Tenyo 2024 New Release Information (Tentative Names) and brief Description:
**Information from Facebook Tenyo page**
2024 Tenyo Magic
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1) illusion Coin - 2500 yen (before Tax)
Effect: If you put a 500 yen coin into the transparent stand, and cover it with a cloth, the 500 yen coin will disappear in an instant!
Place the empty stand on a palm-sized miniature table and secure it with a rubber-band to prevent it from falling off. Cover the set up with a cloth and cast a spell. When you remove the cloth, the 500 yen coin appears.
2) Telepathy Book - 1800 yen (before Tax)
Effect: Give the animal picture book to the audience. Have the audience open any page and concentrate on the picture of the animals shown on the page without showing to anyone. The magician reads the audience's mind and guesses all the animals on the page.
3) Miracle Pass Case - 2400 yen (before Tax)
Effect: Put a blank sheet of paper in the pass case pocket. When you flip the case, blank paper turns into real bills in an instant. Commuter passes can be pulled out of empty pockets, bills can be turned into credit cards etc.
4) Magic Picture Card - 2400 yen (before Tax)
Effect: Have the audience say the name of a card from a deck completely by free choice. Take out a stack of white cards and show there is nothing printed on the back or front. If you place the rest of the cards on the table and move it, the famous Ukiyo-E print will appear vividly and the drawn image will correctly guess the name of the selected card.
3) Miracle Pass Case - 2400 yen (before Tax)
Effect: Put a blank sheet of paper in the pass case pocket. When you flip the case, blank paper turns into real bills in an instant. Commuter passes can be pulled out of empty pockets, bills can be turned into credit cards etc.
Could this be the Tenyo version of the Flick! Wallet?:
3) Miracle Pass Case - 2400 yen (before Tax)
Effect: Put a blank sheet of paper in the pass case pocket. When you flip the case, blank paper turns into real bills in an instant. Commuter passes can be pulled out of empty pockets, bills can be turned into credit cards etc.
Could this be the Tenyo version of the Flick! Wallet?:
Yes the resemblance is really striking…
Re: 2024 Tenyo Line
Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2023 1:57 pm
by Brett H
Last years series was amazing, and Mr. Danger clearly stole the show. Being able to follow after that was not going to be an easy task.
Illusion coin - Tenyo does coin magic every now and again, so it's nice that we are going back to it as it seems like the last piece of coin magic we got was The Alchemist--if memory serves. This one reminds me a lot of the Magic Works tricks, The Hidden Sun and Missing Masterpiece. I know how both work and looking at Illusion Coin, there's no way you'd be able to do the gimmick for Masterpiece--it's really more of how "X to location" between both pieces that I'm getting that vibe.
Telephathy Book - Tenyo does a simplified book test? That's new. Anyone that likes mental magic would probably like this. I'm not terribly familiar with book tests, but the fact that you're guessing animals on a page seems like its similar, but made simpler.
Miracle Pass Case - Tenyo got Flick Wallet. That's neat. Last "wallet" trick Tenyo did was 1991 with Wild Wallet. I mean, took 32 years, but wallets are back!
Magic Picture Card - I'm not a fan of much of any "guess a card tricks". We can blame the mid-late 2010's for being oversaturated with that. Without seeing the demo, this seems like it's an Invisible Deck with the Ukiyo-E AND prediction reveal. If I'm right in this assumption, I think my kid is really going to like this one. For me, this is the lowest "want" on my list.
While I don't think anything in this series can even begin of think of holding a candle to Mr. Danger, I can appreciate that the variety of this year are concepts that Tenyo hasn't worked with for a very long time, or at all. This really feels like an "experimental" year, and for that, the results are going to be polarizing with the collector community. I think the only way to rate this series with all the fairness you can, is to not compare it to last years and rate the tricks on their own merit, as it seems like there's not much of any Tenyo you can bump the 2024 line against. The only thing we can rate is Miracle Pass Case and Flick Wallet side by side. Tenyo always puts a good spin on the World's Greatest line--and Tenyo's addition to Size Surprise was well done. So I'm curious what what Tenyo will do here and if it's outstanding (like Size Surprise), or "meh" (Magic Plunger). I don't think Tenyo has ever made a World's Greatest and it was worse than the original.
Illusion Coin feels like the most "Tenyo" of the lot, but probably the hardest performance piece to work with. The other three lend themselves more as practical performance pieces, with Miracle Pass Case being the strongest, most utilitarian of the lot. Telepathy Book seems interesting as I THINK there's no "reset" and Tenyo rarely features tricks that have an "instant reset" in the T-line--those sort of things usually get reserved for +1/redemption tricks. Mr. Danger can do it, but Telepathy Book is significantly less "proppy"
Re: 2024 Tenyo Line
Posted: Tue Jun 20, 2023 7:47 pm
by Rob Rand
Brett, thank you for taking the time to shed your light on the new Tenyo 2024 line, it’s greatly appreciated!
Ok my thoughts are:
Concerning the Illusion Coin I have an assumption that it works with a special piece of Perspex that hides what’s behind, like Lubors Lens. It’s possible that this special piece of Perspex or plastic is on the back on the transparent stand, so by turning the stand around the coin has “vanished “.
The Telepathy book is a nice novelty for the Tenyo line and using pictures is for me a big pro for a book test.
Miracle pass change, yes it very resembles the Flick wallet, which I own and is pretty expensive. I could buy it way cheaper, but the official price is about 145 $.
So it’s nice that you can this effect much cheaper now! It is a very surprising effect visually speaking.
Indeed I also find The Magic picture card the least appealing, I don’t even know what the famous Ukiyo-E print is, but ok it’s an imagine that appears if you combine the separate initially ‘blank’ cards if I’m not mistaken. But maybe I will like it once I have it in person.
And for now, patience is needed until they arrive and we can decide if and which one we shall order…
Brett, thank you for taking the time to shed your light on the new Tenyo 2024 line, it’s greatly appreciated!
Ok my thoughts are:
Concerning the Illusion Coin I have an assumption that it works with a special piece of Perspex that hides what’s behind, like Lubors Lens. It’s possible that this special piece of Perspex or plastic is on the back on the transparent stand, so by turning the stand around the coin has “vanished “.
The Telepathy book is a nice novelty for the Tenyo line and using pictures is for me a big pro for a book test.
Miracle pass change, yes it very resembles the Flick wallet, which I own and is pretty expensive. I could buy it way cheaper, but the official price is about 145 $.
So it’s nice that you can this effect much cheaper now! It is a very surprising effect visually speaking.
Indeed I also find The Magic picture card the least appealing, I don’t even know what the famous Ukiyo-E print is, but ok it’s an imagine that appears if you combine the separate initially ‘blank’ cards if I’m not mistaken. But maybe I will like it once I have it in person.
And for now, patience is needed until they arrive and we can decide if and which one we shall order…
Hey! thanks for reading!
After reading your assessment of Perspex, I am curious how one would go about turning the stand around so that the Perspex faces the audience member. At least, I can't figure out how to stealthily get the Perspex side facing the spectator, as I have the stealth quality of a brick.
I was thinking that the stand itself might be gimmicked. I'm thinking along the lines of Zone Infinity. I'm only thinking that because picture of the trick seems to be at an angle to obscure as much of the bottom without making it look terribly obvious that they were trying to cover it up--like you can see "enough" of the lower part, but enough to make it look unassuming.
As far as magic picture goes, it looks like a trick that has been done by Justin Flom:
In this case, it looks neat--especially since you're revealing at certain points while making the picture that the bottom of the deck is blank.
My only concern about this trick is the card stock Tenyo uses. Card Artistry uses USPCC cards--and if it's what I'm thinking, they have much much better card finishes. Tenyo's card stock tends to stick on itself and not shuffle well--if Ghost Lamp and several of the +1's are of any measure. I'm not sure if Tenyo's card finish is something that will be a help or hinderance to the trick.
But Card Artistry is highly recommended to use a flat surface (preferably, a close-up pad) to do the "painting reveal". Not sure of this trick will have kind of thew same problems as Ultra Gravity Box. But if it has the same "painting" motion, flat clean surface required.
At this point, I'm mostly eyeballing the Telepathy book. Hopefully, it can be taken apart in a way that you can have all the pages individually laminated and you can put it back together.
Mystery Showcase looks quite nice, I agree. I'm pretty sure I have it figured out (not to the exact implementation details, but close enough). Will probably fool most lay people, though.
