I’ve had this set of multiplying bottles for a number of years and have a few tips and ideas to add. 1) It’s easy for the bottles to get rotated, and for this to only be discovered when they are produced (particularly if they are transported ‘nested’ as they can roll/rotate on route to the venue). As a precaution to prevent bottles being produced facing backwards, I added a sharpie mark to the inside of the mouth of each bottle (at the front). This way you can easily glance in the tops of the tubes and see the marks are all lined up at the front and know the bottles are the right way round. Any that are out of line can be corrected/rotated before the performance without needing to remove the bottles from the tubes (very useful if performed in a venue where the setup is visible to the audience in advance of the performance). (BTW the grape and mango bottles being dark in colour so need a small sticker or piece of electrical tape inside to sharpie mark the front. 2) If you aren’t performing using glasses in the ‘nest’ of bottles, you can fit a 330ml can of lemonade inside (increasing the number of items produced from each tube) Note that this doesn’t change the timing of your routine as instead of the first time the tubes are lifted to show ‘nothing’, they are instead lifted to show 2 cans, and the tubes don’t cover the cans again (so the routine ends with 12 bottles and cans. 6 different drinks x 2, rather than 5) 3) There’s actually a lot of room around the necks of the bottles for more production items. You can even just start by removing upturned glasses from the tubes. 4) For a routine about producing drinks I think the tubes should be themed accordingly. I’d suggest wrapping the tubes in brown paper and either designing a label or just cutting a label off a large ‘mixed fruit’ squash bottle to wrap around the brown paper tube, to look more like supermarket packaging and less like a magic prop. (You could even scan the bottle label and print it A4 landscape to make it more visual). Hope this helps, and good luck with the routine.
That sequence came together real nice, I'm curious if there is a way of putting caps on the Orange Juice bottles and flicking them off before the final beat? It looks like this is a fun routine coming together good luck guys
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I’ve had this set of multiplying bottles for a number of years and have a few tips and ideas to add.
1) It’s easy for the bottles to get rotated, and for this to only be discovered when they are produced (particularly if they are transported ‘nested’ as they can roll/rotate on route to the venue). As a precaution to prevent bottles being produced facing backwards, I added a sharpie mark to the inside of the mouth of each bottle (at the front). This way you can easily glance in the tops of the tubes and see the marks are all lined up at the front and know the bottles are the right way round. Any that are out of line can be corrected/rotated before the performance without needing to remove the bottles from the tubes (very useful if performed in a venue where the setup is visible to the audience in advance of the performance). (BTW the grape and mango bottles being dark in colour so need a small sticker or piece of electrical tape inside to sharpie mark the front.
2) If you aren’t performing using glasses in the ‘nest’ of bottles, you can fit a 330ml can of lemonade inside (increasing the number of items produced from each tube) Note that this doesn’t change the timing of your routine as instead of the first time the tubes are lifted to show ‘nothing’, they are instead lifted to show 2 cans, and the tubes don’t cover the cans again (so the routine ends with 12 bottles and cans. 6 different drinks x 2, rather than 5)
3) There’s actually a lot of room around the necks of the bottles for more production items. You can even just start by removing upturned glasses from the tubes.
4) For a routine about producing drinks I think the tubes should be themed accordingly. I’d suggest wrapping the tubes in brown paper and either designing a label or just cutting a label off a large ‘mixed fruit’ squash bottle to wrap around the brown paper tube, to look more like supermarket packaging and less like a magic prop. (You could even scan the bottle label and print it A4 landscape to make it more visual).
Hope this helps, and good luck with the routine.
That sequence came together real nice, I'm curious if there is a way of putting caps on the Orange Juice bottles and flicking them off before the final beat? It looks like this is a fun routine coming together good luck guys
Maybe multiplying OK bottles,… I like these episodes on show building
Wow I posted my comment before the bottle bit came in, lol
Change it to a basket ball or a large Carton of OJ