Maxello Magic

Another highly visual and easy to perform effect from children's entertainer Sammy Patrick Smith...

The magician displays a picture book of people at their different jobs-a doctor, chef, plumber, police officer, welder, fire fighter, artist, farmer, etc. A spectator freely selects one picture, let's say a firefighter. A prediction envelope-in full view the whole time-is now opened. "And here is my prediction, the fire fighter-when he was just a baby!" The performer removes a picture of an infant in a baby bonnet! (Groans and laughs from the audience.) "Well, he knew from the very beginning what he wanted to be when he grew up, and of of course, he decided to become ..a fire fighter." The picture is turned around, it's a firefighter!

Large, clear drawings make this great even for large audiences. Comes complete.

There are many types of flower productions, but this is one of the most effective and logically natural. The performer picks up an empty flower vase from his table. This is a clear crystal vase. Holding the vase at the bottom he makes a magical motion, and instantly the vase fills with flowers.

The trick is self contained, and almost mechanical in working. You just pick up the vase, and flick it, and it fills with flowers.

The crystal vase is a sturdy plastic vase that looks like cut glass. It measures some 8 inch in height and 4 inch in diameter at the base. The flowers are a very special type of spring flower, with mylar leaves, and a special plastic film flower, to give you the compactness and natural appearance of paper spring flowers, combined with the durability of mylar and synthetic film. Unlike paper spring flowers, these will last for years.

Crystal Vase Flower Production comes to you complete and ready to work with all the necessary apparatus and full working instructions.

This effect closely follows a trick from Barrie's book Theater of the Mind. In that effect, the performer gives a split deck to two helpers.

The performer then retrieves a few cards from each of the helpers and goes on to explain how he uses a simple memory system to recall each card. He teaches this concept using several cards which he holds up as examples and then invites the audience to participate in the experiment.

After briefly looking at the cards held by his assistants, the performer asks them to sort them by suit. Then he quickly and dramatically finds the location of all 52 cards by pointing to the person whom he believes holds that card. When the performer comes to a card that the audience had seen, they are invited to find the location All in all, this is a dramatic and memorable stunt.

"Quartet" has the same theme, i.e. you find the locations of the cards after a quick inspection, but the stunt is more dramatic and difficult, because the cards are distributed to four persons, not two.

The included patter which relates to recalling seeing people in a four-room house - seems more believable.

The magician talks about the famous Bottle and Glass trick, showing two cylinders, one bottle and one glass. The bottle and the glass are covered with the cylinders and the Passe Passe Glass and Bottle is performed where the Bottle and the Glass repeatedly change places. Then something goes wrong and the Bottles start to appear when ever a cylinder is lifted. It gets funnier and funnier as the magician eventually finishes with EIGHT solid Bottles.

Powder coated metal cylinders and bottles complete with labels that resemble real bottles. The effect can be performed surrounded on any table. There are no steals or body loads.

A self- contained effect that requires a little rehearsal and some attention to the timing and presentation. One of the greatest Stage comedy effects in Magic, this is supplied with two cylinders, necessary bottles, and detailed instructions.