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Larry Becker created the first Chameleon Chest released by Larry and Viking. However, the Mighty Mini manufactured by Magic Wagon with the help of Tony Curtis is breathtaking!

The box is small, silent, very solid and beautiful to behold. The original one is still fine, but unless you are dealing with a lot of choices my preferred chest is the Mighty Mini and due to it’s size I feel it is even more versatile than the original.

As with many clever utility items once you have the perfect prop coming up with the perfect routine to do it justice.  Larry includes six routines in the detailed instructions and any of them will work perfectly though in most cases you will need to provide some readily available extras like small golf pencils and pads.

For my routine I decided to base the routine on Mark Elsdon’s Guaranteed Jackpot. I found some perfect sized plastic numbers over at Amazon and came up with the following effect which I will video soon.  I think it works very well with this beautiful box and I hope you like it.

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Bob Solari released a series of Classic Collectibles in the early 1990’s.  All of the pieces were well made in Solid Brass, they looked great, were solidly made, and worked perfectly.  The effects in the series included:

• Solid Brass Ball and Vase
• Solid Brass Keyless
• Solid Brass Psychic Key
• Solid Brass Metamophis Coin
• Solid Brass Spiked Coin
• Solid Brass Snapper
• Solid Brass Hot Rod
• Solid Brass Phantom Block Mystery
• Solid Brass Locket Release
• Solid Brass Ribbon Release

This release is one of my favorites from Bob’s series – it looks great, is is easy enough for someone with my limited skills to perform and is easy to follow too 🙂

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This basic effect and method was first invented by James Lucier as The Cockeyed Skeleton In The Closet and described in Genii October 1949. The effect was also released c. 1949 through Sedghill Industries as The Scrambled Skeleton  with credit also going to James Lucier. There have been many versions of all shapes and sizes ever since and Eddy Taytelbaum’s is probably the best I have seen.

Mark Lee of Merlins Magic has created a fine version and this is part of Merlins growing Premier Range.  The one change that Mark has made is that each Die is gimmicked, instead of the more usual two, which means you can do some interesting routine variations, including at the end vanishing the red die completely 🙂  In addition, the addition of the lid for the tube ensures that no prying eyes are looking when they shouldn’t be.

I think you will like playing with this item and it has the most potential for innovation of the current crop of Premier Range items.

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This is my favorite device for vanishing a ring.  It works perfectly  and looks clean without any preparation or set-up.  This is the one to use.  I can’t understand why Sans Minds stop making this beauty 🙁

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This is a wonderful mini illusion with Jumbo Cards first created by Wolfgang Grosskopf as Fluchtkiste.

This is the nicest set I have seen and comes with a packing case to store the props.  The packing case is a little beaten up but does its jobs and keeps the props together and protected. It is easy to perform and I added an extra stand to make it easier to present.  Hopefully my Speed Demo will effectively demonstrate that 🙂

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