Grand Illusions
Loading...
Uploaded videos
1-10 of 43-
Wizard Flipbooks 2
henders007
505 views
These beautiful little flipbooks come from Florence in Italy. They are in full colour, and the charming scenes have a very smooth, cinematic, movement, and are printed on h...
-
Paper Eiffel Tower
henders007
611 views
This laser-cut paper model of the Eiffel Tower was created in 2011 by a small design studio in Texas, USA.
Working from the original plans for the Eiffel Tower, these mo...
-
Shtox glass
henders007
796 views
A very elegant crystal glass tumbler, handmade in Germany. However this glass tumbler has a very special trick. Place it on the table, give the glass a spin, and it keep on...
-
Magnetic Top
henders007
1,202 views
This elegant perspex spinning top has a spindle that is magnetic. This allows a most intriguing action to occur. Place the supplied metal spiral on a flat surface, and then...
-
True Mirror
henders007
1,141 views
When you look in a mirror, who do you see? Not the person other people see, since our reflection in the mirror is reversed - raise your left hand, and the person in the mir...
-
Torofluxus
henders007
1,559 views
The Torofluxus was invented in the early 1990s by a craftsman in Germany. A 28ft long ribbon of fine flat spring steel is woven into a torus and the ends spot welded. It co...
-
The Magic Match!
henders007
836 views
You take a match and light it. Then, when you secretly squeeze the little rubber bulb in the palm of your hand, you get a whoosh of flame. It does not get much more dramati...
-
Heliograph
henders007
2,899 views
The Heliograph is basically a mirror that uses the light from the sun to flash a message across a distance, often using morse code. They were widely used in the 19th and ea...
-
ice_heart_maker
henders007
2,467 views
This toy was made as a prototype by an international toy company, but has not yet been produced commercially.
The two blocks of aluminium are extremely good conductors o...
-
solids_of_constant_width
henders007
1,623 views
A set of 3 solids of constant width, made from solid aluminium, with a width of 35mm.
These mathematical curiosities have some intriguing properties. For example, if you...
About Grand Illusions
We collect unusual toys, and with a collection of over 15,000 (and rising!) that have been bought over the last 30 years, there is a wide variety of amazing things to share with you!
We don't do dolls! Our toys might have a fun or unusual mechanism, can be used to amaze or puzzle people, are a bit magical or maybe a bit scientific. Whatever the angle, they have to have something a bit 'special' about them.
Most of the toys you see here are no longer available. However a few of them can still be obtained from the Grand Illusions Toy Shop, www.grand-illusions.com
We collect unusual toys, and with a collection of over 15,000 (and rising!) that have been bought over the last 30 years, there is a wide variety of amazing things to share with you!
We don't do dolls! Our toys might have a fun or unusual mechan...
Play all(43)