Maxello Magic

Imagine handing out four or five ordinary looking brown paper lunch bags to your audience and asking each person to secretly place a personal item inside their bag. The bags are then folded over several times taped, stapled or otherwise sealed and passed to one person who collects them in a larger bag ( at this point depending on your performing style you could offer paper or plastic in either case the four bags would be put into the larger bag) to be mixed. The smaller bags could then be randomly withdrawn from the larger bag and handed to you; removing the contents from inside you would carefully study it, describe the personality of the person that last held the item and in fact loaded it into the bag...after describing this person you would be able to successfully return the item to its owner with our system there is no thinking required, no pre-show work, no stooges, no mistakes... you can hand out these four bags and a fifth if you desire... and without fail know who loaded which bag... this does not require them to stay in a certain position, in fact you could have them load the bags from the audience, then send the bags forward, only to join you on stage later pointing out to everyone that not only have the bags been mixed, but now the volunteers have been mixed; and to get around that awkwardly obvious last bag last volunteer, you could fain trouble with the first or second bag offering to come back to it later, now at the end of your routine you'll have two people and two items that after a bit of byplay you'll easily be able correctly deduce who owns which item.

These are a ton of fun to work with, and this fun will spill out into your performance... making this an enjoyable performance piece for both you and your audience. BTW These are acceptable for use in shows ranging from your wealthiest adult shows to your youngest kid shows kids see TV shows like the DEAD ZONE and if you could do what he did even if only to see an arm putting an item into a lunch bag they would be amazed. Trust me when I tell you, you will use these bags. These are so easy to use that they really are mindless mind reading.

What People Are Saying:

"I must tell you, as usual I was too anxious to read the instructions that came with the bags first and I actually looked inside some bags and thought to myself, 'What the heck is there a gimmick here?' Then I read the instructions and I almost fell off my chair! All I can say is VERY, VERY CLEVER, Ken! In fact, I'm practically laughing out loud as I write this! Great thinking (again)!" - Charles - Hemet, CA

A breathtaking NEW CONCEPT from the minds of Larry Becker and Lee Earle.

A different type of telephone book routine. Two years in development and worth the wait!

What would make the perfect telephone routine?
Since the vast majority of your mentalism presentations are for corporations or at the very least for people who work - everyone is familiar with business cards. And, everyone has seen multi-page business card organizers in office supply stores. Chances are you have one on your desk right now! It's the perfect solution for keeping all of your contacts in one neat, organized area. Now, it's the perfect solution for the perfect telephone routine that kills audiences and eliminates any and all suspicion. In a nut shell, Caller I.D. sets you apart from anything else out there! Don't be like every other mentalist who pulls out a phone book from the hotel room. Been there, done that! They've all seen that one. Toss out a collection of business cards and use anyone's phone? Now that's different! Want to be unique? Get Caller I.D.

Start with a deluxe, zippered, personal planner and binder - the DayRunner type that has pages retained with snap-open rings. Inside are a dozen clear vinyl pages, each holding six business cards in 3 packets, back to back, for a total of 72 cards. Every card is unique - no two have similar businesses, names, images, logos, addresses, etc.

Hand the binder to a participant who is encouraged to browse through the impressive variety of top quality business cards. You don't touch the binder again until the routine is over. Then, out of your view and from anywhere in the binder, the spectator removes two cards. After verifying they represent different companies, cities, and phone numbers, they hand one of them to a person close by. The binder is tossed to a third, completely random person of their choice.

That individual opens the binder, again - while you cannot possibly see, takes out any full page, removes all six business cards from the page and looks them over to satisfy him/herself that each one is unique - no duplicate information. Then, they discard all but two, using their own, unannounced criteria. Perhaps they prefer color printing over black and white; maybe they don't like round corners; it could be they are attracted to double-sided cards. You truly have no clue about their process of elimination; you don't even know which cards they hold.

To avoid dead time as they are narrowing their selection, you turn to work with the first two persons, each of who holds a single, freely and randomly selected card that has been kept hidden the entire time. One of them concentrates on their card's telephone number, digit by digit, including are code. You openly write numbers on a drawing pad and then ask him to read aloud the phone number on that card. The audience can clearly see that you have successfully identified all ten digits!

Turning to a fresh page in your drawing pad, you request the second helper to visualize the graphic elements on their card - colors, shapes, photos, etc. - while you doodle on your pad. Then they tell everyone what's printed on the card and your sketch matches their description of the cards they hold - inexplicit detail!

Finally you ask anyone with a cell phone to dial the number on either business card that the third spectator has randomly selected - their choice. They are to repeat whatever the individual on the other end of the call says. As the connection is being made on his own cell phone, you write furiously on your pad - turning the pages like a whirling dervish as you fill up each sheet with words, sketches and numbers. When the call is answered - the participant repeats everything he hears from the other end of the connection.

Simultaneously, you show page after page of your pad - detailing an almost word for word precognition of names, replies, comments...and even if the call is automatically answered you can still reveal info from that number's voice mail announcement!

• Every piece of information seen on every card, by anyone who wants to look, is different.
• The selection process is open, fair and uncomplicated.
• Each business card is different; information, papers, colors, fonts, graphics, sophistication of design, and even business and industries are in area codes across the country.
• This one-man routine is so easy you can focus on entertaining your audience; no mental gymnastics.
• There are multiple revelations with no pumping, peeking, or procrastinating.
• The finish is kick-ass and perfect in every way; and it's different if repeated an hour later.

Caller I.D. comes with a quality Day-runner-style zippered binder, the pages to hold more than six dozen professionally designed and printed business cards, pen, calculator,full DVD instructions and awesome 'secret something' that makes it possible.

You supply the pad and audience - they supply the standing ovation!

NOTE: Because Caller I.D. uses U.S. phone technology; this product is not recommended for use outside of the U.S. and Canada.

Imagine being able to link and unlink 2 safety pins in the most visual manner possible.

Now imagine being able to link & unlink them in your SPECTATOR'S HAND. Now re-imagine being able to do it SURROUNDED.

Risk everything with Manoj Linking pins!

Manoj Linking Pins starts off where other linking pins retreat. By sanitizing the restrictions that came with this astonishing plot, Manoj Linking Pins has made it more Direct / Visual / Bold & Practical.

Now you can perform linking pins without having to worry about the angles, spectator's eye level or people standing behind you.

Dare to take the effect to next level by linking and unlinking pins in your spectator's hand. The secret is, always, hiding in plain sight and yet everything is examinable.

In this DVD Manoj shares his handling of TWO links and unlinks including a bonus effect wherein the pins are permanently linked for life.

• Perform in spectator's hand
• No optical illusions
• No angle restrictions
• Everything is examinable at anytime
• No reset
• Direct / Visual / Bold & Practical

The package arrives with 6 linking gimmick pins and 4 bonus gimmick pins.

This trick is a combination of different effects, and what a combination it is! It might seem that something in Edwin's GLASS, SILK, BALL and EGG is familiar to you, but you'll soon find out that everything is somehow different!

The magician shows his hands to be empty, then takes a transparent glass from the table. It's clear that the glass is completely empty. Then a large silk suddenly appears inside the glass, filling it! The magician takes it out of the glass and presses it firmly together. When he opens his hand again, a large ball is there instead of the silk. The vanished silk is then taken from his jacket pocket. Within the blink of an eye the ball transforms into an egg, which the magician cracks open on the rim of the glass, proving it to be a real egg!

The set comes in a full color box with the prepared transparent tumbler, a special ball and detailed instructions.