Catapult!

An exploration of strikes, pitches, sleeves, and 1-calorie mints.

These original effects have been featured on Japan's Greatest Magic television special (Brian is not Japanese) and have been revered and performed by some of the top magicians working today. Brian has turned down offers to re-shoot and slickly repackage this 2 DVD set. Please, enjoy Catapult the way it was meant to be enjoyed- in all of its lo-fi glory.  $33.50

"The dime through Tic Tac Box effects look amazing. Like real magic! A brilliant combination of principles." -- David Roth

"The best DVD set to date on sleeving!" -- The Trickery

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Video includes:

1.  The ROV Tumbling Muscle Click Pass.
2.  The ROV Casual Toss Muscle Click Pass.
3.  How to perform all MP Click Passes with quarters and even a borrowed ring.
4.  How to use the MP Click Pass to pass multiple coins at once.
5.  Using a MP Click Pass to hold back a single coin.
6.  A foolproof approach to learning the muscle pass that will have you performing the basic move in no time.

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Here are descriptions of 13 Additional Routines made possible with the Platt Pad:

X CARD  This classic plot has never been so clean, so pure, so impossible. Show up to 15 of your own business cards - front and back. Take one of the cards and mark a big ‘X’ across the back with a marker. The cards are given a little mix and set in a row on the table. The spectator freely picks any card with absolutely no force. It’s flipped over revealing it is indeed the one with the X on the back. The rest of the cards are flipped over and shown to be blank. Everything is left on the table for examination. This can be done with any prediction you’d like. For instance, you can number the cards 1-15 and correctly predict which number they’ll pick. All of the cards are flipped over, and every other number is accounted for. Do this with countries, colors, foods, names… Use business cards, ordinary playing cards, pokémon cards… whatever. Your prediction, always made in advance, is always correct! And all of the cards are always left out for examination. This type of mentalism just doesn’t get any cleaner or more direct.

 STOP!  Who loves STOP TRICKS? How about C.A.A.N? Yeah, we do too. Here’s one that looks exactly like it’s supposed to look - flawless. Hand your friend a stack of 20 or so business cards (or playing cards). Have him count the business cards one at a time onto the table until he chooses to stop. This is truly a free choice. The card he stops on is the only one that reads: YOU WILL STOP ON THIS CARD! All of the cards can be immediately examined. This will fool absolutely every normal person and every not normal person (magician) you perform this for. If you choose, this can be presented as an equally clean C.A.A.N. 

MAGIC MUSTACHE  Draw a ‘magic mustache’ on a pad of paper. Cleanly show four queens, and only four queens, front and back. Take the first queen and wave it over the ‘magic mustache.’ When you flip the queen over it now has a big mustache drawn on her. Hand a queen to your spectator to wave over the pad. It too now has a mustache. Wave the remaining two queens over the magic mustache. They grow mustaches! Here’s the best part. You’re clean. Hand out the four queens with mustaches permanently drawn onto their faces. Brian shares numerous variations of this.

 RESET  This John Hamman/Paul Harris plot has never been so straightforward and direct. Show a pile of four kings and a pile of four aces.  Place the aces in an empty card box and set to the side. Draw a small 'worm hole' on a pad of paper. Wave the kings, one at a time, over the worm hole. One by one, they turn into aces. Pour out the aces in the card box - they’re now kings. A perfect transposition.

MEMORY TEST  The two red kings are placed face down on a pad of paper. The two red aces are displayed in the hand face up. The spectator is challenged to an absurdly simple memory test: where are the two red kings? As she points to the cards on the pad, the magician shows that they’re actually the two cards that have been sitting FACE UP the entire time in his hand. The face down cards are flipped over to reveal that they, in fact, are the red aces. Everything is left on the table for immediate examination.

NWF…MFHTHFDYDT  If you own NFW, you’ll love this.  In short, you end 100% clean! Four jokers follow the 5^th joker (the lead joker) and magically turn face-down one at a time. With no moves, they’re flipped over to reveal they’ve turned to aces and shown front and back. Only here, they’re immediately handed out for examination. Yeah, we agree. That last part is nice.  From MacDonald Aces to Wild Card, the Platt Pad allows you to end the majority of gimmicked packet tricks totally clean.

F.U CARD TRICK  Write out two separate predictions and give them to your spectator to hold. Next, shuffle a full deck of cards and spread them out on the table. Allow the spectator to freely push out four cards.  Place the four cards side by side in a row on the table. The spectator is then asked to freely sign her name on the back of one of the four cards (no force). The four cards are flipped over and seen to amazingly match the first prediction. The second prediction is opened and yes, it’s a correct prediction as to which one of the four cards would be signed. It’s that second part that slays even knowledgeable magicians. Be prepared to hear some expletives.

SPECTATOR FINDS HIS CARD  Have a spectator freely pick a card from a shuffled deck. Remove 9 other indifferent cards and mix the selected card in with them so neither the magician nor the spectator knows where in the pile of 10 cards the chosen card is. The cards are dealt in a row on the table, and the spectator freely touches any one of the cards which is fairly put to the side in full view. The other 9 cards are flipped over. None of them are the spectator’s chosen card. The spectator flips over the card set to the side. It’s his chosen card! All cards are left on the table for examination.

RED BLACK SEPARATION  A quick and powerful epilogue to Out of This World. Lay out 8 cards face down: 7 black, 1 red. Ask the spectator to point at the card she believes is the one red card. The rest of the cards are flipped over revealing them to all be black. The spectator turns over her chosen card, it’s the red one.

OCCUPATIONAL ODDITY  Explain that you’ve changed occupations numerous times over the years, but that you always keep a business card from each job as a memento. Place up to twelve business cards face down on the table, explaining that each business card is from a different job. Write out a prediction and hand it to the spectator to hold onto. The spectator freely selects one business card. It’s the one that you had predicted they would pick - the one that reads “Mentalist,” of course. The rest of the business cards are flipped over to humorously reveal your very strange career path. Everything can be left on the table for examination. They can even keep the cards. (custom business cards available @plattmagic.com)

PLATT’S AMBITION  Have you ever wished you could do Ambitious Card in such a way that defies all explanation - even from magicians? If so, you’re going to love this. Draw a magic wand on the Platt Pad.  Next, cut off about half of the deck.  Have the spectator freely select a card and place it back into the middle of the deck. Without a single move, take the top card of the deck and wave it over the wand (that’s drawn on the pad.) Flip over the card to reveal that is the selected card. Table the cards and have the spectator place their card cleanly into the middle of the deck and square it up. With absolutely zilch moves, take the top card and wave it over the magic wand. It becomes their chosen card. Repeat this insanely clean routine however you’d like, for as long as you’d like. All of the cards can be examined to their hearts content. 

PLATT’S PRINCESS (AKA - GONE!)  Can the Princess Card Trick be cool? Convincing? Logical? Can it even fool people who know how it’s done? Yes, yes, yes and yes.  Five different court cards are displayed, and the spectator is asked to think of one of them. The magician removes one card (face down) and places it in full view. The other four cards are flipped over to reveal the thought of card is not there. It’s gone! Okay, so it must be the card that was removed, right? The card is flipped over to reveal it’s blank with nothing more than the word “Gone!” written on it. The four other cards (as well as the “Gone!” card) can be left on the table for examination. You’re totally clean. Hey “guy who knows how Princess Card Trick is done,” take that!

ENVELOPE IMPOSSIBILITY  The Corinda classic, only cleaner. Place five different business cards on the table. Openly draw 5 different ESP symbols – 1 on each card. Let your spectator study the ESP symbols as you study the eyes of your spectator. Place each business card in a separate small coin envelope, seal them and hand them to your spectator. Write out a prediction which remains in full view. Instruct your spectator to throw away four of the envelopes until he is holding just one. The remaining envelope is opened revealing, for example, the wavy lines. The spectator opens the prediction which is the wavy lines. All of the envelopes and cards can be immediately opened. Every card and ESP symbol is accounted for and can be examined. This can also be done with playing cards.

DAVID CASSIDY  This one is great for parlor performances and audience participation. Have various people call out, for example, who they believe to be the most important singer of all time. Write down each singer's name on separate business cards until you’ve collected 5 or so names. Put the cards (writing side down) in a row on the table. Invite one of the contributors, let’s say the girl who called out David Cassidy, to point at any one of the cards she feels an unexplainable connection to. The card is flipped over revealing it’s the one with David Cassidy written on it. The rest of the cards are flipped over to fairly show all of the other singers whose names were called out. This one is inspired by the works of David Regal and Bob Cassidy.

ONE EYED LOVE  With the help of your spectator, a one-eyed girl finds her one-eyed man. Magicians and even many laymen will think they’re onto you until they take a closer look and realize they were dead wrong.

We’re confident you’ll be as pleased with the clever pad and effortless handling as you’ll be with the priceless reactions you’ll receive from these stunning effects. Perform standing, seated or even surrounded. This is pure, clean, straightforward mentalism and magic at its best.  Comes complete with a compact (5” x 8”), completely innocent looking pad of paper, 2 instructional DVD's (totaling 2 ½ hours), access to additional 'Tips & Tricks' videos, a packet of cards to get you started, and replacement paper.