Maxello Magic

From the inventive mind of Alex Lourido (Butter Coin, Osmosis, Rainbow Coins, and Retro Magic) comes his most spectacular trick, yet - Glass Mirage!

This beautifully crafted and ingenious prop will have you performing mind-twisting feats with ordinary, unprepared beer and soda bottles that are so incredible, they defy physics! For example, take an empty beer bottle and turn it upside down to fully extract any remaining liquid. Display both of your hands empty, and with a magical wave, the sound of re-pressurization is heard! Then the cap instantly appears on the bottle's mouth! Hand the bottle out for examination and, to everyone's astonishment, the bottle is now completely refilled and capped with an airtight seal! They open the bottle with a bottle opener and hear it depressurize, while the beer foam bubbles up and gently cascades down the side of the bottle! Or, place an empty beer bottle at the center of a table and cover it with a thin, shear silk. On your command the sound of re-pressurization can be heard! Then you or a spectator removes the silk to reveal that the bottle is completely filled, capped, and sealed!

You can also inform your friends and audience that you have trained yourself to remove a non twist-off cap from any beer bottle, with nothing more than your bare hands! You than borrow an unopened and completely sealed bottle from someone and proceed to place your fingers around the cap. With a light prying motion the cap is seen to pop off the bottle and the sound of rushing air is heard! The bottle is displayed and shown to be completely open! You put the bottle down on the bar and display the cap in your hand. Then, with a light rub the cap instantly vanishes and to everyone's shock and amazement, it is seen to reappear at the neck of the bottle from whence it came! And of course, the bottle is capped with an airtight seal! You can also perform all of these amazing routines with corked wine bottles, as well! And all routines require zero set up! That's right, no tedious preparation or setup required! And with the GM on your person you can perform impossible feats of magic with any bottle containing beer, soda, or wine!

All of these beautiful routines, and much more, are taught by Alex Lourido on the accompanying DVD. He systematically teaches all of the spectacular tricks and illusions that can be performed with the GLASS MIRAGE. Lourido also explains how to use this incredible gaff to perform outrages Kids Tricks such as, taking a glass soda bottle and stretching it out to almost twice its original size and then bending it in half, followed by tying its neck into a knot! He also shows you the spectacular routines that are made easy with the GM, like Card to bottle and many more! The GLASS MIRAGE is a beautifully designed gaff that is constructed of the world's finest materials. This item will never see the inside of a dark drawer, because you will carry it practically everywhere! So pick up the GM today, and start creating Mirages everywhere you go!

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.