Robert Houdin’s Light-Heavy Box, first performed in the 1800s, can now be a feature in your act!

Show a 38″ round hypnotic disk attached to a stand. Have a spectator stare at the disk as you spin it. Now, remove the disk from the stand and place it on the floor.

Explain to the spectator that he is now hypnotized and that as long as he stands on the disk, he is under your power. Place a small wooden box on the disk and ask the spectator to pick it up. He tries, but can’t do it, because he is hypnotized.

Ask a small child or woman to come up on stage and pick up the wooden box. They do it with ease! Once again, ask the hypnotized spectator to try and pick up the box. Of course, he can’t! The box is under your control at all times.

Tom Yurasits has taken the Robert-Houdin Light-Heavy Box into the 21st Century. Comes with everything you need to perform the illusion: Light-Heavy Box, Stand and Hypnotic Disk.

Can be done anywhere – surrounded, indoors or outdoors, on stage or in a grassy field! Beautifully made. A great addition to any show!

Even though the video shown above is from a foregin language variety show, you will be able to follow the action and get a good sense of how the trick will work in your act.