An updated version of one of the finest block penetrations ever invented. Check out the videos to see how convincing and amazing this penetration is. Thomas really pulled out the stops on this beauty and the tolerances he is working with are amazing.

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Thomas surprised me this morning when two more magnificent effects from his beautiful Aztec Series arrived at my doorstep just in time for Christmas! I must say these are the best of the series so far. Huitzilopochtli is the Aztec God of War and this effect involves a very clean and clearly impossible penetration of the figure of Huitzilopochtli (conveniently stored in the base of the unit) through a disk held securely in the frame.

You show the beautiful and colorful disk in the frame and cover it with two bars that each have a channel through which the figure will eventually be passed. Using some cleverly designed clips the bars attach easily onto the frame and the set-up looks quite amazing. The spectator can try to push the figure through the channel with no luck. The magician can show the unit all around – there is nothing to hide, add or take away, and then with a magic wave of the hand the magician or the spectator is able to slowly but surely push Huitzilopochtli all the way through the disk. It really looks quite magical to behold. If you desire you can show the disk again at the end.

Please Note: In the photo you will see a hairline crack along the disk this is because of the high resolution close-up photos I take with my camera, for only a few feet this will not be noticed. The penetration really looks quite impossible.

A wonderful addition to the Aztec Series, that I know collector’s will quickly jump to!

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This is the fifth effect in the Aztec Series and my personal favorite so far.  In fact this is one of my all time favorites of all the beautiful items Thomas has created.  Firstly the outer box looks amazing – with very intricate patterns throughout.  Thomas never spares any expense on creating the right atmosphere for his magic.  This is reminiscent of one of Thomas’ classic effects: the Witch Boxes.  However, the boxes are much higher quality and I think the main routine is more interesting and the mechanism itself is easier to work.

You show what looks like an intricately carved black box and take off the lid to find three smaller slides and a gold coin. You show how the coin fits in each of the smaller slides by dropping it in and dropping it back out – there is clearly nothing else in them.  You then do a 3 coin Monte type effect which gets too confusing so you go down to 2 slides.  Each time no matter how closely they watch they cannot find the gold coin.

For the finale you show that instead of a single gold coin, each box now contains a coin of a different color: green, red and purple.  And the gold coin has found its way back into the original box.

What I love about this apparatus is how smoothly you can switch between: gold, colored or empty coins because at any time any of the three can happen. This means the apparatus itself lends itself to other routines.  But the one supplied by Thomas seems to work pretty smoothly.

This is a real gem and please hurry to your favorite Thomas Pohle dealer to get one, they won’t last long!

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So Thomas has been so busy fulfilling orders he has not had too much time to work on new magic, but after a long wait I have received potentially the pinnacle of Thomas’ career so far – the absolutely stunning and beautiful: Dante’s Magic Clock. This item is going to be very rare due to the amount of work required to build it, but if you can get one pay whatever it costs!

Here is my routine:

You begin by showing the amazing Dante’s Clock – it has two dials that slowly click by with suits and numbers on. They just keep clicking around. At this point no one knows why but the routine is counterpointed by the subtle clicking of the clock as the dials move around. At the base of the clock is a drawer, which you open to display a deck of Steampunk Pirates which look perfect next to the clock. You take the cards out and have them shuffled – they are clearly all different.

You have two cards selected – the first one is not looked at but is instead placed directly into the matching card box face down. The second card is selected and this one is seen by the spectator and then placed clearly into the middle of the deck: let’s say it is the Ten of Clubs.

After these choices have been made, the audience is made aware that the clock has stopped ticking. It was ticking away and then silence. Now the magic really begins:

Firstly the two dials are looked at and they show the Ten of Clubs!
Then the secret card that was chosen first is tipped out of the card box, and it is the perfect mate to the Ten of Clubs, the Ten of Spades
Then the deck is counted and only 51 cards are found – the Ten of Clubs is missing!
Finally the drawer at the base of the clock which was clearly shown empty just seconds earlier is opened and one card is face down there. The whole drawer is pulled out and the card turned over – it is the missing Ten of Clubs!
The effect ends with the eerie Dante’s clock mysteriously ticking again.
Thomas pulled out all the stops for this beauty. My photos only begin to show how beautiful it is.

Amazing Thomas. Simply Amazing!

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Thomas is at it again reproducing some of his very old effects and this beauty is very pleasing to the eye and a complete fooler too! (Well it fooled me!) You start by showing the pyramid and a small box with a mini plaque of the famous Tut Anch Amun. You place the plaque into the recess inside the pyramid and replace the lid and close the box. Take a breath and a magical pass and the plaque returns to the box!

Now what is cool is that you can cleanly show the lid of the pyramid after the vanish – all the heat is on it and yes you can show it – there is nothing to see. There really appears to be no way the plaque could have disappeared. But it does.

Check out the video to see what I mean. Also notice that Thomas creates all of his own music for his videos too! I’m looking forward to his first CD!

This will be another highly desirable item from Thomas’ 2015 line-up and I can tell you now he has barely got started – some even more amazing treasures coming from Thomas later this year! All of you you collectors of fine close-up magic should keep your wallets open!

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This is the original version of this effect created over 30 years ago by Thomas Pohle.

A great piece of micro magic with Egyptian themed props. Performer lifts the lid off of a thin wooden case which is decorated with Egyptian symbols and removes three wooden tablets. The case is shown completely empty and the lid replaced. Two of the tablets are black and red with Egyptian symbols printed on them, and the third is black and gold with a scarab beetle figure in the center. The tablets are stacked together and when separated, the figure of the scarab is now missing … leaving a hole in the previously solid tablet!

When the case is opened again, the missing scarab figure is found inside. Very clever and precision made.

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More Color and More amazement! This is Thomas’ take on the classic Hip Hop Rabbits and what a beauty it is. It is most similar to Chance Wolf’s Micro Hip Hop Magician in that the ending shows one large rabbit instead of two totally different colored rabbits. However, even here Thomas has a clever strategy – the rabbits are not flush during the performance, but at the end when the large rabbit is revealed they are. Look at the photos to see what I mean. It is subtleties like this that have kept Thomas at the top of his game for over 30 years.

If you are a collector of Hip Hop Rabbits you have to get this one – Rabbit Love indeed you will most certainly fall in love with these little guys!

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From Thomas’ Golden Series another beauty that only Thomas knows how to create. If you have never handled any of his work it is amazingly light and intricate and is a joy to perform.

With this beauty you start by showing an ornate black and golden box when you lift the lid it is found to be clearly empty inside. You then place a small silk inside the box and close the lid. After a magical pass the lid is lifted and the silk has vanished and filling the whole box is a black and gold die that can be clearly shown all around.

Intricately made to fine tolerances to match the other items in the Golden Series. You’ll love it!

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From Thomas’ Golden Series another beauty that only Thomas knows how to create. If you have never handled any of his work it is amazingly light and intricate and is a joy to perform.

This is probably the cleverest and most perplexing of the Golden Series items. You start by showing the beautiful props: ornate cover, black and gold die on a mini pedestal and a thin skeletal frame the shape of the die. You cover the die with the frame and place the lid over the die on the pedestal. Say the magic words: “Germany’s Favorite Magic Craftsman” and when you lift the lid the frame is still there but the die has impossibly been transformed into a silk handkerchief. How did the die escape the frame? It seems impossible, but for Thomas it is just another day of amazing magical creations!

Intricately made to fine tolerances to match the other items in the Golden Series. You’ll love it!

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A stunning beauty from Thomas Pohle and a real fooler to boot! This is from the new 2015 line of magic and I must say it is truly beautiful. Thomas keeps surprising me that is for sure!

The performer shows the locked Da Vinci Box and hands it to a spectator saying that there is only one combination of letters to open the box and if the spectator can figure it out they can keep the cash contents. After vainly attempting to open the box the spectator gives up. You hand them a deck of alphabet cards and ask them to shuffle the deck and then deal out any four cards.

They then arrange the four chosen letters into sequence and you enter them by turning the dials on the top of the box – you can hear slight clicks as the dials are turned. You then turn the dial from locked to open and you can hear an audible click – the box has opened, with those exact letters. And inside is a bundle of cash that the audience could have won if only they had been as clever as Da Vinci!

This is a limited edition and will be a treasured by magic collectors all around the world. Great job Thomas!

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