Price$45.00
Media TypeTrick, Online Instructions, Gimmick(s)
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedSep 26, 2023
Minibook Pro
Noel Qualter; Roddy McGhie
(Based on 1 review)
- Bob Kohler
"I can't imagine being a layperson and having a card trick change everything I know about the laws of nature. What a fantastic, impossible moment you've created, and it happens right in their hands."
-Chad Long
It's time to bring your magic kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
MiniBook Pro is the most commercial trick in a generation.
Here's why:
- Techy magic
- Cool and relevant
- Eye-popping visual production
- Built-in funny presentation
- Easy to do - no difficult sleights
- HUGE surprise finish
- Devastatingly strong reactions - guaranteed
- Spectator keeps a souvenir of the magic moment
You start your act with the super-visual production of a mini laptop, then have some fun with the tiny computer, saying it can the find the spectator's card - but it fails. When your spectator looks back at the MiniBook Pro their brain melts as they realize that it has impossibly morphed into their signed card! A mind-blowing finish that creates screams, laughter and astonishment. Then you get to freeze the magic moment by giving them an impossible souvenir. This is the kind of magic that your spectators will talk about for years!
"I love this trick! I will burn your house down if you don't immediately send me one."
-Piff the Magic Dragon
"Great visual opener, fun interactive presentation and killer ending - what more could any performer want?!"
-Bill Abbott
What tricks can you think of where an object transforms in the spectator's own hands without them realizing? It's ok, I'll wait...no me either.
When they slowly realize what's happened it's a moment of pure surprise and delight.
"Ohhhh wait..f*ck you. I didn't see that coming tbh. You took two plots I love and made an incredibly fun routine. Love it!"
-Calen Morelli
"This routine is so smart. It's really everything you could possibly want from a close up effect."
-Ben Seidman
THE PRODUCTION
The king of digital magic, Marc Kerstein has also created a brilliant solution for us to allow you to pull the laptop from the spectator's own phone! You borrow any smart phone and ask the spectator to visit a website, you take the phone from them and pull the laptop from their phone. They will never discover the secret as it automatically cleans itself up.
"It is delightful to watch their expressions when one thing, in their heads, transforms into something else. This trick is a true reality twister."
-Tom Stone
"Starts as a trendy gag and flips into a hard hitting miracle that's hiding in plain sight on the palm of their hand. Great thinking!"
-Apollo Robbins
IN THE BOX
You receive 26 gaffs (refills are available too)
A tiny toy computer made of metal, manufactured by a specialist toy company and then customized by the man with the million dollar hands, Roddy McGhie.
VIDEO TUTORIAL
Over 3 hours of video including a segment where Noel & Roddy talk over live performance footage highlighting the incredible misdirection that's built in to the routine. They give advice, tips and tricks and explain the psychology. They've done all the hard work so you don't have to. You'll be producing laptops and melting minds in no time.
You need to do some quick one-time prep of the gimmicks when you receive them and then you are good to go.
FEATURES
- Works with any back design (with standard faces)
- Multiple different value cards included
- Produce the MiniBook Pro from your phone (no internet needed) or spectator's phone
- Signed and unsigned routines
- Two-second reset
- Can be done in spectator's hands
- Laptop production works great for social media
- Perfect routine for pro magicians or those that want to look like pros
WHAT DO THE PROS SAY?
"As an expert in all things that involve cute miniature props in amazing card tricks, I can unequivocally say this is the most amazing I have seen. Just don't tell my little plunger friend OK?"
-Jon Armstrong
"A ridiculous premise with a surprise ending, that's my kind of trick, I love it!"
-John Archer
"MiniBook Pro is a killer! A real worker that you will always get great reaction with."
-Etienne Pradier
"Roddy showed this to me some months ago. Since then, I've been waiting until he release this soooo badly to start perform it! NOW I CAN."
-Julio Montoro
"Haha! Brilliant. So clever. Super-commercial and a real, genuine surprise that creates a surreal and astonishing moment of magic."
-Mark Elsdon
"If I was still gigging I would 100% do it!"
-Andy Nyman
"This is creativity at its finest! Everything is incredibly unexpected, from the opening to the ending. Great job!"
-Henry Harrius
"I think this is just fabulous, it's a fully layered routine with so much room to make it your own. It's highly interactive and extremely comical with a massive 'cute' factor. NOBODY sees the ending coming."
-Jamie Allan
"MiniBook Pro is super visual with a great kicker. I could go on but it's just so f****** good."
-Dan Haus
Reviews
(Top ▲)
This is a worker loaded with entertainment and amazement! seriously strong. Lot's of fun.
The routine looks like this to the audience:
* using your own phone, or someone else's phone you bring up a website showing a cool MinBook Apple Computer - it spins around and looks cool Then, you pluck a real mini laptop computer right off the screen! You produce a tiny little realistic metal laptop computer.
* Of course, the computer does card tricks. a card is chosen, and signed. lost in the deck..
* You claim the computer will know the card - but trick goes wrong....
* you then bring attention back to the computer on the table, and much to everyone's amazement and amusement, the laptop is actually turns out to be a playing card folded in Quarters.
This trick has all the elements of a solid worker.
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set up: set up is easy, you need a one simple gaffed card. 26 are provided at the $45.00 price. refills of 26 are sold for $15.00 good luck finding refills now. all the major online magic shops are out of stock on refills. I can make my own, but I have special skills in making custom playing cards.
Re-set... all you need is a stack of gimmicked cards in your pocket, and you can be reset in seconds.
Practicality: The laptop is small, durable if you handle it correctly. easy to palm and ditch. it is non-magnetic, but easy to ring in and out, with good misdirection in the routine.
Mercury Card Fold: Yes, this is required but super easy with the special prep you can do - borrowed from Jon Allen.
Online Instructions: Painfully Complete. The tutorial from Noel and Roddy is very complete but goes on and on 2 hours and 53 minutes! every minute detail is covered. I There is an index of sorts, but they go on and on and on. For me, I appreciate nuances so I've gone back and watch most of it. They are very thoughtful and intelligent magicians.
The production of the laptop from a phone is a cool opener. They provide a link that can easily be tapped into any phone that will display the spinning laptop and vanish as you produce it. As long as you have a good wifi and internet connection - this works. However, they provide a PowerPoint presentation you can load on your android (keynote for IOS) and that feature works great - I prefer using my own phone because it is bullet proof and does not require internet connection.
So, that's it! $45.00 and you have a solid close up routine you can perform strolling or at a table.
As of this review, many of the popular online magic shops were out of stock of the refills. I found 52 refills available at All Things Magic for a very reasonable price. Availability of refills was my only reservation of this effect. However, I've been assured by the creators that they intend to make refills available for a long time to come, and refills will soon be back in stock at your favorite magic store.
I've been performing this trick for several weeks now. AWESOME reactions! and I do mean Awesome. I've been doing close up magic for 30 years, this is the most impactful, entertaining and commercial effect I've seen in many years.
I love MiniBook pro and it's now in my permanent repertoire