Maxello Magic

Three cards are selected from a deck of cards. The cards are returned to the deck. The deck is shuffled and placed in an attractive wood houlette. You pick up the houlette and walk into the audience. Within inches of the audience, you ask someone to blow on the box, apparently to make the selected cards rise. But it seems they blew too hard! Instantly the three chosen cards fly out of the box and flutter to the stage.

No threads, no hook up. No motors, no sand. This is an intriguing and entertaining prop for your act. (If you have the book, you can check it out) We have produced this ancient effect as a quality prop, in wood, with inlay trimmings, and durably polished. A prop the Professor would have approved of. It comes complete with instructions - you use your own deck of cards.

Now follow very closely and try to visualize what is going to take place:
First you produce a beautiful brass ring and an ordinary looking pencil. The ring is placed on the pencil and it mysteriously rises up its length!

The pencil is then carefully balanced on the first finger of the left hand in a horizontal position, the right hand passes over and under the pencil! This is simply not possible! This immediately repeated, but your right finger is placed on top of the other end of the pencil and your left hand passes over and under the pencil! If that were not enough, the eraser end of the pencil is rested on the palm of your left hand. Slowly it begins to rise until it is standing up in your hand. It moves and dances around as if trapped in a magnetic field!

The pencil is inserted into the closed fist of your left hand. Then it creeps up out of your fist even though you don't move a muscle.

Now the real kicker for the Magicians in the crowd, the pencil is immediately inverted and the same effect is repeated in your other fist! Now we all know that is completely impossible! The Brass ring is passed over the pencil proving nothing could be connected. Slowly and mysteriously the ring begins to jiggle and then stand up in your palm. The ring rises straight up out of your hand! It is now floating about 3 inches above your hand.

Now for the completely impossible, it starts to travel horizontally through space to the end of the pencil. The ring climbs up the pencil from the bottom to the top. This is completely unexplainable! At this point you receive spontaneous clapping from the audience.

One thing is for certain, each and every time you perform this sequence the audience will predictably burst into applause! Thinking the routine must be finished and what they don't realize is that the best is yet to come! The pencil is placed on the palm of your left hand, you wave your right hand over the pencil and it gradually levitates so that it is hovering above your hand. You pass both your hands over and under the floating pencil. Around the sides and over the top and bottom proving that it could not possibly be connected to anything! Then for the Grand Finally you give the pencil a spin so that is now rotating in space, end over end!

The pencil flies out away from you while simultaneously spinning! Literally it can be made to fly out into the audience if performed on a stage! Right above their heads and if they try to grab it, it immediately flies up and away just out of their reach.

People will really believe you can make objects float, just by concentrating on them. They will ask you to do it with their pens and pencils when you are done. I just tell em I have a migraine headache and can't perform it right now, it just adds to the over all effect! You are in for a real treat and a heck of a lot of fun just learning the routine.

The Routine comes with everything you need except some ordinary scotch tape.

• You will receive the very special pencil!
• The Brass Ring!
• A complete booklet of very well illustrated and written instructions.

A signed card is slowly inserted in the middle of the deck, only to reappear on top a moment later! This is repeated, and each time the signed card appears back on top. You even try to get rid of the signed card.

Finally, you explain, "You might be amazed by the fact that the card keeps coming to the top...but I'm more impressed that it can even be put into the middle of the deck at all!" With that, the deck is seen to have a large bolt, capped off with a nut going right through the middle!

• Pass everything out for examination
• The signed card is different for every performance
• Quickly resets

Lightning Bolt comes complete with specially gaffed deck, bolt, but and gimmicked card box, yet it always comes back!