# Quick change artists. Best guess at how is done?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 29, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-artists-best-guess-at-how-is-done/611115 "2012-01-29T22:32:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-artists-best-guess-at-how-is-done/611115/21 "2012-02-01T17:27:22Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> This is why I love Penn and Teller. They seem to know when knowing how the trick is done is more interesting. They brought back in me an interest in magic that had been gone for years.

For stage magic, there’s really nobody out there but P&T. The Crisp Angle MindFuck guy is boring as all hell, and his tricks are way too obvious and lame. There are lots of close up magicians with great acts, but they don’t get that much attention in the modern media era.

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**Post date:** [February 1, 2012, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-change-artists-best-guess-at-how-is-done/611115/22 "2012-02-01T18:06:34Z")

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I had a chance to talk to the members of a quick change act who performed with a well known circus. They didn’t tell me the details but they did say, as others have mentioned here, “There’s lots of velcro involved.”

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