Magic Tricks

This trick never fails to get a great response. I've been using it for several years.

I have it ready to go sitting on a shelf on my Nite Club table. I tell the spectators how I'm not a specialist in cards and how impressed I am by magicians who can fan cards so smoothly. Some, I say, create a huge fan by embedding one fan on top of another, as I go to grab the prop. I tell them it looks like this, but they only see it for a few seconds. I say that I may not be great with cards but I am a magician so I figured they may want to see a trick with cards. The fan is tossed up and in the air it visibly transforms into a top hat.

Again, I can't emphasize how strong the reaction is—consistently. It is only 85% mysterious, but 100% startling.

Yes, the double fan looks fake from a few feet away, but this is not a close-up trick. Plus, they only see the double fan briefly. Also, there's a low dull air-popping type of thud sound during the transition. While I notice it, I'm not sure the audience does (I talk through it). And if they do, it may not be surprising that a sound is associated with one object morphing into another.

I alway store this open to assure it has maximum "pop-ability."