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Secrets to Real-Life Disney Tricks Revealed

0h 11m video Published Aug 12, 2024 Transcribed Jul 24, 2026 Justin Flom Justin Flom
Beginner 5 min read For: DIY enthusiasts and fans of practical special effects who want to recreate cartoon gags at home.
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"Delivers on the promise of revealing secrets behind real-life Disney-like tricks, though some effects are more elaborate than others."

AI Summary

This video reveals the secrets behind creating real-life cartoon gags and special effects, including a dress that changes into three different dresses, a trap door gag, a door within doors, and a baby-flattening illusion. The creator explains the setup and mechanics behind each effect.

[00:02]
Introduction to Cartoon Gags

The video shows how to create cartoon gags and special effects in real life, revealing the secrets behind them.

[00:14]
Three-Dress Change Effect

A blue dress with elastic holds up other parts. The dress changes into three different dresses: blue, pink, and yellow. The dresses fold up into each other, hidden by a twirl.

[02:00]
Trap Door Gag

A real trap door was built in the house. The lever is fake; a secret button on top activates electromagnets holding 1,600 lbs. The person drops through when the button is pressed.

[03:07]
Cartoon Saw Gag

A comedic bit where a cartoon character cuts a circle around himself and falls through. A subfloor was added, and a camera trick hides the seam of the cut circle.

[04:33]
Door Within Doors

A secret passageway built from a coat closet, inspired by Alice in Wonderland. Doors open alternately left and right to avoid scooting. Includes a Rolling Stones telephone, dryer balls, and a finger that opens a wall door.

[06:41]
Gun Room Reveal

Inside the doors is a gun room with Nerf and Super Soaker guns. The tunnel leads to a smaller door, reminiscent of Alice in Wonderland.

[07:30]
Baby Flattening Illusion

A ringer flattens a baby using a box with a 45-degree mirror creating an optical illusion. A latex baby is used, and pool noodles on a gear simulate flattening.

[10:26]
Final Dive and Outro

The creator dives into a foam pit, hinting at a future video. He thanks viewers and promotes shirts.

The video successfully demonstrates how to recreate classic cartoon gags in real life using practical effects and clever illusions, encouraging viewers to try them at home.

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Tutorial Checklist

1 00:14 Create a dress with elastic to hold multiple dresses that fold into each other.
2 02:00 Build a trap door with electromagnets holding 1,600 lbs, activated by a hidden button.
3 03:07 Add a subfloor and cut a circle for the saw gag; use camera trick to hide seam.
4 04:33 Build doors that open alternately left and right to create a tunnel effect.
5 07:30 Use a box with a 45-degree mirror to create an optical illusion for the baby flattening.
6 09:16 Attach pool noodles to a gear to simulate flattening when cranked.

Study Flashcards (8)

What holds the multiple dresses together in the dress change effect?

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Elastic around the dress.

00:14

How much weight do the electromagnets in the trap door hold?

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About 1,600 lbs.

02:44

What is the secret to the trap door lever?

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The lever is fake; a hidden button on top activates the electromagnets.

02:29

How is the seam of the cut circle hidden in the saw gag?

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Using a camera trick.

04:06

What inspired the door within doors effect?

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Alice in Wonderland.

05:02

Why do the doors open alternately left and right?

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To prevent the doors from scooting in the door frame.

05:29

What is used to create the optical illusion in the baby flattening box?

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A 45-degree angle mirror.

08:46

What are the pool noodles attached to in the flattening gag?

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A little gear that looks like it does something.

09:16

💡 Key Takeaways

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Three-Dress Change

Demonstrates a complex costume change effect using folding and twirling.

00:14
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Real Trap Door

Shows a practical build of a trap door with electromagnets for a cartoon gag.

02:00
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Door Within Doors

Creative use of alternating door openings to create a tunnel effect inspired by Alice in Wonderland.

04:33
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Baby Flattening Illusion

Uses a mirror box and pool noodles to simulate a cartoon flattening effect.

07:30

[00:02] and doing cartoon gags and special effects in real life and showing you the secrets of how to do it let's see what we

[00:14] effect it's got 1.6 billion views as of us filming this I'm going to show you exactly how we set this up so first is the blue dress there's elastic around the dress to hold up all the other parts so we're trying to one up the Fairy

[00:29] Godmother because we want the dress to actually change into three different actually change into three different dresses great yes for the final dress is this yellow one now she is wearing three dresses and jean shorts but all of this

[00:43] will end up hidden as the dresses fold up into each other this dress is going to hide and now the last one all of those little sequence go away and hide

[00:56] the commenters on YouTube said was the ugliest dress of the three buttons and ugliest dress of the three buttons and we now have packed into just her top three dresses but what's going to be cool is it's going to change three times

[01:11] usually someone would throw up a blanket or something like that but not here what the dress change looks like we give a little twirl as we do it so it looks all fun and fancy are you going to twirl too I mean I can twirl if you want me to

[01:26] I just don't look as good give us the 360 of what it looks like great great ooh you can't go in that good Heavens child you can't go in that this just won't do go for it oh gosh dress change number one brand new

[01:41] dress and ready this one's my favorite one see if we can get that yellow there it goes three different dresses costume changed and no don't show them that they don't know the secret pull the lever

[02:00] is a great gag and I actually did this in real life I have a trapo in my house in real life I have a trapo in my house and that is me dressed up as groon gron and that is me dressed up as groon gron groon cron gron grank is the other buff

[02:14] dumb guy y okay sorry gron for you watching uh yeah I got dressed up as a big muscle guy my wife Anna she uh is great as whatever that villain's character name is but that is a real trapo that she's standing on I built a

[02:29] real trap door in my house now here's a little side note for you that lever does nothing uh that lever is total pretend there's a secret button on the top of that lever which is attached to electromagnets that are holding her up

[02:44] right now the electromagnets hold about 1,600 lb I've got two of them on here we're going to see her drop through right hold the lever right hold the lever crun wrong lever that's a great gag

[03:07] slowly going around the cartoon character as he's standing on the floor now the only thing that I've added to this cartoon gag is I wanted a comedic bit similar to when Wy coyote jumps off a cliff and doesn't immediately fall

[03:21] a cliff and doesn't immediately fall watch this

[03:38] talking about we put a subfloor on top of it so it would look like the house was under construction we perfectly cut a circle that I'm going to cut around on that trap door the trap door itself was how big is a trap door 3 ft 3T Square

[03:54] okay when we made a circle we lose real estate of that hole and now I'm falling through something less and I'm holding a sharp saw so a I really fall through the

[04:06] trap door B we did do a camera trick so that we could hide the seam of that that we could hide the seam of that Circle to get that cartoon effect uh of the saw going around the ring that's one of my favorite cartoon bits and I was

[04:19] thrilled that I was able to actually do it for real in the house next it for real in the house next [Music]

[04:33] inside of a door inside of a door inside of a door I built in this house a door inside of a door inside of a door inside of a door for my daughters it was once a secret passageway it was once a coat closet I turned it into a secret

[04:47] passageway by knocking a hole into the wall adding some spandex to create a cool unfolding portal but then I thought man it would be really cool to create this effect and subliminally I I must have seen Alice in Wonderland because as

[05:02] I'm building this I the end product turns out just like Alice as I did it I Wonderland at all actually I thought I was creating something original uh when

[05:14] actually I was stealing from the great Walt Disney this is awesome in that movie they do the exact same thing that we ended up having to Workshop because uh the original thought was door opens you know right to left right to left for

[05:29] the next one and the next one you can't do that because then the door would slowly scoot this way in the door frame what you ended up having to do is first door this way next door this way and back and forth I don't need to show you

[05:43] look at [Music] it that's what's up this was once a coat closet and now it's very interesting I got to find some really cool Hardware uh as you saw

[05:58] in other clips of this video my daughters love this thing this is a Rolling Stones telephone that I super glued in these are dryer balls there's a

[06:10] little finger sticking out here if you see really close and that finger can open up to our next door it's not even a door it's just a wall I hand painted those bricks that are sticking out and then of course we

[06:23] have the safe really I was almost more inspired by Get Smart inspired by Get Smart [Music] there it goes follow me inside it's my gun room inside is where I have every

[06:41] gun I wanted in the 9s notice they are all Nerf and super soers I mean we got all Nerf and super soers I mean we got the OG super soer right here the super soer 50 from laramy we coming close this was The

[06:56] Accidental thing that actually lines up perfectly with Alis Wonderland which is you come through that tunnel of doors and you end up at the much smaller door which uh is our guy right there curious and curious oh yeah this is weird uh the

[07:12] and curious oh yeah this is weird uh the there's a foam pit trampoline and a fort that my girls have under there uh we'll save that for another save that for another [Music]

[07:30] of course Tom is going to be totally flattened through those ringers this is a really great we we see in cartoons a lot cartoon characters get flattened by a steamroller or whatever Tom and Jerry is maybe the most famous example I think

[07:44] we can recreate this in real life I'm going to show you exactly how oh yeah this is great so we have a ringer just like in the cartoon for the use when we didn't have electronic dryers and that's how they would get the

[07:58] like I have experience in it it's way older than me this will be our ringer to flatten our baby this is my daughter Holly she does not look happy about Holly she does not look happy about being flat uh and this is the secret to

[08:12] this real life cartoon gag let's get the box no not the baby okay we have a real baby here as well not a real baby this is a latex baby for training purposes this guy's falling apart if he loses this left arm he'll be all right if he

[08:27] lost the right arm he'd have one left okay here hold on to the baby thank you okay here's the cool thing about this box this box looks like an empty box but box this box looks like an empty box but that is actually because inside the

[08:46] because uh it's an optical illusion because of those lines you don't see the seam of the 45 degree angle mirror and because of the mathematics of how that mirror looks that means I can come in here here I can put my whole upper half

[09:02] right there and it looks like it just goes into nothing it's really really crazy or if I were to take baby baby right there the baby can go right inside the box and look like it's gone but this is how you make it look

[09:16] flat first we need flat baby to go right here into the ringer and if you want to make one of these at home you can it's just pool noodles cut and attached to a little gear that looks like it does something but uh it just cranks it let's

[09:32] see this a little disturbing looking this is a very realistic looking baby I got off of etsy it is adorably cute and used in training purposes for medical something I really don't know why uh we use it here because we have to put a

[09:47] baby in a box and I don't think you can put a real baby in a box without making people angry I don't say that from experience I say that just I'm I'm guessing and I say that having sawed my real baby and once that wasn't a fake

[10:00] baby that was a real baby uh we'll reveal how we do that in a different video okay baby it's in a rough shape it looks like it's really gone through the ringer it's about to go through the ringer e and

[10:14] then we can put it there and you give it a crank and it looks like the baby is completely flattened and wherever they thought the real baby was is gone thus

[10:26] it must be the flat baby don't show off the mirror otherwise people will know how the trick works uh unless you want a lot of views on YouTube in which case absolutely show how the trick works and now last thing I'm going to dive between

[10:41] now last thing I'm going to dive between These Bars into yikes my Pham pit so my foam pit is up very high uh and it's not a cartoon effect but it's the next video I'm working on so last thing that'll be a future video this will be a future

[10:58] video and if you like the shirts we've got these shirts available now but I wanted to thank you guys for watching if you found this randomly in the long form feed of YouTube hit subscribe there's lots more to see but for

[11:13] lots more to see but for now hey wo

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