Volume 1 of the Illusion Impact series

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.

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Volume 2 of the Illusion Impact Series

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. Only $14.95 (Free shipping)

Volume 3 of the Illusion Impact Series

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.

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Volume 4 of the Illusion Impact series

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!

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)

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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¡ and back. Finally he removes his head entirely and then puts it back.

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

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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.

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"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

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