Holding Pattern
A fun and surprising close-up card trick that has a lot of potential.
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A fun and surprising close-up card trick that has a lot of potential.
Experienced magicians have an uneasy relationship with magic kits. For whom is this cigar-box sized assortment of magic intended?
The photo suggests a full-sized trunk, suitable for a person. In fact, it’s a 6-by-6-by-10-inch miniature, beautifully 3D printed to look like the real thing and sit on your magic table.
In the black wallet, a packet of cards is printed with various personality attributes. The magician explains that, by spelling various choices offered by the spectator, the spectator’s perfect attribute will be determined.
Atop a sketch pad, two pieces of folded paper are stood upright and a pen is balanced across the top of the papers. Slowly, the papers are removed, one by one, until the pen is seen floating in the air.
It’s not a Monte so much as a magical transposition, using two black threes and a red ace. In this incarnation, Moser is completely successful.
A stack of three cell phones is picked up by the spectator, who evaluates their weight. When the performer removes one phone, the other two become heavier than three!
Two cards are fused into one card that is not simply card-shaped, but slightly off-set, as if the cards are in a spread, creating an impossible magic moment.
A page is freely chosen from a book. A sharp knife stabs the book. The knife is pulled straight down, cutting through every single page, except one!! Impossibly, the page your audience thought of is clearly seen impaled on the knife!
A beautiful travel magazine which is, in fact, the Swiss Army Knife of mentalism effects. Woven into the pages of the magazine are 10 intriguing mentalism and perceptual effects.
Unseen Force Pro is the latest system to improve your thread work, and TCC has done a remarkable job with this gimmick.
Here’s multi-phased close-up prediction that will delight a diligent beginner, and is surprising enough to find a spot in a pro’s performance.