Monkey does like to put on a magic show every once in a while. You may have seen his performance on Instagram some time back. When I visited Toy Fair back in January 2015 I got to see Gee Whizz being demoed on the Drumond Park stand, I knew that this would be an instant hit with Monkey the Magician.
The Gee Whizz Magic set is aimed at children aged 5 years and over and there are a couple of things that I especially love about this set. The component parts of each trick are of a size that little hands can manoeuvre them easily and the instructions booklet uses clear diagrams and writing that can be read without the need for a magnifying glass. We’ve got a couple of magic sets from other brands, where it’s almost impossible for an adult to read the instructions, let alone the child, and then the trick pieces are just too small for a youngster to perform with easily. This set really is rather ace in my opinion.
The Gee Whizz set contains 15 different tricks which Monkey the Magician picked up really easily and could perform by himself with little or no assistance from his assistant.
He has always wanted a proper Magician’s Wand so he was thrilled when he realised that one was included with this set, even more so once he’d learnt the trick that goes with it.
We surprised Daddy P with the Magic Flower Wand trick, it’s really rather clever. You hide the flower inside the wand before you start the trick, tap the wand inside the flower-pot provided and out pops your flower. Monkey loves this trick and it’s really easy for kids to work themselves with a great magic result.
The optical illusions have also been well received by my Young Magician, the Magical Firework Glasses are rather cool and give an instant surprise to the wearer. You can also spin various discs on a spinning top and see the patterns merge.
There are shadow cards which took me back to my own childhood, as my Dad was great at creating animals on the walls to entertain my brother and I at bedtime. The cards show children exactly how to place their hands to create a number of different animals.
There are some classic tricks included in Gee Whizz too – the thread moving through a coin that magical changes colour as you pull it from one side to the other and the Zig Zag Rope, where you can split it in two but still pull it from side to side.
Another Monkey the Magician favourite has been the Coin Saucer, where coins appear from nowhere! It’s magic after all.
Priced at £19.99 Monkey and I have both been impressed with Gee Whizz and can thoroughly recommend it to any young budding Magician.
For information of this and other games, along with stockist information please visit the Drumond Park website.
disclaimer: we were sent the item mentioned in exchange for an honest review
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dynamo – he is amazing
I like the good old pulling a rabbit out a hat!
i love dynamo and his phone in the bottle illusion is fab
I like Dynamo. My favourite is when someone disappears from one place to another completely different
I grew up loving Paul daniels so I will say him! I always love to seee a rabbit jump out of a hat! I wish i could do that!
Dynamo – when he turns a paper butterfly to life is incredible!
Dynamo, but i like the simple old school tricks aswell with doves from behind the ear etc x
paul daniels, Chop Cup Routine
Penn and Teller and cutting someone in half
I love Penn and Teller and i still like a good old saw in half trick 🙂
I love Dynamo and his levitation above the Shard xx
I used to like David Copperfield, his big hair, and tan, whoop!!!
Paul daniels and cutting people in half. Gets me everytime x
Its got to be Paul Daniels, I grew up with him. Love the card tricks. Would love to know how they do it.
I don’t actually have a favourite magician! But my favourite trick is the vanishing cabinet!
Dynamo, his levitating trick is brilliant
I’d say Darren brown! I know he does more mind stuff but he is amazing. My son would love to win this! Thank you xx
Paul Daniels, I love the simple tricks like pulling a rabbit out of a hat!
David Copperfield, his flying man is amazing.
I like Dynamo too. My favourite trick was some old footage of A Frenchman appearing a bird cage out of nowhere.
i like Dynamo he is just fantastic
Paul Daniels, I like any card tricks
Dynamo – walking on the Thames!!
Houdini, Harry -Escaping from tank of water while in chains
Paul Daniels and his card tricks
criss angel when he walks on water
love dynamo
love anything that involves animals especially birds, like when they make one into 2
Dynamo’s pretty amazing. I can’t figure out any of his tricks – the one where he walked on water probably sticks in my mind the most.
My favourite is Dynamo now. But I used to love Paul Daniels when I was younger…. 🙂 I love all of Dynamo’s tricks… he astounds me!
I am amazed by dynamo, fave magic trick he does is when a card is stuck in the window of a shop after he throws it
I grew up watching David Copperfield. I enjoy watching escape tricks.
Dynamo, I like vanishing tricks etc.
Favourite magician is Wizardy Woo and favourite trick is the coin behind the ear. Classics.
Dynamo I love card tricks
I like Paul Daniels doing his vanishing box trick
being a 70’s kid, I grew up with Paul Daniels as the main magician, looking back now he’s quite funny in some of the tricks he did, compare to the likes of Dynamo now though and WOW they just blow your mind.
good old card tricks are fun, but walking on water is the best.
I love Dynamo, and my favourite trick is making things disappear!
I don’t have a favorite but I do like Dynamo. I like how he can make things appear from no where 🙂
As a kid I mainly remember watching Paul Daniels, These days I think there are some more modern and really impressive ones like dynamo or david blaine – anyone like that I find quite fasincinating!
Jerry Sadowitz – Any of his card tricks.
Dynamo, and love the trick he does when he gets a mobile phone inside a bottle.
paul daniels and I love it when they saw someone in half
I was on holiday in Austria and the hotel had a magician there who got me up on stage to help with his “chopping my finger/cucumber trick” I was terrified!
I love Penn and Teller and everything they do! 🙂
Dynamo is really good and I love card tricks.
Its got to be Paul Daniels and the sawing people in half box trick 🙂
I love Penn and Teller, very funny
dynamo is my favourite but I don’t have a favourite magic trick
David Nixon. I was in awe as a young child of how he made a fairy appear on his piano.
I really like Dynamo. I think my favourites are tricks involving “smashing” mobiles and watches.
Paul Daniels and I like where they get something like a ring into somewhere impossible
my kids had a teacher at their school who was a magic circle member and did all sorts of tricks with the kids. Great fun – especially a trick he did with setting light to a tissue (out of nowhere)
Paul Daniels as he was my childhood favourite love the geometric illusion
Paul Daniels! Always intrigued by sawing people in half
Does Harry Potter count?
i love david copperfield – i went to Vegas on my honeymoon in 2012, he was doing a show at the MGM where we were staying – we were on the 2nd row and he made a motorbike dissapear, about 12 feet from me!!! absolutely amazing !!!
paul daniels. brings back memories of my childhood watching him and debbie mcgee. I got a paul daniels magic set for my 10th and I can still remember how excited i was. proper tom boy
Love Dynamo and love any magic trick that makes things disappear
love penn and teller xx
Dynamo – Walking On Thames
Dynamo and I like disappearing tricks
Dynamo and his ‘trick’ of walking on water across the Thames…it’s one of those you just can’t for the life of you believe what you are actually seeing?
Favourite magician is David Copperfield and my favourite type of trick is when they are tied up tightly and escape somehow when put in water, I always wonder how they manage and there’s a real sense of danger
Dynamo – hes so down to earth, I love all his magic.
Paul Daniels, and I like animal tricks
Penn and teller money in to fish!
Dynamo and his phone in a bottle trick
My favourite is Dynamo and the phone in a bottle
Dynamo when he walked on water
Dynamo and his levitating trick
Mary Poppins – I love how she manages to tidy the house just by singing!
I love David copperfield and the sawing the woman in half trick is my favourite.
Paul Daniels, and the sawing someone in half trick.
I like Dynamo’s card tricks
Dynamo! I love his card tricks but also when he can lay right back without falling looks magic!
I like dynamo xx
dynamo fan here too, some of those tricks really amaze, like the mobile phone ones x
Paul Daniels – rings around levitating woman 🙂
Paul Daniels – rings around levitating woman 🙂
My favourite magician is Dynamo nut my favourite magic trick has always been houdinis water tourture tank
Dynamo for me – I watched a programme where he pushed a coin right through someones hand – unreal!
David copperfield
Dynamo for sure come on he can walk over water that beats Paul Daniels chopping people in half which was what got me into watching magic shows
dynamo and i love tricks where he goes through glass and walls
Paul Daniels- i grew up watching him
Dynamo and his levitation 🙂
I don’t follow anyone but my eldest son loves any tricks involving balls and cards
Dynamo – Walking on the Thames River x
my husband he makes money dissapear
I love criss angel and his walking on water trick
Darren brown is my favourite x
Dymano is my favioutire but I love tricks were they pull birds from thin air haha xxx
Mine is Paul Daniels and I love the slicing people in half trick.
My favourite magician is Michael Ammar, as he does some great tutorials on learning magic. I like the cups and balls trick.
Tommy Cooper Just like that
I’m old school my fave magician is paul daniels and my fave magic trick is pulling a rabbit out of a hat!!
Paul Daniels and his cup and ball trick. Wonderful.
Paul Daniels sawing through an assistant x
tommy cooper,paul daniels.classics!!
I like Dymano – card tricks are my favourite
i love dynamo as i love all card tricks, always spend ages working out how theyre done and failing too x
Paul Daniels was always my favourite growing up and loved the sawing in half 🙂
I always loved Paul Daniels, I like any trick where a bunny appears
Dynamo – his magic is awesome!
Dynamo is amazing! Especially when he does the levitation thing,plus hes from the same town as me!
Dynamo is awesome really makes me in awe
David Blaine in a box by Tower Bridge – whatever that was about!
Loved Paul Daniels
Penn and Teller – love all their gory stuff
Dynamo – and levitation always amazes me
Derren Brown – when he helped people win money at the dogs race track, by convincing the teller that losing tickets were actually winners.
I like Dynamo and my favourite tricks are card tricks!
I really don’t have a favourite. My favourite trick is rabbit out of the hat 🙂
We did watch Paul Daniels when I was a kid – I like the more fun tricks, and I don’t remember the trick, but I remember the time when the little girl he pulled from the audience was called Blue – the conversations between him and the girl was so precious 🙂
Dynamo is my favourite and I like when they make large objects disappear xx
Derren Brown – he is brilliant live!
Dynamo – loved the mobile in a bottle
Derren Brown – he is amazing
The late and great paul daniels and i love the dissapearing tricks
The late great Paul Daniels and his Chop Cup Routine
dynamo I just love everything he does.
Penn and Teller but my fave trick is when they make someone disappear 🙂
David Copperfield with the big shows
Paul Daniels, rest in peace 🙁
David Nixon was great fun on tv in the 1970s
Paul Daniels and the rabbit trick is our favourite x
Dynamo is my current favourite, loved the way he disappeared in the middle of a store!
Paul Daniels was my favourite, he made magic fun. bless him
I like Dymano, and his card tricks with how astounded his volunteers/victims are lol
Dynamo… how he walked on water… just wow! x
PENN AND TELLER – double bullet catch
dynamo he amazes me when he just vanishes
Piff the Dragon <3 Hes one of the funniest people I have ever seen perform magic
My favourite is Houdini, my favourite trick is escape from a straitjacket
Paul Daniels
Always saw him on Tv as a kid
Paul Daniels , the sawing in half trick being my favourite
I love half-watching Penn and Teller, but sometimes their tricks can be a bit potentially gory!
I have to say the late paul daniels I loved all his tricks x
Chris Ballinger and any trick that involves making things dissappear it fascinates me.
The late, great Paul Daniels and all but especially card ones