Greetings from your friends at Hank Lee’s Magic Factory.
Today is Friday, the 13th. A traditionally bad-luck day. My advice: Do not walk under ladders. Do not cross the path of a black cat. Don’t spill salt on the table. Don’t step on a crack in the sidewalk. Don’t step on Superman’s cape. Don’t spit into the wind. And, this is really important, don’t buy any magic from anyone except your friends at Hank Lee’s. Only joking (or am I?). While today is typically considered a bad-luck day, when you check out this week’s Excitement, you’ll see that it’s really a good-luck day for all of you!
Speaking of bad luck, Aron got into a little scuffle with the front door, and Aron lost. He ended up breaking a couple of bones in his right hand. Currently, he is in a cast, but is still coming into work, thank goodness, and you can talk to him on the phone. His writing ability has been slowed down, so be patient when you place your orders!
We have some great new items in the Hotlist this week. In particular, make sure you check out the video demo for Shin Lim’s new DVD set, Shinanigens. It looks like trick photography, but it isn’t! It is some of the most visual card magic I have ever seen. And, I’ve seen a lot.
And, now, this week’s Excitement.
DVD GIVEAWAY: One of our most popular Excitements! Folks really love this one. What could be better than an old-fashioned DVD Giveaway! For the next five days, from right now until Tuesday, July 17th, at midnight, you have the opportunity to get DVDs for free! But, you have to get them the old fashioned way. You must earn them.
Here's the way it works: For every order of $100 or more, you get one free DVD (your choice of any single DVD that sells for $35.00 or less). If you spend $200 or more, you get two free DVDs (again, your choice). $300 or more gets you three free DVDs. And on it goes. The more you buy, the more you get for free! It's an incredible deal when you figure that the average price of a DVD is $35.00! In order to claim your free DVD, just put the name of the DVD in the Customer Notes Box at the bottom of the second page of the online checkout (after you fill in your name, address, etc.) at www.magicfact.com. If you phone your order in to our toll free number at 800 874 7400, just let the order-person know what free DVD(s) you want. If you FAX the order to us at 781 395 2034, same thing. Just let us know which ones you want. Remember, the giveaway ends on Tuesday, July 17th, at midnight!
Now, let’s take a peek at this week’s Hotlist!
(1) Paul Harris Presents Alex Kolle’s Stitched: That torn hole in your pants just became your best friend!
You've been walking around with a semi-fashionable torn hole in your pant leg.
Hold your genuinely empty hand above the torn hole for just a moment.
Instantly, the hole heals itself!
Your hand is still genuinely empty. The hole is really gone. Your pants can be examined immediately (which can be high entertainment in itself).
There have been a few attempts at solving the "Torn Pants" problem in the past, but nothing comes close to Alex Kölle's super easy, empty hands solution.
You can adapt the custom gimmick to any style or color jeans, pants or shorts.
You can even use a spectator’s hand to heal the hole!
And the visuals of Stitched are perfect. There's literally nothing to see but the stunning illusion of an empty hand instantly healing the ripped pants!
* Walk around all day with the gimmick in place.
* Perform standing or sitting.
* Resets in seconds.
* No palming.
* Very easdy to do.
* Pants are not altered in any way.
* Perform surrounded.
* Hands are always empty.
* Complete with special Stitched goodies and DVD.
$35.00 (10.1714)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(2) Hanky Panky – Scott Alexander & Puck: This trick packs small and plays huge! Hanky Panky utilizes a classic premise that has stood the test of time, but Scott and Puck have updated it for a modern audience. It's the 20th Century Silks on steroids!
The five minute routine not only features stunning visual magic, but also has a kicker finale that involves hilarious audience participation and comedy. It is the perfect opener to music, which then evolves into an audience interactive piece, allowing you to showcase your wit and personality.
With the added bonus of the killer Prisoner's Silk Ending, this is a complete package that can easily find its way into any working pro’s arsenal.
The kit has everything included. The DVD provides a detailed explanation of Scott and Puck’s routine, as well as some tips for effective audience management when performing this visual magic and its killer finale.
$175.00 (60.1859)
Coming in stock in August. Pre-order now and we’ll pay the shipping!
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(3) Shinanigens – Shin Lim – Two DVD Set: Prepare to delve deeply into the realm of visual sleight of hand magic. With 27 impromptu tricks and over 3 and 1/2 hours of detailed explanation, this 2 disk DVD will take you on a path of eye candy madness.
There are insane multi-phased color changes plus one of the most visual deck appearances ever. Included with the DVD is a gimmick which will allow you to perform the appearing deck. Here is a small taste of the affects you will learn:
Anarchy - One of the most visual and cleanest deck productions of all time. Imagine clearly holding a single card, and with nothing but a small shake of your wrist, a full deck of cards seemingly forms in your hand. You can now show the audience a full deck of cards. In this DVD, Shin teaches multiple variations and handlings (such as making the deck vanish using the same gimmick), as well as how to apply the gimmick to any deck of your choice. This trick alone is easily worth the price of this DVD. Comes with gimmick.
Shinag 2.0 - One of the cleanest card productions ever. With just a spring of the deck, the selected, signed card shoots out of the center of the deck. No strings, no magnets, nothing. Completely impromptu and insanely clean.
Transfusion - Two cards are selected. One is placed in the center of the deck and one is placed on top. Both cards face up, so the audience can see everything. It is all fair. Then, with just a wave of your hand, both cards change places in the cleanest manner possible. No angles to worry about. No tough sleight of hand. After watching the performance you will want to perform this every chance you get.
Shinsanity - After producing 4 Aces in the most visual manner, the magician proceeds to have a card selected and then lost in the deck. He then fans the four Aces very cleanly, and holds them at his fingertips. With no funny movements, and under impossible conditions, one of the Aces inverts. It turns out that the Ace that inverts is the suit of the selected card. But when the magician pulls out the inverted card, he turns it around. It is the selected, signed card.
The Coon - Imagine having your spectator's signed card placed in the center of the deck, out-jogged. With no movements whatsoever, the signed card begins to eerily rise to the top of the deck. No gimmicks and completely impromptu. You have to see it to believe it.
$50.00 (DVD01360)
Note: Coming in stock very soon. Pre-order now and we’ll pay the shipping.
(4) Captiv3 – Dominic Daly: Dominic Daly has created a Cap in Bottle effect that really pushes the boundaries.
Imagine taking the cap from one bottle and penetrating it through another sealed bottle, while it's in your spectator’s hand.
They see the cap sink to the bottom of the sealed bottle. What's more they can keep the bottle as a souvenir!
Captiv3 is the ultimate version of this classic effect drawing on elements never before seen in this type of effect.
Captiv3 is...
Quick to learn
Incredibly Visual
Easy to perform
Quick To Set Up
$28.00 (10.1715)
(5) Bag4Life: Welcome to Bag4Life, the brilliant new trick that everyone's talking about.
Imagine pulling a named coin thru a clear plastic bag, inches away from a spectator's eyes!
Comes with very special coin and full instructional DVD.
Available in U.S. Quarter and 1 Euro Coin. Please specify.
$59.95 (20.481)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
Coming in stock very soon. Pre-order now and we’ll pay the shipping!
(6) Wayne Dobson And Friends: Wayne Dobson's previous book, WD40, was a huge international success, and now Wayne is back with an even bigger book full of stories, articles and routines from Wayne and a star studded array of his magic friends. In 200 large size pages, you will find 31 articles and effects contributed by 21 different performers featuring close up, mentalism and stage magic.
The contributors are:
Andy Nyman, Bill Abbott, Charlie Frye, Danny Buckler, David Regal, David Stone, David Williamson, Dirk Losander, Eugene Burger, Gregory Wilson, Hans Klok, Jeff McBride, Joe Pasquale, John Archer, Joshua Jay, Ken Brooke, Kevin James, Kozmo, Mark Mason, Max Maven, Patrick Page and of course, Wayne himself.
As well as the magic, the book features various Galleries with photos showing Wayne at work throughout his career, plus there are stories from Wayne about the top magicians he has worked with and stories about Wayne by top celebrities such as boxer Frank Bruno, Jeff Hobson, Mac King, Linda Lusardi and Paul Zerdin. The huge respect and affection with which Wayne is regarded by his peers really comes through in this wonderful collection of magic and anecdotes.
200 pages - 7.5" x 10" - Softcover - Black and white photos
$70.00 (BK01859)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(7) Thinking The Impossible - Ramon Rioboo:
If you fear being fooled, avoid meeting Ramón Riobóo!
Ramón Riobóo holds a doctorate in deception. He is the 1992 recipient of the Ascanio Award and winner of the 1993 First Prize in Card Magic from the XIX National Magic Congress in Barcelona. He will yank the mental carpet from under you without your seeing him reach for it. It is only as your sense of reality falls away that you begin to understand you have been the target of a cunning structure designed to baffle the most analytical mind.
Cards are chosen and lost without the magician touching the deck - yet he finds them.
Cabalistic rituals reveal cards freely thought of, without a question being asked.
Signed cards become magically stapled to a Joker, or become cards isolated before the signing or even the selection was made.
And during all this and much more, principles and tools are taught that enable you to build amplified levels of deception into your magic. Some of these principles seem impossible, even as you are performing them. Ramón Riobóo reveals with clarity and detail many of his prize secrets - secrets with which he fools both the public and his peers in magic
Ramón Riobóo is a retired television director and close friend of Spain's premier magician, Juan Tamariz. From his profession he learned about drama, concision, entertainment and focus of attention. From his friendship with Tamariz he learned how to be disarming and ruthlessly cunning. When you think you have him figured out, that is when you are the most vulnerable to his magic. No one leads people down the garden path more skillfully than Ramón Riobóo.
Riobóo's specialty is the artful use of mathematical principles and psychological subtleties, concealed and designed to produce experiences that defy understanding. And when you least expect it, he may throw in a judicious touch of sleight-of-hand or a prepared card. The combination produces slack-jawed wonder and a sense of delight.
In this book, he delivers everything his reputation promises: thirty-nine tricks and routines steeped in cunning and cleverness, with three lumps of psychological persuasion stirred in to make a heady brew of genuinely amazing card magic.
303 pages - 6" x 9" - Hardcover with full-color dust jacket
$40.00 (BK01858)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(8) Paul Harris Presents Lubor Fiedler’s Lubor’s Lens: Your friend holds a pen on her open palm as you hold a clear "Credit Card Protector" just above the pen.
Offer to show a bizarre optical illusion, and give the plastic lens a twist. The center of the pen suddenly becomes transparent, and then completely invisible! She can even see right through her spread fingers where the center of the pen was a moment ago! Another twist of the lens and the missing pen center suddenly becomes visible again!
But, that’s just the warm up! You then slowly twist the lens again, and in full view the center of the pen visibly distorts, then melts into a weird twisted mess! But this time the optical illusion is real, and the weird twisted shape is now a permanent part of the pen. You can even let your friend keep the deformed pen as a souvenir. And yes, it still writes!
There’s no explanation, except that the lens is not a thing you'd want near any of your favorite body parts.
No Switches or Extra Pieces
All you need is the special patented Lubor's Lens and a normal pen (which you can prepare in a few seconds).
$15.00 (10.1716)
Note: This is a non-discountable item
(9) Carey On – John Carey: Following the best selling Handle with Carey and 24seven DVDs, here are 15 solid, practical and strong pieces of commercial card magic with a regular deck of cards. John's trademark stripped down style is once again highlighted in this collection. No pipe dreams, just hard hitting card magic. Go ahead and grab a deck of cards and let's Carey on!
Ambitious All the Way - John's beautiful four phase Ambitious Card with an unexpected finale!
Packet Stroller - A no nonsense piece of card magic using just a few cards and packed with strong magical moments and a memorable climax!
Illogical Invisible Countdown - One of John's favorite approaches to card at a number.
Kolossal Sillier! - Mentalism combined with sleight of hand produces a very strong unexpected prediction effect.
Opening Salvo - A four of a kind production inspired by Richard Sanders. Minimum work, maximum impact.
You Have the Power! - A delightful presentation piece, which makes the spectator the star.
Classical Ambitions - John's tribute to Larry Jennings.
Summer of 76 - A powerful sandwich effect inspired by Alan Ackerman.
A Trick With No Name! - Just watch it!
The Beer Glass Effect - Another approach to the classic card at a number effect using the Carey approach of minimum work- maximum impact.
Bullet Snatcher - A short n sweet transformation effect using a great John Bannon idea.
Whisper It Softly - John's streamlined approach to a Jerry Sadowitz classic.
Going For a Subway - An action packed approach to the sandwich plot.
A Little Game of True or False - if you like the lie detector plot, you will use this.
3 And Easy - a hands off divination and discovery of 3 selections using a wonderful Chad Long ruse. Read their tells and their minds!
FULL TOOLBOX SECTION: The Tommy Tucker pass, 2 Frank Thompson false cuts, Hindu bottom control, Erdnase color change, Hofzinzer/ Fechter force, Hofzinzer spread cull, The optical false shuffle.
$29.95 (DVD01359)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(10) Annemann’s Practical Mental Effects DVD – Vol. 1 – Richard Osterlind:
A classic of mentalism comes to life!
Annemann's Practical Mental Effects has been a landmark book for magicians and mentalists since its release in 1944. The routines contained in its pages have been influencing mystery performers for over 75 years.
This exciting new DVD series explores the work of Annemann and his Jinx contributors in a scholarly way, analyzing not only the presentation of some of the strongest mentalism ever created but also the thinking behind the effects. Richard Osterlind first performs the effects in their original form before an audience of non-magicians and then very nuance is exhaustively explained with the assistance of Jim Sisti.
Effects performed and explained in this volume include:
Magic vs. Mentalism
Slate Immortality
A Question and the Answer
The OM Billet Switching Box
Psychic Slate Test
Taps
Notaria
The Word On The Page
$30.00 (DVD01356)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(11) Annemann’s Practical Mental Effects DVD – Vol. 2 – Richard Osterlind:
This exciting new DVD series explores the work of Annemann and his Jinx contributors in a scholarly way, analyzing not only the presentation of some of the strongest mentalism ever created but also the thinking behind the effects. Richard Osterlind first performs the effects in their original form before an audience of non-magicians and then very nuance is exhaustively explained with the assistance of Jim Sisti.
Effects performed and explained in this volume include:
Bert Reese Secrets
You and Yours - Me and Mine
Extra Sensory Perception
Prophetic Tissue
Ultra Addition
Dead
Yggdrasil
20th Century Newspaper Test
Par-Optic Vision
$30.00 (DVD01357)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
(12) Annemann’s Practical Mental Effects DVD – Vol. 3 – Richard Osterlind: This exciting new DVD series explores the work of Annemann and his Jinx contributors in a scholarly way, analyzing not only the presentation of some of the strongest mentalism ever created but also the thinking behind the effects. Richard Osterlind first performs the effects in their original form before an audience of non-magicians and then very nuance is exhaustively explained with the assistance of Jim Sisti.
Effects performed and explained in this volume include:
Mindreading Publicity Effect
The Brain Wave Deck
Half and Half
Two Papers and a Spectator
Graphology
The Al Baker 3 Billet Trick
Triple Coercion
Devil Device
$30.00 (DVD01358)
Note: This is a non-discountable item.
And that’s this week’s Watch Out For That Black Cat Hotlist! Some very cool new magic for those hot summer days.
As always, we thank you so very much for finding the time to spend with us, whether it’s online at www.magicfact.com or in person at 102 North Street in Medford.
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