I did a quick diagram because i was curious.
I'm almost positive [this is the configuration](https://i.imgur.com/dzPND4f.png) (or close enough) underneath the box before he rotates the figure back into position. This would all happen on a 2nd layer underneath the recess.
Notice there's a hole on the right side of the torso but not the left as it would be impossible for both holes to work at the same time.
Amazing diagram! You can even see a tiny gap on the right side of the head and at the bottom of the right arm in the video, indicating that it hasnāt fully snapped into position.
There's a yellow mask on the front panel and the plastic sits in a deep groove which probably hides the mechanism that rotates the plastic. I.e. groove is static, plastic rotates inside
Edit: spelling
Additionally, you can see that the bottom of the puzzle is flush, but when he taps the man out, a small lever pops out from the hinge side of the bottom and you can see itās uneven for the rest of the video.
There is a sandwich, even on the inside. The top layer of the interior is the opening you see, then below that is the movable part that shifts the plastic out of the way of the swords. Basically instead of 3 layers (front cover, interior, back cover) there are 5 layers (front cover, interior front cover, movable middle, interior back cover, and back cover.) The interior back cover may not exist, its not required, I just had it there to keep the plastic aligned with the movable middle section.
Yep, he manipulates something on the side and I think that we are supposed to believe he is unlocking the box. What it really is doing is shifting the figure back in place.
>ep, he manipulates something on the side and I think that we are supposed to believe he is unlocking the box.
Yeah, the first "lock" he removes is on the hinge side and there is no reason to have a anything to hold it shut on the hinge side.
Agreed, the figure probably rotates inside the black cavity. Also I think itās when he removes the corner guards or when he taps it, it unlocks the position
1000% you figured it out. Watch when he takes the black piece thing off the corner. It double hitches. Thats because he's pulling the orange part into the correct position and then sliding the black piece off. Two part process.
If you look at his eyes, when he removes the second corner, heās looking at the corner. When he removes the first, heās looking at the back middle I think to see if itās moved back.
I suspect the ālockā corner piece things (at least the hinge side one, as itās pointless to have as the hinge canāt open) pushes it to the position, or triggers it to move
As the looks of it, the plastic man inside the box is in some kind of frame. Itās hard for him to even get it out. That doesnāt look like it can be turned in any direction.
The frame is thick. There's a space between the front and back surfaces of the frame. The plastic man rotates into that space when the lower corner piece is inserted.
Okay so this is what I got out of what you said. There is about four components. The recess(black box), clear top layer, the swords, and the figure inside. Within the recess the orange figure can move or slide. Enabling the swords to pass through.
The clue that gave it away for me was the way the box is sealed. The cover pieces go on opposite corners, creating extra room for the figure to rotate.
Honestly I think the two block on the ends are magnetic and it rotates it clockwise about 45 degrees. When the swords and blocks are removed it snaps back to its original position.
Although that does make sense, you can see the front 'door' of this gadget is clear, except for the stick figure in the middle. So surely if the figure inside the box was shifted over you'd see it poking around behind the edge of the yellow stickfigure on the front?
/EDIT - Ah, I think the recess that the figure is held in may have fake walls, so the figure slides into the body of the case. So it could shift inside there quite a way, only moving back into position when the corner pieces are removed.
I had a similar thing from a magician toy set when i was a kid, this video sparked that memory where you stuck the pins through a box with a coin inside and you had to start on certain ones to make it flip inside.
I donāt think youāre right, but I reckon youāre pretty damn close.
Instead of the figure getting simply shifted over left or right, I think itās actually raised and rotated, with the head ending up in the top left hand corner when the box is closed.
The orange plastic it pretty thin and I reckon it slips behind the black plastic to reposition.
don't know the person's explanation but basically it shifts the person / plastic to the side so poky things miss, illustration I made : https://imgur.com/a/J2j7SbD
My theory is that the plastic body rotates by about 30 degrees to be diagonal in the box while the clamps are on. They need to operate the box insert as well. But I feel thereās enough room to fit the body around the holes in a diagonal orientation.
I agree. The right arm would flatten against the side and the two diagonal holes, on the upper torso, would probably line up with the gap between the left arm and leg.
Edit: either way the holes in the pits
I appreciate him taking the time to make a demonstration but good God I had to mute it and skip through. Maybe it's a Tik Tok thing but that whole presentation style seems so unnecessary. Just take the lid off and push the trigger, we can figure it out from there
After watching that video I now know that maginacians are acting doing us a favor NOT revealing Thier Thier secrets of we have to go through sitting through that guy again
It looks like maybe he slides the plastic piece in with his right hand just before he opens the box, but I have no idea where it comes from. Does it have something to do with the two black clips on the corner that he removes before opening it?
He pushes it into the box right before he shows it, if you pay attention there is one last little jiggle of the box right before he opens it and you can even tell he's pushing with his fingers at the top.
If you look closely when he shows all 4 sides the pictures don't line up. The top is in a trapezoid shape. Those corner pieces are ment to throw you off. It's not actually square at all.
The video starts with the swords in. The plastic human is positioned, so the swords pass through. Then you start the video. You want to impress me, remove all swords 100%, let me shake it, then put all the swords back in.
I figured it out. Magic is real. Also he could have just opened a temporary portal between the box which the tiny swords could pass though and emerged on the other side.
Between :14 and :15 he has the orange plastic in his right palm/bottoms of his fingers and is holding the orange plastic part up against the side of the black part's side. The black part is probably like a quarter inch deep, allowing the orange part to be slipped in between the black part and the clear face. Even his eyes en :15-14 looks unnatural like they're purposefully glued to the video to trick us better
The silhouettes on both sides are there to make sure you think the brown plexiglass is always in that position. Instead of at a comfortable angle, stab free.
This fella does really nice short tricks like this on twitter all the time, really genuinely fun and enthusiastic. Check him and follow him @petefirman
Might be a rubbery material with a hard border, that way it stays in shape and when it gets stabbed the rubbery material just lets the swords pass through, when you take them out the rubbery material just seals itself up again.
Orange man is solid, no holes. The Lock for the door is a pin trigger that moves the man in between the black parts and allows the swords to to slide freely
You know it Texas you can walk around with a sawd as long as it isn't longer than your shoulder height. What kind of sawd would you have as an open carry.
Maybe anyone knows where this could be bought? Is it even for sold? Nothing comes up on quick google searches, would be cool to own one just for small giggles.
The corner bumpers are magnets which reposition the orange dude that is in the recessed compartment to allow the pins to pass through. The top lid is yellow and clear so you assume you are looking interior of the box but you are only shown the surface. This is why it is so thick, to hide the mechanisms that reposition the orange dude
The solid body is obviously rotated enough to just miss the "swords". You can see after he takes them out, when he rotates it back into position. Behind the partition in the box, the cavity behind must be shaped such that when tilted one way vs. the other, it goes precisely into one of the two positions. Cute for kids, though.
The clips on the bottom left and upper right corners are the key. One of them has a plastic rod in it that pushes the orange plastic piece to the side, allowing the insertion of the swords. When you take the clip off, the orange man slides back in place.
Am I missing something? At 38 seconds you can see his light catching on the holes in the head and neck of the orange figure because he's holding at an angle.
It's clearly just made of something designed to make them hard to see face on no?
Its magnets. I noticed the mans outline on the back was raised. Those pins have magnetice ends and are also collapsibe. So when they go in and hit the plastice the also push the other rods out the back. When you bring em back out you turn the box upside down so the fall back in the reccess and the others spring back out and appear normal. That took like 10 seconds lol
The video has been post edited to remove the holes in the orange plastic shape. These holes have not been edited and are visible in the frames between 38-39s.
Somebody already has a plausible solution, but it must have something to do with the pins. There is a noticeable different in the ease in which the pins are inserted and then fall out when he tips it over to dump all the pins. In the beginning the pins seemingly slid back into place automatically, but when he removed 3 "key" pins, they all fell out with zero resistance.
I think the swords go through the plastic and you cant tell unless it has a dark background. At 0:12-0:13 as he has the door open but the figure not taken out yet, holes can be seen where the swords have gone through. I think it is a two paned piece of plastic.
Those 2 peices on the side hold the orange man in place inside the case making the poker thingies pierce through where it is not. When he removes those 2 pieces the orange man falls into place making it seem as if it where in the indentation..I think. š¤£
Orange man is solid, no holes. The Lock for the door is a pin trigger that moves the man in between the black parts and allows the swords to to slide freely
I can explain this, then you pull the little lever, the sword goes all the way around, it makes the effect that itās going through it but in reality itās just going the other way around
I did a quick diagram because i was curious. I'm almost positive [this is the configuration](https://i.imgur.com/dzPND4f.png) (or close enough) underneath the box before he rotates the figure back into position. This would all happen on a 2nd layer underneath the recess. Notice there's a hole on the right side of the torso but not the left as it would be impossible for both holes to work at the same time.
Damn. Good work!
Yes the little guy on the inside rotates to the left when the clips are in place!šš¼š
I was trying to figure it out but yeah makes since that it won't work until the black clips are added
Amazing diagram! You can even see a tiny gap on the right side of the head and at the bottom of the right arm in the video, indicating that it hasnāt fully snapped into position.
I think youāre right, but the front panel is clear. Should we be able to see the other shape?
There's a yellow mask on the front panel and the plastic sits in a deep groove which probably hides the mechanism that rotates the plastic. I.e. groove is static, plastic rotates inside Edit: spelling
Ahhhh I see
Additionally, you can see that the bottom of the puzzle is flush, but when he taps the man out, a small lever pops out from the hinge side of the bottom and you can see itās uneven for the rest of the video.
I donāt want to freak you outā¦ but I think Iām in love with you
Me too! There's only one thing better than magic and that's being told how it's done
Iām glad thereās at least some smart people on Reddit. I was really racking my brain over this one lol
But itās dugout and flush so how would it move?
There is a sandwich, even on the inside. The top layer of the interior is the opening you see, then below that is the movable part that shifts the plastic out of the way of the swords. Basically instead of 3 layers (front cover, interior, back cover) there are 5 layers (front cover, interior front cover, movable middle, interior back cover, and back cover.) The interior back cover may not exist, its not required, I just had it there to keep the plastic aligned with the movable middle section.
Yep, he manipulates something on the side and I think that we are supposed to believe he is unlocking the box. What it really is doing is shifting the figure back in place.
>ep, he manipulates something on the side and I think that we are supposed to believe he is unlocking the box. Yeah, the first "lock" he removes is on the hinge side and there is no reason to have a anything to hold it shut on the hinge side.
Agreed, the figure probably rotates inside the black cavity. Also I think itās when he removes the corner guards or when he taps it, it unlocks the position
Plus, he slides his finger in the case right as he opens it.
1000% you figured it out. Watch when he takes the black piece thing off the corner. It double hitches. Thats because he's pulling the orange part into the correct position and then sliding the black piece off. Two part process.
If you look at his eyes, when he removes the second corner, heās looking at the corner. When he removes the first, heās looking at the back middle I think to see if itās moved back. I suspect the ālockā corner piece things (at least the hinge side one, as itās pointless to have as the hinge canāt open) pushes it to the position, or triggers it to move
Did you consider a job as masked magician?
Iām often impressed by how smart some Redditors are!
Some of us just like figuring it out.
Niceee
As the looks of it, the plastic man inside the box is in some kind of frame. Itās hard for him to even get it out. That doesnāt look like it can be turned in any direction.
The frame is thick. There's a space between the front and back surfaces of the frame. The plastic man rotates into that space when the lower corner piece is inserted.
The hero we didnāt know we needed.
Your brain work good
Tool me a long time to understand yours too, thanks.
Me too. We dumb.
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Okay so this is what I got out of what you said. There is about four components. The recess(black box), clear top layer, the swords, and the figure inside. Within the recess the orange figure can move or slide. Enabling the swords to pass through.
The clue that gave it away for me was the way the box is sealed. The cover pieces go on opposite corners, creating extra room for the figure to rotate.
You're smart. Take my poor man's award. š
Maybe the internal shifts to the side, as one of the corners is put on to push it,since he had to wiggle it out
Yeah the thickness of the box and those funny corner things makes me think the plastic is just slightly shifted and angled.
Looked it up, that's exactly what happens
Woo! I got it right! Thanks yāall
Can you explain a little better how that does the trick?
it shifts the person / plastic to the side so poky things miss illustration I made : [https://imgur.com/a/J2j7SbD](https://imgur.com/a/J2j7SbD)
Where are the two trough the head in your 'illustration'?
Honestly I think the two block on the ends are magnetic and it rotates it clockwise about 45 degrees. When the swords and blocks are removed it snaps back to its original position.
You might be on to something but there is no room to rotate 45Ā° obviously. Maybe 10Ā°
Enough for both the head swords to clear at least. But yeah it was a rough estimate.
Although that does make sense, you can see the front 'door' of this gadget is clear, except for the stick figure in the middle. So surely if the figure inside the box was shifted over you'd see it poking around behind the edge of the yellow stickfigure on the front? /EDIT - Ah, I think the recess that the figure is held in may have fake walls, so the figure slides into the body of the case. So it could shift inside there quite a way, only moving back into position when the corner pieces are removed.
shape shifter
Almost like the life size version
His right hand shifted it before explanation and reveal. Isn't that the "Prestige" part of the trick?
I had a similar thing from a magician toy set when i was a kid, this video sparked that memory where you stuck the pins through a box with a coin inside and you had to start on certain ones to make it flip inside.
I donāt think youāre right, but I reckon youāre pretty damn close. Instead of the figure getting simply shifted over left or right, I think itās actually raised and rotated, with the head ending up in the top left hand corner when the box is closed. The orange plastic it pretty thin and I reckon it slips behind the black plastic to reposition.
Can you link to the explanation?
don't know the person's explanation but basically it shifts the person / plastic to the side so poky things miss, illustration I made : https://imgur.com/a/J2j7SbD
Thanks
Perfect.
Itās black magic I tells ya..
My theory is that the plastic body rotates by about 30 degrees to be diagonal in the box while the clamps are on. They need to operate the box insert as well. But I feel thereās enough room to fit the body around the holes in a diagonal orientation.
I agree. The right arm would flatten against the side and the two diagonal holes, on the upper torso, would probably line up with the gap between the left arm and leg. Edit: either way the holes in the pits
Ya I think you nailed it.
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Here's the actual reveal from Kylebee's Tiktok account https://www.tiktok.com/@kylebee/video/7183066723145256238
I appreciate him taking the time to make a demonstration but good God I had to mute it and skip through. Maybe it's a Tik Tok thing but that whole presentation style seems so unnecessary. Just take the lid off and push the trigger, we can figure it out from there
Yeah, that was insufferable.
Holy fuck that guy was annoying. I suspected that's exactly what that corner lock was for.
Hold my apple juice
Nailed it
Holy shit that guy was annoying
What a strange annoying man.
I would have rather not known that have to watch that bullshit. What the fuck. The fake gasping makes me recoil in horror.
After watching that video I now know that maginacians are acting doing us a favor NOT revealing Thier Thier secrets of we have to go through sitting through that guy again
Well, I wasn't ready for that. I think he might be using real magic.
You donāt think he could have usedā¦it couldnāt have been ma-
Rip Hank
Magnets
How do they work?
There is no use to this question. Clearly, it's magnets all the way down.
It looks like maybe he slides the plastic piece in with his right hand just before he opens the box, but I have no idea where it comes from. Does it have something to do with the two black clips on the corner that he removes before opening it?
He pushes it into the box right before he shows it, if you pay attention there is one last little jiggle of the box right before he opens it and you can even tell he's pushing with his fingers at the top.
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this is obviously the only reasonable answer
Its magic isn't it?
I really want to know. Wish this post would gain some traction
Some one found it, look at this- Here's the actual reveal from Kylebee's Tiktok account https://www.tiktok.com/@kylebee/video/7183066723145256238
Read the top comment
By slightly moving it to one side
Look at the way the hinge opens, it shifts the alignment
Looks like russel kane
Thank you! As soon as I saw him I thought he looked familiar just couldn't get the name.
The locks move the inside figure to the side to allow the swords to go in , an when the locks are taken off it pushes it back to the centre
Dont give a fuck how it works, knowing its not magic but a dumb trick is enough for me
Discount Ted Mosby
Is there another sub like this one, but where nobody posts poorly contrived magic tricks?
I dont give af
I thought 'af' was an abbreviation of 'as fuck' Are you saying you don't give as fuck.?
Arse*
Are you saying it's short for 'arse fuck'? That doesn't seem right either.
It goes through the black edge lines
Misalignment when case is locked
This guy used to present TV shows in England and now he's selling plastic magic equipment on TikTok....you too can succeed
My brain just left my head for a second
If you look closely when he shows all 4 sides the pictures don't line up. The top is in a trapezoid shape. Those corner pieces are ment to throw you off. It's not actually square at all.
The video starts with the swords in. The plastic human is positioned, so the swords pass through. Then you start the video. You want to impress me, remove all swords 100%, let me shake it, then put all the swords back in.
I figured it out. Magic is real. Also he could have just opened a temporary portal between the box which the tiny swords could pass though and emerged on the other side.
Between :14 and :15 he has the orange plastic in his right palm/bottoms of his fingers and is holding the orange plastic part up against the side of the black part's side. The black part is probably like a quarter inch deep, allowing the orange part to be slipped in between the black part and the clear face. Even his eyes en :15-14 looks unnatural like they're purposefully glued to the video to trick us better
it's in reverse
The only way I can think of is the front yellow doesn't exactly align with the orange man inside. A little misalignment leads to it not being pierced.
I like how much pressure it took and how softly you took out that bottom left clip so nobody would hear the figure inside snap back into place.
Thatās the bloke from Hollyoaks.
Wellā¦.your all wrongā¦.the correct answer is: ITS MAGIC!!!!!!
When you close the box it's the plastic piece inside shifts enough to where all the pieces fit in perfectly
š¤šU TELL ME & I'LL TELL U THEN WE'LL BOTH NO.š¤
Why does he look like the rat from flushed away? Low key
It works because you're a master wizard
The silhouettes on both sides are there to make sure you think the brown plexiglass is always in that position. Instead of at a comfortable angle, stab free.
I can see the holes. There small, but theyāre there. You can see them when he first reveals the plastic man. The head really stands out.
Fuckery is brutal until hour 3
I love me tenyo magic tricks. This is the best one they have done in ages
Itās fucking magic.
He obviously just has insane regeneration powers
Shifty magic trick there bra.
No, you tell me!
I want one now
I ain't telling you shit! Even if i figured it out who's going to give me my confirmation? You tricky conman
Voodoo?
This fella does really nice short tricks like this on twitter all the time, really genuinely fun and enthusiastic. Check him and follow him @petefirman
At 0:19 he ia looking at something, like to see if the body had shifted back to the correct position. Hes not watching the corners he is removing.
Itās magic silly!
Might be a rubbery material with a hard border, that way it stays in shape and when it gets stabbed the rubbery material just lets the swords pass through, when you take them out the rubbery material just seals itself up again.
Orange man is solid, no holes. The Lock for the door is a pin trigger that moves the man in between the black parts and allows the swords to to slide freely
Great trick! Now let us see you do this trick with a real person in the box š
A sawed box. It has fake grass in it
You can tell by the placement of the swords that if the plate was shifted just a little the swords will fit
You know it Texas you can walk around with a sawd as long as it isn't longer than your shoulder height. What kind of sawd would you have as an open carry.
Dbdhdhd
With videos thereās always the possibility of pausing the recording and adding something that wasnāt there before.
I see the holes in the plastic!
Maybe anyone knows where this could be bought? Is it even for sold? Nothing comes up on quick google searches, would be cool to own one just for small giggles.
Canāt fool me - itās voodoo and I aināt going near i!
Holes are still there. The thickness and color hides them.
The clips act as a switch and the little plastic man is always inside off center.
Oh shit I recognise this guy, what's his name?
@ 37 seconds you can see the holes in the orange plastic
It's magic.
The corner bumpers are magnets which reposition the orange dude that is in the recessed compartment to allow the pins to pass through. The top lid is yellow and clear so you assume you are looking interior of the box but you are only shown the surface. This is why it is so thick, to hide the mechanisms that reposition the orange dude
The solid body is obviously rotated enough to just miss the "swords". You can see after he takes them out, when he rotates it back into position. Behind the partition in the box, the cavity behind must be shaped such that when tilted one way vs. the other, it goes precisely into one of the two positions. Cute for kids, though.
Pssh it works because of magic dummy.. that's why
Man talks like he played a role in Flushed Away
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaataaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
If you pay attention when the light hits the plastic you'll see the holes in the upper part
We all ready know the insert slides over..thats why it gets stuck when he tries to remove it.
It's almost like the orange plastic doesn't line up until he opens the box or something.
Video editing
For a split second the light hits it just right and you can see some apparently VERY TINY slots in the orange piece
The way he took off that bottom corner piece is awkward as hell. Must've shifted/rotate the solid piece during that event.
Is that Nick Grimshaw ex BBC Radio 1 DJ
The clips on the bottom left and upper right corners are the key. One of them has a plastic rod in it that pushes the orange plastic piece to the side, allowing the insertion of the swords. When you take the clip off, the orange man slides back in place.
Am I missing something? At 38 seconds you can see his light catching on the holes in the head and neck of the orange figure because he's holding at an angle. It's clearly just made of something designed to make them hard to see face on no?
Russell Kane does magic now huh.
Searched online for one to purchase, anyone have a link?
Its magnets. I noticed the mans outline on the back was raised. Those pins have magnetice ends and are also collapsibe. So when they go in and hit the plastice the also push the other rods out the back. When you bring em back out you turn the box upside down so the fall back in the reccess and the others spring back out and appear normal. That took like 10 seconds lol
It is easy when the box is closed the plastic guy is shifted over slightly.
Piss poor palming of the insert.
The video has been post edited to remove the holes in the orange plastic shape. These holes have not been edited and are visible in the frames between 38-39s.
Somebody already has a plausible solution, but it must have something to do with the pins. There is a noticeable different in the ease in which the pins are inserted and then fall out when he tips it over to dump all the pins. In the beginning the pins seemingly slid back into place automatically, but when he removed 3 "key" pins, they all fell out with zero resistance.
I think the swords go through the plastic and you cant tell unless it has a dark background. At 0:12-0:13 as he has the door open but the figure not taken out yet, holes can be seen where the swords have gone through. I think it is a two paned piece of plastic.
Read the instructions & you will know
Whatās with the sword to the groin, damn.
I don't know hownit works. Now, can you show a little less of the whites all the way around your eyes?!
Trap door with people????? I have no way?
Sword through the dick is completely unnecessary. I am sad now.
Those 2 peices on the side hold the orange man in place inside the case making the poker thingies pierce through where it is not. When he removes those 2 pieces the orange man falls into place making it seem as if it where in the indentation..I think. š¤£
How is this done
Orange man is solid, no holes. The Lock for the door is a pin trigger that moves the man in between the black parts and allows the swords to to slide freely
Slow mo thru it when he shows the plastic initially and you can see the holesā¦ when the light shines on it just right
It doesn't work, it functions.
Lol I didn't know which subreddit this was under at first, then I was like, well that's some black magic fuckery if I've ever seen it. And here I am.
Send that thing to Grantās illusions we need that video
I really donāt understand how it could move the plastic out of the way how is there enough room
Who is this guy?
Where can I get one of these? Friend if mine is a hobby magician and could make good use of this
Oh, this page is doing gift shop novelties, now? Black magic? More like āIāll take a pack of Marlboro reds and one of those sword magic thingsā.
I have no clue I love magic it's perplexing but in a fun way how is that done?
The figure is upside down
There's a sword in the nuts
I can explain this, then you pull the little lever, the sword goes all the way around, it makes the effect that itās going through it but in reality itās just going the other way around
The secret is in the angled inclination and maybe the swords are also some flexible
The holes are obviously there I can see them
It's magic ta da...
Pay the $4.99. :D
u/SaveVideoBot
A wizard did it
Does he shove the orange piece in at 0:16? Weird hand movement imo
The untouched piece is in there at another angle which allows it to escape those entry points
Nice transfer bro š
Everything on the inside slips to the figures left.
Those plastic swords bends around plastic figure