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In the blink of an eye half the magician’s body vanishes…

A stage illusion small enough to fit in a briefcase – Astounding enough to be performed on world-wide television.

Now on DVD, Andrew Mayne presents his incredible one-man illusion that’s been on stage and television around the world. For the first time Andrew presents several Bisection variations for different situations, including Bisection 360 – a totally surrounded presentation of Bisection.

Basic: The original incredible one-man illusion
360: The surrounded presentation
Trench coat: A spooky presentation using a long coat
Bisecting a Friend: An alternate presentation using an assistant

Includes video plans that show you how to put together Bisection using simple materials in under 30 minutes.
Shot in HD

Presented in anamorphic widescreen (16:9) Running time 28 minutes

DVD edition

“CastleMaynia, a new effect by the highly-creative Andrew Mayne, is a great idea, a unique production, and one of those things just waiting for a personal touch or two to take it to the next level.”

Online-Visions

Imagine a card castle that folds down to half a deck of cards! Small enough to fit in your wallet!

Use it in the middle of a close-up effect, on stage or anywhere else you want to produce a fun visual prop!

Andrew Mayne presents a new twist on the classic card castle production: CastleMaynia! A card castle that folds down small enough to fit in the palm of your hand and instantly opens to over a foot tall!

+ Use it to reveal a selected card
+ Produce it at the end of a card manipulation routine
+ Pull it from your wallet
+ Use it as a magical production
+ Produce one and then split it into two

CastleMaynia folds down small enough to fit into a card case along with half a deck of playing cards.

Ships flat: One-time assembly required
Includes 16 minute instructional DVD including 6 routines

“It’s another crazy/weird production from Mayne and it’s a good one. Striking, visual, and surprising, it’s a very different climax to a card revelation or a stand-alone production. While certainly not for everyone, for those looking for a bit of insanity (and lots of surprised laughter), it’s an excellent piece.”

Online Visions – 9 out of 10

Rip the centers out of some spare cards, give them a flick and in a flash they’ve all linked together in a chain of cards nearly as tall as you!

Chain Reaction is a huge effect with visual impact. You can perform it up close or on stage anytime in your show.

You can even use Chain Reaction to produce a selected card.

Chain Reaction combines the visual impact of two of magic’s most enduring stage effects, the Linking Rings and the Newspaper Tear, into a card illusion that fits into your card case and is ready to go at anytime.

The card chain can be inspected! Resets quickly!

Includes three routines ranging from beginner to advanced skill level. Each routine includes easy to follow step-by-step instructions.

Grab some spare cards and create a Chain Reaction today!

DVD length 20 minutes. 16:9 image format

DVD format

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

Andrew Mayne, creator of Gut Buster and In Half presents a stunning new illusion.

An escape + a penetration + teleportation!

Members of the audience are asked onstage to inspect a 24" metal plate with a 7" hole cut in the center. After they've inspected it to their satisfaction they're invited to sit down. The illusionist then sticks one arm through the center of the hole and grasps the edge of a curtain with the metal plate trapping his arm and separating him from the front of the stage. In one violent motion the magician is now standing in front of the metal plate apparently having either passed through it or teleported from one side to the other.

This new twist on Andrew Mayne's A-Frame illusion is a super-compact effect that can be built quickly using off the shelf parts from a hardware store and fit inside a suitcase.
Event Horizon can be adapted to perform in most every performing environment. No assistants required.

DVD running time 20 minutes

4 umbrellas, one bag and a thick skull.

Place a paper bag over your head and the fun begins. First you jab an umbrella straight into your right ear and out the other side. Next you do the same with your left ear. Then you jab an umbrella straight up your nose and out the back of your head. Finally you impale your head like a skewer. Oddly enough, still alive, you remove the umbrellas one by one and show yourself unharmed.

Can be made in under 20 minutes for under $20.

DVD running time 20 minutes.

(Instant download available here)

You introduce several antique photographs collected from around the world. A spectator is invited to freely select one to focus upon. After a moment of concentration you begin to zero in on the spectator’s thoughts and reveal the selected photograph with a drawing. However, in a strange climax, you leave the spectator wondering if they imagined it all when the chosen photograph is turned over to reveal a completely blurred image!

+ Complete with photographs and everything needed to perform
+ Spectator makes a free choice
+ Resets instantly

Includes photographs and DVD with several bonus routines.

Make bricks, bowling balls, fish bowls even a hot cup of coffee appear from nowhere!

Andrew Mayne presents his innovative technique for making impossible and unwieldy objects appear from impossible places.

Bowling Ball - An updated handling on Andrew's Bowling Ball from Shopping Bag effect that makes a great show opener or closer. Includes Andrew's new handling and technique that makes this a portable, practical illusion you'll want to make a part of your show.

Brick - Make a heavy brick appear from an empty lunch bag and drop it literally at your audience's feet. This never-seen-before effect allows you to create a huge impact up close or onstage when you produce a real brick under the most challenging conditions.

Fish Bowl - Make a fish bowl appear complete with real fish! Use it as part of an Aerial Fishing routine or use the bowl to produce giveaway items or anything else you want.

Home Brew - This is Andrew's almost impromptu method for making a hot cup of coffee appear. It makes a great ice break or fun effect to do at the coffee house.

Freefall is an easy to perform effect that's almost impromptu in its simplicity. You can use it onstage with a bowling ball or up close with a brick you can leave as a souvenir. It's got multiple applications including one that's right for your show.

DVD running time 20 minutes

Presenting an incredible way to perform visual magic with writing and tattoos that appear and vanish on your skin.

Start and end totally clean. Begin with everything you need in your wallet or deck of cards.

+Gypsy Curse – A tattoo of a chosen card appears before your audience’s eyes.
+Secret Seal – Make a copy of a seal from a borrowed bill on your palm.
+Revelation – A totally freely selected word appears on your arm.
+Infection – A contagious card gives you spots.
+Tattoo of Fire – Burn a tattoo into your skin.
+Ace – A flashy tattoo appearance.
+Barcode – A product barcode jumps to your skin.
+Heart Effect – Move a tattoo on your arm to a card.
+Human Silly Putty – Transfer an image to your skin.
+iTattoo – The icons on an iPhone vanish and reappear on your body.
+Syntax – A thought of word appears on your arm.
+Self Promotion – Make a copy of your business card on your skin.

DVD running time 55 minutes

Andrew Mayne, creator of Gut Buster and ghostbills, presents a 21st century paranormal effect. Using an unprepared borrowed camera phone the magician reveals spectral images of ghosts and premonitions from beyond.

+ Your spectators watch the display as a dark silhouette crosses the room in real time
+ A thought of word, image or card appears in a photograph of a spectator's hand
+ A haunted face appears in the shadows

GHOST VISION is a spine-tingling effect that allows you to use a borrowed portable electronics device to create a digital seance that can be saved as photo or movie. It's easy to perform and works with most camera phones.

24 minute widescreen DVD including an extra bonus effect: The Haunted Keys

Comes with everything needed to perform (cell phone not included).

“I could go on and on about this one, about how clean it is and how beautiful it looks, but I’ll just sum it up this way: if Mayne charged three times as much for this, it would still be worth the price. At the low cost, this is a bargain.”

Online-Visions.com

Andrew Mayne presents an incredible visual close-up illusion that can be performed anytime using two borrowed bills.

Ghostbills is a stunning effect that will leave your audience floored. It’s perfect for close-up, tableside and parlor performances. This 24 minute DVD shows you step-by-step how to perform the effect. You’ll quickly have the effect mastered and soon be stunning your own audiences.

phase one
The magician borrows two bills from a spectator. The bills are folded, and one bill is placed inside of the other. The bills are then caused to visually pass through one another.

phase two
One bill is placed on top of the other bill. The bill on the bottom jumps to the middle of the folded bill on top.

phase three
The spectator holds on to the ends of a folded bill, with the other bill cradled inside. The magician pulls the bill through the spectator’s bill, just inches in front of their eyes.

The bills are borrowed
Use any denomination of bills
The effect can be performed surrounded
You end totally clean - with no gimmicks to hide
Everything can be inspected

DVD version

phase one
The magician borrows two playing cards, he rips out their centers and magically makes them link before the spectator’s eyes.

phase two
The cards are separated and spectators are allowed to examine the cards in the middle of the effect.

phase three
The magician causes the cards to link again. Finally the cards are separated and given to the spectators.

+ The cards can be borrowed
+ No advanced preparation is required
+ No extra gimmicks
+ The cards can be handed out for examination

Get the 20 minute DVD Widescreen shot on HD

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

In Half $24.95
Event Horizon $19.95
Levitator $19.95
Illusion EFX $24.95
Bisection Unlimited $20

Price $109

Andrew Mayne presents seven incredible easy-to-build inexpensive stage illusions for the beginner and the pro.

Make motorcycles appear, move through human beings, build a Shadow Box illusion for under $50 and more!

Based upon his experience performing around the world in resorts, showrooms and cruise ships, Andrew Mayne presents practical illusions that can be put together very quickly for very little money.

Minimoto – Make a mini-motorcycle appear in a fraction of a second
5th Dimension – Walk through a volunteer from the audience
Banished – Vanish a nuisance helper instantly
Transformer – Change places in the blink of an eye
The Wall – Move through a solid object like a brick wall
Shadows – Build a pack-flat shadow box for under $50
Enlarger – Make objects grow to several times their size

+ 7 illusions
+ DVD running time 65 minutes
+ Shot in widescreen 16:9 format

The Amazing One Man Self-Sawing Illusion

Andrew Mayne, creator of Illusion EFX, Levitator and Gut Buster presents an amazing twist on a classic illusion.

Step into an upright cabinet made from two cardboard boxes and then visible separate the two halves of your body! Slide the top box to the side and the audience can both your upper torso and legs are completely separated. Then blow their minds as you lift your upper body up with your hands showing your waist is several inches off the floor of the cabinet and detached completely! The top box is then slid back and you emerge intact.

• Costs less than $60 in materials to build
• Requires no power tools
• Folds down flat
• Can be built in under one hour
• Requires absolutely no assistants

On this instructional DVD Andrew Mayne provides complete step-by-step instructions in building and performing the illusion. Also included is a bonus variation of the effect, Half Man.

DVD Running time 44 minutes

Andrew Mayne, the creator of GHOSTBILLS and HYPERCARDS presents another incredible impromptu close-up illusion. Borrow a bill from a spectator, give it a tear, stab your finger through the center of the bill, violently rip it out and restore it right before their eyes.

INFUSION - A complete penetration and mutilated bill routine
HYPER INFUSION - A lightning fast version of the effect
PUNCTURE - An impromptu clothing penetration
BLACK HOLES - Travel interstellar distances with your finger!

Use any bill without any advance set-up
No switches or gimmicks
Spectators can inspect the bill before and after

INFUSION is easy to learn and fun to perform!

18-minute DVD / shot in Sony HD / Widescreen letterbox format

Want to create and give away an impossible object your audience will never forget?

Create an inside-out balloon right before their eyes in this 3-phase routine.

Phase 1: Rip the knot off a balloon and make it vanish

Phase 2: Create a new knot on the smooth balloon

Phase 3: Push the knot INSIDE the balloon and give it away

In this DVD Andrew teaches his method for tying a knot on the inside of the balloon and using it in an incredibly visual magic routine.

+ Uses regular balloons.

+ No special tools required.

+ Place a playing card or business card in the balloon as a giveaway!

DVD running time 20 minutes

Andrew Mayne, creator of Illusion EFX and Gut Buster, presents a new DVD dedicated to the art of levitation.
Including five levitations for the stage and street; Andrew teaches practical methods for defying gravity that will leave your audiences spellbound. The levitations featured on the DVD include:

[Levitator] Stand on a chair and float several feet off the floor, to the side and then glide gently to the ground. Based on the original Pocket Levitator and Sooper Looy by Looy Simonoff and Paul Harris (with permission).

[UP] A baffling effect where you float up to a chair and back down making the audience wonder if you levitated or slowed down time. Makes a great emcee bit.

[Flight] Put on a cape and float in the air like a superhero.

[The Anti-Gravity Machine] An impromptu effect using a sheet of newspaper you can perform at a party to convince your friends you know an arcane science secret that allows you to defy gravity.

[Ultimate Levitation] An easy to build stage illusion that allows you to openly levitate without any cover.

In this DVD Andrew shows his favorite methods for levitating in a variety of situations from the street to the stage and everywhere in between.

DVD running time 43 minutes

A spectator signs a card. They're given an undeveloped photograph to hold. The card is lost back in the deck. Before their astonished eyes they watch as the photograph develops into an image of a hand holding their signed card.

Photosynthesis is a powerful way to reveal a word, an image or a signed card.

No camera required!
No refills needed!

Comes complete with the Photosynthesis gimmick and a 24 minute instructional DVD including several routines.

Photosynthesis is a utility prop you can use to make startling revelations. It looks like an ordinary undeveloped instant photograph but will reveal anything you like including words, cards, images and even signatures.

Photosynthesis gives you the magic of instant photography revelations without the need for film or an instant camera. Completely reusable, it's heat activated and can be held in a spectator's hands.

Andrew Mayne presents 13 tricks, stunts and gags for the modern conjurer.

+ Produce a bowling ball in an impossible way
+ Stab a pencil through your face
Use insects to perform psychic feats
+ Learn Andrew's brand-new handling for the paperclip through arm effect that can be performed at anytime during your act with everything you need fitting in your wallet.
+ Andrew Mayne's brand-new one-man illusion: BRAIN DAMAGE a head penetration effect using umbrellas that can be made in five minutes for less than five bucks!
+ Also includes Andrew's legendary attempt at making a bed of nails from thumb tacks.
And more...

Bowling Perhaps the most popular effect of all from Shock FX, this startling production of bowling ball has since seen widespread use around the world on stage and even television. All it takes is a bowling ball, a shopping bag and a sturdy floor. It's big, loud and visual. Worth the price of the DVD alone.
Deface your face! Nothing says shock like stabbing a pencil through your face. Andrew's impromptu self-mutilation method makes a great anytime shock effect to make your audience scream.
Burned! Andrew reveals his secret technique for surviving what looks like debilitating, career impairing third-degree burns.
Brain Damage Want a cool one-man illusion that involves shoving sharp objects through your brain? Of course you do! Brain Damage is an easy to build solo illusion that packs small and plays big. So cool it's even been on television.
Spiked Andrew Mayne presents his own unique take on the classic effect of jabbing a spike through your tongue. His presentation features a few special twists including a method that even fools people who think they know how it works!
Stabbed If you've ever wanted to be able to perform the needle through arm at a moment's notice, this is the effect you've been waiting for! Even if you haven't, this is still for you! Andrew teaches his special method for the effect that's ready at any time.
Pin Head A sudden, shocking and funny illusion where you appear to pop your head with a sharp needle.
Geek Trick! Just one look at that face tells you how much fun you can have a with a rubber chicken. So much fun it's a crime in some states.
The Bed of Thumb Tacks You've heard the stories. Now see it for yourself. Andrew's not-so-brilliant idea presented for your own sadistic enjoyment.
Lunch for Cthulhu Sit down for a meal of thumb tacks, razors, lit candles and more! Gross out your audience

DVD / 50 minutes / plus digital download

What is Stain/Shiv? It’s my latest DVD featuring two disturbing effects…

Shiv
This has been a featured part of my lecture and a favorite part of my stage routine. It’s a deadly Russian Roulette style effect you perform with an audience member. A different version of this appeared in my DVD Maynia. This is a new version with important touches and handling.

A sharpened pencil is placed into one of four envelopes and then mixed up. A spectator is given a completely free choice. One-by-one, three envelopes are smashed into the heart, stomach and other vital areas of either you or the spectator – to no harm. The last envelope is ripped open to reveal the sharpened pencil.

This effect works great on stage and is also a twisted party effect. Set-up is a very easy and it can even be performed impromptu. It’s a very dramatic routine that fits into a #10 envelope. I take it with me everywhere.

Stain
I came up with this effect when I wanted a really creepy way to do a revelation of thought of word or image. This effect was inspired by watching Japanese horror films. I wanted to create visual moment when a prediction was revealed as if by supernatural forces.

Your prediction is a bag containing a dark colored liquid (blood?). A spectator makes a choice of a word or a famous person to think about. A piece of paper is dropped into the bag and it’s given a shake. The liquid drips away revealing the thought of image or word. You can then give the bag and revelation away as a dark memento.

It’s a very easy to perform effect and works on stage or up close. Including a several fool-proof practical forces.

Stain/Shiv is a 65 minute DVD describing both effects in detail.

“I’ve been performing a newspaper tear for years. It used to be my stand-up opener but is only brought out on occasions when I need it. The tear, based on a popular method, has served me well, but I may well be tossing it to employ Andrew Mayne’s excellent ‘Tear Down.’”

Fives stars – Wayne Kawamoto Magic.About.Com

Andrew Mayne presents a radical twist on the classic newspaper tear (based on Jim Steinmeyer’s Incessant Newspaper) – a completely impromptu and inspectable newspaper tear!

A spectator is asked to sign a totally unprepared newspaper right off the newsstand. The magician then takes the paper and rips it to shreds. He crumples the pieces together and then visually restores the newspaper!

The restored newspaper, complete with signature, is handed back to the spectator to inspect and keep as a souvenir.

• Totally impromptu – no preparation
• Totally inspectable before and after the effect
• No switches, no duplicate newspapers
• Tear Down can be performed with full-sized newspapers, tabloid and even magazines!

Tear Down is one of the most practical and visual newspaper tear you’ll ever learn. Once you learn it, you’ll be able to perform it anytime, anywhere. Zero-preparation, no gimmicks, no duplicates. Just pick up a newspaper and do it!

Running time 33 minutes / widescreen format / DVD

Borrow a bill from a spectator. Stab a key on your keyring through the bill and rip it out. Miraculously the bill is undamaged!

The Key is ready on your keyring anytime you need it!

Includes 3 bonus effects:

Key through Playing Card: Puncture and restore a selected card!
Key through Jacket: A version of the classic knife through jacket effect that fits in your pocket.
Key biter: Bite the end off a key and then instantly make it reappear.

Includes everything needed to perform and a 20 minute instructional DVD with additional routines.

“Twisted adds a whole new dimension to the bill change. Now it’s visual! You create an impossible object and then fix it right before their eyes. And the ability to do it with a signed bill fooled me!”

- Joshua Jay

A borrowed bill is signed on both ends by a spectator and then ripped in half. The magician attempts to put it back together but accidentally restores the bill in a mis-made twisted state with half the bill facing the wrong way! The signatures are plainly visible on either side! He finally restores the bill back to its original condition.

Twisted allows you to perform both a torn and restored and a mis-made bill effect using a borrowed bill that can be signed by a spectator. It’s easy to master and can be performed anytime anywhere.

*Special Bonus: The Remixed Bill – Learn Andrew’s quick and easy mis-made bill effect where you give away a twisted bill!

Featuring clear step-by-step instructions including performer point of view angles.

26 minutes / Widescreen / DVD

Welcome to Wizard School!

Be a real life wizard. Levitate objects, perform incredible feats and learn how to float on a broom!

At Wizard School, master magician Andrew Mayne will teach you sixteen different acts of wizardry.

The Magic Hands + The Wizard News + Appearing Wand + Vanishing Wand + Floating Wand + The Magic Scarf + Clinging Wand + Goblin + Color Sense + The Magic Ribbon + The Enchanted Matchbox + Scarf through Neck + The Card Castle + The Wizard’s Hat + The Instant Knot + Broom Flight

If you think it would be fun to make your friends think there’s a goblin in the room, to twist your hands in an impossible way or levitate yourself, then Wizard School is for you!

Aspiring wizards both young and old are welcome to attend.

50 minute DVD

Andrew Mayne invites you to attend Wizard School 2. This semester students will learn how to make a floating potion, take photographs of spooky apparitions, hypnotize objects, produce cans of soda, read minds and much more.

All of the magic in Wizard School uses household items and doesn’t require any special props. Young wizards will learn secrets of magic as well as how to make special projects.

Wizard Cola + Mummy Finger + Mystery Card + Mind Reader + Floating Potion + Gremlin Eggs + Impervious Balloon + Hypno Hank + Ghost Photos

Wizard School 2 also includes a special interactive magic show where Andrew will perform tricks with viewers at home: Watch as he makes coins vanish in your own hands and helps you perform an incredible card trick in your own living room!

42 minutes / Widescreen / DVD