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AIR
HEAD RUDY A CLASSIC of kidshow magic updated and improved to both teach and
tickle! A 22" cut-out of "Rudy" is shown and the fact is
revealed that Rudy doesn't read books, he just watches TV. Unfortunately, as
his head enters the TV, it shrinks, until it is half its original size.
Next it turns into a balloon and the balloon is placed on his shoulders to
substitute for his head. Then the kids call him "Air Head Rudy."
Finally, when Rudy learns to turn off the TV and turn on to the thrill of
reading books, the balloon pops and Rudy gets "a-head" in
life! Perfect for schools & libraries! Comes
complete with wood Rudy, stand, TV, 3 spare heads & my complete
routine. You supply balloons. Handcrafted in wood by
Daniel Wells.
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A STEVE TAYLOR EXCLUSIVE!
A “SELL-OUT” at KIDABRA 2005!
Many years ago, I released onto the market my pro-reading effect called
“Air Head Rudy.” It’s been a sensation ever since. Heralded by some as “…the
world’s best version of ‘Forgetful Freddie…” and others as “…the best
educational magic effect ever!” Air-Head Rudy has taken its’ place as an
all-time kidshow classic!
I now have
the privilege of releasing on the market another effect that I believe is a
strong as “Air – Head Rudy!” It’s called “Who’s The Greatest Super Hero?”
IMAGINE…You state to your audience that you are going to end the
debate about who is the “Greatest Super Hero” once and for all! You get four
helpers up from the audience and each gets a giant size card (each card is
huge, 11” by 16”, printed in full color on strong board and laminated for
life-long use. See above and below pictures). As they hold each card against
their chest, with its’ back toward the audience, you announce that you have a
prediction of which Super Hero the audience will select as “The Greatest!” But
you need someone honest and trustworthy to hold it, so you have the school
principal (or librarian, or pastor, or parent, or any adult in the group you
want to feature) join you on stage to hold your prediction securely in a manilla envelope. One by one, you give hints to the
audience and let them guess which four “Super Heroes” are printed on the four
cards. As each is guessed, your helper turns the card around to face the
audience. Once all four are showing, you dress each helper up as the “side
kick” to their Super Hero.
But
wait! The principal is left out, he doesn’t have a costume! So, since he’s
holding a huge envelope with your prediction AND he’s honest, kind and
trustworthy, you dress him as “Manilla Envelope Man!”
and you show and tie two 18” blue silks together and place them around his neck
like a boy scout kerchief! (See above picture).
Next,
the audience gets to select which “Super Hero” isn’t so “super,” and one by one
the audience selects kids to sit down, until one is left standing. Let’s say
they have left “Batty Man” remaining on the stage as the “World’s Greatest!”
Now, it’s time to reveal your prediction! Did you accurately predict that the
audience would select “Batty Man” as the all-time “World’s Greatest Super
Hero”? The principal removes your prediction from the envelope and the audience
does indeed see another picture of “Batty Man!” You were right! You are
brilliant! You start to take your bows…
But wait!
The “Batty Man” prediction has a red circle through the picture and it says
“Turn Around.” So you turn around! “No,” the kids yell, “The card!” “So Batty
Man ISN’T the World’s Greatest?” you ask, “Then WHO is?” So you turn the card
around and the back says “World’s Greatest Super Hero” with an arrow pointing
right up at the principal! “Wait! The PRINCIPAL is the World’s Greatest Super
Hero?? Ah, yes! Because the principal helps us learn, keeps our school safe for
us, hires fantastic teachers who grow our minds and our hearts, etc., etc.”
And
to PROVE that the principal is the “World’s Greatest Super Hero,” you have the
principal turn around and he is now suddenly wearing a bright red super hero
cape with a big yellow “H” on it! “Look everyone what our principal has been
hiding underneath his clothes! A Super Hero cape! He truly is ‘The World’s
Greatest Super Hero,’ let’s give him a huge round of applause!!”
As
you can see, a funny and fantastic routine that is a lot of fun, uses lots of
audience participation and teaches the important message that the TRUE Super
Heroes in the world are all around us, we just have to stop and appreciate how
they all make our lives better!
Imagine
how the person who hired you (the principal, pastor, teacher, librarian,
parent, etc.) will feel when you make them the STAR and HERO of your show!
Imagine how they will feel about YOU for featuring them in front of everyone as
the true Super HERO! Like Air-Head Rudy, this effect will be a hit with all the
kids, parents, teachers, and adults. And guess who they will have back time and
time again! You!
The effect
comes with the FIVE huge full-color cards, the two 18” pure blue silks, the 18”
X 36” specially printed Super Hero pure silk cape, the manilla
envelope, the four “side kick” costumes and my full, audience-tested,
audience-pleasing, hero-making routine!
A
reputation maker! A feel-good funny routine! A magical good time! All this for
only $97.00
“‘Who’s The Greatest Super Hero?’ is a great routine that’s
practical for sooo many venues!! I got to try
it out at a birthday party and WOW what fun it really is! There was a
child that chose ‘Supperman,’ yet when he chose it he
said he wanted ‘DinnerMan.’ Thanks so much!” Robert Long
SUCCESS BLOCK-ADE An absolute
mind-blower! Show a “solid” block, it passes through a real wood tube without
difficulty. Then, pass out a chrome metal blade for examination. It’s real
alright. Pass the blade through the middle of the wood tube so it completely
blocks the cube’s path. Even drop the block on it several times, to show it
won’t go through! Finally, under your command, the block VISIBLY melts through
the solid blade from top to bottom. You placed the block into the top, but now
it’s on the bottom, BELOW the blade! Wow! It even fools magicians! Comes with
my three special routines, including my educational-motivational routine from
the Believe! Achieve! & Succeed! School
Program, the wood Ghost Die Effect and my special Building Block stickers to
customize your set (available ONLY from me). All this for only $
50.00
Another Steve
Taylor Exclusive! Another SELL-OUT at Kidabra and at
the MAES Convention!
Along
comes “Birth Day Suit,” a new twist on the classic “Out To
Lunch” effect, but with a secret motive!
Imagine
you are sitting around with your new client, the person who booked you. You
then ask your client if he will do you “a little, easy favor?” You tell him
that you’ve been working on a new little effect and would love to do it for
him, if he’ll tell you what he thinks of it! Of course, he says “sure!”
You
pull out of your pocket a stack of little business-card-sized pictures of a
newspaper, without a headline, lead picture 
or date (see picture to the left). You tell him, “I’m going
to try and guess the headline on the day you were born,” so you have him write
his birthday in the bottom of the newspaper in a blank space. You turn over the
stack and remove the card he wrote on. Then you write your prediction on the
blank back of the card, “World’s Cutest Baby Born!” You hand it back to him, he
laughs, and then you invite him to turn the newspaper card back over and when
he does, that exact headline has appeared on the card with a very funny baby
picture (see picture). He laughs again! You let him keep the card as a
souvenir! He loves it!
But, most importantly, without him noticing, you now have HIS
BIRTHDAY! And like a good “Canoodle Marketer,” (see above) you add him to
your birthday database and send him a birthday card and gift on his birthday! AND
HE’S BLOWN AWAY! He can’t remember HOW you ever found out his birthday! But
he appreciates your acknowledgment of his birthday and the next time in his
life he has to hire a performer, YOU’RE IT!
PLUS!
The card has four other funny headlines on it like “Dough Boy Dies,” etc. So
you point to the headline and say “Did you hear? The Pillsbury Dough Boy
died…of a severe yeast infection!” More laughs and more good will!
Birth Day Suit comes with my full routine, two gimmicks
and enough cards to do the effect 50 times!
All this for only $20.00! Make your clients LOVE YOU by ordering “Birth Day
Suit” today!
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For years I have heard performers tell the story of the
father who doesn’t want to leave his TV show and teach his son to play
baseball, so he rips up a picture of the Earth and tells his son that when he
has it pieced back together again, he’ll play baseball with him. Within minutes
the son is back with it pieced together. Surprised, the father asks, “How did
you do that so quickly?” And his son answers, “It was easy, daddy, on the other
side of the world was a picture of a family. Once I got the family put together
right, the world just fell into place!”
I always
wondered why the performer didn’t do a newspaper tear to go along with the
story? I thought, “Probably because he doesn’t have a newspaper with the
Earth on one side and a picture of a family on the other!” So I made one!
Check out the newspaper to the right. Specially printed in full color and
available only from Steve Taylor Products! To the audience, it appears just
like the latest issue of a national newspaper, but inside, exactly opposite the
full-color Earth 
picture, is a photograph of a modern American family! Now
you can perform a newspaper tear AND tell the above important story at the same
time!
Use your
favorite newspaper tear (personally, I use Tony Steven’s No Tear Newspaper
Tear, because I can reuse the restoration page for dozens of shows and it
resets in three minutes, see below), but if you’re a Gene Anderson
newspaper-tear kind of guy, with a little glue and effort, this fake newspaper
will work great for you too!
PLUS! Like
Birth Day Suit above, the front of the paper has funny headlines that you can
make jokes about (I use the same sheet of newspaper for my Mutilated Parasol
routine and read all of the jokes to the audience, i.e. “Toilet Stolen From
Police Station, Police Have Nothing To Go On…”)…AND, all of the stories in the
fake newspaper are OTHER inspirational/motivational stories and routines that
you can learn and use in other shows (this fake newspaper actually served as my
lecture notes for my “Awespirational Magic Lecture”
at Kidabra in 2005!)
If you
like inspirational magic that touches the hearts of your audience, you MUST add
“Daddy Won’t Play” Newspaper Tear to your show today!
REFILL
PACKAGE - Comes with enough newspaper sheets to perform 40 shows, all for only
$20.00
Tony
Steven’s great “No Tear Newspaper Tear Gimmick/Instructions” (for use with
these sheets) an additional $35.00
-OR-
Get BOTH the No Tear Gimmick/Instructions AND one Refill Package for only $45.00
(a savings of $10.00!)
POP SECRIT From
my new Believe! Achieve! & Succeed! Show. Show a full jar of un-popped
popcorn kernels. As a member of the audience places their warm hands on it, or
as you hold it over a candle, popped popcorn starts to fly out of the top of
the jar! Teaches the educational concept that problems (the heat) POP OPEN your
POTENTIAL as a person, and should be welcome in one’s life! A PEP TALK Magic
exclusive! Jar & Routine supplied, use your own popcorn (and eating is
allowed! Yum Yum!). $ 30.00 IN STOCK
UNLOCKING IGGY-NORANTS One of my favorite
Reading/Library routines is finally available! Complete and easy to do!
Invite
a helper up from the audience and explain that the evil Dr. Iggy
has control of their future; whether they succeed or fail. Then you lock their
wrists in a plastic chain with a metal padlock. There’s only ONE way out! But
their free “choice” will release them or continue to their enslavement to Dr. Norants! You show four numbers and your “victim” gets to
choose one. The other three are selected by other audience members. Each number
is then seen to correspond with a colored bag. The bags are handed out. Whose
choice will hold the key to free the victim from the chains of Iggy-Norance? The
three bags the audience chose are opened to reveal words, none of which contain
the “key!” Finally, your victim’s bag is opened and it contains a card that
says “BOOK” and it has a key attached! You ask the librarian (or teacher,
parent or principal) to come forward and unlock our friend. It’s a BOOK that
unlocks the chains of IGGY-NORANCE! Great Lesson! Great
”BUGGY ABOUT BOOKS” An 18” caterpillar silk wants to
become a beautiful butterfly. With the help of an audience assistant and some
magic wands, he tries and tries, yet fails. Finally, an “empty” Cocoon book is
waved over him and he vanishes! When he can’t be found, the kids yell “Look in
the book!” The Cocoon book is opened, a beautiful 36” butterfly silk is found!
“Reading Books Changes You For The Better” Routine comes with my complete
Routine, Cocoon “Flip-Over” Book, 18” Caterpillar Silk and 36” Butterfly Silk,
all for $
80.00 (Have the silks already? Cocoon
Book alone $
35.00, includes routine). You will also need a
Zippered Change Bag, Breakaway Wand, Fishing Pole Wand (all not
included-see Effects
product page).
HIPPITY HOP FRIENDS From the Fantastic Friends Show, 2 friends magically change places as
they are passed behind your back, one selecting good friends and reaching her
goals, and one selecting bad friends and having to live with the
consequences. A favorite updating of Hippity Hop
Rabbits, but with the lesson "Our choices today effect
our future!" $ 45.00 OUT OF STOCK-DISCONTINUED
DREAM BAG 3 flower boxes magically appear from an empty paper bag. A REAL audience
pleaser, trust me, they always gasp! Teach the lesson that a person is like the
bag, they have an inside and an outside. Get to know only their outside and you
may come up empty. Get to know their character, their heart, and get a big,
pleasant surprise! “Super Size” only $ 65.00 (“Jumbo” size
available via Special Order; 30% bigger in all dimensions, $110.00) Replacement
bags also available, see Effects Page for more info.
MAGIC OF READING COLORING
BOOK From the Magic of Reading
Show, your standard Magic Coloring Book packaged with my audience tested
routine that introduces the theme "Every Book Is A
Magic Book If You Open It and Read It!" $ 12.00
THE KOMEDY KID-SHOW
KASSETTES Probably the product I am most proud of. Over 1000 sold worldwide! A resource you will
listen to again and again! Three audio cassettes containing four hours of round
table discussions about performing for the family, featuring practical advice
from David Ginn, Sammy Smith and yours truly, Steve
Taylor. Between the three of us, there
is almost 100 years of experience in performing for kids. Tape One is 90
minutes long and contains everything you need to know about Producing
a comedy kid-show, from structuring and pacing to favorite effects. Tape Two is
also 90 minutes long and contains everything you need to know about Performing a comedy kid-show, from Warm Ups to Handling
Behavior Problems. Tape Three is 60 minutes long and contains everything David,
Sammy and I know about Promoting comedy kid-shows,
from Fliers to Phone Calls! If you want to skip all of the mistakes the three
of us have made as we began our careers and hit the ground running, this tape
series is an invaluable tool. I would have paid upwards of $10,000 when I was
starting out to know the advice on these three tapes! But you don’t have to!
Our price is an unbelievable $ 35.00
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