Magic Masters - Downtown Disney - Lake Buena Vista, FL
N 28° 22.215 W 081° 31.215
17R E 449023 N 3138327
One of many shops in the Diwntown Disney area of the park. Shop can demonstrate most every product.
Waymark Code: WM79FG
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/23/2009
Views: 36
See the store website for products and ordering information (http://www.magicmasters.com/store/home.php). When conducting demonstrations the place can get pretty crowded.
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Orlando Welcome Center link (http://www.orlandowelcomecenter.com/magic-masters.htm)
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Discover the secrets of this top-secret craft with spellbinding gifts and mesmerizing demonstrations from our own masters of magic. Location: Downtown Disney West Side
Magic Masters Brings Mystery and Illusion To Downtown Disney
Magic Masters, one of the nation's largest chains of retail magic emporiums, has materialized its largest store in the Downtown Disney area at the Walt Disney World Resort.
It's no illusion: the personal library of legendary magician Harry Houdini inspired the shop's elegant interior, which features a fireplace, bookshelves stuffed with memorabilia and magic tomes, vintage posters of famous traveling illusionists from the early 20th century, and a mahogany credenza where amazing sleight-of-hand is demonstrated continuously during store hours.
Brave volunteers are selected nightly to step into a re-creation of Houdini's famous water torture cell for a spine-tingling illusion in which they magically vanish, an effect found only at the Magic Masters store in Downtown Disney West Side. How is it done? Don't ask us: We've been sworn to an Oath of Secrecy!
"We believe in the art of magic," said Ken Fletcher, president and founder of Magic Masters. "Our goal was to create a magic shop that is pure magic -- no novelties, no jokes, no gags." The shop's hocus-pocus focus is on easy-to-master items aimed at beginners -- everything from deceptively simple coin and card tricks to astonishing illusions like a spinning sphere that appears to float effortlessly through the air. Nearby, a secret door concealed in a bookcase leads to a private, wood-paneled sanctum where everything purchased at Magic Masters can be explained and taught by an experienced magician.
Outside, the store is literally topped off by a 10-foot-tall magician's top hat and wand; below, display windows feature photos and posters from magic's heyday nearly a century ago.
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Downtown Disney link (http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/destinations/downtown-disney/)
Shop Address:
Downtown Disney
Lake Buena Vista, FL usa
00000
Shop Website: [Web Link]
Shop Phone Number: Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
When visiting a waymark, please take a picture that clearly shows the exterior of the magic shop. If you have a picture with yourself in front of the magic shop, that would be great too. Also, tell us if you went inside and purchased anything.