The Best Magic Tricks of 2018 – 2019
Every year it seems that the standard of magic being released is getting better and better. More innovation and time is being spent to bring top quality, useable magic to market. 2018 has been no exception. We have had so many brilliant and creative new tricks pass through our hands that picking the top ones has been a real challenge.
How the award winning magic tricks are selected.
MoM is a magic shop and market place for magicians. So, right from the start, we should point out that we stock most of the items that have won a best magic tricks award. However, Merchant of Magic is a ‘whole of market’ magic shop, with over 27,000 different magic tricks on sale. Merchant of Magic accepts no payment from manufacturers for listing in this award list. We have not included many items that are produced by The Merchant of Magic, so as to be as impartial as possible.
The winners of a best magic trick 2018 award are chosen from these sources of opinion:
- Customer feedback.
- Quantity of sales.
- Level of returns.
- The views of magic shop demonstrators.
- Reviews and feedback from magic forums.
- Real world testing by professional magicians.
The list is in no particular order.
Static Marker
Static Marker has consistently sold out within days of being restocked. This has been one of the hottest sellers of 2018 without a shadow of a doubt. A versatile prop built into a working Sharpie. Perform Haunted decks, Moving objects, PK ring or even give a spectator a simulated electric shock on their finger tip. There is a reason this has hit our top trick list… Find out more
Rubik’s Cube in Bottle
Take a Rubik’s cube, show all sides and give it a twist, bring out a glass bottle which the cube could clearly never fit into. Somehow fit that cube into the bottle right in front of your spectator. You read that correctly. That is exactly what this can do. No switching, no ditching. The cube you have just displayed is inside the solid glass jar… And yes, the cube can be signed! Rubik’s Cube magic has exploded over 2018 and this really is as good as it gets! Find out more
Winner’s Dice
Winner’s Dice has been another repeat sell out effect. Winner’s Dice is one of those tricks that is so cunning and well engineered that you can’t help but grin the first time you use it. We played with this for a while before launch and loved every second of it. Imagine asking a spectator to name any number from 1 to 6 and then throwing a dice for it to land on that exact number. Then to do it again, straight away with a different number, or to have the dice rolled 4 times and have it to predict your spectators pin number… Find out more
Balance
Joshua Jay has done it again. He has constructed a work of art, twisted in magic, narrated by a heartfelt story. 6 ordinary items are inspected by any member of the audience, they are then piece by piece built into an impossible object. Defying gravity, physics and plausibility these objects balance in an ever increasingly impossible way… Find out more.
Cheese Smile
Cheese Smile was the app of the year in our eyes. Any named playing card appeared in a photograph taken of your spectator. The real photograph saved in your camera roll depicted your spectator holding their freely named card, pinched in between their fingers. No need to force any cards, or even have a deck of cards to hand. This impossible souvenir only used your phone and their imagination… Find out more.
Rainbow Deck
Rainbow deck is a collectible, it is a magic trick, it is elegant, simple and self working. Constructed from 52 collectible decks of cards, it could be framed and hung on a wall. Or it can be performed as a mind blowing feat of wizardry. Either way our customers have gone mad for the Rainbow Deck, and it’s not hard to see why… Find out more
Deformer
Deformer is a cunning utility device for the metal benders out there. It allows for cutlery or keys to have very complex bends put in them in a very simple way. Deformer allows you to stay cool whilst pulling off some normally very strenuous bends. Knives, forks, spoons and keys all bend like butter in your hands with Deformer! Find out more.
Principia
Principia was by far the hottest selling book of 2018. We could not hold this on our shelves at all. Each new batch that came in was sold before we knew what was happening. Principia is our very favourite kind of magic book: the kind of book that you pour over every page, trying out each and every piece of magic inside. EVERY single effect in the book is practical, fun and radically new… Find out more.
Which of the 2018 best magic tricks have we missed?
We’ve missed out a load of great magic tricks released in 2018! Everyone is so different, and we have probably missed the trick that you discovered and have loved performing.
DO THIS: Let us know which trick you think should be added and make sure you tell us why. Please share your thoughts in the comments section below:
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Which magic tricks missed out?
This list should be longer! There’s a few magic tricks missing from the list. They are the ones that YOU like best!
DO THIS: Let us know which trick you think should be added and make sure you tell us why. Please share your thoughts in the comments section below:
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Which magic tricks missed out?
This list should be longer! There’s a few magic tricks missing from the list. They are the ones that YOU like best!
DO THIS: Let us know which trick you think should be added and make sure you tell us why. Please share your thoughts in the comments section below:
– See more at: https://blog.magicshop.co.uk/?s=awards#sthash.tyryUAI5.dpuf
‘Rainbow deck’! This brings me back. Funny how the trends just go round and round!