After my big dissappearing act, I'm back.

Hello friends,

Where have I been? Well let me tell you it has been so crazy around here, I don't really even have time to do this. In fact I'll probably get in trouble (for wasting time) if I got caught typing away so I have to be quick.

Our Halloween season is fast approaching and costumes are literally coming in by the truck loads. In fact many truck loads one or two a day sometimes.


In between the mayhem, I was able to sneak away for a week. I really needed it! Next Monday, Dave is sneaking off for a week and Ronjo, well he split for about a month (he really needed it).

Anyway, Ronjo's back and we are all caught in a labyrinth of cardboard cartons stacked 7 feet high and strewn all over the place.

We are clearing out the opened store (which severed as warehouse space for some of the 10,000 plus items we carry. Clearing it out? Where are we putting it. Good question, not an easy answer.

We are setting up the empty store, warehouse now. Soon we blow a hole in the wall and bam, the biggest magic trick we've done so far, an all new Ronjo Magic twice the size. We will be done just in time for Halloween and for Christmas, you'll see the sickest biggest most fully stocked Brick & Mortar Magic Store you can imagine. Wow it is going to be something!

In between all this stuff, I'll be in Las Vegas for Magic Magazine's Ad Fair Magic Live. I just finished shipping out cases of new stuff, old favorites & Ronjo exclusives, so if you'll be at Magic Live!, don't forget to stop by the Ronjo booth and say hello. For this convention, almost every item I am bringing will be on sale for 20% off our already low prices. This promo will be for convention shoppers only. We'll also have a few surprises for you there too just for saying hi!

This week, lots of new stuff has been added to the What's New category.
Highlights of the 24+ items include

Bisection Unlimited by Andrew Mayne - DVD
n the blink of an eye half the magician’s body vanishes... A stage illusion small enough to fit in a briefcase - Astounding enough to be performed on world-wide television.

Now on DVD, Andrew Mayne presents his incredible one-man illusion that’s been on stage and television around the world. For the first time Andrew presents several Bisection variations for different situations, including Bisection 360 - a totally surrounded presentation of Bisection.

Basic: The original incredible one-man illusion 360: The surrounded presentation Trench coat: A spooky presentation using a long coat Bisecting a Friend: An alternate presentation using an assistant
Includes video plans that show you how to put together Bisection using simple materials in under 30 minutes.

Shot in HD - Presented in anamorphic widescreen (16:9) - Running Time Approximately 29min

Silk Worm Elastic Thread
Engineered to dependably retain its elastic properties, Power and elongation, flex life, resistant to discoloration from atmospheric contaminants.

Comes in Clear & Black - Single Strand, over 500’ Spool

Maurice Fogel - In Search Of The Sensational

When magicians caught a bullet in their teeth... He caught six! When magicians did spook shows... His ghosts were nude! When magicians did rope tricks... He put a noose around his neck and jumped! When magicians predicted a chosen number... He predicted which of six rifles should be aimed at his forehead! He was Maurice Fogel, the twentieth century’s most audacious mentalist and one of its greatest showmen. His feats of mind reading captured headlines around the world—when he wasn’t predicting them. He dared death, he read minds and he became a legend in his own time. Here is a taste of a typical Fogel performance: Six volunteer marksmen were invited on stage to operate six legitimate, loaded and fully functioning rifles. One man chose a rifle at random and fired at a saucer, shattering it to smithereens. The discharged rifle was set with the five still-loaded ones in a rotating rack and the rack spun until no one could know which was the empty weapon. Each marksman was assigned a random number and took a random rifle from the rack. Fogel next revealed a predicted number that had been in full view and isolated from the start. The marksmen were all told to aim at saucers over Fogel’s head—but the man assigned the predicted number was to aim directly at Fogel’s forehead. Then, on his command they all fired! To some he was a mental wonder; to others, an enigma. For years he strode the stages of the world, reading minds and using his strange powers to defy death. Maurice Fogel: In Search of the Sensational is the chronicle of the life of a master mentalist whose like has never been seen. He baffled the world and his peers. He defied death for years on a near nightly basis. He created an extraordinary body of professional mentalism that has remained among the most coveted material in the field. This book contains that material, along with the advice, experience and stories of a lifetime of professional performance by one of the world’s most acclaimed mentalists. Maurice Fogel: In Search of the Sensational is the story of an amazing life and the mental secrets of an amazing man— The Amazing Fogel. Written and collected by Chris Woodward, an award-winning magician and Fogel’s son-in-law, in collaboration with mentalist and Fogel confidant Richard Mark, here at last is the definitive work on Maurice Fogel, the man and his secrets. Pages 440 in elegant hardcover with book ribbon.

Refraction by David Penn

Whilst holding a borrowed wine glass in both hands your spectator gets to witness the impossible as the stem bends visibly before their eyes. The glass is then given to the spectator to keep as a souvenir that freezes the moment of magic perfectly.

Bonus Material:
David’s Cabaret handling presented by Rodney James Piper and a method to bend the spectator’s own key which can be used to enhance the REFRACTION effect.

Features three live performances and a two camera, studio style explanation filmed at ’The House of Illusion’ in Spain.

"This is the ultimate finale to a metal bending routine".
- Marc Oberon, European Close-Up Magician of the Year ’05

"I love performing Refraction knowing the spectator will remember that moment for the rest of their lives".
- Chris Priest, Millennium Champion of Close-Up Magic

"I love the way they look at me in compete awe when I hand them their signed glass".
- Jamie Alan, Leading European Illusionist

"I have received more repeat bookings due to this effect than any other in my repertoire. The effect is simple in plot, connects with the audience and freezes the moment of magic forever".
- David Penn, British Magical Champion & British Champion of Illusion ’02

NOT TO BE SOLD TO ANYONE UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE

Running Time Approximately 41min

Multum In Parvo Deluxe

This classic effect, invented by Benson Dulay, has been updated using modern plastic glasses that resemble crystal cut glass. The glasses are durable and easy to care for.

Multum In Parvo literally means Much In Little.

he magician starts out displaying five differently sized glasses, which are lined up from smallest to largest and are all shown to be empty. The smallest glass is picked up and filled with milk from a pint size milk carton. The small glass is displayed, and the magician looks at the glass and shakes his head, because he wants a bigger glass of milk. Unfortunately, there is no more milk in the milk carton. So instead, the magician pours the milk from the smallest glass into the next bigger glass in the line up. The milk fills the glass to the top!

The magician takes this glass and fills up the next biggest glass in the line up, and it also fills the glass to the top! The milk is seemingly multiplying from glass to glass. This is repeated all the way up to the largest glass. The magician has filled up the largest glass from a tiny glass of milk!

Now with the largest glass filled, he gives a big smile and then starts to fill the four empty glasses up from the largest down to the smallest. The largest glass fills up the other four glasses!

Small Glass Height Approximately 2.75" (7 cm)
Large Glass Height Approximately 6.5" (16.5 cm)

Spirit Theater by Eugene Burger

If you’ve ever wondered what kinds of things went on at spirit seances during their 19th Century heyday, this amazing performance will illuminate some of those mysteries - and leave you puzzling over how the mediums did it.

The history of seances, essays on seance performance, 6 close-up effects with spirit themes, Eugene’s own seance Hauntings, interviews with Tony Andruzzi and Max Maven, a reprint of the complete Sylvestre catalog of spirit paraphernalia from 1901, plus an annotated bibliography.

Table of Contents:
# Part One: Setting the Stage First Words
# Point of Departure
# Spirits
# Spirit Theater
# Seances for Fun and Profit

Part Two: Ghostly Visitors in the Nineteenth Century
# Mesmer, Imagination and Suggestion
# The Summer-Land "One of the Great Points of Psychic Evolution"
# Manifestations from Beyond the Grave
# A Shooting Star
# Master Mediums

Part Three: Performance
# Character and Claims The Man of Mystery: A Conversation with Tony Andruzzi
# Building a Better Performance
# A Central Principle
# Seance Presenation: A Conversation with Max Maven
# The Dark Room
# Hauntings: A Conversation with Eugene Burger
# Spirit Theater for the Close-Up Entertainer

Part Four: Wanderings in the Spirit Field
# History
# Investigation
# Manifestations
# Performance
# Last Words

Pages 192 - Hard Bound

Anyway, It may be a while since I can make a new blog, sorry but for now that's the way it has to be.

Thanks to all of you for your continued support. I hope to meet some of you at Magic Live! They tell me 900 magicians will be in attendance. That is a pretty big convention.

Take care,
Pete