CATAPULT! An exploration of strikes, pitches, sleeves, and 1 ½ calorie mints.
"The Dime thru Tic Tac Box effects look amazing. Like real magic! A brilliant combination of principles"
-David Roth
"The fanning pitch is an absolutely fantastic motion. I'm very, very impressed!"
-Mickey Silver
Contents:
BACK: BASIC CATAPULT VANISH AND VARIATIONS. The basic building block. Explained CATAPULT COIN COLOR CHANGE (SAWA) A simple, brilliant, clean coin color change. SNAP VANISH/CHANGE Coin sits in right hand. Snap your left hand fingers and it's gone. WSSV MOVE The Williamson Striking Vanish. Only BOTH hands are immediately clean. DIME PUSHED THRU BACK OF TIC-TAC BOX- Push a signed dime right through the back of a Tic Tac Box. DIME THROWN THRU FRONT OF TIC TAC BOX- Throw a signed dime right through the front of a Tic Tac Box. You've never seen anything like this. Many other squeaky clean versions of Dime thru Tic Tac Box demonstrated and explained! INSIDE OUT - A freely chosen and signed playing card is folded into quarters and paperclipped. With apparently no moves it turns inside out. Then inside out again. T&R SIGNED BORROWED BUSINESS CARD THEORY ON BUSINESS CARDS- THE ULTIMATE WEAPON. BUSINESS CARD COIN VANISH/CHANGE Wave a business card over a quarter. It changes to a dime. You're clean. JELLY BELLIED Three jelly beans sit in your closed hand. Spectator calls out one of them (free choice). Open your hand and the called out jelly bean has vanished completely. Everything including your hands can be examined. ABSORPTION- THE OJ SIMPSON DIME IN EQUAL PACKET- A ruthlessly ambitious and ridiculously clean take on this classic plot. Try not to look guilty. LINKING CLIPS /LIFESAVERS- Two paperclips linked together in the cleanest of manners. Platt then goes on to do the same effect with Lifesavers. CHUCK WOOLERY COINS ACROSS Two quarters in the right hand. Two quarters in left. With no moves, only a simple wave, all four quarters find themselves in the left hand. . It doesn't get any cleaner than this. FANNING PITCH- Platt's been honing this move for many years. This is the one that fries laymen, magicians, everyone! Explained in full detail. INDEX TO INDEX - A penny sits on an index finger. Gently touch it with the other index finger and It's gone! And you're left clean. RED LIGHT. GREEN LIGHT. A fresh take on the 50/50 prediction. WIPE AWAY VANISH/CHANGE A coin in the palm of you hand is brushed into thin air or changed into another coin by simply brushing it with the back of your other hand. You're immediately clean. SLEEVES UP COOL GUY VANISH Sleeving with sleeves up? Platt shows you how for a variety of sleeving techniques. MAGIC BY THE FOOT A whole new technique for coin to impossible location.
BONUS TRICKS
ONE IN FIVE. Sign your initials on the back of one of five playing cards. It's the one the spectator freely picks. No equivoque. Everything immediately examinable. UNEXPLAINABLE EFFECT. An X is drawn on the back of card. Wiped off. Drawn back on. Super slowly wiped off. Then wiped back on! Nothing to hide or ditch. You're immediately clean.
Running Time Approximately 50min
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