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Andrew Mayne presents a thought-provoking book filled with 50 different ways to use your magic skills and enthusiasm to make money. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, there’s useful information for you that can help you think about different ways in which you can make magic pay.

You’ll learn secret tips that maximize your ability to book shows and create other magic related services. This book is filled with inside information and insights that will radically change the way you look at magic.

60 pages / print edition

As if the world needed any more proof that there’s something wrong with Andrew Mayne, he presents an evil twist on a classic illusion:
The magician places his arm into a “magic” cast the prevents him from being harmed. He then pulls out the wickedest looking drill ever seen. He next proceeds to drill a hole straight through his arm (blood is optional*).

The effect can be built in under a half an hour using $10 worth of materials and a $20 cordless drill.

*Performing this effect with gratuitous amounts of fake blood may traumatize your audience.

Andrew Mayne’s most popular illusion plan

At any time during your show make half your body disappear in a fraction of a second. Just as quickly as your body vanished, it returns. Perform it anytime, anywhere. There’s even a way to perform it surrounded. It’s a perfect effect for the street magician or stage illusionist and has even appeared on television.

Included are step-by-step instructions for building the apparatus and performing the effect.

Total time to build the effect: 20 minutes.
Total cost to build: $10 (or less)

Print edition

Unleash the mutant within! Cool tricks and effects using only your body! Andrew Mayne presents a collection of tricks, effects and stunts using only your body:

Suspend your body vertically from a pole in mid-air
Shrink yourself as you walk down a hallway
Vanish your head
Remove your fingers
Twist your neck in an impossible way
Also included is Footloose - make one leg pass through the other.

Never be caught unprepared!

19 effects

8.5 x 11 / 40 pages / print edition

Get Andrew's greatest close-up effects for one special price!

Ghost Vision DVD $15
ghostbills DVD $15
hypercards DVD $15
infusion DVD $15
Pocket Finger Chopper $12

Price $72

Who needs thousands of dollars to perform incredible illusions?

The magician asks his audience this question before he picks up a beat-up cardboard box. He places it upside-down over his head and then rips open a hole in the front so his face his visible. The magician then lifts the box a foot above his shoulders; stretching his neck in an impossible manner. Next he twists his head 360 degrees and back. Finally he removes his head entirely and then puts it back.

Facelifter is an incredible (yet easy to build and perform illusion) that will leave your audience baffled. Taking advantage of cutting-edge technology,

Facelifter allows any performer to create an illusion that would have cost thousands to duplicate just a few years ago (The materials now cost under $2.)

Andrew Mayne presents his most practical levitations for the stage and the street. Combining updated material from Touching Sky and step-by-step instructions from Levitator (DVD).

Learn how to levitate on the street, in your living room or on stage.

11 different ways to perform the most incredible illusion in magic!
The Street Levitation
Anti-Gravity Machine
Broom Flight
Levitator
Impromptu Levitator
Floating on the Edge
Flight
Up
Suspension of Disbelief
Mid-Air
The Ultimate Levitation

Includes step-by-step photo instructions.

32 pages / full-sized / print version

Andrew Mayne's most popular books on illusions, all for one low price.

illusiontech $35
illusion f/x $39
SOLO-X $39
Touching Sky $12

Price $125

Illusion F/X features 10 low-cost, easy-to-build illusions designed to be performed in a variety of circumstances.

It features such illusions as the now famous Balloon Box (great for children’s shows), The Infinity Cabinet (a surrounded appearance that packs down very small), Moto-X an inexpensive motorcycle production (under $100 if you’ve already got the motorcycle) and a special section on putting new twists on old illusions.

65 pages with 30 pages of illustrations and drawings.

Print version

Andrew Mayne’s new book on illusions: Illusiontech vol. 1

Learn how to build illusions for $1 to $10,000 by understanding basic illusion principles. Andrew Mayne’s newest book features several new creations along with re-worked classic illusions that help teach you how to think like an illusionist.

In the first installment of the series you’ll discover the methods of secret spaces, contortions and manipulation as they apply to magic.

+ Build a $99 beveled base
+ Build a $1 head twister
+ Create a stretching illusion for under $75
+ Create a stunning shadow box effect for less than $50
+ Plus learn how to turn classic effects into modern miracles!

8.5 x 11 / 120 pages filled with diagrams and illustrations / print version

The lights in the theatre darken. Strange music begins to fill the air as fog rolls on to the stage. The magician picks up a thin board. An assistant holding an eerie green work light walks on stage. The magician places the board in front of his body. The assistant walks behind the magician and raises the light. He lowers the light behind the magician and begins to push.

The green light begins to emerge from the center of the magician’s chest.

The assistant’s hand emerges holding the light. He pushes the light to one side passing through the magician’s body as if it were made of fog. The magician remains motionless.

The assistant pushes the light to other side passing through the magician’s spine.

The assistant slowly retracts the light letting it pass through the magician’s body. The magician lowers the board and reveals that his body is completely intact. The green light fades out.

Light Storm requires no special clothing or set-up, it travels flat and can be built in under an hour for around $60.

Fully illustrated / print version

Andrew's highly-praised book of off-the-wall parlor, close-up, and stage effects.

+ Cut off your head with a paper bag
+ Perform illusions using only a towel!
+ Perform a a card trick using just pen and paper
+ Perform twisted experiments on balloon animals
+ Instantly turn a crumpled ball of paper into an airplane
+ And more!

20 effects and routines Over 100 illustrations

96 pages / perfect bound / print version

Andrew Mayne presents a new spin on a classic effect that you can carry with you in your wallet. The magician removes a card and a bill from his wallet (both can be borrowed and inspected). The bill is slid through two slits in the card. The magician then sticks his finger through both. A spectator is invited to grab the bill and pull it free. On the count of three the bill is pulled straight through the magician's finger.

There's nothing to be reset
Everything can be examined
Full performance script included

That’s sick!” When you hear the first two people you show your trick to independently say the same thing, you know you’re on to something.

I’ve probably invented over two-dozen ways to cut yourself in half over the past 10 years. Yeah, I know it’s a nutty obsession. But I’ve always wanted a way to respond when some asks if I can cut someone in half. Now I have an answer, “Yeah, me.”

Pocket Sawing-in-Half is a fun little effect that creates the illusion that you’ve been cut in half.

6 Different routines

35 Photographs

Print version

Andrew Mayne presents the latest effect in the Illusion Impact series. The magician stands behind an audience-examined barrier of razor-sharp barbwire. He raises a cloth in front of him with the top of the barrier still visible. Moments later he takes a step forward and lowers the cloth revealing that he has passed through the barrier unscathed.

Razorwire is a one-person illusion that can be built for under $100 and can even be made to fit inside a briefcase. Just a few tools are required and only basic carpentry skills are necessary.

Razorwire is described in a 12-page 8.5 x 11 manuscript with scaled blueprints and photographs. Step-by-step construction and performance instructions are included.

The illusion can be inspected by the audience
No assistants are required
Everything can pack into a briefcase
The entire effect can be built in just a few hours
The total cost to build is under $100
It looks really wicked!

Print version + digital download

“Andrew Mayne understands my principles better than most. This effect is strong, easy to do, and amazes everyone involved. It’s a winner!”
- Kenton Knepper

“A mentalist’s DREAM!!”
- Christopher, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino

Andrew Mayne presents a stunning mentalism effect that looks truly paranormal.

A totally random volunteer is selected and before your audience’s eyes, you reveal a thought of word, a name and a two-digit number. No stooges. No pre-show work. They write nothing down.

Social Distortion has already taken the magic world by storm, fooling magicians and entertaining audiences in Las Vegas up close and on stage. Everything you need fits in your wallet, but the impact is so big you could close your show with it.

Along with everything you need, you also get a CD with a one-hour in-depth discussion with magician Christopher who has been using Social Distortion in his own show in Las Vegas. You’ll get advanced performance tips and suggestions including turning Social Distortion into an entire 15 minute act.

Includes complete instructions, full performance script, gimmicks and special bonus CD.

10 one-man illusions that don’t require any assistants or volunteers.

Andrew Mayne’s first book on illusions including A-Frame, the hugely popular, easy-to-build (under $100) incredible one-man walking through a mirror illusion.

Crawl through a compact disc
Shrink yourself to one foot tall
Produce television from a briefcase
Squeeze your head!
Walk through a propeller, and more!

The latest effect from Illusion Impact is a dramatic appearance that can be built in one afternoon for under $60. The Specter Cabinet packs down small enough that you can carry it in a duffle bag.

A single light within an open frame illuminates a darkened stage. The magician’s assistant lowers the cloth sides to the frame. A shadow begins to form. Slowly it takes shape. The magician’s silhouette can now be seen from inside the box. He rips away the front cover and makes his entrance.

Please note that performaning this illusion requires an auditorium where you have control of the lighting.

print version + plus ebook

The Secret Illusion Show is a guide to big stage magic effects that cost little or no money and can be put together in a short amount of time.

The Secret Illusion Show is a collection of effects that can be performed individually or as a whole evening's show.

The Secret Illusion Show is about the experience of the audience and not the expectations of magicians. Five illusions that fit inside a briefcase:

ARRIVAL The magician appears on an empty stage
PASSAGE The magician steps through a spectator
TELEPORTATION The magician vanishes
GHOST A handkerchief is caused to dance
THE ESCAPIST The magician makes his exit

40 pages, fully illustrated.

print version + PDF download

What is the Third Eye?
The Third Eye is an impromptu system for revealing a thought of image. It uses no gimmicks or prepared props. The only thing you’ll need is a magazine. There’s no preparation beforehand.

Where can I use it?
Anywhere. It works close-up one-on-one and it works on stage. It can even be performed over the phone.

Does it involve pre-show work?
No. Everything happens in the performance. However, it’s a great pre-show way to have an image already selected.

Is it difficult to do?
Several methods are shown. All are straightforward.

print version

Andrew Mayne presents a practical, radical twist on a classic illusion. It’s both a great starter illusion and useful part of a professional repatoire.

The magician offers his audience a demonstration in the latest high-tech pseudoscientific technology: The Voodoo Box. Guaranteed to ward off bad luck and ill omens! His assistant steps inside and the box is closed shut. The magician unveils twenty-one umbrellas that have all been opened indoors. He proceeds to shove the umbrellas through all the sides of the box at various angles. All twenty-one umbrellas are shoved into the box, yet no screams are heard from within. The magician removes the umbrellas (and opens a few to show that they are real). The box is opened and his assistant steps out unharmed!

Is it a feat of teleportation? Is the assistant a contortionist? Are sinister forces at work? Find out for yourself!

Designed to be built in under 30 minutes for less than 30 bucks, the Voodoo Box is a full scale stage illusion that packs flat and travels easily. The effect can be performed surrounded and everything can be inspected afterwards.

print version + ebook download

Andrew Mayne presents a huge book of large illusions ideas to inspire your creativity. Whether you’re planning your club show or television special, there’s something here for you:

+ 220 Pages
+ 100 New and Original Ideas
+ 100 Illustrations and Diagrams

Here are just some of the effects included: Cut an audience member in half with a pair of giant scissors + Appear from a small remote control car + Make an elephant disappear without actually owning one + Crawl through a four inch hole + Turn your assistant into a motorcycle + And much, much more!

Andrew Mayne presents his revolutionary design for the Sword Basket illusion: Compact, lightweight and easy to build.

Includes:
+ Precise measurements
+ Blueprints
+ Instructions on how to build Andrew's large stage swords
+ Download link for a 14-minute video explaining how to assemble and perform one of the world's most popular illusions.

Total cost to build is under $50.

16-page 8.5 x 11 booklet / Printer-friendly diagrams / Link to 14-minute video in MP4 format

Shipping June 25th

[Digital download version available here]