Great Utility Item
This is a great value set of dice that can be used for forcing, gambling demonstrations, and mentalism.
In total you get 34 dice (15 different pairs of forcing dice and 4 normal dice). It even comes with some ideas and a great "Just Chance" effect. Useful to have in your bag for sure.
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Another Unique Beauty from Magic Wagon
Good to see the Magic Wagon guys are continuing to produce small runs of amazing items. This beautiful piece is no exception. It really is hard to fault Magic Wagon items for their beauty and quality finish.
This is a simple effect where the audience puts the Obelisk into the box with any side facing up, whilst the magician is turned away. The magician then places it into the bag after showing his hands empty. Despite the apparent fairness the magician can reveal which season is face-up.
The method of detection takes a little bit of practice and is nothing amazing in itself, but it gets the job done and if you actually perform this sort of collectible magic then you will be fine. The issue I have with it is that you have to take the box back to place it in the bag, if you were really being fair they would place the box inside the bag and then hand you the bag. If I was to perform this I’d spend a little longer with the props and quickly realize that you could easily get them to place the box inside the bag and only then give you the bag, and still be able to determine the season. In many ways once the box is inside the bag the heat is off of you because it now seems impossible to get a glimpse or anything else. I think anyone who has purchased this prop and hasn’t just placed it neatly in their collection could quickly see how it is possible and easier to do this way.
Clearly these props are not normal everyday items and for many that is a deal breaker. But if you collect fine quality magic you need look no further than the Magic Wagon and their latest effects.
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Automatic and Beautiful
So here we have another amazing beauty from the Magic Wagon team. It is an electronic marvel and the magician can tell which picture is placed in the box, even if they are out of the room, and they never need to touch or see the box.
The box looks great and clean and so do the pictures – which can be exchanged for different pictures of the performers choosing. It all works by remote control of course. The receiver has both visual and vibration mode and works every time without fail.
I really only have one problem with this chest – the five pictures do not all fit in the box at once. That would have made a lot more sense, you turn up with the chest remove the five pictures, and then they put one back inside and you determine which one.
But that issue aside if you want amazingly easy to perform miracles that look beautiful then The Sorcerer’s Chest will find a wonderful place in your heart and home.
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Clever and Beautiful
So this is probably the item that every magic collector wants to get – amazing looking magic and very clever method with nothing added or taken away. The idea is from Canadian Mentalist Simon Corneille, who also is a big Alan Warner fan and you can see his collection here.
The Magic Wagon Team have really outdone themselves on this particular item and not only is it beautiful and a fooler, it is incredibly easy to perform. This is precisely the sort of trick that keeps you excited about magic.
Most Highly Recommended for all collectors and close-up performers.
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Perfection!
I’ve seen many versions of the Ed Massey effect Ribbon Fantastique and liked many of them because it is such a clean effect. However, this new version by my good friend Alan Warner is easily my favorite. It looks better than his early painted version, which was also a beauty, and thanks to the clever use of two plaques instead of one the effect is really quite remarkable.
It works basically the same way as the original, but now the spectator can choose either of the plaques and that is the only one that penetrates the shoelace and frame. Also because this unit is much smaller than the traditional versions it is easy to carry around and perform close-up.
If you don’t know how this works you will be very pleased as the method is simple and diabolical and a fooler for sure. It is instantly reset and there is nothing added or taken away.
I really love this new release by the Master of Mini-Magic: Alan Warner! If I have one complaint it would be: it is too cheap!
Highly Recommended for performers and collectors everywhere!
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Classic Clever Warner!
So Alan has two new releases for 2013 and they are both beauties. This one is a mental item with some lovely colored plaques of fruit.
The spectator can choose any of five pieces of fruit, with no force and each time the magician reveals that he had predicted in advance their choice. Yes this is a multiple-out effect, but unlike other similar effects this offers a free choice of five items, not three or four, and the revelations are much less convoluted than some I’ve seen in the past.
When I first opened this I thought great colorful props, but nothing too surprising here. Then I read on and I thought ah very clever! You really can give them the choice of any of the five fruits with no counting from left or right ruses. I think you will be very happy with this well priced mental effect .
This reminds me Alan Warner has many amazing effects available directly from him and most of his prices are still great value for great magic and craftsmanship you are getting. So check out some of his older items too on his first site here.
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Upper Echelon Chinese Sticks
These are essentially a handmade set of sticks of the highest quality with a silky smooth, fail-safe design than insure that they will work for years.
Jay Leslie builds these one set at a time by hand and adjusts and fine-tunes every set he makes.
Unlike any other set of Chinese Sticks out there, this set is designed with a very unique ‘socko finish", where the strings suddenly become 5-7 feet long (depending on when yours were made).
I say these are upper echelon sticks because they rank right up there with the Okito-Nielsen Sticks and the Gen Grant Sticks as being the best of the best.
If you can find one……buy it…….
They may no longer be made any more….
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Wonderful Wolf Magic
This is a wonderful and well made prop. It looks incredible and is high quality.. I’ve enjoyed performing this effect at home for friends. The way it works is very nice, mechanical. There are a few downfalls however. (without giving anything away) A- if no ring is removed it is the same as if the center ring has been removed, so you have to ensure the spectator removes a coin. B – Difficult to perform in a darkened environment or if you have bad eyesight. C- the small box needs to be on a flat surface of some kind when the ring is removed. The ring can not be removed from the box while it is in the spectators hand.
Other than that, this is a wonderful piece of magic and I still recommend it. I’ve brought it with me when table hopping at a restaurant and it’s worked very well. The rings that come with the effect were beautiful. I did replace them with cheaper ones when taking this table hopping however. It also works with bits of paper notes or currency bills.
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Slow to move, Was that the wind?
I was very disappointed in this product, and would not recommend it at all.
First off, I should say this looks great. It does look like an old timber, the aging and distressing is perfect. However that’s about it, a great looking piece of wood.
There are two "phases" to it’s movement one has you balance it on a bottle or other object and the second phase has you lean it up against an object at least as tall as it is long. The first major problem is it takes forever to move/topple. Definitely not a tv trick, this is something you have to set up, then tell a long story before it moves. Trying not to give the method away, the temperature affects it as well. if it’s a cold room you could be waiting a lot longer. when it eventually toppled over It left my audiences thinking it was the wind or something knocked the table. When you balance it on top of something you have to balance it very carefully, even with practice it looks like you are just setting it up to fall over when the wind blows. Very unimpressive to the audience.
I used this in close up performances and library shows perhaps 20 times over the winter season 2013. The timber never got a good reaction and was a poor effect in my show. It would be way better if you could determine when it would fall over. Most of the time after my rehearsed story was over I had to add lib until the dang thing toppled. A few times it fell over before my story was done and once the wind actually did knock it over!
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Good trick, can be used for many presentations
A very good trick with three wooden disks and a small burlap like bag. I really liked the design on the coins and the bag. It opened the effect up to many different kinds of presentations. A pirate theme, a Victorian theme, etc. The bag is not integral to the effect, so you can use a nicer bag, or box or something else that matches your presentation.
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