T-188 Lucky Rabbit

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T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by JohnM » Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:27 am

Name: Lucky Rabbit

T-Number: T-188

Inventor: Tomoyuki Shimomura

Year: 1999



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Re: T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by JohnM » Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:31 am

A quintessential Tenyo.

So simple, so ingenious.

The shell game given new life with a magical rabbit.

Totally inspectable.

When I perform, I always reach for the wrong ones first and then quickly grab the right one.

I often repeat it as well.

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Re: T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by VictorS » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:38 am

Ohh I need this one...because I haven`t owned one.
I was told this is a must have and one of the best Tenyo ever created.

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Re: T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by SimonC » Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:04 am

I have a similar trick where a magician hides rather than a rabbit. He has a magnet in his hat and you hide a secret something in your hand. This version looks a lot cleaner but I dont own it either. Annoyingly they had one in Davenports for years and I never grabbed it. D'OH!
Now you see me...

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Re: T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by HerveM » Mon Nov 14, 2016 6:25 am

I love this item. My note is 10.

The gimmick is fabulous: it is simple, almost undetectable and is removed before inspection.
However, the gimmik can break and Tenyo predicts it (even if it did not happen to me).

One of the best ;)

@VictorS : Ask JohnM :) , we see two Lucky Rabbits on the photo :shock:

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Re: T-188 Lucky Rabbit

Post by Richard Kaufman » Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:19 am

This trick appears in many many tens of thousands of magic sets sold since the turn of the 19th century. They used a horse hair.

What Shimomura did that is ingenious (in addition to creating more interesting props) is create a way to allow the nylon strand to emerge and retract, and lock. Sugawara might have developed the locking system if he was still working at Tenyo when this came out. I really can't remember offhand.

Great trick. There's one on eBay right now, no box, for a reasonable starting bid.

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