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Mike M Loyal user 244 Posts |
I owned probably every Royal Magic item and Adam's prank and trick as a kid. My favorite was the Shrinking Die and I still use the squirting nickel to this day. I liked the one where the dots changed colors on the plastic too, but I think that was a Tenyo.
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Mushu Loyal user 253 Posts |
I don't know if it's a Royal/Adams, but my favourite is the Flying Quarters Trick, where quarters disappear from one cup and reappear in another. And the old Ball and Vase still manages to fool a lot of people.
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Larry Barnowsky Inner circle Cooperstown, NY where bats are made from 4770 Posts |
Royal Penetration frame and Adams (?) finger chopper.
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shomemagic Inner circle Missouri 2232 Posts |
Pentro Penny, Color Cube and Crazy Spot not sure which is Royal or Adams !
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Turk Inner circle Portland, OR 3546 Posts |
Crazy Cube and the Ring on Spring.
Magic is a vanishing Art.
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corpmagi Special user New York 725 Posts |
Wonder Blocks (Royal)
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Rcitgo Special user Emporia,Va. 738 Posts |
Mine was "Nickles To Dimes" and the little red block that you waved over a penny to make it change to a dime.Those bring back memories.I got some of the original Addams unopened effects off Ebay a few months ago.
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Julie Inner circle 3936 Posts |
I enjoyed performing the ball vase, palming and ditching the gimmick, doing the trick again via sleight of hand (the watcher's guard is down this second time because they've already decided it's that "same old trick") and then watching them go koo-koo when you invite them to look at the props!
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Munseys_Magic Special user 520 Posts |
Buddah Papers (Royal)
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MagicCarisio Inner circle 1061 Posts |
"Spirit Nut" by Royal
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docguitarman Special user Thousand Oaks, California 888 Posts |
I'm a returning amateur after years of a career. I liked Wonder Blocks ... just purchased a new one. I also remember "Spirit Nut" -- I think I'll purchase that again too !
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docguitarman Special user Thousand Oaks, California 888 Posts |
There was another Royal Magic trick that I recall. It was a version of Grandma's necklace but required no set up. It was two ropes , a ribbon and a plastic tube with a hole through its diameter. The ropes were tied around the ribbon, ropes and ribbon put through tube, ribbon pulled through hole in tube. The ropes are cross tied as usual. Rest as in Grandma's necklace.
I can't see any for sale these days. Not even a vintage one on the auction sites. I don't recall the name that Royal used for the effect. |
RCarruth Veteran user Spartanburg, S.C. 341 Posts |
Dots Impossible.. The first sleight, beyond the double lift, I learned. Thought I was something special.
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RCarruth Veteran user Spartanburg, S.C. 341 Posts |
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On Sep 4, 2004, Rcitgo wrote: Owned both.. and still appreciate their simplicity.
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Julie Inner circle 3936 Posts |
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On Dec 5, 2017, docguitarman wrote: This is the "deluxe" version of the same trick Royal sold called Tube 'n Cord discussed in another thread. I THINK this set with the nice clear plastic tube was called the Royal Silk En Tube. I would think the clear tube version is older than the metal tube version, not sure. This one appears on e-bay every now and then. Julie |
Jdansti New user 2 Posts |
I have fond memories of performing Royal Magic's multiplying sponge rabbits for my grandmother (over and over!) when I was a kid. I think I bought them at a Stuckey's store along I10 where the family would stop and use the restroom and us kids would buy small toys to play with on the trip.
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sirbrad Inner circle PA 2096 Posts |
I loved them all and still do many of them today, the cups and balls, gypsy necklace, paddle move, sponge bunnies, walnut shell game etc. However there is one trick in there that is the reason that I started magic back then in the late 70's/early 80's followed by another trick that I also did constantly and still do today. I first got the "1962 Adam's Mr. Magic Set." My friend got it for Christmas actually from his parents and was not interested in it, and he fried me with the ball vase around age 6. I knew that I MUST learn how to do that trick and so I could fool everyone else with it as well, and maybe even myself as I was not sure if I actually witnessed real magic at that age or just a "trick". So I offered him $3.00 for it and he took it immediately as he wanted candy instead.
As expected I was disappointed by how it was done, and was like "is that all there is to it?" "This is what fooled me?!" I thought then of course no way would it fool others but then realized it would because it fooled me which was all part of the learning process, which came in greater detail later on. The other trick was "The Color Vision Box" which I loved as well and fried everyone with it as well, and made my own routines for it. The sponge bunnies I also did constantly which later on became sponge balls. There was a good reason for that as well as the sponge balls took my magic to the next level, and even though I knew magic was just a "trick" based on what I learned from the set, I was not 100% sure it was not real after I saw a local magician at a fair who called me over to his table to show me some tricks. He had all kinds of glitzy, glamorous magic apparatus on the table, was dressed in the standard magician's attire, a tux coat, bright white shirt, bow tie, top hat, and a curly mustache and goatee. He made a white bird appear out of a puff of smoke, and it walked up a ladder. He then did the cups and balls routine for me, vanishing nickels to dimes, and finally the sponge ball routine which fried me again. At that point I thought that "magic set magic" was just "fake" but this magician was doing the real stuff! I had no idea how he split the ball into two, and made them appear and vanish from his hands. But what really fried me was when he made them appear in my hand. I could literally feel them "grow" and it was one of the most magical moments I have every experienced, until previously seeing the ball vase. Even with the cups and balls which I also had in my set, but was too young to understand them fully and did not yet make it through all of the tricks, including the sponge bunnies yet luckily so I had no idea how they were done. I am glad I didn't know as that was another pivotal point in my magic "career" which I knew then would become a career, after the ball vase made sure it was to become a "hobby" little did I know, and that it would become a lifestyle and a full-time job. I had no idea how he did the cups and balls either, as I checked the cups for "holes" on the bottom, but were solid aluminum yet the balls passed through them effortlessly. I had no idea how that ball appeared in my hand with the other. So that is what started me on my lifelong magic journey as I went to the public library the next day and took out every book that I could find on the subject, the first ones being The Amateur Magician's Handbook, Mark Wilson's Complete Course, Scarne's Magic Tricks, Bill Severn books, The Magic Book by Harry Lorayne, Scarne On Card Tricks, and many others. But those first books formed the foundation of my career. "The Amateur Magician's Handbook" provided me with a foundation on many different genres of magic and that book alone started my career which would fund many more books to come. A few years later I would get the Tarbell Course which really made me ecstatic and took years to get through them all. I still have all those original books today and also new copies as well since they are so special to me. Many other magic sets also followed like all the Houdini ones, Blackstone Magic Set, all the Adam's sets, and single tricks, trick decks, Marshall Brodien decks and kits etc. So yeah that is the "short" version. Just goes to show you what an impact a simple little magic set can have and I still have that same set as well today in great condition as I kept them and all my magic stuff in as a "neat freak" who takes care of his stuff REALLY well lol. I still buy them today as well and use them for displays along with my thousands of books, posters, tricks and apparatus. But that magic set is what started it all and probably the most important piece in my collection as if not for that set I may not have all of the rest. I also have an "egg vase" as well that I still use today for parlor and close-up with my own routines, and "sucker gags" for those who may have had one in a magic set also as a kid. But I used to take all the tricks everywhere in my pockets and to school as well so I got a lot of use out of them and still do, and bought duplicates as I said. Amazing in itself that I never lost any of them or broke any of them. Those were special times during magic's "golden age," today you barely see many magic sets around in stores here, and when I do they seem to not sell much if at all. Unless I buy them lol. Kids do not know what they are missing out on, and are too busy staring into their phones like zombies. But that is OK I don't mind keeping all of magic's secrets to myself. It is their loss. So yeah I love them all but the ball vase and color vision box were my top two starting out. I also carried around the little Adam's set of linking rings as well and used them a lot and had them so long that they started to rust lol. Then later got more and kept them clean along with my large 12 inch set. So I will be forever grateful to the Adam's Magic Set and the Ball Vase, as well as everything else that followed.
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method or procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers. -- Harry Houdini
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sirbrad Inner circle PA 2096 Posts |
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On Sep 4, 2004, Julie wrote: Yeah that is what I did as well and create my own methods an routines lol. I would palm out the gimmick while going to my pocket to retrieve the ball and just like you are "clean" and really ready to fry them lol. I even used to overdo it back before I knew better and start out with it fully examinable and them palm it in during the routine just to see how good I was and if I could to "over-prove' that there was nothing to find, it was just an "ordinary ball vase" everyone has around the house. But that became my specialty pretty quickly, combining sleight of hand with gimmicks and gaffs for maximum impact. then I was covered if someone owned the props since they were available in stores until I started getting the "heavy-duty stuff" from shops. I used to also change the ball into the white fluffy ball used for the cups and balls, coins, sponge rabbits, and anything else I could fit in there.
The great trouble with magicians is the fact that they believe when they have bought a certain trick or piece of apparatus, and know the method or procedure, that they are full-fledged mystifiers. -- Harry Houdini
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