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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 / ebook version / PDF format

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)

ebook version / PDF format

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

40 pages / ebook edition / PDF format

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.)

ebook version / PDF format

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have superhero powers? Now you can find out!

For the first time ever, Magician X shares the secrets behind his incredible abilities. You'll find out how he uses magic technology to replicate the powers of amazing superheroes. You'll learn how to shoot webs, climb walls, levitate objects and read your friend's minds and more!

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 / ebook version / PDF format

Jump right into building your own illusions with the Illusion Impact PDF combo. Includes all four of the Illusion Impact illusions plus The Secret Illusion show.

Voodoo Box
Razorwire
Lightstorm
Specter Cabinet
Secret Illusion Show

Buy it now for just $19.95, that's almost 50% off the regular price.

5 ebooks / PDF format

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 / ebook version /PDF format

Magic and Mentalism Gone Mad!!! Andrew Mayne's offbeat take on mentalism.

11 mind-blowing comedy mentalism effects:

+ Perform the Psychic Spitball Catch
+ Drive a Big Wheel Blindfolded
+ Face the Whoopee Cushion of Death
+ Perform Magic with Human Organs
+ Demonstrate a magical drinking game
And more!

PDF format

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

ebook version / PDF format

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!

ebook version / PDF format

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.

ebook version / PDF format

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

Convince your friends and audiences that you can instantly memorize a shuffled deck of cards!

This easy to perform magic trick doesn't require any special memorization. Uses any deck of cards.

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

This digital download includes:
+ PDF booklet with precise measurements
+ Printer-friendly blueprints
+ Instructions on how to build Andrew's large stage swords
+ 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 PDF booklet / Printer-friendly diagrams in PDF form / 14-minute video in MP4 format

[Print version available here]

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.

Download the 16-page PDF right now

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

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.

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