Mage Touch - My new release

[MattSconce]

Hey everyone! After the success of Power Word: Fall, I am excited to team up with Tim Wisseman and Hocus Pocus for this new psychokinetic illusion and wanted to give you the heads up on it. It is pricey but perty darn cool.

Check out the video demo of Mage Touch here:


(Click "watch in high quality" to the lower right of the video display)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ1ot8wFtU

Or see it in HQ here:
http://www.vimeo.com/2444330

It is in the new release section of Hocus Pocus.



Here is the Ad Copy:


Imagine having the power to move things from across the room with an invisible touch of power. Make objects move and knock things down through glass doors and even from another room. You now have that ability with Mage Touch.

Tim Wisseman (Creator of "Butcher's Blade","Dead Ringer", and "Dead Rap") teams up with Matt Sconce, (Creator of "Power Word: Fall") to bring you the next step in Psychokinetic/Telekinetic effects.

Mage Touch is precision made by Tim Wisseman and comes in a Bicycle Deck of playing cards. It can be easily removed and will fit in whatever card box you want to use or even a paper back book. The device weighs the same as a normal deck of playing cards.

Mage Touch contains no moving parts, is silent, and is triggered remotely in a discreet and undetectable way. It can even be triggered from another room. It is instantly repeatable with no setup.

All of the effects below can be done under a glass dome, through a glass door, or even from another room! No Thread or sticky stuff! No Vibrations! Absolutely silent!

Here are some of the things that can be done with the Mage Touch device:

Slide a coin rapidly across a deck of cards, while the deck sits in a spectator's hand

Knock a pen over from across the room

Knock a coin off the edge of a card deck without being near it

Make a match move and shake

Slowly move a coin along the edge or face of a deck of cards until it falls off

Move a feather

Tip over small objects leaning against the deck

Spin a pen at your command on the edge of the deck of cards

And more

Mage Touch comes in a Deck of Bicycle Cards with a professionally produced Instructional DVD by Matt Sconce which includes performances, routining, and ideas for effects. The package also includes a special coin at a $56.00 value, a gimmicked pen, and the items needed to gimmick many other items of your choosing.


Have a Happy Holidays! -Matt Sconce

[citrusjrb]

Hey everyone! After the success of Power Word: Fall, I am excited to team up with Tim Wisseman and Hocus Pocus for this new psychokinetic illusion and wanted to give you the heads up on it. It is pricey but perty darn cool.

Check out the video demo of Mage Touch here:


(Click "watch in high quality" to the lower right of the video display)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TZ1ot8wFtU

Or see it in HQ here:
http://www.vimeo.com/2444330

It is in the new release section of Hocus Pocus.



Here is the Ad Copy:


Imagine having the power to move things from across the room with an invisible touch of power. Make objects move and knock things down through glass doors and even from another room. You now have that ability with Mage Touch.

Tim Wisseman (Creator of "Butcher's Blade","Dead Ringer", and "Dead Rap") teams up with Matt Sconce, (Creator of "Power Word: Fall") to bring you the next step in Psychokinetic/Telekinetic effects.

Mage Touch is precision made by Tim Wisseman and comes in a Bicycle Deck of playing cards. It can be easily removed and will fit in whatever card box you want to use or even a paper back book. The device weighs the same as a normal deck of playing cards.

Mage Touch contains no moving parts, is silent, and is triggered remotely in a discreet and undetectable way. It can even be triggered from another room. It is instantly repeatable with no setup.

All of the effects below can be done under a glass dome, through a glass door, or even from another room! No Thread or sticky stuff! No Vibrations! Absolutely silent!

Here are some of the things that can be done with the Mage Touch device:

Slide a coin rapidly across a deck of cards, while the deck sits in a spectator's hand

Knock a pen over from across the room

Knock a coin off the edge of a card deck without being near it

Make a match move and shake

Slowly move a coin along the edge or face of a deck of cards until it falls off

Move a feather

Tip over small objects leaning against the deck

Spin a pen at your command on the edge of the deck of cards

And more

Mage Touch comes in a Deck of Bicycle Cards with a professionally produced Instructional DVD by Matt Sconce which includes performances, routining, and ideas for effects. The package also includes a special coin at a $56.00 value, a gimmicked pen, and the items needed to gimmick many other items of your choosing.


Have a Happy Holidays! -Matt Sconce

Isnt this basically a modified version of PWF?

[MattSconce]

Isnt this basically a modified version of PWF?
The only similarity is that is is a Psychokinetic effect as is Power Word: Fall. It is a new method for distance PK techniques that have no light issues, sound issues, and are completely impromptu, and can be done in a spectator's hand. It is extemely cool. :) -Matt

[MattSconce]

Some people on other forums have asked me what is in the box. The answer is simple...


Magic...Pure Goodness...and an extremely small wizard.:)

-Matt

[traumatised-magic]

yeah i was gonna say its obviously a gimmicked box

i'm wonderin if its some kind of magnetic device in the box....dont know tho. not really my kind of effect so unfortunatly i wont be buyin it but it does look good

[ash]

Some people on other forums have asked me what is in the box. The answer is simple...


Magic...Pure Goodness...and an extremely small wizard.:)

-Matt

this is the first thing I thought, so the box is not examinable.

that it is a magnet you can see how the coin moves.

In germany the most people want to exam and touch everything, so you have to change the deck

it's not a trick I would perform but great work

[buzzemann]

In germany the most people want to exam and touch everything, so you have to change the deck


Yes... you are so right... it wouldn´t work here... they would immediately open the box when they have it in their hands... many even BEFORE you can start to do the magic they would open the box,no way to stop this, whatever you do :( and see the little mag, eeerrr, wizzard...

Yesterday I did a small birthday show for 14 People... It was horrible: even with exact specs anouncements and heavy missdirection, they just did what THEY wanted... worst case of hecklers I ever was confronted with... they seemed not to be willing enjoying magic, just trying to blame me...

I had to completely rearrrange my show DURING performance to 100% examinable tricks... that was weird... but worked out ( good luck that I have enough stuff for dealing with such a crowd )... but the show never went that spectacular I wanted it to become... I couldn´t perform a good closer ( closers are VERY important in my opinion, they stay in their brains the longest and when they think of your show, they always remember a good closer )
It was horrible, but I managed to do a satisfying show and end: satisfying enough for them, but not for me, as I couldn´t do what I had planned to do... but with the years I realized that sometimes it´s okay as long as the audience ( or: majority of audience ) is happy what you just did.


Matt: what do you speak of when you say :
It is pricey but perty darn cool.

you are talking about special Card box and special coin, worth 56$...
a magnetic or steel shell coin is about 25 bucks, so what high tech coin could that be ? and the pecial pen, mentioned on hocus pocus... Isn´t what I think of ( pen with magnetic "button" ? )...Items to gimmick other materials... PK Putty or just small magnets, shimming steels,wires and stuff ?

Does pricey mean, it is somewhere around 100 Dollars ? or even more ?

WHOOOW: I Just checked Hocus Pocus... 299$ ? are you serious ? for that little movement and an unexamiable Trick ?

LMAO

[MattSconce]

There is a high tech rig in the card box that lets you move things, that is pricey to build. Each is hand made by Tim Wisseman. It is not like you can open open up the deck and find a magnet. You would open it up and find some crazy technology that lets you move things without thread, silently, without vibration and in someone's hand from any distance. You will need to do a deck switch if you want it examined. For some of those spectators you guys are talking about, I would use the deck in my own hand or on a table, or do an "Impromptu movement on a book laying around" The coin is a 56.00 coin. If you do not know what it is...you can search Hocus Pocus and try to find it. It is definitely there and is all I use for PK effects that use a coin. It is totally examinable and has an incredibly strong..."Wizard" inside. haha :) Mage touch will definitely not be for everyone, but it is not made to make tons of money. If so we would have made something less expensive that could sell a lot more. This is a handmade precision tool that some will KILL with. I am excited about it!:) -Matt Sconce

[Motaz]

Sorry but i am very dissapointed for this one.. This is just magnet and gimmcicked coin. One more magnet device.. Sory, but this one is not so great...

[BlindDodo]

Sorry but i am very dissapointed for this one.. This is just magnet and gimmcicked coin. One more magnet device.. Sory, but this one is not so great...

I was about to say similar.
I mean it's ok i suppose... But any intelligent spectator will just immediately either want to inspect the box straight away, or just think "yeh but there's just a magnet moving in the box...". That's exactly what I thought.
I mean obviously a magnet moving in a controlled way in a self-contained card box must be hard to make, i appreciate that, but you're a decent magician Matt, and you should know that it's about the effect, and that effect is not worth that money.

I'll say that again: the gimmick may well be well made and clever, but that matters little; the effect is not worth that money.
I would frankly be worried if my spectators didn't guess the method immediately.
Obviously they wouldn't know quite how the magnet moves or how it's controlled or how well made the gimmick is, but that does not matter at all.
Magic is about effects, not gimmicks.

And although the gimmick may be worth that price, I find it hard to believe anyone would think the effect is.

Sorry Matt, but I can't see any way around it.

Magic is about the effect, not the gimmick

[Motaz]

BlindDodo,
Exactly.. If you could move objects with your mind why would you need box? ok let's say you explain about that. But if I were spectator I would immediatly
check out the box because i would think that is something inside like magbet..

[sonny]

It's Kinda obvious....


either a magnet to the spec or some "Special" box to magicians

[M1dnight Sun]

I think this calls for A DEMO VIDEO.

Matt, prove your point. Prove that $300 Mage Touch can do things $7 Loops can't.

[MattSconce]

I think this calls for A DEMO VIDEO.

Matt, prove your point. Prove that $300 Mage Touch can do things $7 Loops can't.

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[traumatised-magic]

i totally agree. i was convinced i was not goin to buy this after watchin as to how obvious the video was. i mean how long does it take to switch decks in ur pocket?? but after hearing how much it cost, i am damn well not gonna buy it. i mean $300 for a gimmick that cannot be examined. this sort of trick would expect the aparatus to b examined or else why bother usein them. i mean if u can move coins with ur mind why bother usein the card case? if it were really possible u'd just have the coin in the back of a spectaters hand.

[M1dnight Sun]

Great effect Matt, but the card case is a problem. It makes things less repeatable if the same card case is always involved. And you just placed the box right in their hands. It's like letting your spectators shuffle a double-back deck. It's practically begging the spectators to let their suspicion get the better of them. You can't even stop the spectators if they decide to pop the box open.

And when you kept flipping and throwing that card box, were you proving that the gimmick was ultra-durable or were you using a normal deck and trying to make us think that the gimmick was ultra-durable?

[M1dnight Sun]

I just realized that having a magic (or "mage") touch meant something happens to whatever you touch. (as in the "golden touch") In this case, you don't touch anything. Anyways, I think the name is okay and doesn't need to be changed.

[The Alchemist]

I'd rather use loops,I hate to use magnets for pk stuff.

[MattSconce]

I'd rather use loops,I hate to use magnets for pk stuff.


I use many different things in a PK routine. If you have many methods, then someone cannot put there finger on the way you are accomplishing the PK movement. I use Loops, Banachek's PK pen and the Sharpie Tip Pen, Power Word: Fall, Telekinesis Deck, Mage Touch, and the M5 setup. This combo makes for some strong stuff for me. You should definitely always stick with what you are comfortable with when performing. You will become comfortable through practice unless something is just not your style. :) -Matt Sconce

[MattSconce]

Hey guys! Here is a resppnse to some comments about the differences between Mage Touch and other effects out there:



The main effect and power of Mage Touch is to move things at will in "In a Spectator's Hand" from a distance, another room, or through solid objects.

Their are many reasons to use the box. The one I use has been mentioned earlier. I place a coin in the spectator's hand and then, "notice their hand is not flat enough" I then suggest we put something flat in their hand. I use the card box that in their mind, "has been in view the whole time and holds the cards they have previously seen used" for the flat surface. Works like a charm.

I have not seen a gimmick out there that allows someone to move items in a spectator's hands in a controllable manner, from a distance, or another room, that is silent and does not use vibrations. Am I missing a gimmick that already exists? Isn't this a new ability?

Of course people can move things in someone's hands with loops or an M5, but you have to be close to the person. You could use IT but then you have lighting issues, and still are limited to lighter objects, cannot do this through solid objects or from another room.

Since we are not supernatural, to move something in a spectator's hand with the above requirements will either need something gimmicked the item rests on, or a gimmicked item itself. Mage Touch strives to give a performer the ability to move an object in a way that a spectator has not seen before, and it does it extremely well. If you would rather stick to the previously mentioned methods, go for it. I use them all the time. I am a loops and M5 junkie. Mage Touch was developed so people could have the option of a distance PK effect that gives the performer a lot of freedom. I enjoy it, and know others will as well. It is just a fun powerful, smooth operating device. I carry it everywhere with me and amaze with it quite frequently. It is a great impromptu miracle and floors laymen. :) -Matt Sconce

[Hoax]

It doesn' matter if the gimmick is new and never invented before.. It's all about the trick. Like how many TnR's are there?! Many impromptu ones and many gimmicked ones.. Each one has their own advantages and disadvantages..

[MattSconce]

It is all about making more tools available for a magician to create the effect for an audinece he/she desires. This is one of those tools. I agree with you that it is all about the effect on an audience. This gives the option to have a different effect in case the performer desires to use it. :) -Matt Sconce