WJ18-01
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Here is a collection of Mind-Reading
Puppet effects which can be performed with one hand tied
behind your back, or stuffed inside a puppet... your
choice! The fun is in convincing your audience that the
puppet is doing the mind-reading, not you, even if the
adults should know better. If you are looking for simple
comedy mind-reading scripts, this is not for you. We
strive to completely amaze the audience, as well as
inject comedy into the proceedings.
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WJ18-02
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Force Field
by Professor Spellbinder
Force Field is a special tray for
forcing a jumbo to ultra jumbo card from a packet of
cards. It can be adapted for regular cards, but there are
so many ways of forcing regular sized cards, it is hardly
necessary. The effect appears to the audience as follows:
You display a packet of 10 to 20 jumbo or ultra jumbo
cards, fanning them out to show the cards are different,
spread the cards out on the Force Field tray, backs
facing up, mix the cards around and allow a spectator to
freely choose any one of the face down jumbo cards.
I also include my variation of Percy
Naldrett’s Phantom Artist, as a bonus
effect, but it can be used any time you need to force a
jumbo card. The templates for making jumbo cards with
Halloween Monsters are also included, but you can easily
adapt the effect for almost any theme.
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WJ18-03
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Let’s face it; the era of Top Hats
is over. My candidate for a successor to the Top Hat is
the common kitchen Stock Pot, in all its utility and
polished glory. It also replaces that suspicious
magician’s prop that has been around too long for
its own good; the Dove Pan.
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WJ18-04
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This is based on the "Cute
Kittens and ?" routine by the late Terry
Burgess, but you make it yourself following our
instructions, and you are not limited to just Cats and
Dogs.
Three kittens are shown sitting on a
fence. Scruffy's kennel is shown and opened but it's
empty. Where is Scruffy hiding? When he is found the
children watch as he chases the kittens, Huff, Puff and
Hughie all around. When all the cards are turned around,
which of the cards on the fence is Scruffy? Finally all
cards are turned to show that the kittens are safe on the
fence but Scruffy is back in the kennel chained up so
that he cannot chase them any more.
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WJ18-05
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Sub Cube
By Professor Spellbinder and Jim Gerrish
Let me first state that I did NOT invent
the Substitution Trunk, nor the Metamorphosis
Illusion, nor the original Trunk Escape (J.N.
Maskelyne's 1865 Box Trick ) from which all of these
(including my Sub Cube) were derived. What I AM guilty of
is shrinking the box down to a small 30 inch cube,
sticking a hole in the top of the cube through which the
top of the bag can be seen at all times, and making other
subtle revisions which will be explained in the e-Book.
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WJ18-06
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Based on a long forgotten and unused
principle from Paul Anton, first published in 1948, this
modern illusion is easy to build, easy to operate and
astounding to behold. In my routine, a live moth is
released into a box filled with light. Suddenly there is
a blackout and when the lights immediately come back on,
a human being (dressed as a butterfly, if you wish)
visibly appears and the box opens up like a cocoon.
Moth/Butterfly theme is optional. No Black Art is used,
despite the name.
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WJ18-07
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This is a tiny folding silk production box that
Qua-Fiki invented to use with his "Bigger" silk
production routine. As the kids shout "Bigger"
and wiggle their fingers, the silks that Qua-Fiki
produces get larger and larger right up to the rousing
finale. Two audience helpers examine the empty box and
assist with the production of the giant silks. The photo
shows the box Qua-Fiki built from foamboard and gaffer's
tape in a single afternoon.
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WJ18-08
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Effect:
The magician brings out a little cage that contains two
live mice, a white mouse and a brown mouse. Both mice
disappear from the cage and reappear in a box shaped like
a piece of Swiss Cheese (and based on the Hank Box, with
a removable base). The children see the mice, but every
time the magician looks for them, the mice hide inside
the cheese. The cheese is taken apart, and the box and
base are shown all around… no mice.
After a great deal of mice coming and going, scampering
up the magician's sleeve and around his body (much like
my Pom Pom Critters from
The Wizards' Journal #13) they finally vanish from
the cheese and reappear back in the cage, all safe and
sound. Perfectly safe (for both mice and men) to perform
with live mice, and/or with realistic puppet mice. Easy
construction plans included.
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WJ18-09
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Wiz Kid Ee-Gee-Fiki (formerly
known as Eleazar Goodenough) has been working on an act
with his realistic puppet Bunny-Fiki. The rabbit always
turns up missing whenever Ee-Gee-Fiki goes looking for
him, so Ee-Gee-Fiki uses magic to make him briefly appear
for the audience. Then the rabbit goes back to traveling
around the world and disappears again.
Easy Hare-Mail Box construction plans included.
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WJ18-10
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I went to Toys “R” Us and saw
a great idea for a magic trick. It was a battery operated
toy dog. The dog was wiggling around and walking, then
suddenly it did a back flip and landed on its feet. The
price was right ($10.00) and I knew it would make a great
trick, so I bought some foamboard and duct tape from the
Dollar Store and built this little dog house to make my
new pet appear and disappear. I also worked out an
"invisible dog" routine which I will throw in
as a bonus.
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WJ18-11
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After taking us through a history of the
effect, including excerpts from a 1977 article by John
Novak on the flaws of doing an escape strictly for
comedy, Jim shows us how he redesigned the stocks to get
rid of some of the problematic structures and at the same
time managed to restore some of the comedy, without
sacrificing the mystery of the escape.
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