Products in the “Illusions” Category

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

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

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

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)

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.)

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

Andrew Mayne in collaboration with Paul Harris present a stunning new illusion that can be performed up close, on the street or on stage. You step behind your assistant and then proceed to shove your hand straight through their body!

The audience watches in awe as your real hand visibly breaks through their skin and emerges from the middle of your assistant’s stomach.

You extract your hand from the open wound. A moment later your helper lifts their shirt to show that their stomach is completely healed.

+ Gut Buster can be performed completely surrounded!

+ Gut Buster can be performed anywhere, anytime with less than two-minutes preparation!

+ A volunteer can shove their hand through the magician’s body!

Plus:

+ Gut Buster Unplugged - The impromptu ungimmicked version

+ Gut Buster Solo - Perform Gut Buster on yourself

+ Stranger Gut Buster - Gut Buster with a random stranger

[Gut Buster includes the complete apparatus and instructional DVD. Nothing else to buy.]

The Gut Buster gimmick is designed to work with people with a medium to thin build. Performers who fall outside this range can use Gut Buster on an assistant or perform Gut Buster Unplugged on a random volunteer.

DVD length 32 minutes. Shot in High-Definition video. Presented in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen.

Andrew Mayne presents an evil twist on a classic shock magic effect:

Phase 1: Demonstrate your ability to control pain by piercing a fish hook through your skin.

Phase 3: Rip the fish hook from you flesh and appear to heal instantaneously in a supernatural manner.

…All of this takes place while the spectator holds on to one end of the hook.

Hook is Andrew Mayne's devious update to the classic needle through arm effect. Shove an unprepared fish hook through your arm while a spectator holds on to one end of it at all time. For a disturbing finale, you rip the fish hook straight out of your arm completely unharmed.

Includes step-by-step instructions and special handling instructions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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, 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

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

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

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

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!

Print version + digital download

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

Imagine being able to shrink down to just two feet in height before your audience with no boxes or covers. Shrinker makes that possible. A revolutionary illusion that goes way beyond anything before it. In full view you’ll be able to shrink yourself, walk around and then restore your height as baffled spectators watch. Use it as an opening, a closing or at any other time in your show. Or just mess with random people on the street.

Along with the Shrinker presentation you’ll get several different applications for a variety of performing situations including Shrinker Entrance: An appearance utilizing Shrinker that can be performed in a 360 degree environment.

Shrinker can be used on stage, in children’s shows and in your living room.

Shrinker comes complete with apparatus and DVD instructions. Everything can be assembled in minutes.

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 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

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

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.

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]

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

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[Digital download version available here]

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
+ Video running time 65 minutes
+ Shot in widescreen 16:9 format

Available now as an instant download

960MB .m4v format

Andrew Mayne, creator of Illusion EFX and Gut Buster, presents a video 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 video 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 video Andrew shows his favorite methods for levitating in a variety of situations from the street to the stage and everywhere in between.

Video running time 43 minutes
310 MB

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.

Video running time 20 minutes.

(DVD available here)