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ROSALI^ CURRIER/JOURNAL
Greg Bordner, president of Abbott Magic Company, shows a bouquet similar, but less elaborate, than the one he's creating for Disney.
Abbott trick makes Disney connection
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BY ROSALIE CURRIER
STURGIS JOURNAL
COLON —
G
reg Bordner is up to new tricks. Bordner, president of Abbott Magic Company, has a contract with Walt Disney/Disney World to make a magical bouquet of flowers.
As a second generation magician, Bordner is good at his trade. His father, Recil Bordner, was an assistant for Percy Abbott in the 1930s.
"We've made tricks for Mickey and Minnie before," he said.
Back in the 1980s when Disney on Ice toured,
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Bordner sold them "Abbott's Spectacular Finale."
According to the Web site www.abbottmagic.com, the finale features pagodas transforming into a "colossal display of parasols, flags, ribbons, garlands, confetti and rainbow streamers cascading onto the stage in a never-ending stream. Then, seemingly from 'out of the blue', a series of colored banners appear... to completely fill the stage!"
Circuses buy that trick too, Bordner said.
"You'd have to see it to believe it."
Another Disney purchase was for the parade route at
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Disney World in Orlando. Mickey gave Minnie a Bordn'er-made bouquet of flowers for their anniversary.
For this new bouquet that Bordner is still creating, Disney wanted a chromed metal cone that the audience could see was hollow, but when a magician places the cone over the flowerpot and whisks it back off, an enormous bouquet of vibrant flower appears, he said.
Bordner's sample bouquet is a $350 trick compared to the $1,500 one for Disney.
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