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Air-Head Rudy

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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, twice, 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 fun and 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. Currently IN STOCK! Allow two weeks before shipping. $ 199.00 which includes US priority shipping. Canadian $219. International $269 $199.00

Air-Head Rudy w/ “Hero” Body for

Library Summer Theme 2015

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! Get the above Air Head Rudy with a special body that fits the current popularity of Super Heroes! Only $20 more. Allow an extra two weeks for customization. You’ll receive the same as the above, but the body will look like the picture to the right. Including US shipping $219. With Canadian shipping $239. With International shipping $289. $219.00

Air-Head Rudy w/ Ben Carson face.

Includes David Ginn’s Original Routine

“Air Head Ben Carson”

With David Ginn’s permission, a Steve Taylor Exclusive! Please allow extra time for customization. Including US shipping $219. With Canadian shipping $239. With International shipping $289. $219.00

Who’s The Greatest Super Hero?

THE PERFECT EFFECT FOR THE 2015 SUMMER READING THEME: “Every Hero Has A Story!” A STEVE TAYLOR EXCLUSIVE! A “SELL-OUT” at KIDABRA! 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 manila 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/librarian 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 “Manila 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/librarian 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/librarian! “Wait! The PRINCIPAL/LIBRARIAN is the World’s Greatest Super Hero?? Ah, yes! Because the principal/librarian helps us learn, keeps our school safe for us, teaches us to read, runs summer reading, hires fantastic teachers who grow our minds and our hearts, etc., etc.” And to PROVE that the principal/librarian is the “World’s Greatest Super Hero,” you have the principal/librarian 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/librarian has been hiding underneath his clothes! A Super Hero cape! His cover has been blown. 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 manila 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 $99.00 (includes US shipping). $99.00

Success Block-Ade

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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 $ 59.00 (includes US shipping) $59.00

Birth Day Suit

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 right). 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 Marketing page) 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, which includes US shipping! Make your clients LOVE YOU by ordering “Birth Day Suit” today! $20.00

Daddy Won’t Play Newspaper Tear

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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! PACKAGE of 25 Sheets - Comes with enough newspaper sheets to perform at least 40 shows, all for only $30.00. US shipping included. $30.00 NOTE: Tony Steven’s great “No Tear Newspaper Tear Gimmick -Instructions” (for use with these above sheets) is available separately for an additional $35.00. US shipping included.

Pop Secrit

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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! Jar & Routine supplied, use your own popcorn (and eating is allowed! Yum Yum!). US shipping included. $35.00

Unlocking Iggy Norants

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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 Reading Plug! Easy To Do! Comes complete with everything you need; Four velvet bags, steel lock, key, plastic chain, Word cards, Number-Color key and my full routine. US shipping included. $35.00

Buggy About Books

A Steve Taylor Exclusive! 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 $ 85.00 Includes US shipping. (Have the silks already? Cocoon Book alone $ 40.00, includes routine and US shipping). CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. WE’RE TRYING TO GET MORE SO HANG IN THERE! You will also need a Zippered Change Bag, Breakaway Wand, and Fishing Pole Wand (all not included - see the Magic Effects page) $85.00

Dream Bags

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) Includes US shipping. (Replacement outside bags also available) $65.00

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!" Includes US

shipping.

$12.00

Komedy Kid-Show Konversations

Probably the product I am most proud of. Over 1000 sold worldwide in audio cassette form, available for the first time on Audio CD’s! Remastered digitally! All edited content has been restored! A resource you will listen to again and again! Three audios 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. CD One contains everything you need to know about Producing a comedy kid-show, from structuring and pacing to favorite effects. CD Two contains everything you need to know about Performing a comedy kid-show, from Warm Ups to Handling Behavior Problems. CD Three 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 audio 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 CD’s! But you don’t have to spend that much! Our price is an unbelievable… $ 25.00. Includes US media mail shipping. $25.00

Komedy Kid-Show Klinic Live!

FIRST TIME ON DVD! Digitally remastered! Menus & Chapter stops at every trick! In 1995, three full-time kidshow professionals, David Ginn, Sammy Smith & Steve Taylor, got together and began presenting a day-long kidshow workshop all across the U.S. & Canada. After 68 cities, this day-long comedy workshop was captured LIVE in front of a real audience of performers in Atlanta, Georgia: The Komedy Kidshow Klinic! If you missed it in person, or want to relive all the fun, this is for you. 3 high quality DVD’s featuring over five hours of comedy kidshow magic. Two lectures by both David Ginn and Sammy Smith, plus one educational magic lecture by yours truly, Steve Taylor. Plus Question & Answer session with the studio audience! Professionally shot and edited, broadcast quality. Tricks, Explanations & Routines include: Pom Pom Pole, My Pet Spot, Flower Wallet, Glow Loops, Silver Scepter, Color Changing Shoelaces, Zig Zag Queen, Thumb Tip Streamer, Pet Store Pranks, Big Red Card, Shrinking Glove, Poof Ball, Crystal Tube, Miser’s Coin Cup, Egg Bag, Nest of Boxes, Radar-Vision, Friendly Influence, Air Head Rudy, Up In Smoke, Magic Drawing Board, Slush Powder, Drum Head Tube, Pluto Planet, Billy The Kid, No Bake Cake Pan, Cut & Restored Rope, Ghost Card, Spider Beside Her, Sketch-O-Magic, Head Band Blendo, Billiard Balls, Jasper The Friendly Ghost, and Puff The Magic Rabbit. Previously sold on VHS for $89 - NEW LOW DVD PRICE! Includes US media mail shipping. $35.00