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Mickael Chatelain is a very creative magician and I think that ‘Light’ is one of his best, recent releases. Mickael is a good, careful and thorough teacher. He has a strong French accent but I don’t think that anyone will struggle to understand. He is very gentle and charming and close up shots of him demonstrating every step. This is very visual indeed. I’ve performed it in a parlour setting with elderly folk and also for primary school children in an assembly hall. There are videos of Mickael ...

They (?) do say that the best things come in small parcels. So it is with this book. After shelling out £40 odd quid, I get a rather small book (HB, a bit less than A5 and 151 pages). It would be fair to say that, on first sight, there was a slight..... what shall we call it.... (enter your own 'regret' here... we all have them). I recall a similar response (in 1999) to buying Banachek's 'Psychological Subtleties' (HB, 1998, A5, 115 pages). And there is my starting point... the best things do (...

The court cards show beautifully rendered depictions of characters from four tales from the Arabian Nights: Sinbad the Sailor, Aladdin, Ali Babba and the Forty Thieves and Scheherazade and King Shahryar. The number cards bear text telling abridged versions of the featured tales and pips incorporating images of arches, domes, crescent moons and stars. There are three different jokers, two showing a genie emerging from a lamp and one showing a character in a harlequin pattern costume. The two-way ...

This is a mighty fine key, well balanced for a nice slow turn (it looks spooky best when it turns real slow), and it looks old which is good for the right storyline; when I’m doing walk around gigs I wear it on a leather cord round my neck and wait for someone to ask about it, when I’m working the street I have it out on my table. My story is that it’s an old key that have been turned so often in a lock it develops a kind of metal memory, and can turn in it’s own; I usually have it so it doesn’t...

Ok, what you're mostly paying for here is the video instruction, which you download using the details provided in the box. There are two videos, the first details how to solve the Cube for those that don't already know. This is important because if you mess up the moves later, you WILL be messing up the cube. There is a basic solve, and a more advanced one. This doesn't really teach any hardcore speedcubing skills, you need to go elsewhere for that, but this will get you started. The second vi...

the 40th anniversary edition of marvin's rubik's amazing box of magic tricks is the perfect edition for the 40th anniversary for the rubik's cube it has some really cool easy to learn and perform tricks as well as a fantastic colouring book style trick and a scramble and solved rubik cube trick there is a lot more to see but don't want to spoil too much or give away any of the secrets but the best thing to do is go out and buy it for yourself because with it been the anniversary edition it migh...

I was very excited to order one of the mystery boxes as I'd read so many good things about them, and I wasn't disappointed. The deck of cards inside was lovely and a fantastic addition to my collection. One of the effects is great and I am having great fun learning the routine. The others I am still to really get my teeth into as they are very involved, but look worth it! I actually opened the box live on my twitch stream the day it arrived as I have a magic trick redemption on Twitch and it wa...