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How was the Frozen Alive stunt done??

posted 16 years ago by HotCaliforniaSun
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I didn't get the see the latest episode....i heard he showed how to survive in a block of ice for 7 days...can anyone explain how its done?

thanks.

[–] MISSJINX18 16 years ago

If this is the trick i am thinking of i think it was done with 2 magicians and they swapped around ( one was in a secret tiny room went up through a trap door) every so many hours they took it in turns in the "Ice" it wasnt as cold as they made out aswell they swapped the magicians around by people on the outside would spray some sort of thing over the ice and that gave them enough time to swap with out anyone seeing them then they would just stand up in the ice for so long or sit in the small secret room it even had a tv so they could watch it on the news if i remember it right.
Sorry for the long explanation

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[–] gizmosloth 14 years ago

it was david blaine that did that trick. but it was not valentino that exposed that one. that special was done by somebody different. not sure who it was though. i agree about valentino. 1st of all there are only so many tricks that can be invented. 2nd of all one of the great secrets of magic is that people see the same trick over and over again and dont even know it. so maybe he as a magician watches shows and knows the same secrets are being used over and over again but the audience dont know that. even the older out dated secrets that were exposed on the 1st special can still be amazing to generations to come. if they somehow manage to see valentinos show exposing them then seeing the tricks done wont be the same for them.