Uploaded by on Sep 1, 2006

One of the most incredible stage illusions performed perfectly by David Copperfield. If you know how it's done, please don't post the secret and ruin it for everybody.

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  • MFrymus--I'm assuming you know basically how its done and want to make it part of your stage act? I could be wrong but I think most stage magicians work this kind of stuff out on their own by procuring the necessary equipment and then building everything they need by hand. There are a few websites that cater to stage illusionists.

  • @Snootwaller Thanks for the offer but I'm no stage magician, just a fan. I have heard of places that specialize in stage illusions, there are some online that offer all manner of stage gear. I do appreciate the guys that Copperfield that undergo such great engineering to create "grand illusions" like this one, that's why I uploaded it. You don't have to know how the trick is done to get a feeling for what incredible preparation such an effect must require.

  • thats a simple trick the 2 persons are behind the cycle and came before

  • Yes, and then the motorcycle folded up into a little briefcase just like in the Jetsons. ;-)

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  • It isn't so much the illusion itself but the delivery. He exudes this confidence in the illusion. His mannerism is like, "I know what I'm doing and you WILL know this is AWESOME!"

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  • As this was not done in front of a live audience, can you just assume that it was a camera trick? Tape the whole thing twice (one with the motorcycle parked the whole time and another with the girls posed before and after) with the same exact same movements, and edit together the before and after at a convenient moment. It might be something slightly different and probably took 100 takes, but given the other camera tricks Copperfield has used over the years, it's probably something this simple.

  • @padowan6 - I appreciate Derren, also. Think he's got great showmanship. I'd love to trade thoughts.

  • @guyactor Thanks! I'm a big fan of Derren Brown and like to decipher how he manages some of his illusions so I guess it translates.

  • @padowan6 - Good call!!

  • ugh he's so SEXY

  • Not a real motorbike.  The two women are hiding behind the assistant in blue. It's this assistant that gathers up the paper/illusonary motorbike and stuffs it under his cloak, which you can see him adjusting as the blanket's taken away.

  • @4004stu4004 Nope. no switch! Wrong!!

  • @4004stu4004 Wrong!

  • @4004stu4004 wrong!

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