Description: ***** Well, THE MAGIC GADGET SITE wants to THANK all our customers who have supported TMGS for over 15 years!! And if you are new to TMGS, you can learn more about any of our items and our fast, friendly service by visiting THE MAGIC GADGET SITE eBay store. Share the magic! ****** SPRING CLEAN-UP SALE -- I am literally up to my eyeballs in magic I have not had time to list, (Okay, I'm up to my ankles, or mid-calves... but there's a LOT of great stuff). And I have to clear it our fast before I trip on a box of vintage magic, fall into the clutter and vanish from the earth forever :-) So I am listing items with very little description, and just one or two photos. (I know, I always say I won't have much description, and then I write a short essay about the trick... But this time, I mean it! Since I am not spending a lot of time on the listings, I will make the prices extra great! If you know your magic, you will recognize many items and know they are a great deal here. Or if you don't know the item, but you trust me to only offer you excellent items, at a great value, then you can find some real bargains. Look at photo(s) -- what you see is what you get The Plasto Pencil trick has been around since at least the 1950's. This one is from the late-1980's, and is a good example of how a good trick can be ruined when the maker tries to save a few cents on the manufacturing costs and ends up with a much less deceptive (or even non-functional) prop.My brutal honesty about this prop may lead you to stop reading, but if you read on, you may end up seeing the value in this prop. :-)This version of the plasto pencil is not flexible enough to do what it is supposed to do, The pencil can be wrapped in newspaper, but the paper cannot really be crumpled like much older (and higher quality) plasto pencils. It can be bent in half, and you can kinda fake crumbling the paper, and probably get away with the quickie vanish of the pencil.But I recommend using it for the old rubber pencil gag in a stand-up venue. The rubber pencil gag always gets a great reaction from lay audiences, but the typical rubber pencil prop is quite small and only suitable for closeup work. But here is a full size pencil with the necessary flexible quality. So I use my Plasto Pencil like this:Show a pencil and demonstrate the well-known rubber pencil optical illusion, but shaking the pencil loosely between your fingertips. With a full size pencil, the illusion is visible to your living room (or other small venue) audience. Hand the pencil to a spectator and offer to show them how to do it. Now you remove another pencil for yourself (the Plasto pencil), and again you demonstrate the optical illusion as the spectator simultaneously tries it. In the end, you really bend your pencil, explaining that "using a real rubber pencil makes it a lot easier!"If your style allows for a bit of fun and zaniness in your shows, the Plasto Pencil might be a nice addition to your routine.NOTE: the rubber pencil bit (described above) is not explained in the instructions, but if you know the old optical illusion that is taught in almost every beginning magic book, you will see how to adapt this prop to a "do-as-I-do" rubber pencil routine. Read condition notes please!CONDITION NOTES: new and unused -- comes with Plasto Pencil, matching regular pencil, and instructions for the original vanish effect. ***** Yes, we will combine multiple eBay wins into a single shipment to help lower the overall shipping costs. We hold eBay wins for up to ten days if you are still bidding on other TMGS eBay auctions. For multiple item shipments, you pay the highest quoted shipping cost, plus half the quoted shipping for each additional eBay item. You can also combine eBay wins with purchases from THE MAGIC GADGET SITE eBay store to leverage postage costs. Postage for your entire shipment will be quoted when all items are combined. packed and weighed. Rest assured, we at TMGS dislike high postage rates as much as you do, so we will work to keep them as low as possible. ******** (Note: apologies to International bidders, but the US Postal service has raised rates on January 27th this year, particularly for International shipments. Our shipping charges have been adjusted to reflect this. We are still committed to keeping shipping costs as low as possible, and will always combine multiple ebay wins into a single shipment to save you postage costs!)
Price: 5.94 USD
Location: Walnut Creek, California
End Time: 2024-04-23T20:32:16.000Z
Shipping Cost: 4.65 USD
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Seller
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
