Actually there used to be a magician doing this all the time on stage. The
joke of cores was there was a flash and all that remained was the girls
bikini. No idea how it was done but obviously substitution and some hidden
area I'd imagine.
Brian

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 10:59:08 +0100, "Bert Coules"
wrote:

For reason far too boring to go into (but related to a stage play) I have
to
build a full-sized dummy person which has to disappear on cue. The figure
will be wearing a full-face mask and long flowing robes, and they *don't*
have to vanish: the effect should be that the man disintegrates and the
mask
and robes just collapse, empty.

Any thoughts on how to construct the dummy figure? A lightweight head and
shoulders which support the robes, suspended and released from above? A
collapsible lazy-tongs arrangement rising from a base, again with a dummy
head at the top? An inflatable figure punctured with a pin (and
presumably
patched up each night for the next show)?

Any and all suggestions will be very welcome. Thanks.


One of these perhaps https://tinyurl.com/yaxsbe9b :-)

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