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Every now and then i get a very hazy image in my head of a book i had as a 5-6yr old kid about performing magic with lego? im pretty sure my mum must have bought me it from a car boot.

does any one have any idea what im talking about or am i just a bit radio rental

thanks guys

whahaha never heard of it but sounds nice... but what things can u do with lego... u can treat it like coin magic vanishes etc but why use lego..

My copy is still on my shelf. It had instructions for building props and I think had Ali Bongo's involvement in some way. It was published by the St Michael brand and therefore must have been bought from Marks & Spencer. I'll post the ISBN later in case you want to find a copy, and confirm the author and date of publishing - 1985 or thereabouts.

"Abracadabra - with your bricks"

Text by Jette Bak, Illustrated by Hans-Henrik Ley.
Published 1986 by Lego UK Limited.

ISBN: 87-88982-32-7 - links to abebooks second hand books site, but doesn't link direct to search results for some reason. Eight copies available just now.

Contents:

The magic wand/ the floating wand/ the wand that keeps on growing/
Jumping jellybeans/ wand in a bottle/ tricks of the trade/ how to put on a super magic show/ a good way to start!/ how to feel colours!/
A magician's golden rules/ find the missing coin/ the mysterious house/
The "tricky stick"/ the haunted house/ the Arabian magic shells/
What to say in front of your audience/ the string-along block/
Quick-change blocks/ pick a brick/ wand through a block/
Ring on a wand/ the Indian rope trick/ brick through plate/ Chinese sticks/
The upside-down round-about house.

All of the effects require basic props built with lego, with plenty of decent illustrations though no building instructions, and all were well beyond my ken when I was five. I built the magic wand, and that was it. Partly because at that age I still thought magic was real...

The Ali Bongo book I was thinking of is something different, as it turns out.

Thank you for that info - proof once again that whatever the question TalkMagic members can probably find the answer - well done!

thank you so very much guys!! wow!!

hehe yer id just like to own a copy just for sentimental reasons. I remember it in the recesses of my mind.

Its true Mandrake we do have a great place for magicians here!

Jram that does sound like it! thanks

happy magicing

s***!!

i just typed "Abracadabra - with your bricks" into google and amazon came up and i saw the front cover of the book i thought i had perhaps made up, id forgotten that!

I think i felt a little tear come over me as i looked at this cherished book for the first time in about 16-17 years WOW im ordering a copy now!!

Wow thank you all so sooo much

incredible!!

So it was basically well known illusions, but with the props made of Lego, rather than Lego specific magic?

The thought occurs that Lego is now so cemented in our psyche that there's a market for tricks using gimmicked bricks...

-Stacy

A good excuse to pass on the link for The Great Mobilini and Doris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uh0SD16EoY

Barry

magicofthemind wrote:A good excuse to pass on the link for The Great Mobilini and Doris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uh0SD16EoY" target="_blank

Barry

magicofthemind this is bloody brilliant!! very nicely done!

thanks for passing on the link

cant believe iv never seen it till now