Meir’s Muses
MyMagic eNewsletter #1,398
May 4, 2026
Last year at this time I introduced you to Hernán Maccagno who fooled everyone with his Quimera Box routine on Fool Us. He came back this year with a devious new gimmick that everyone was talking about at the Blackpool convention and was also shared by many people in their video walks through the dealer room.
It is an invisible touch system where spectators can feel you touching them without you getting too close. Although that is what everyone was talking about, Hernan shared with me some other devious applications like a book test with a borrowed book and his invisible goldfish routine.
What I plan to do is use his goldfish idea with a cup of coffee, by concentrating on it, the liquid will splash! You will be immediately able to figure that out once you see the tutorial.
I picked up two of his other creations, one of which is below. I also have more of his deceptive coin box routine in stock. The new item below is his take on the Chinese coins through ribbon routine. Besides his clean routine you also get a custom set of washers.
Also got another shipment of the frogs that quickly hopped out of here last week.
►Real Touch:
Hernán’s Real Touch was a huge hit at the 2026 Blackpool convention. Almost every review video on the internet raved about it and showed him performing it.
It is a devious handheld gimmick that can be used to make people next to you feel as if you tapped them even though you never touched them. It is low-tech, with no electronics or invisible threads. It is easy to reset and is good for three uses each time you set it.
But the interesting thing is its other uses. Hernan shares his creative routines with it, such as making a musical instrument play a note, an impromptu book test, telekinetic movement of small objects, and more.
Watch and buy: HERE
►CCC: Monedas Chinas:
This is Hernán’s handling of the classic routine (inspired by Troy Hooser’s Charming Chinese Challenge) where three coins with holes in them are threaded on a ribbon and each one is magically pulled off the ribbon without destroying it. No extra coins or gimmicks are used. Everything is examinable at the beginning and the end.
This version can be performed while doing walkaround, formal close-up, and stand-up shows.
In addition to the routine, you will get three specially made thin washers which more deceptively hide how many coins you are holding when flashing from the sides and will make Hernan’s handling very easy and deceptive.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Quimera Box:
Hernán created a sensation on social media with his Fool-Us appearance performing his hollow coin box routine. And yes, he badly fooled P&T by allowing them to examine all the props before and after the routine.
Although there are a couple of routines explained on the tutorial this is basically a coin box routine where coins vanish and appear inside it, even though it has no bottom or lid. It creates impossible seeming sequences that would be impossible with any other coin box.
Watch and buy: HERE
►Folding Frog:
This is a deck of pre-scored playing cards that can be folded into a jumping frog in seconds.
The easiest way to present it is to force the frog card and have it jump around the deck looking for the selection, when it fails you unfold the frog and show it to be the selection and you can give it out as a memorable souvenir.
Watch and buy: HERE
►MY LATEST RELEASE:
►Coin Copier:
This is an ingenious self-working coin box routine that Christian Scherer created in the 1980s. Since that time the manufacturing technology and the availability of the gimmicks used has advanced and the current version works perfectly.
The basic routine involves a metal box which is referred to as a tiny counterfeiting machine. You dump the four coins out of the box; a Japanese coin, a Swiss coin, a British coin and a US coin. Using the Japanese coin as a sample each coin is placed in the box and one at a time, as the box is waved over the Japanese coin, the coin inside instantly turns into a duplicate of the Japanese coin. This is repeated until all four coins have turned into Japanese coins and everything is examinable.
Watch and buy: HERE
►UPCOMING APPEARANCES:
►MAY 12-14: Presenting and displaying at the Magic Collector Expo in Newark, NJ. Info: HERE
►MAY 23: Rocco & Meir in Jersey Magic Jam at Sparta Avenue Stage in Sparta, NJ. Info and Tickets: HERE
►MAY 24: Spinnato’s Comedy Magic Show at Comix @ Mohegan Sun Casino in CT. Tickets: HERE
To view all my upcoming appearances, go: HERE
Stay happy, Meir
PS: The two Tom Gagnon books sold out last week in just a couple of hours. Tom agreed to autograph a few more copies and they are on the way. You can sign up for notifications: HERE and HERE
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“Why clutter the beauty of the performance with a complex narrative that could be hard to follow with all of the machinations that you do to accomplish the effect?”
…Eric DeCamps (Cylinder And Coins Reimagined, 2025)
