How Did Collins Key Do His Magic Trick On America’s Got Talent
The question – how did Collins Key do his magic trick on America’s Got Talent 2013? The youngest magician to perform on the Radio City, Collins Key, amazed the judges every time he does magic tricks on stage.
The last time he performed, he impressed everyone by predicting the tweets of the judges. How did he do it?
Watch the video again.
Can you spot his tricks?
– The secret was the assistant and the ladder.
– At 3.15 you can see the hand reflection on the box, definitely his left hand. You can see the left arm was at 90 degree. Definitely it is a reflection of left hand.
– We can see his hand at 3:15 and there is nothing inside the box. The paper was on the ladder.
From one of the video commenters: Why is the box just out of reach? If Collins needed a ladder, why not have it out on the stage? Why does he suggest he is unprepared on how to get the box and surprised when someone brings out a ladder? Obviously, he was just looking for a reason for his assistant to bring him the paper with the answers inside the ladder.
Watch: More of Collins Key’s previous performances and other AGT videos.
Photo of his hand going out of the bottom of of the box and grabbing something.
wow that’s sneaky. so did he have his asistant write the answers down as the judges were saying them?
Sneaky
The paper was removed from a plastic canister so it could not have sat on the latter and been pulled through.
The tube is made of clear, lightweight vinyl, and the ends of the tube are soft rubber..they can easily be flattened out, and they will spring back into position once they are released. The top of the ladder has a trick spring-loaded door and latch mechanism. As the judges say the 4 key words, Collins Key’s assistant is backstage writing the answers on the sheet. He then folds the sheet, puts the completed sheet in the tube, flattens the tube out, puts the tube in the ladder top and sets the latch. The box has no bottom, but it has a little hook that releases the latch, and you can carefully see Collins snap the box into place as he sets the box on the top of the ladder. When the latch is engaged, the secret door on the ladder springs upwards and the tube and ends spring back into normal shape inside the box. Collins simply takes the tube out, takes off one end and removes the completed sheet, then reads it. This all can be proven by the fact that the sheet has folds in it, because it was flattened. If Collins had merely written the words a week prior, then put the sheet in the tube, as he stated, he would have rolled the sheet into a tube and placed it into the tube-shaped container, and the sheet would have no folds.
I did not see the reflection of the left hand on the box at 3:15 and did not understand the significance. Please explain.
Collins wouldn’t know what would the judges said….