Tenyo Magic Forum

It was released as part of Petrick and Mia's Signature series. There are four tricks that you were supposed to be able to do one right after another. Never got around to getting them but they always looked interesting to me. Here are some videos of the effects: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VglCHSU...

Getting back to the banks for a sec... Here is a link to a French Tenyo Tribute Site (not Stereo's) that shows a nice assortment of the banks. Here is the French Translation of the text next to the bank where Mickey is flying on a bird. ART BANK (large) Creator: Shigeru Sugawara Two animated version...

I like to push the switch down very slowly. While I am reaching for the next ball and talking about what I am going to do, I am slowly pushing the switch down so that by the time I am ready to drop the ball in the switch is all the way down. That way there are no sudden moves to attract attention. I...

I agree. Crystal Cleaver is the better effect. It just looks better and I find it to be more baffling as well. Besides, you could also borrow someone's ring for the effect which makes it more interactive also.

When I first started buying Tenyo I let my kids play with them all the time. I was really just buying them to play with and didn't realize how collectable they were. Needless to say a couple of items broke and I found out that they were not so easy to get anymore. They are now in a cabinet and I onl...

Here's some pics of a really old Tenyo magic set. Not 100% sure but I believe these sets were made in the 1930's.

Yeah, Roberto's presentation is great. I remember it caused quite a bit of controversy when it was first posted. I already had the trick but still had to watch the video a couple of times to figure out how he did it. I was thinking a good companion for this might be Crash Dice. You can change the co...

The tricks are still discontinued. I believe what was on Ebay was in the Japanese packaging which was completely different than the English packaging.

I have no idea how much this would cost much less in pounds. I will take a wild guess....

Aha I think i've got them.
Am I supposed to post the answers or pm them to you?
I'll PM for now..

They are very clever

Actually according to Magicpedia, Nickels to Dimes was invented in 1926 by Walter Gibson so I am not sure what new addition Frank renz patented in 1947.

The idea of the gimmicked cap is very old. Nickels to Dimes was the most common trick to use this gimmick and it predated Dynamic Coins by quite a while. Tenyo just took the idea and added a second cap thereby being able to have the coins disappear and appear under either cap, as well as penetration...

I think the boxes you showed are vintage. Not 100% sure about this but i think more recently they used the same boxes Fantasio used. I only have 2 japanese Tenyo catalogs - 2012 and 2014. Here's a scan of 2012 which has some of their Johnson products and their Fantasio products. The 2014 catalog is ...

Tenyo has been distributing Fantasio items in Japan for quite a while. They were still listing Fantasio items in the 2012 catalog but i noticed in the 2014 catalog they are not there any more. It looks like they have recently stopped their partnership with Fantasio for some reason. They do still dis...

This is a pretty good trick that one could make a nice routine for.

My problem is that when i try it, the salt keeps getting stuck in the mechanism making the gimmick noisy and hard to close correctly.
Has anyone else had this issue? Perhaps I am doing something wrong?

Yep. it's really cute.
I've never seen the satellite one though. Got to keep an eye out for that one.

My daughter has been asking me to get her the Tenyo Disney Princess magic book for a while now. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Tenyo-Japan-114674-MAGIC-BOOK-PRINCESS-Magic-Trick-/331154948422?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d1a5f8146 I think it's it's the only girl thing she saw in the Tenyo catalogs. Not ...

When I originally bought the Magic Works version of this trick from someone it did not come with the sword. When I asked about it, he said he threw the sword out long ago because it never worked with the sword anyway. My guess is he was trying to follow the picture instead of reading the instructions.

I don't think it's a misprint. The instructions say the same thing. Maybe it referring to the 70s looking kids in the picture or maybe you are supposed to insert your own name.

Here's a nice 1970s set that was distributed by Sears in the USA.
Comes with the original versions of 6 Tenyo Tricks.
The box on the bottom right contains the handkerchief and gimmick for Penetro Coin and a fake wooden match for Coin through Match.

Tenyo still sells the Micro Bank, Spin Bank, and Art Banks. They are pretty easy to find.

By the way my favorite Art Bank is the one with Mickey Mouse flying on a bird. The bird flaps its wing(s) when you put a coin in

This is an interesting bank I picked up. There are four plastic plates with slots in them. To get a coin in the bank the slots must line up. Your spectators will try to line up the plates by tilting the bank but will end up just like the fella on the bottom of the package. :) There is a logical way ...

Not being able to find too many missing T numbers recently, I started buying some Disney items that looked interesting. Not trying to collect them all but just picking up some items that look like fun or that I think can be used in a good routine for kids. Here's a pic I took a while ago of my Disne...

The catalogs are interesting to look at but do not change much from year to year. I have picked up a couple when the price was right. Would not mind having some of the older ones but I am not really actively looking for them. Lately Tenyo has the English catalogs for download but there is not much t...

Yeah, rubber bands never last. Just got a brand new sealed item with a rubber band that looked to be in good condition but fell apart as soon as I touched it. Old rubber bands also tend to stain the apparatus as well. A while ago I bought a used Penetro Coin. The seller had left the rubber bands on ...