Melissa & Doug Deluxe Magic Set | Pretend Play Toy | Magic Play Set | Creative Play | Magic Toy for Kids | Magic Made Easy | 8+ | Gift for Boy or Girl

This is no ordinary magic set designed to amuse and entertain young children. This astonishing top quality magic set sets apart all other magic sets because with the wonderful well made beautifully decorated wooden props ALL Magi – young and old - will be able to perform truly astounding PROFESSIONAL close-up magic that have wowed and baffled audiences for centuries.Magic has four aspects named after the four elements. These are: Productions (Air); Vanishes (Earth); Transformations (Fire); and Penetrations (Water). The amazing props and fabulous utilities contained in this magic set permit the performer to perform all of these effects with effortless ease. All that is needed is a dash of showmanship and a little focused concentration to master the props.The set contains ten professional effects that enable the performer to create an enormous variety of strong very baffling five-set close-up magic shows ranging from formidable visual eye-popping close-up magic to startling mentalism that verges on the paranormal.Here is a flavour of what this amazing magic set contains.Tight squeeze: Here a wooden tube and three coloured skittles are handed out for inspection. The Magi stands the tube onto the table (supplied with the kit) and inserts the skittles into the top of the tube one-by-one in a colour sequence chosen by the participant. The Magi then slowly tips the tube over – and the skittles slowly slide out of the bottom of the tube In Reverse Order.The Blue Pagoda: This is a Chinese utility box that is over 3,000 years old. The ingenious mechanism provides the Magi with the capability to effortlessly perform productions; transformations; and vanishes right under the noses of the audience.The box of wonder: This is an Indian utility that is over 4,000 years old. The ingenious topology of several boxes nested inside of each other provides the Magi with the capability to perform astonishing penetrations of personal objects (rings, bracelets, watches, necklaces, signed cards and signed coins, etc) into a suite of boxes that are all nested inside of each other and are placed in full view of the audience. All boxes can be examined prior to and after the reveal is made.The phantom cube (aka The lions cage): This amazing prop causes a solid wooden cube to completely vanish without trace when placed in the ingenious beautifully decorated wooden box. The box has slots cut into one side of the box to represent the bars of a lions cage so so that whatever is placed into the box is in full view of the audience and can be ‘poked’ by a participant using the magic wand. The lid of the box has a large hole cut into it so that objects such as small balls, rings, etc. can be dropped into the box when the cube disappears to show that the box is completely empty – until the Magi removes the lid and takes out the solid wooden cube. The prop can be examined prior to and after the event has taken place.But there is more - much more because in addition, two fabulous utilities are supplied that enable the Magi to perform astonishing utterly baffling, mind-blowing mentalism such as offering several participants a secret free choice of a number, letter of the alphabet, coloured marble, or playing card – and know who has chosen what - as seen performed by Derren Brown.The final effect I shall describe here is the infamous ‘Pharaoh’s Casket’. This stunning mind-blowing phenomenon premonition originated in Egypt over FIVE THOUSAND YEARS AGO – and it is worth reading the full presentation to give you an insight into the power and majesty of this amazing effect – an effect that when performed with grace and elegance as a climax to a performance has audiences from all around the world giving the Magi standing ovations.And so dear reader show your love for ‘Pharaoh’s Casket’EffectThe Magi and the participant each have five ‘Hieroglyphs’ representing the sun god Isis; Horas the healer, Queen Nefertitti; Raneses the second; and Tut-ank-amon – the boy king.All ten discs – which are not gaffed in any way - are shown on both sides and five discs – all different - are freely selected.The Magi picks up the five remaining discs that are identical to the discs the participant selected.The lid of the pharaoh’s sacred casket is then removed and the audience sees two ‘sacred wells’ inside of the sacred casket.The Magi then explains that the participant must choose a sacred well in which to place their discs face-up for all to see - in any order they choose into their selected sacred well - AFTER the Magi has placed their selected disc into the other sacred well (i.e. the Magi always goes first).The Magi then explains that through telepathy the Pharaoh will indicate to the Magi AHEAD OF TIME – which disc the participant will place inro the sacred well on each turn.The Magi then asks everyone to recite – line by line:O great and all powerful Pharaoh;Son of Isis;Mighty King of the Nubians;Great ruler of Egypt;And guardian of the sacred River Nile’;Grant that the Magi may receive the thoughts of another;And let them enter into the mind of the Magi.The Magi then places a disc FACE DOWN into the sacred well. (The disc is placed face down so as not to influence the participants selections)The participant then places their disc face up into their freely selected sacred well for all to see.When all discs have been inserted into the two sacred wells, the Magi places the lid of the sacred casket back onto the sacred casket to hold all of the discs in place in the wells – in the order they were placed - and slowly turns the sacred casket over and gently rests the sacred casket down on its lid.All of the Magi’s discs are now face up; and all of the participants discs are now face down in the order they were placed into the sacred wells so nobody knows the order that the Magi placed their discs into the sacred well.The Magi now gently lifts up the sacred casket to reveal the two stacks of discs – taking care not to topple the two stacks of discs onto the table – and sets the upturned casket on one side.One by one the Magi reveals each participant disc and compares each face down disc with the Magi’s selection – which is face up for all to see that BOTH DISCS MATCH!This is repeated four more times – and every time the Magi’s face-up disc matches the participant’s FACE-DOWN disc – bearing in mind that the Magi always went first when the discs were placed into the scared wells.ENJOY!Happy fooling and STAY SAFE

We gave this to my son for his eighth birthday and he absolutely loves it. He has been sneaking different tricks into his school bag daily to show to his friends. A few specifics:- The level is great. About 3/4 of the tricks don't require sleight of hand etc - they just work, so it's super easy to get started. But it's also great that a few are a bit more challenging and give them the chance to start to develop a bit of magician skill.- The tricks are really impressive. At least one has left everyone that he has tried it on puzzled and amazed, without any idea how it was done.- The materials are beautiful. All wood, beautifully decorated, and they feel resilient and hard wearing.100% recommend.

We bought this for our 5 & 1/2 yr old daughter for Christmas. She has totally loved it. Within 24hrs she has got the idea of 8/10 tricks and has been putting on a show for us. A bit of adult help & YouTube have been needed and obviously she needs to finesse her performance but the set been huge success. The set is sturdy, well designed & nicely thought out with interesting tricks. Our 3yo son is able to do a couple of the tricks but isn't quite old enough to appreciate the fuller picture. The 8 & 11yo cousins also enjoyed playing with the set. One trick is slightly disappointing (disappearing wand) but entertaining enough for children and a good introduction to methods used in magic. All in all, the whole family is delighted with the set and we would highly recommend it for any child 6-9yrs old

Bought as a gift for our 9 year old grandson and he was delighted with it. We chose this set as we felt it would be better to master 10 tricks well rather than try to do too many at once. We also liked the wooden construction for solidity. Overall it is a very good magic set and well made apart from the stitching on the silk squares which is very poor!It is helpful that the instructions indicate which tricks may be more difficult to master and so he started with some of the easier ones, so gained confidence with these. The disappearing ball was very quick to learn and encouraged by the fact that we couldn't find the ball at first, thought it was missing, and then discovered it in its 'disappeared' location - learnt that trick straight away! We all love the use of the box as the magic display stand.Had managed sufficient tricks and patter to go with them to do a small magic show for his family at the end of the day. It was a joy to see his younger siblings turn to me after some tricks with eyes wide with amazement asking, "How did he do THAT?". A good buy and I would recommend this to others.

I purchased this set as My son wanted to put on a magic show for his 7th birthday party. So I wanted a set with tricks he would actually be able to remember and deliver well and that would really wow his friends.This set did the trick!Even the adults were amazed at how good the magic tricks were and were stumped on a few of them.Yes this set is pricier them most but you are paying for quality and a toy that will actually get used.Some of the tricks are so easy to execute that they only take an hour or so to master. Then a few take a week of practice and others are more adapted to older children about 9+. So there is a longevity to the set as well. Certainly not just for 6/7 year olds but also up to teens and beyond.It really looks the part as well with a really mysterious feel created by the artwork.Honestly I think every child should own this set.

A gift. Looked good.