This year’s double party-winner featuring Wayne Dobson includes a bonus programme from the hit TV show ‘Big Break, John Virgo’s tricks, tips, quips and clips’. TV star Wayne Dobson who recently resigned from the magic circle reveals here for the first time some of the cons and tricks of the card sharp and some of the scams of the professional trickster.
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What The Audience Sees:
“This Friday was pretty cool! Jamie came by and told us that we were going to be playing Russian Roulette! Big Ted got a bit scared but Jamie explained that we were going to be using paper bullets and not real bullets- that would have been inappropriate for a corporate environment (in my opinion). Anyways, it was still exciting. Jamie showed us six pieces of paper and six envelopes. Each sheet of paper had a something written on it that symbolized a bullet and, on the other side, something that indicated that it would be safe. We turned one of the papers with the Bullet side face up and put all the papers in the separate envelopes at random. Without looking or anything, Jamie slowly pulled five of the six papers out of the envelopes with the Safe side face up! You have seen Big Ted with each revealing- you would think the things were real! It was really fun without being dangerous, and I have no idea how he did it!”
Adam Grace – Glass
is a new genre in magic! Fifteen effects with a small pane of glass and a marker. This isn’t your typical “magician” stuff. When you want to put the cards away and do some different magic, Glass is the perfect trick. Drawings come to life, images visually change, dots appear, and writing melts through glass… all possible with this new principle of magic.
Balloon School by Stephen Ablett
Instructional download DVD that teaches 33 different modelling balloon creations – most of which are single balloon animals which Stephen gives out to the children at the end of his show. He also discusses his A1 Balloon Poster / A-Frame backdrop and provides the PSD and JPEG file for it for you to make your own (see your digital shelf for the zip file to download). Almost all the models feature both front and over the shoulder shots of the creation process.
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Automata by Gary Jones and Chris Congreave
Full 52 Productions proudly presents ‘Automata’ with Gary Jones and Chris Congreave – NINE completely self working effects guaranteed to elicit huge reactions!
Make no mistake – these are not your run of the mill, novelty self workers. These are PRO LEVEL magic effects, straight from the repertoires of two of the busiest working magicians in the UK!
Watch both Chris and Gary completely destroy their audience with ‘Metal Sheep’ – an amazing multi-coin transposition, ‘Fireballs’ – a miniature cups and balls miracle and ‘Card 2 Matchbox’ – think this classic requires sleight of hand? Think again! Then there’s ‘Thirty Four’ – an amazing multi revelation mentalism peice! All this plus FIVE more effects that you will learn quickly (just follow the steps!) and be able to perform immediately! You’ll be getting massive reactions with none of the work in practically no time at all!
‘Automata’ contains a real mixed bag of material too, from mental effects, tricks with pins, a finger ring, a cell phone, coins, a matchbox, mini cups…in fact, only THREE of these killer automatic effects are card tricks!