WJ35-01
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This is like the Invisible
Deck but without the R/S problems; you use a regular
deck of cards from the Dollar Store, and the Spectator
gets to handle it. Instead of just turning a freely
chosen card over in the invisible deck, the spectator
marks it with an invisible (but indelible) marking pen
"X" on the back of his imagined chosen card.
When the invisible deck is made visible, the spectator
checks all the backs of the cards and the only one having
a real indelible "X" mark on the back turns out
to be the chosen card just as he imagined it.
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WJ35-02
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I never had much respect
for the old “Silks From Newspaper” trick when I
was a teen-age magician (1955-ish). It was too easy, too
simple, and not challenging in the least. It was designed
to produce 4 tiny silks by poking a hole in a sheet of
newspaper that could be shown empty on both sides, again
and again.
Now that I'm all grown
up, I have given another look at the old trick and come
up with some improvements that allow you to use up to ten
full size (12" to 18") square or triangle
silks, let a spectator help you make a hole and pluck the
silks from the paper, produce a glass of wine as a
partial finale, and then for the finally finale,
transform the individual silks into one huge silk or
multi-colored banner.
Also included are
instructions for making my "Twitch Tube" for
visibly transforming the silks at the end.
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WJ35-03
$7.00
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In the late 1940's,
Arturo invented a clever Checker and Rope Penetration
trick that was then marketed by U.F. Grant under the name
"Check-R-X." Then Grant, having lots of spare
wooden checkers around to play with, came up with a
variation of Hans Trunk's 1924 Blue Phantom that
Grant released in 1959 under the name "Sing Toy
Checkers." That later inspired him to produce a
version of the three-way transposition known as the Rice,
Orange and Checkers. They're all in here with more
Checker effects, and all you need to get started is a 4
inch diameter hole saw for your electric drill press so
you can begin cutting out checkers by the dozens from 1/2
inch thick pine wood. Get lots of glossy color spray
paint also, for at least 4 colors of checkers if not
more.
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WJ35-04
$7.00
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Making little wooden
Fairy Doors and Elf Doors has been around for awhile, but
magicians haven't yet taken advantage of the idea for
their own storytelling routines. You show the kids how to
make the doors and attract fairies and elves to come into
their houses. The Big Head Elf, Santa Claus, has his own
portable door that allows him to get into everyone's
house on Christmas Eve, but if you want to communicate
with the tiny worker elves here's how to go about it.
Your Tiny Elf Portal will
have the Elf assigned to your house peek in and leave
little presents for everyone. Included are Illusion plans
for turning your little Elf doll into a live child
wearing a look-alike costume if you wish. One method is
for using a child who is in on the secret, and another
method is for a child from the audience who dresses up as
an elf, but who has no clue as to how he appears by
magic.
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WJ35-05
$7.00
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This may be the first
ever flea circus that fits inside a small tin lunch box.
It is smaller than a cigar box, briefcase, and all the
small suitcases and trunks currently being built or sold
as flea circuses. When you find one for sale, it can cost
in the hundreds and even the thousands of dollars. When
you find instructions for building one yourself, it
usually involves lots of electronic parts.
My goal has been to
perform the most number of flea circus tricks as
possible, carried and performed in a box no bigger than a
standard tin lunch box, and with no need for electronics
(although simple battery operated electrical devices
aren’t ruled out if they are inexpensive and readily
available). If you are ready to be a Ringmaster to a
troupe of fleas, here's a good place to start!
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WJ35-06
$7.00
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This effect combines Art
and Magic. You begin with Magic – a spectator
shuffles a deck of cards, cuts the cards, and deals the
cards, finally choosing one of the cards freely and
setting it aside face-down and unseen by anyone. While
this is going on you are quickly making a painting on a
glass window; the one shown is just an example. A snowman
is easily painted on glass and you can’t make a
mistake… a snowman is a snowman … whether in a
drawing or out on your lawn in the wintertime. The Magic
in your Art comes when a card appears on your glass
window painting... face down. Is it possible? Could it be
the same card freely chosen moments ago by the spectator?
Of course it is, because that's the Art of Magic!
Also includes a version
for those who aren't ready to paint in public - both
picture and the card appears just like magic.
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WJ35-07
$7.00
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Using cardboard cards
shaped like mittens (Source: Oriental Trading), you can
perform several Christmasy/Winter tricks in which you and
a spectator mix up the cards and then turn them over one
by one, and you match each design exactly every time.
Combine this with some other Mitten Magic tricks that are
included and you have a full routine built around
Mittens! You use basic playing card moves, but kids don't
have to remember playing card numbers and suits; instead
they simply match colors and designs. Also includes my
new (2017) The Three Little Kittens trick with
cute kittens and vanishing and reappearing mittens.
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WJ35-08
$7.00
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Many magicians end their
party shows with supervised party games. They charge an
extra fee for providing this additional service, to cover
their expenses as well as the additional time they spend
at the party. One way to segue into game time from the
magic show, is to perform a Bingo Magic trick. You brag
about how lucky you are, and to prove it, you pass out
the bingo cards to the audience. One card for you to use
is chosen freely by a member of the audience and put into
a window envelope where it can be seen at all times. Just
in case anyone thinks you are just tricky, not lucky,
they can change bingo cards with you, right up until the
first call is made. A few calls into the game, you shout
"Bingo! I Won!" Your card is removed from the
envelope and compared with the calling cards and sure
enough, you won - fair and square! Or is it Magic?
Meanwhile, you generously give away the gift you won to
the next person to call Bingo, and then, if you wish, you
can play out the games so everyone can win a consolation
prize. This can be performed with 4x4 children's Bingo
Cards like the ones shown, or with 5x5 regulation bingo
cards. You always win first! Inexpensive sources for
Bingo Cards included.
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WJ35-09
$7.00
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The Duck Production Tub
and the Duck Vanish were invented by Servais LeRoy about
1909. William J. “Doc” Nixon attempted to claim
the trick in 1919 but while he attached the name
“Where Do the Ducks Go?” to it, and it spread
rapidly among other stage magicians, like Theo and David
Bamberg (who made improvements), and Harry Blackstone
Sr., among others, the trick remained essentially the
same until along came a young whippersnapper by the name
of Jim Gerrish who reinvented the whole thing for a
children’s effect using rubber duckies about the
year 1970. These 2017 improvements just make it even
better. Now it can be performed solo (with some young
helpers from the audience) and everyone has fun quacking
like ducks as the little yellow critters appear and
disappear and no one knows from whence they come or
whence they go!
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WJ35-10
$7.00
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Christmas is a perfect
time for a Gift of Stocks and Bonds, especially if you
like to perform magic escapes. You show your
great-great-great grandfather's precious Stocks and Bonds
locked up in a large gift-wrapped strongbox. You
demonstrate how the stocks are worn around your neck,
attached to chains that are held by spectators so you
can't go anyplace without your "entourage." To
keep you from freeing yourself by trickery, the Bonds are
placed on your wrists and your hands are thus confined...
behind your back. Step 1: You are covered with a cloth
momentarily, and now the Stocks are behind your back
locked between the Bonds on your wrists. Step 2: Covered
again and the Stocks and Bonds are now completely gone
and only the chains remain linked to one another. Step 3:
The empty locked strong box, which has been held by a
spectator all this time, is unlocked and opened and the
Stocks and Bonds are found safely inside.
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