Our friends at Freepost Magic have got a new link which gets you to all their lovely Bicycle Cards at once. They’ve got the Karnival decks (Assasins and Midnights, not Renegades yet) for £5.99 and regular decks for £2.29 (all with FREE 1st class UK delivery – which is why they are still top on our Cheapest Bicycle Card Finder). Click through to Freepost Magic and follow the link in the main navigation.
Paul Gordon also has some new stuff out. A DVD on Useful Card Sleights, another with some new tricks, and also his Triple Rainbow Whammy – a great (and easy to do) trick that looks very appealing.
Some friends of mine have now established a ‘tradition’ of blogging all about the Blackpool Magic Convention. Do check out their thoughts on all the acts, dealers and lectures at BlackpoolMagic2010.
We recently became aware of the Best Magic Deals website. It is dedicated to finding discount codes and special offers – in fact just the sort of thing that a lot of our readers like. It is run by a real Card Magic man so I’m sure there will be stuff of interest to us Bicycle Cards fans. And of course, we will continue to provide the most up to date information specifically for a UK audience, right here…
This time from Magicians Cave. They’ll include a free deck with all orders over £5 placed before January 31st. Why not head on over to Magicians Cave.
Whilst we’re on the subject of bargains, Alakazam are having a DVD Sale with some amazing discounts on all sorts of Card Magic and other magic DVDs. Well worth a look.
Between now and Friday 15th 10pm, you can get 15% off all orders over £20 with the code ‘madfriday’.
Might be worth a punt… http://www.mapromagic.co.uk/
The good folk at Trickshop.com regularly have special offers on, and this week they are offering a book called Applause by Senor Mardo for FREE. It is a nice little book, mainly ‘parlour’ magic but includes a few close up routines. Whilst you are over there, they are still offering the Expert at the Card Table for $2.95 which is about £1.70 with the current exchange rate – an absolute bargain. Visit Trickshop.com
For the card-aholics amongst you, Paul Gordon continues to offer various reductions on bundles of his excellent books and tricks. I am still intending to put a review of his new Card Startlers up, but have not had a minute to look at this yet. Watch this space…
Also, although we are primarily focused on the UK market, for those who are into Ellusionist, you will no doubt have heard about their annual holiday giveaway. If you are prepared to wait for your order to ship from the States, they are offering some good prizes – see their Holiday Giveaway page for more details. Of course they also sell a variety of custom Bicycle Decks for your performing pleasure.
That will do for now. Keep enjoying your Card Magic!
In case you haven’t picked this up elsewhere, we have noticed that MA ProMagic are offering a free deck of Bicycle Cards with every order over £25. They seem to have a good range of magic so well worth a look if you have other purchases in mind.
If you, like me, are getting a bit frustrated by all the delivery problems caused by Royal Mail strike action, why not download some instant card magic?
I’ve just noticed that the all time classic of Card Magic, The Expert at the Card Table
is only $2.95 (i.e. about £1.78) in a nicely formatted electronic edition. Download away!
Or if you fancy something a bit more contemporary, then what about:
4 not too difficult card routines with maximum impact – and at £8.99 that is only a couple of pounds a trick!
Regular readers will know that I am something of a fan of the work of John Bannon – something I first came across in the wonderful book Dear Mister Fantasy. He has a knack for producing clever, subtle and effective card magic.
Well the good folk at BBM are shortly releasing a 2DVD set of his work called Bullets After Dark and have kindly made a review copy available to me. I haven’t had time to view it yet (but soon…) but if you pre-order you get some brilliant extras which I HAVE looked at already.
There is a an e-book called Open and Notorious which is on the theme of the classic Open Prediction. This is fantastic! I love it. There are 3 different versions – they won’t please the purists since they do not fulfill all the original requirements – but to my mind they are still very strong effects, and potentially more entertaining for the spectator than the original premise. Classic Bannon.
You also get a little video preview and explanation of a trick called Chain Gang. This is a sort of 3 card sandwich (collectors) type effect – requiring some facility with cards, but very clean.
I presume that these goodies will only be supplied with pre-orders, so I suggest you go over and pre-order now!
Just in case anyone hasn’t found this yet, Kernow Magic have recently re-launched their site and have got some really good reductions in their specials section. Well worth a look…
