He was supposed to "vanish into the night" and it didn't really work out that way.

The announcer, John Saunders, still had to cover and tell everyone he disappeared even though he was clearly just hanging out in the open in a harness, HAHA!

Magician-daredevil David Blaine finished his latest stunt - hanging upside down over Central Park for 60 hours - then took a "Dive of Death" from a 44-foot-high platform on Wednesday night.

Fans were both delighted and disappointed.

The bat thing lost some luster when Blaine started taking breaks every hour to stand on his own two feet.

Then the dive looked more like a bungee jump.

Shortly after 11 p.m., Blaine nodded and smiled to hundreds of fans watching the stunt as they screamed, "Jump! Jump!" and, "Do it!"

So he did, dropping straight down from the platform and touching the stage below lightly with his toes before cables pulled him back up.

He then hung in the air like a sack of potatoes with a goofy grin on his face, occasionally kicking his legs as though he were running.

The stunt, which aired as part of a two-hour ABC television special Wednesday night, ended with Blaine floating off into the night attached to giant balloons.

The finale drew more boos than cheers from the crowd, but his faithful fans nevertheless were satisfied.

Ivy Acevedo, 20, a family counselor from the Bronx, said of the show, "It was amazing. He really pulled it off."

But Kenneth Leonor of Newark, a 22-year-old businessman and part-time magician, called the three hours he spent in the park a waste of time.

"I think it was ridiculous," Leonor said. "Everybody was robbed of their time. Everyone thought he was going to jump, but he didn't live up to his expectations."

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