Going Round the Bender
As the name implies, Bender offers a spoon bend. In this version, the spoon is held in a handkerchief by a spectator. This is a good clean handling and the spectator even gets to unwrap the spoon. A coin to impossible location routine, in Amphibean, a marked coin vanishes and is found inside a sealed creamer container.Sensations offers a variation on a copper/silver coin routine but with keys. You bring out two keys in a match box: a copper and steel key. The keys are placed in a spectator's hand. You remove the steel key, which turns into the copper key. The key held by the spectator turns into the steel key. This one has a clever method that’s combine with some sleight of hand.
In Mismade Monopoly, you tear up Monopoly money, heat it with a lighter and then restore the bill. But you've made a mess, a jumbled, mismade style bill that you can give away. This is easier than a standard bill switch and you can easily make your own gimmicks.
Put a Cork In It
In the odd one-beat Corker, you show two halves of a cork and immediately restore them into a full cork. With this one, you'll learn a valuable sleight.Heat of the Moment offers a routine with a rubber band and a pen. You thread a rubber band onto a pen and thoroughly wrap it around. The spectator holds both ends of the pen and you somehow remove the rubber band. In the second phase, you snap a rubber band into the bottom of the pen and it lands in the cap.
In Golden Treasure, a marked coin appears inside a real egg that's held in an egg cup; which resides under a clear, inverted cup; which is under an inverted and opened paper bag. This is an interesting idea that relies on some serious gimmicking and it's messy (the coin is pulled out of a real raw egg). Despite being physically messy, the method is clean.
Trading Places
In Paper Trade, two pieces of paper are torn from a small notepad - half sheets of the same page. Both are crumpled. A spectator holds the one with the holes (it's been torn off a spiral notepad) while you hold the other. At the end, the pages change places.Finally, how about a trick with Silly Putty? With In Vitro, you break a chunk of Silly Putty into two smaller chunks. One chunk is left in its plastic egg container while a spectator makes an impression of a key onto the second chunk. The impression magically transfers to the chunk of putty in the egg.
The tricks vary in difficulty, but all require some sleight of hand. As usual, Sankey offers great ideas and good instruction. If you already own DVDs and videos by Sankey, you've probably seen this material before. Something else that's fun. You get to see Sankey over the years and his many incarnations.
MSRP: $25.00
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