The Casino Phantom is a beautiful rendition of a classic piece with a rich history.
This set comes with both wooden color chips and poker chips so that you can choose to perform a variety of routines and story lines.
Within this piece a mysterious looking container is presented to the audience. Upon lifting off the container a stack of colored chips are revealed inside. All of the color chips are shown to be the same color (Eg. White) except for one differently colored chip (Eg. Copper). The Copper chip is placed right at the bottom of the stack and placed within the container. With a magical gesture the magician removes the container to now show that the copper chip has mysteriously jumped up through the stack by 1 position. The magician can then repeat this feat numerous times bringing the copper chip right to the top of the stack. At this point however a mysterious thing happens. When directing the copper chip to move downwards through the stack it instead is seen to completely disappear! Only now to be found having traveled all the way down through the stack and underneath the platform itself!
With the platform being made from a Australian Jarrah Eucalyptus wood for a luxurious natural deep red hue along with handmade and hand painted parts, each of these sets is produced with care and in limited series. A collectors signed certificate of authenticity is included with each set.
A rich magical history: This stunning piece has roots that date back nearly 100 years. The most commonly known origin was the effect Blue Phantom made by Hans Truck almost 100 years ago now in 1924. This used larger pucks on a rod and often saw a bright blue puck make it’s way up and down a stack of golden or white pucks. Then in 1969 German magician Ernhard Liebenow created his miniature rendition known as Chip Lift. Chip Lift used a new method to manipulate colored chips with the odd colored chip slowly moving up through the stack. This version has been what all the most recent versions have grown from. In 1990 Tony Lackner released Super Chip Lift. This saw him introduce the now iconic bell shape lid along with advances in a variety of routines that saw the odd colored chip first appear within the stack, seeing it rise through the stack only to then disappear from the stack and reappear under the base! Next up and most recently Magic Wagon released their Mini Phantom now 10 years ago in 2013. They kept the iconic bell shape and introduced the idea of Casino chips instead of colored chips. In this set you’ll have the option of using colored chips or poker chips with differences in both of these explained within your tutorial.
Assembled piece measures approximately: 4" Wide x 2 3/4" High (10cm x 7cm)
Video Tutorial Link Included: A link and password to a video tutorial is included along with your items. This video features Anthony Yap walking you through the method, explanation, and some helpful tips on learning this effect.
Material: Australian Jarrah Eucalyptus & Eco Friendly PLA Bio-Plastic.
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Anthony Yap is an Australian artist with a passion for visual oddities, magical history and the esoteric arts. Influenced by a wide range of genres from mystical ancient cultures to Steampunk & Retrofuturism, Anthony’s creations are highly visual, and usually a lot more than what they seems at first glance.
Some artists naturally take to drawing, others modelling clay, for Anthony the virtual world of 3D Sculpting has been his medium of choice for over 2 decades and remained mostly contained to the virtual world until the rise of 3D Printing and additive manufacturing. Here Anthony saw an opportunity to rapidly take concepts and almost like magic to see those creations manifest over night into reality. While a big step in the right direction simply using 3D printing or CNC wasn’t enough, the result still felt unfinished and looked like a toy. Instead, a process and style was developed that uses 3D Printing & CNC as a base to start from with all of the individual pieces then undergoing a long process of hand work, assembly, hand painting & lacquer finishing to bring further quality, depth and feel to the magical creation. Through this process of mixing modern technology and classic hand crafting a unique characteristic is given to each of the items sometimes making the final piece feel as if it was just dug from an ancient tomb or discovered in the archives of some long lost traveling showman.
Due to the hand crafted nature of each of the pieces Anthony and his team can only produce a limited number of items each year with majority of the pieces going to collectors and enthusiasts from around the world.