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Jay Sankey's Supernatural DVD is truly a close up worker's dream! 16 brand new Sankey gems released for the first time through this fantastic DVD, all of them using everyday objects excluding cards and coins. Effects with Alka-Seltzer Tablets, ping pong balls, twist ties, world currency, notepads, Monopoly Money, Fortune Cookies, Glass Vials, Paperclips, business cards, packing bubbles, bottle caps, and MORE, you can bet that there is a wide range of magic and mentalism on this disc. Here is a list of the effects:

Alchemy Seltzer- An Alka-Seltzer Tablet is signed with a permanent marker and dropped into a glass of water, in which is completely dissolves. The magician drinks the liquid and soon after coughs up the full tablet with the initials intact! Very easy, very direct. ****

Burden Of Proof- The magician miraculously untwists and retwists a twisted twistie in one hand with the spactators holding onto the ends the whole time. Despite this, the twisttie is revealed to be impossibly twisted onto the magician's finger ring! Everything may be examined! A cute impromptu stunner. ***

Circumference- A flat white disk instantly and visually changes into a full sized ping pong ball. A beautiful effect! *****

Trinity- I always use this one! A randomly chosen spectator performs an astonishing feat of mentalism in a moments notice! The magician writes three seperate things on three seperate notepad sheets, and crumples each one up on the table. The psychic decides who should get each sheet of paper, these people being herself, the magician and another spectator. When each sheet is uncrumpled, the writing on it proves to be the name of the person holding it! This one is impromptu and can be repeated almost instantly. *****

Best Before- The tag on a bag of bread repeatedly goes back in time, travelling back onto the bread bag and even travelling so far that the date on the tagh visually jumps backward! A great routine, but not too practical. ***

Mismade Monopoly- The classic Mismade Bill effect that is designed so you can hand out the screwed up bill as a souvenir! No bill switches, just a torn and "restored" bill effect that plays very well! ****

How Fortunate- The magician correctly predicts the fortune inside a chosen fortune cookie. This can be performed at a moment's notice! You never know what fortune is inside the bill, yet you still predict it BEFORE the cookie is opened! A great effect when dining at a Chinese Restaurant. ****

A Delicate Balance- The magician stacks three bolts on top of each other at the edge, revealing after that EACH BOLT IS STUCK TOGETHER WITH SUPERGLUE! I haven't used this yet, but it is a great pocket trick! ****

Forced Entry- A drinking straw is visually stabbed onto a metal bottle cap. When the bottle cap is removed from the straw, it instantly heals itself! The best effect on the DVD!! *****

Around The Bend: A bent paper clip visually unbends itslef on a stack of business cards. A cute gimmick that can be made easilt and that you can carry with you always. ***

Global Warming: The Princess Card Trick done with world currency ends with the thought of bill mysteriously shown to be reduced to ashes! A great effect that will play well in any formal close-up show! ****

Air Of Mystery- Burst bubbles in a small square of packing bubbles are re-inflated and healed. This effect is the only effet on this DVD that I do not care for. **

Double Feature- A great mentalism routine with Monoply Chance Cards and House Deeds that incorporates a prediction and the bill switch for a nice little non-gimmicked routine. Not my favourite. ***

Paper Trade- Think "Copper-Silver" with a torn sheet from a notepad. A cute idea I have used many times. ***

Glass Menagerie- a predictions mysteriously and visually appears in a small, clear glass vial. The props needed are hard to find for me, but this is a great routine! ****

X-Ray Vision- The spectator chooses the only business card in a whole stack that had a large X on the reverse side. A small gimmick needs to be made, but any routine with business cards gets my vote! ****


Some fantastic effects, some good effects, and some ok effects, but Supernatural is definitely worth the buy. Highly Recommended!

Supernatural can be purchased at www.sankeymagic.com


Everyone please reply to this with your thoughts, and if you own the DVD, please share your thoughts on it! Also, to anyone who doesn't own the DVD, please feel free to ask questions about it before you make what may be, to you, a risky buy.




Michael Kras

Hello Again!

A few more things I should say before someone argues against this.

Instead of "everyday objects" I should have substituted it for "ordinary objects." Because, now that I think about it, how are glass vials, Alka-Seltzer Tablets, and Monopoly money everyday objects? Ordinary objects makes more sense, since mst of these can be performed with minimal set-up.

Anyone have any comments on this DVD? Any questions people have before considering purchasing? Please let me know!

I look forward to your replies!

Michael Kras

It is a good DVD, but like you say, Its not in the least bit practical. I use burden of proof all the time.

That again is not too practical, unless you always carry a ring, a tie wrap and a lighter. I dunno, maybe your that kind of person.

Yes, Burden of Proof is probably the closest to being practical. If you received Sankey's newsletter you would notice that at least 3 of the effects in the DVD were published in the newsletter before the DVDs release. Burden Of Proof, Air of Mystery and Best Before I know of for sure.

Michael Kras

i bought this cos it was on offer a while ago - i didnt like it much at all really...fair do's he's using different objects...but...meh...it just didnt grab me really...

much prefer mullica's dvds if you fancy impromptu oddities...

I used to be a huge Sankey fan.

This, coupled with a few other recent releases left me totally cold.

I'm not even sure these should be on sale at magic stores... the magic within seems aimed at the amateur/newbie, and yet at the same time is dull, standard, and as mentioned above... available elsewhere.

Probably one of the worst Sankey DVDs there is.

Save your pennies, get the Mark WIlson (much talked about?) magic book... there's much better value for money in there!

it's poo...there...i said it...sankey's ego is leading to a possible breakdown i reckon...he's done some fantastic stuff in the past...

shame, he has alot to offer, but like alot of people into magic, it seems that constant immersion leads to some kind of mental-fog eventually...

or, it could just be the shiny coin of capitalism and resting on your laurels...

which ever way you look at it, he's laid a fresh one in the nappy of magic!

I've not bought this title so cannot comment but I have to agree with you two that Sankey has completely gone off the deep end.
I am a huge fan many of his single effects, dvds and writings but the least few releases have had me thinking either 'Hmmm not interested' (underground Jam) to down right confused (Assasins pouch).

He has released stuff in the past I have bought and wished I hadn't (gemini pouch) but overall I have been quite chuffed with his releases.

Maybe he needs a rest?

Huge Sankey fan here ( albeit me despising him when I first saw him )

However, Ill jump on the bandwagon and say Sankeys latest work seems to be a little bity on the 'money grabbing side'

Assasins Pouch, gemini Pouch, Supernatural, underground jam.. none of these grab my attention and look like attempts to make a quick buck. Non stop party magic??

Saying that, I still think Sankey is great. I can still reference back to his older material and find new ways of applying the concepts there, and creating my own magic using the principles outlined in his older stuff.

I too got this and was a bit dissapointed. Its so 'same-y' as everything else he ever released

Anytime Anywhere was the first DVD I bought and it turned me into an instant Sankey fan. It accelerated my learning tenfold and I got back so much from watching it quite often.

I have bought many of his works since then including both single effects and multiple effect DVDs and been glad I had got most of them.
I have to echo, however, that this is the one I have been least happy with. A couple of nice ideas, the bubble wrap trick is cute, but none of it really grabbed me and aside from the bubble wrap (once for missus monkey) I have yet to perform anything from it.

I may do alchemy selzer one day if drunk enough.
hmmm, maybe in the Lyceum in the not too distant future