Props

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    You show six cards of the same suit, the ace through six. You demonstrate they have their value marked on the back. When you turn the last card around so the number looks like a nine, the face changes to a nine.  Easy to perform, and the cards are instantly reset making this ideal for walkaround entertainment.  Since you are the only person to touch the cards, this is ideal for hospital clowns who need to be concerned about infection control. $10.00

Children's 50/50 Forcing Decks

    Bob Keeshan said, "children aren't less intelligent than adults, they just have less experience."  Tricks with poker decks often aren't effective with young children because they have no experience with them.  These forcing decks, made from card games for children, allow you to do routines with cards young children can relate to, and they open up additional patter possibilities.  A forcing deck makes an audience volunteer pick the card you want them to.  Since you control which card will be chosen, you can prepare an amazing prediction in advance.  (A routine I like to do at birthday parties is prepare a greeting card for the birthday child with the name of the selected card written inside.  I have them pick a card, and fail to find the right one.  Then I have them open their greeting card revealing the prediction.  This gives them a magical souvenir of the party.)  Decks currently in stock are Go Fish, with colorful sea creatures, and Old Maid.    $5.00

(Many more revelations and tips for using 50/50 Forcing Decks can be found in Creativity For Entertainers Volume 3: Creative Routines by Bruce "Charlie" Johnson.  For details see Books.)

The Ledger of Life

Created by Bruce Johnson, Produced by Laflin Magic

"We are wonderfully pleased to be able to release Bruce Johnson's gospel message illusion, The Ledger of Life. It is a superb blend of simple effect and powerful lesson."  - Duane Laflin

What Happens? A "spiritual bank" book is shown (The Ledger of Life). Listed on it's pages are sins and the price due for them. Death.

The sins are listed in bold letters and so it the price. Death.

Then, as the story of Jesus Christ is told, the pages in the book change. Suddenly, over the sins and their price are the letters "PAID IN FULL BY CHRIST'S BLOOD". These letters are in bright red!

Finally, all the pages in the book turn blank. The blood of Christ not only paid for the sin, but also took their record away. The believer stands justified (just-as-if-I'd never sinned) before God!

$15.00

    You have four cards, all of the same value, for example, four jacks.  No matter which card is chosen, that card has a different colored back then the others.  Can be repeated with the same audience.  The cards are instantly reset making this effect ideal for walkaround entertainment.  Easy to perform. $5.00

    Explaining that you are taking a correspondence course in conjuring you display the book containing directions on how to make things vanish.  You stop to comment on some of the pages as you flip through the pages of the book.  Then you explain that you are having one problem with this lesson, every time you try to do a trick, the directions vanish.  Now all the pages are blank.  

    The illustrations do not give away any real magic tricks.  They are just for fun and to inspire patter.  For example, while displaying the elephant that vanishes from a cabinet, you ask, "Do you know how to make an elephant vanish?  Paint his toenails red and hide him in a cherry tree. -- Well, have you ever seen an elephant in a cherry tree?  See it works."

    The text is reprints of five magazine articles written by Bruce Johnson making this not only a prop you can use on stage or in walkaround entertainment, but also an educational book to read. $15.00