Wind-up Toy

30 entries in Cards / Effect Themes / Location / Wind-up Toy
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Theodore Annemann November 1935 on Burling Hull, Phil Smith, Howard Albright and the mechanical Gileegaloo Bird that finds a card, Mr. Rouclere
 		1935 The Jinx (Issue 14) 65
Bobby Bernard Educated Frog
1954 Routined Manipulation Finale 217
Bobby Bernard Novelty Close Up Magic. Demonstration Effect. Clockwork Capers selected card is found by a wind-up toy, brief
 		1958 Magic in Miniature 6
Bill Hendricks The Early Bird wind-up toy finds only card with worm on it
 		1959 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1959) 42
C. R. Appleby Thoughts on Ranch Bird
1962 Ireland's Yearbooks (Issue Yearbook 1962) 28
Harry Lorayne The Pecking Bird card to wallet with entertaining wind-up toy presentation
Also published here 1971 Reputation-Makers 234
Ellison Poland It Takes A Thief selection is in one packet, pecking bird finds card amongst other cards
 		1973 Wonderful Routines of Magic — The First Addendum 13
Karl Fulves Silent Thought Transmission two origami crows on table, circle of cards around them, they move to two selections
 		May 1975 The Pallbearers Review Vol. 9-10 (Vol. 10 No. 7) 960
Edward Marlo Yogi Bird Card Trick wind-up toy finds card, two methods (ungaffed and with set of duplicates)
 		1976 Early Marlo (Issue Oddity & Other Miracles) 99
Steve Beam Mabel using wind-up teeth
 		1978 They Don't Make Trap Doors Like They Used To Do Or You Too Can Walk On Water 26
Walt Lees Nimrod two selected card are found by a wind-up toy, half forcing deck
Related to
  • Peter Warlock's "The Pecking Bird" in "Book of Magic", 1956. P.90
 1980 The Immaculate Card Magic of Walt Lees 17
Jimmy Ray Dumb Bird bird does not find card, selection found in 'contract' envelope
 		1980 A Ray of Magic 18
Walt Lees Nimrod two selected card are found by a wind-up toy, half forcing deck
Also published here
  • Magic Info, Vol. 2 No. 11, Jan./Feb. 1976
 Oct. 1981 Intermagic (Vol. 8 No. 3) 106
Peter Isaacs AC/DC TBSMRR selected card is found by a wind-up toy robot
 		1982 Fork Full of Appetizers 23
Dennis Marks PSI-Cue wind-up robot finds selection
 		Feb. 1982 Magick (Issue 302) 1507
Christian Scherer Robotranspo signed card travels from among four red backed kings to four blue backed kings, both packets secured with rubber bands
 		1997 Karten à la carte 104
Dick Koornwinder The Koornwinder Kar car finds card by stopping next to it when pushed
  • The Apparatus Supplied
  • Explanation of the Basic Principle
Related to 1998 The Koornwinder Kar & The Koornwinder Card Control 4
Dick Koornwinder The Revised Technique for the Koornwinder Kar car finds card by stopping next to it when pushed
 		1998 The Koornwinder Kar & The Koornwinder Card Control 13
Karl Fulves Wheel of Fortune
  • "Dot Com - Tricks and stunts with numbers"
spinner in center of circle layout, card chosen by spinning and counting, predicted
 		1998 The Fine Print (Issue 9) 291
Jerry Mentzer Thoughts on the Pecking Bird some ideas
 		2000 Card File Two 166
Don Alan Ranch Bird Deluxe with half forcing deck
 		2000 In a Class by Himself — The Legacy of Don Alan 85
Thomas Fraps Walk the Walk selected card is found by a wind-up toy, half forcing deck
 		2002 The Boston Trick Party 13
Ron Bauer Chick Trick wind-up toy chicken finds selections, credit information
Inspired by
  • "The Hoppy" (Ron Bauer, New Tops, March 1982)
 2002 Chick Trick 1
Ron Bauer Some Historical Notes on wind-up toy card location plot
 		2002 Chick Trick 18
Bob Ostin Two Routines For The Pecking Bird forcing stack and rough and smooth solutions
 		2005 Bob Ostin — A Lifetime of Magical Inventions 69
Karl Fulves Auto Kinetic blank cards with street names, spectator writes his street on one, arranged in face-down row on table, ungaffed toy car moves towards spectator's card with rubber band held motionless above
Inspired by
  • "Pendulum" (Bob Ostin, marketed effect)
Related to 		2006 Prolix (Issue 1) 1
Karl Fulves The Pecking Bird credit information, Howard Albright's "Herman, The Gilagloo Bird" (1930s)
 		2006 Prolix (Issue 1) 2
Harry Lorayne The Pecking Bird
  • Hidden Gems
card to wallet with entertaining wind-up toy presentation
Also published here Nov. 2007 Genii (Vol. 70 No. 11) 27
John Gaughan The Card Detecting Duck
  • The Chamber of Secrets
 		Nov. 2013 Genii (Vol. 76 No. 11) 18
Juan Tamariz An Example Of A Practical Application Of The Theory Of Symbolic Magic thoughts on multiplying billiard balls and the Koornwinder Car
  • The Magic of the Spheres
  • A Study of a Truly Magical Effect: "El Cochecito"
 		2019 The Magic Rainbow 85