A magic tractor is a concept that blends the idea of a regular tractor with elements of magic and fantasy. It is a fictional vehicle that possesses extraordinary abilities and powers, often defying the laws of physics and engineering. In stories and lore, a magic tractor is depicted as being able to perform tasks beyond the capabilities of a regular tractor. It can plow fields in an instant, effortlessly lift heavy objects, and even fly through the air. The magical abilities of the tractor are attributed to forces such as spells, enchantments, or other supernatural means. The concept of the magic tractor has been popularized through various forms of media, including children's books, cartoons, and movies.

GRANDDAD'S MAGIC TRACTOR

In Spring 2013 I packed up my corporate career and my three year old daughter and I spent two months on my parents farm. Our favorite pastime was making up stories. GRANDDAD'S MAGIC TRACTOR is one of stories inspired by her fascination with my father's old tractor and trips to the forest looking for wild strawberries.

Illustrations by Natia Mosashvili

Martha’s Granddad and Grandma live in a large farmhouse next to a big forest.
They love it when Martha comes and stays with them.

One weekend Martha’s Mummy and Daddy went to a wedding
and left Martha with Granddad and Grandma.

As soon as their car disappeared behind the bend, Granddad said:
“Let’s go to the forest!”
They put their jackets on and Grandma grabbed a thick green blanket.

Granddad climbed into the cab and turned the engine on.
“Ready, steady, go!” he shouted.
The tractor woke up like a green dragon.
The engine roared like a lion.
And the tyres screeched impatiently.
Off they went; out of the courtyard and into the forest.

They drove past the badgers’ hill,
the hedgehog’s house,
the brown bear’s lair
and stopped by the river.
Granddad cut wood and Grandma and Martha picked wild strawberries.

Suddenly dark clouds gathered.
The wind blew fiercely.
The rain came down in giant and heavy drops.
“Granddad, what are we going to do now?” asked Martha.

“Don’t you worry” said Granddad and pointed to his tractor.
“This is a magic tractor and it will rescue us!”
Then he pressed the green button on the steering wheel and shouted:
“Trick trock track, tractor turn into a house!”

The wheels turned inwards.
The cab moved backwards.
The sides of the trailer grew tall and joined at the top.
And there it was: a big, solid, green house!
“Wooow!” shouted Martha.
“Quickly, let’s get inside!” called Grandma.

The tractor-house had everything:
a stove in the corner,
a table with three chairs and
a bed covered with the green blanket.

They had doughnuts for tea and then went to sleep.
Grandma and Martha slept in the big bed and Granddad in the cab.

The next morning Martha looked out of the window.
There was a lot of water everywhere!
“Granddad, what are we going to do now?” asked Martha.
“Don’t you worry!” said Granddad, and Grandma added:
“But let’s have breakfast first!”
For breakfast they had pancakes with strawberries.

Once they had all eaten, Granddad pressed the green button
and uttered the magic words:
“Trick, trock, track, tractor turn into a boat!”
The trailer sides opened and expanded
and the tyres turned into lifeboats.

The tractor-boat coughed and roared
and then ploughed smoothly through the water.
They went up the river,
around a small island,
through a tunnel
and up the canal.

And then they reached the mountain.
But - the boat could not go any further.
“Granddad, what are we going to do now?” asked Martha.

“Don’t you worry! My tractor will rescue us again.
Do we need a helicopter…or a plane?”
“Plane Granddad, please, plane!” shouted Martha.
Granddad pressed the green button and uttered the magic words:
“Trick trock track, tractor turn into a…plane!”
The trailer sides stretched out to form the wings and the tail.

“Ready to go?” asked Granddad.
Martha and Grandma nodded
and the plane’s engine started whizzing and roaring.
And off they went high in the air:
above the large forest,
the sharp peaks of the mountains
and a swollen lake.

On the other side of the mountains there was a motorway.
“That’s the road you take when you come to visit us” said Grandma.
“Are we going to drive down there?” asked Martha.
“Yes!” said Granddad.
“But planes and tractors are not allowed on the motorway…”

Granddad landed the tractor-plane in a quiet cornfield,
then pressed the button and uttered the magic words:
“Trick trock track, tractor turn into a racing car!”
The wings turned backwards and the wheels expanded.
And there it was: a long green racing car.
It was as fast as a dragon and it overtook all the other cars on the road.

In no time at all they reached the road leading to the farm.
Granddad stopped behind a tree
and when there were no other cars on the road
he pressed the button and shouted:
“Track, trock trick, tractor turn back into…a tractor!

“Is there anything else your magic tractor can turn into?” asked Martha.
“Oh yes, many other things – a submarine, a helicopter, a rocket, a lorry,
a scooter…but let’s leave that for another time!”
“Can I tell Mummy and Daddy about it?”
“Of course you can…”

Martha’s Mummy and Daddy were already waiting.
Martha ran and hugged them.
“Mummy, this is a magic tractor! It can turn into a house, a boat,
a plane and whatever else Granddad tells it too!”
“Oh yes…right…” said Mummy.

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The concept of the magic tractor has been popularized through various forms of media, including children's books, cartoons, and movies. Often, these portrayals of the magical tractor serve as a plot device, driving the narrative forward and leading to exciting and whimsical adventures. The representation of the magic tractor varies depending on the source material.

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Tractor Beam is a custom designed laser pointer that makes objects move just like science fiction! The YouTube video (link below) shows it in action but really can’t do justice to how mind boggling and impossible it looks in real life.

The unit is completely reliable and trouble free. Numerous prototypes were made and tested to achieve the final foolproof design.

And it’s completely self contained. No palmed or hidden devices are used, and no advance preparation is needed. Just carry it with you and beam your audience into another dimension whenever you want!

Tractor Beam comes complete and ready to use immediately. John will teach you everything on YouTube video, including how to:
• Move napkins, playing cards, credit cards, etc.
• Topple a deck of cards, plastic bottle, salt shaker, etc.
• Rotate cutlery, cell phones, and other objects.
• Make pencils, chapstick, and other cylindrical objects roll across the table.
• Make a freely chosen card slide out of the deck. Two versions are taught using any deck of cards, even a borrowed deck!
• Make a deck cut itself to find a freely chosen card. The deck can be on a table or you can place it on the floor. This is the simplest and most visually stunning version of the “Haunted Deck” ever!
Beam me up, Scotty!

Seems like a very clever application of ITR type stuff -- putting the heat on the laser pointer is very clever.

On May 7, 2019, Bande wrote:
Seems like a very clever application of ITR type stuff -- putting the heat on the laser pointer is very clever.

If that's the case, I don't get it. Perhaps I'm missing something. One of the strengths of ITR effects is that there is an apparently invisible "force" that only YOU, as THE MENTALIST, can control with your mind. It has nothing to do with a device. Once these ITR effects have an ACTUAL source that spectators SEE, even if it's a laser pointer, it takes a lot of the mystery out of the demonstration. Just my two cents, but again, to be fair, I have not yet seen the device.

Hey guys, people know that you can't move objects with a laser pointer. Just like they know you can't levitate a woman by waving your hands or vanish a coin by hanging it on an invisible hook.

These premises are given tongue in cheek. Still, some people might fully accept the premise (children for instance) but even they will be impressed if you fool them even if they attribute it to some amazing tech,

On May 8, 2019, MeetMagicMike wrote:
Hey guys, people know that you can't move objects with a laser pointer. Just like they know you can't levitate a woman by waving your hands or vanish a coin by hanging it on an invisible hook.

These premises are given tongue in cheek. Still, some people might fully accept the premise (children for instance) but even they will be impressed if you fool them even if they attribute it to some amazing tech,

Lasers and children.. nah. In fact lasers and adults? No again. Especially one so expensive.

Pegasus, I wasn't arguing that you should buy it. I was responding to Gabelson's comment that he didn't understand why you would introduce the laser into the effect.

On May 7, 2019, MeetMagicMike wrote:
Hey guys, people know that you can't move objects with a laser pointer. Just like they know you can't levitate a woman by waving your hands or vanish a coin by hanging it on an invisible hook.

These premises are given tongue in cheek. Still, some people might fully accept the premise (children for instance) but even they will be impressed if you fool them even if they attribute it to some amazing tech,

The premises you've mentioned are indeed tongue in cheek, but there's still far more mystery to them than to this effect. There's a "paper trail" to this one, so to speak. Yes, audiences know you can't levitate a woman by waving your hands, but it's still a complete MYSTERY, particularly after the magician passes a hoop over the levitated person, dispelling any notions of wires supporting her. Where is the "logical disconnect", (as the late Bob Cassidy would say), in this effect?

Again- just my opinion. As soon as you show the audience what "causes" the object to move, even if it's a laser pointer, a ton of wind is let out of the sails. What makes PK work so strong is apparently there is NO cause other than the power of your mind, or whatever "power" you are trying to demonstrate. What impresses the audience here? What drops their jaw? The fact that they think light can't cause movement? That's certainly not enough. Laser technology is advancing at a very rapid pace. There's no reason that people won't believe that either the light, or something else coming out of that pointer, is moving the object. There's no other place for their mind to go. Sorry, I still don't see the appeal, and the comparison you offered- levitating a person- is far more mysterious, inexplicable and dramatic.

You could say that laser pointers focus and intensify light, and that you have discovered how to focus and intensify your thoughts using the light beam.

Just because something moves doesn’t mean it’s a PK effect - it’s more of a “cartoon comes to life” effect similar to an Acme moving hole or much of Sylvester the Jester’s act. By that criterion, this seems like a worthy and fun addition, IMO.

I'm going to assume that the pointer is the r**l for which case, I'm sure there would be a good amount of people whom you perform this to whom would want to take a closer look at the pointer. Let's say they find nothing, I still think a good number of them would still insist that the pointer does more than beam the laser for which they would be correct if indeed the pointer is also the r**l. Let's say it's not the r**l (which I'm sure it is, I don't see how else you would do this since the product consists of just that pointer), unless they hold the pointer themselves and point the laser at the object themselves, a fair number of people would still think the pointer had something to do with it.

This product however did give me an excellent idea though. You can do the same effects using a traditional r**l and bring with you a cheap keychain laser pointer. Have a audience member do all the pointing and just time the animation properly. I think that would play much stronger and also bring to the table a unique inter-activeness for the audience.

On May 16, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
This product however did give me an excellent idea though. You can do the same effects using a traditional r**l and bring with you a cheap keychain laser pointer. Have a audience member do all the pointing and just time the animation properly. I think that would play much stronger and also bring to the table a unique inter-activeness for the audience.

You mean, basically revert back to Kennedy's original "Magic Flashlight" from the early 1980's?
The end of that routine was that a tabled card was pushed forward with the beam of light from the flashlight. Since Kennedy have performed and experimented with various versions of this idea since 35 years back, I think he have a pretty good idea what people want to look at.

On May 16, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
This product however did give me an excellent idea though. You can do the same effects using a traditional r**l and bring with you a cheap keychain laser pointer. Have a audience member do all the pointing and just time the animation properly. I think that would play much stronger and also bring to the table a unique inter-activeness for the audience.

You mean, basically revert back to Kennedy's original "Magic Flashlight" from the early 1980's?
The end of that routine was that a tabled card was pushed forward with the beam of light from the flashlight. Since Kennedy have performed and experimented with various versions of this idea since 35 years back, I think he have a pretty good idea what people want to look at.

Was not aware of his original plot from the 80s but good to know.

As for him having a pretty good idea of what people want to look at, let's say that they are polite and do not ask to look at your props or you have decent audience management skills to stifle them from looking at your props, it's still less strong if you are the one handling the laser pointer as opposed to them handling the laser pointer.

As an aside, I looked at the ad copy for Magic Flashlight, nowhere does it state that the audience is handling the flashlight so in essence, Tractor Beam is an update on essentially the same gimmick/prop and plot. So like my original thoughts on this, there's no reason why one can't have the spectator hold and point the light source as setting it up with a separate ITR or even loose thread would give you the animation but it would appear to be under the spectator's control. I think it's a stronger visual and creates a better memory for the audience. Pretty sure that Magic Flashlight is also not examinable and probably does not act as a ITR so in actuality Tractor Beam just updated the idea with a new type of light and also this time uses a ITR (likely motorized)?

On May 17, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
. so in essence, Tractor Beam is an update on essentially the same gimmick/prop and plot.

Nope. Magic Flashlight is based on Scotty York's Light Bulb, with the Tractor Beam effect as a kicker. Very different gimmick&prop.

On May 17, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
. so in essence, Tractor Beam is an update on essentially the same gimmick/prop and plot.

Nope. Magic Flashlight is based on Scotty York's Light Bulb, with the Tractor Beam effect as a kicker. Very different gimmick&prop.

Odd reason why the magician is handling the flashlight the whole time then.

On May 17, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
Odd reason why the magician is handling the flashlight the whole time then.

Perhaps you should try it?
You might find that doing secret manipulations synced to the unpredictable actions of a spectator is less easy than what you assume?

On May 17, 2019, kissdadookie wrote:
Odd reason why the magician is handling the flashlight the whole time then.

Perhaps you should try it?
You might find that doing secret manipulations synced to the unpredictable actions of a spectator is less easy than what you assume?

I don't see why it would be less easy. There would be very little chance of the spectator wildly waving the laser and if you do, simply do not release the lock on the IT (I would use a thread boss for this). I use to roll cigarettes and pens on a table towards myself using this method with a ITR. It's also the method I use for making straws and light pens jump out from glasses, etc. There's complete control over when the animation begins with no perceivable movement of your body. The only change to how I roll a pen or cigarette on a table for example to match this would be to hand the a laser pointer to a spectator and have them point the laser. I would ask them to first point at the point I point out to them and have them move the light towards the direction the animation will go in. Even not having done this variation with a laser pointer, I don't see how the actions of the spectator would be unpredictable.

Would depend on what you are trying to animate of course but the majority of what was on that demo could be accomplished in this fashion. The spectator may not necessarily be able to move a beam slowly in sync with the animation but I think the strength of just having them point the laser would be sufficient.

What you really give up would be complete synchronization of the laser and animation so you can do many of these effects but without as granular of a control over animation and laser if using a standard ITR. With something like a Spider Pen, you can have more control over the animation. It's a very small compromise and completely cancels out that there was any prop in play causing the animation apart from the laser being pointed at the object.

The main effect seems to be the card sliding out from the spread. I assume the magician is finding the spectator's chosen card. In this case you could not really have a spectator pointing the laser beam.

In some stories, the tractor may have a personality of its own, complete with a friendly and mischievous disposition. In others, it is merely a tool of the protagonist, aiding them in their quests and endeavors. The idea of a magic tractor taps into the human fascination with the extraordinary and the fantastical. It represents a departure from the ordinary and mundane, offering a glimpse into a world where thrilling and extraordinary things are possible. It is an embodiment of the human desire to break free from limitations and embrace the infinite possibilities that lie beyond. While the concept of a magic tractor may seem wild and whimsical, it serves as a reminder of the power of imagination and creativity. It encourages us to think beyond the boundaries of what is considered possible and to dream big. It also serves as a reminder that even in the most ordinary of objects, there is always the potential for magic and wonder..

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