Maxello Magic

The Milk Mug is one of the most useful magic props for use with liquid tricks. It allows you to visibly pour liquid out of the mug, and vanish it. The apparatus we supply resembles a large coffee mug made of clear plastic, and comes with ideas for different routines.

The classic presentation involves showing a sheet of newspaper clearly front and back. This is rolled into the cone, and a mug full of milk apparently poured into the cone. You make a tossing motion towards the audience with the cone, and the liquid has vanished. The paper sheet is unrolled, shown on both sides, then balled up and tossed into the audience for them to examine if they wish.

A variation of the above would be to have white colored confetti fly out in place of the milk when you toss the contents of the cone at the audience.

A more elaborate presentation can be performed around a theme of Brain Washing. You call up a volunteer, and state it appears he requires to be brain washed because he has a dirty mind. If he protests, you can ask him when was the last time he washed his mind. He will probably say never, and you comment that anything which has never been washed must be dirty!

The basic theme has ample scope for humorous patter. You now introduce your brain washing paraphernalia which is on a tray, covered by large napkin on your table. The napkin is removed and tucked around his neck like a bib. You next display a pair of flexible opaque plastic pipes. In one of these at one end is fixed a plastic funnel. The other paraphernalia comprises of a mug of soap water (actually the Milk Mug with a dilute milk solution) and an empty can. The empty can is in fact a Foo Can. Spectator is asked to hold the pipes to his ears. You pour the soap water into one ear via the funnel. Now have him release the pipe in that ear. Have the spectator nod his head around as if swirling the soap water in his head to thoroughly rinse out his brain. Now have him tilt his head to the opposite side as if draining out all the water through the pipe in the other ear into the can. Finally pick up the can and pour out the liquid into a transparent container.

U.F.O. Trick Very good! I have no idea how you did it! - Jerry Andrus.

A sell-out at many conventions. This one had magician's rubbing their eyes!

The magician removes a pin that is stuck in his shirt and places it on his palm-up hand. Slowly the pin stands on its head, then lays down again. The magician removes his hand and the pin remains horizontal...floating in air! Here's what baffled magicians & inventors of other floating effects... The magician legitimately passes his hands above, below, in front and back, and on the sides of the pin, then passes an ungimmicked hoop over it!!! On command the pin slowly sinks to the table.

This mind-boggling effect is EASY to do and immediately repeatable! Comes with a small, white ball that floats, bounces off your fingers, then finally rises up to the magicians hand, plus ideas for floating other objects.

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

Dishonest Abe is a staple for close-up workers all over the world. It's a motivated, funny and completely devious jumbo coin routine that's all action. Here's what happens...

Mention that there's a new counterfeiting ring in the area, and boy are they dumb. They're counterfeiting PENNIES! Ask to borrow a penny and take a close look at it. Yup, it's a counterfeit! How do you know? Hold a magnifying glass over it, and the penny grows to twice it's normal size. See, you say, you can see it's larger than a normal penny. When they don't believe you, remove he magnifying glass and the penny is now permanently the size of a HALF DOLLAR!

Ask them not to stare at the penny too long, 'cause the longer they stare at it, THE BIGGER IT GETS!! The half-dollar size penny instantly and magically morphs into a 3" jumbo penny!

Once again, a normal penny grows to the size of a half dollar then climaxes with the blowing up into a GIANT THREE INCH PENNY! All in your hands!

Dishonest Abe is a Jumbo penny routine that anyone can learn. It's easy to do, spectacular to see, and you'll get more "do that again" than from anything else you perform.

Included are--Gregory's Routine, matched luster set of coins (a regular penny, half dollar size penny, and a 3" jumbo penny), a magnifying glass, and 3-D Illustrations that make learning Dishonest Abe a cinch.