$20(1 review, 2 customer ratings) ★★★★★
In the absence of a brick-and-mortar magic store in your area, you no doubt already have discovered the inspirational riches for the magician that exist within the walls of a Hobby Lobby.
From 2019 to 2023 Dave Arch authored a column in the IBM's Linking Ring magazine sharing one of his ideas each month. This ebook is now a compilation of those columns as well as enough extras to bring the total to 90+ different ideas from nearly every section of the store and every magic genre.
- Hypno Gum
- Hypno Stick
- Headline Prediction
- Step Right Up!
- She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not
- Mental Epic
- Sight Gag #1
- Rope! Rope! Rope!
- Rope Through Body
- Poor Man's Nest of Boxes
- Five Little Tic Tacs
- Super Bowl Halftime Show Magic
- Blank Dice
- Fake Dice
- Uber Woofle Dust
- Crowd Power
- Poor Man's Sword Box
- New Close Up Pads?
- A Card Box for Your Card Box
- Kissable Kards
- Comedy Card Stab
- One Card Trick
- Sight Gag #2
- Magic Spray
- Extra Sensory Perception (ESP)
- The Trick That Fooled Einstein
- Alternative Cards
- Four Card Animal Monte
- Three Bell Monte
- It's a Small World
- Three Bill Movement
- Four Bill Movement
- Five Bill Movement
- Sawing a Person with Ropes
- Poor Man's Koornwinder Car
- The Appearing Elephant
- Utility Vanisher
- Burlesque Magic
- Appearing Picture Frame
- Guest Submission: Larry Brodahl
- My Uncle Speaks 1
- My Uncle Speaks 2
- Clippo!
- A Holiday Mystery
- Any Magic Trick Called For
- The Hand is Quicker 1
- The Hand is Quicker 2
- Self Hypnosis
- The Vanishing Match
- A Miniature Illusion
- Comedy Card on Back
- The Ritual of the Phoenix
- A Gift to Remember You By!
- The World's Smallest ...
- Tiny Props for Close-Up Warm Ups
- Boomerangs
- Spinning a Yarn
- Belt Betcha
- Take It Off!
- Tatooed
- Wooden Nickels 1
- Wooden Nickels 2
- Tossed Out Phone Book
- The Coin Matrix
- Slo-Mo
- The Electric Pickle
- Short Change Routine
- Telescope of Imagination
- Pendulum Power
- A No Sting Bank Nite
- Stage Size Ring Flight
- Ring and String Routine String
- Increasing a Prop's Fascination
- The Severed Finger of Death
- Flame Through Handkerchief
- Death's Hand
- Hyper Card
- Jar of Mystery
- Poor Man's Sleeve Bouquet
- Thimble Magic
- Color Changing Shoelace
- Ball Nose Balance
- The Perfect Pea
- Kids' Costumes
- Professional Pickpocket Practice Prop
- Sponge Clown Noses
- The Cork Trick
- Spirit Slate Writing 1
- Spirit Slate Writing 2
- Add-A-Number
- The Lowly Elastic
- A Most Unusual Object
1st edition 2023, PDF 126 pages.
word count: 17521 which is equivalent to 70 standard pages of text
Reviewed by Winton Gibbons (confirmed purchase)
★★★★★ Date Added: Tuesday 05 March, 2024Sooo…disappointing. Mostly just feels like a walk though Hobby Lobby or Michael’s. I don’t need this book to do that and see all the potential. What I would like is how to go beyond these initial thoughts I’m self would have to fully fleshed out tricks. This book does not provide this, despite a long list of potential. I would have given it one star, but sometimes the author does make a real suggestion. However, that is rare and nothing special.