WJ31-01
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Based on Divination Discs as
described by Ali Bongo in his 1980 Book of Magic,
Jim shows you his method of making his own discs using
pictures rather than obscure symbols, and designing sets
of discs for every season and theme that you might want
to celebrate. The picture shows two of the discs from his
Christmas and President's Day collection. A Halloween
collection is included. The USA Presidents collection for
Presidents' Day is described as an excercise for the
student. After that, you are on your own to make discs of
wild animals, story book characters, or whatever your
heart desires.
Effect: A spectator has a free choice of
any picture shown on the discs or in a set of picture
cards matched to the discs. The magician instantly knows
which picture was chosen.
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WJ31-02
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by Wiz Kid Qua-Fiki
Qua-Fiki shows you how to perform a
variety of magic effects using inexpensive wind up toys,
including the animals shown on his music stand table,
plus toy cars and anything that rolls on little wind up
wheels (sources for the toys are included in the e-Book).
The usual trick is having a card freely
chosen and signed, and then the little wind up toy
travels over the mixed up face down cards to find the one
selected.
But that's just the beginning. There are
many more effects you can perform with these little toys,
to choose colors from a color wheel, or signs of the
Zodiac to match one's birthdate, and so on. The real
young children will enjoy reciting "Hickory Dickory
Dock" and watching Qua-Fiki's wind-up mouse travel
up a cardboard clock to see what time has been selected
for a cheesey snack.
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WJ31-03
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This is another effect, Die Through
Mirror, originally created by Ali Bongo, but given
new life in Jim's Curse of the Vampire routine.
He shows you how to build your own cemetary plot from
thin wood (kitchen workshop stuff!), as well as how to
acquire a "genuine" vampire skeleton and bury
it in the grave yard by pushing the wooden coffin (also
hand made by you in the kitchen workshop) inside a mirror
which will imprison the vampire forever. Oops! The coffin
mysteriously slips right through the mirror (Ali Bongo's
contribution) and the remains it contained have vanished.
At the end, the restored vampire can turn into a bat and
fly off to sulk or await new prey if you wish to go that
far in scaring the yell out of your devotees.
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WJ31-04
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Qua-Fiki comes up with a variety of ways
to use chocolate bars in magic tricks to sweeten the
effects for your audience (they can eat the results
afterwards if you don't mind sharing). Great for
Halloween Porch magic, Valentine's Day table magic, or
Birthday parties. Includes Wild Chocolate Bars, Chocolate
Bar Monte and the Easter Basket Switcheroo.
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WJ31-05
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Jim seems to have dedicated this issue
of The Wizards' Journal to the creative memory of Ali
Bongo, wizard of Pongolia. In his act, Ali Bongo
performed a version of swords through balloon that was
like ... but unlike ... anything on the market. It was
something he made himself (as were so many of his best
props). You can make one, too. This e-Book shows you how.
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WJ31-06
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This is a Kid Show Illusion you can make
from items found on-line; sources given in the e-Book. It
will end up costing about $100 for all the parts, but you
can use it in any kid show where you have enough space -
a large living room, a schoolroom, a gym, and of course
any stage or platform. It makes use of two pop-up play
tents as shown in the picture- one looks like a prison
tower and the other like a circus tent. And that's all
I'll say. If you want to know how a child from the
audience vanishes from one tent and appears in the other,
you'll have to buy the e-Book or figure out your own
method.
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WJ31-07
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This is another Kid Show Illusion you
can make from items found on-line; sources given in the
e-Book. It will end up costing about $80 for all the
parts, but you can use it in any kid show where you have
enough space - a large living room, a schoolroom, a gym,
and of course any stage or platform. It is best suited to
using your own young child (if a boy, then it's called
"Run, Prince, Run!") so you can introduce her
or him to show business, but with a few minutes of
practice, you can teach any child who can keep a secret
how to fool their friends by participating. Just as in
"Run, Rabbit, Run" the princess is
"locked" in one tower and then when you have
your back to her, she runs across to the other tower, and
so on. At the end, both towers are empty, and the center
section is taken apart to show that the princess has
vanished. She can run down the asile, or out from the
wings, or reappear in one of the above play tent
illusions.
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WJ31-08
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Invented in the 1980's by Bob Ellis, the
original concept was produced by U.F. Grant and later MAK
Magic under the name The Alive Box. Jim Gerrish
came up with his own version of the box in 1983 but made
it an "In Your Hands" effect for a spectator
from the audience. The spectator opens a box and removes
the contents, leaving the box empty. The spectator
chooses a card and drops it into the empty box. The
magician reveals the identity of the card and when the
spectator opens the box again, it falls apart revealing a
live animal inside scaring the "YELL!" out of
everyone. Jim currently uses this to produce a radio
controlled Tarantula, but in the past he performed it
with a live lobster from the fish store. You can use
almost any small animal, scary and scaley or cute and
fuzzy. The point is, the spectator is the only one
opening and closing the box, with no idea where the
livestock comes from! This one is easy to make.
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WJ31-09
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Cecil Lyle, “The Magic
Milliner” (1892-1955), was the inventor of the
original Ladies’ Hat Tear. Since then there
have been many variations and improvements, some by our
own Wiz Kid Eleazar in his book "Tear-Able Magic." Here's one
everyone missed until now - a Leprechaun Hat Tear for St.
Patrick's Day, complete with beard, a rainbow, Leprechaun
gold and a flying Shillelagh.
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WJ31-10
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A recent "discovery" in a
Dollar Store made my brain go clickety-click with ideas.
It's a gift bag that makes an ideal switch bag, not just
with one switching solution, but with several. You can
make objects that will fit into a gift bag appear,
disappear, transform, or go in and come out looking
exactly the same but with a subtle difference because
they have been switched. It will take decks of cards,
jumbo cards too, personal phones, watches, wallets,
balloon animals, plastic bags of water and goldfish, cans
of soda... etc. I'd put a photograph in the big blank
space to the right, but then everyone would say, "Of
course! Why didn't I think of that?" So I'll keep
the secret for those willing to pay $7 for the thrill of
saying, "Of course! Why didn't I think of
that?" If you can't find a ready-made bag in a
Dollar Store, you can make one with scissors, glue and a
few minutes of time, then you can add, "Wow! That
was easy!" 5 variations included.
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