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Uncategorized Boards => Events. Balloon, Magic, Etc => Topic started by: Graham Lee on February 10, 2020, 08:26:07 PM
I'm off tomorrow to the Blackpool Magic Convention.
Loading the car up in the morning and driving over to David Crofts to stay
for Tuesday night and then the drive up on Wed. We set the stand on
Thursday and open for business Friday, Saturday and Sunday and
then the long drive home Monday exhausted.
In the past we have had the drum kit, motorbike, cooker and chef,
armchair with beer and remote control and a sea side scene.
So what will we be building this year...............
come over to the stand and say hello and see what it is................XXxx
Just back from the Blackpool Magic Convention, totally exhausted.
Thanks to David Crofts for helping on the stand and also for
building the Lance Burton Magician out of balloons with me.
We will start posting pictures tomorrow.
Getting stock in and unloading late Wed night.
This all gets crammed into my Postman Pat van.
Thursday morning we are both making the magician for the stand and also
setting the stand so its a little presentable for when we open on Friday.
The run down of who made what,
David made the chest, coat and shoes for the design and I made the face,
legs and hands. We both made the lamp post together.
The magician coming along.
We spent some time setting the stand and then back to the design.
We kept putting him together and stepping back to make
sure sizing and proportion looked appropriate.
Still coming together,
we worked out that we both spent about 7 hours making the design.
We added some cufflinks, the start of the lamp post.
In first picture this was the end of day one, we were hoping to have him finished
and also the lamp post but it took a little longer than anticipated.
It took an extra 90 mins on the Friday morning to have him completed.
He was a little flexible so we could pose him a little during the event.
We did make a few designs for the stand.
More from the stand.
Then it was the change bag and cut and restored rope.
David in the picture for scale. We then had him balloon modelling
and another magical classic the linking rings
David made me a cake as it was my birthday while we were away.
It looked like the lamp was alight with this angle for the picture.
Adding the doves. Malky holding onto one of the birds in case it flew away ;)
We had to move the magician as Lance Burton wanted to get his picture taken with the design.
Here is Lance with the Magician, he grew a beard since his promo pictures...oops.
Then it was the rabbit in a hat.
Phileas did a workshop and lecture. I did pop in for 5 mins to the hands on workshop.
He was making his Santa face, the room was very warm, like a sauna.
I did see quite a few people walking about the venue after with their
Santa faces on display.
The Old man Phileas made for a charity that were collecting at the winter gardens.
That's all the pictures we took at the event.
Our interpretation of Lance Burton with the man himself, Lance Burton.
Taken at the Blackpool Magic Convention. The design was built with
David Crofts We did not realise lance had grown a beard......ooops!