Make the biggest thing disappear

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Points

15

Disquals

0

• Sebastian immediately arrives at the idea of inflating a giant balloon and then making that disappear. However, instead of bursting the balloon, he decides to let go of it and make it fly away and deflate of its own accord, which is a lot slower and less effective. The balloon bounces around the garden while slowly farting out air like a giant whoopee cushion. Lasses awards his effort fourth place.
• Simon's initial thought is to flush something down the toilet, but he recognises that there is a size limitation on that technique. He then tries out using a smoke machine to fill a bag with mist so that he can create a smokescreen, but that plan doesn't work out for him. He instead falls back on using a shovel to block Mark's view of the Stormester house, claiming that the house itself has disappeared. Lasse places him last in the task.
• After reading the task, Eva immediately asks if she can get a smoke bomb. She then asks if she could dissolve something in acid. She settles on making the Stormester house disappear through the use of a smokescreen, obscuring the camera's view of the building. She then holds up a photo of herself standing in an open field, to create the illusion that the house behind her has disappeared. Lasse awards her third place for her effort.
• Julie uses forced perspective to make it appear that she and Mark are viewing a gigantic sculpture of a rubber duck (titled 'Das große Entling' [sort-of German for 'The big duckling'] in Bernstorff Park, in Copenhagen. While discussing the sculpture with Mark, she distracts him by pointing his attention in the other direction. While he is looking away, she appears to magically make the sculpture fly away from them at high speed, surprising Mark when he turns back around. A second video reveals how the trick was done, with a member of the production team whipping the duck away from the camera lens as Julie mimed pushing it away with her hands. Lasse awards her second place for her convincing illusion.
• Before Martin's attempt is shown, he reads a biblical excerpt from Paul the Apostle's First Letter to the Corinthians: "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast, it is not proud. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." A video is then shown in which Martin apparently decides, at the alter of his own wedding, to not marry his then fiancé. In the studio, he confirms that it was filmed at his actual wedding. Lasse agrees with Martin that it is possible, with the use of just one word, to make love disappear, and awards him first place in the task. [Note: It was subsequently reported by the Danish news website bt.dk that Martin had cleared the stunt with both his fiancé, Sara-Lisa Schuster-Rossel, and her mother - who was also the minister marrying them - before doing it, and that they had filmed it after the completion of their actual wedding ceremony.]