A bit About Us and our History
Our Founder
Our founder Anders Barris is from Denmark an started selling Magic Tricks full time in 1985 while still a young teenager. He started learning Magic at the young age of just 6 years old and performed for the first time on a stage when he was just 9 years old. For the next few years he dedicated himself to learn more about magic and performed in Denmark, Germany, Austria and even in far away Thailand.
During his early teenage years he realized that his calling was to sell and teach Magic Tricks to others.
Anders performing his Magic Shows while still very young. He would very often perform Magic Tricks with live Doves, Rabbits and even Parrots.
Short Timeline of our History
1985 – On December 1st Anders officially started selling his Magic Tricks at a Department store on the outskirts of Copenhagen.
1986 – Expanding to sell Magic Tricks and especially Wacky The Magic Worm to shops across Scandinavia.
1987 – Thailand was the first country we sold Wacky in outside of Europe and from there Asia became our main focus with large populations of children.
The 1980s saw an amazing expansion for our company with Wacky being exported to Hungary, Canada, USA, France, Austria and Germany
1989 – The first 40 foot container of Wacky was exported to Japan with Anders demonstrating the Wacky in stores all over Japan. Sales targets were being hit one after another on levels never seen before. Department Stores like Sogo, Takashimaya, Yaohan and many more were reporting Sold out within hours after receiving shipments. This was also the first time using TV commercials on a broad scale.
1985 – On December 1st Anders officially started selling his Magic Tricks at a Department store on the outskirts of Copenhagen.
1986 – Expanding to sell Magic Tricks and especially Wacky The Magic Worm to shops across Scandinavia.
1987 – Thailand was the first country we sold Wacky in outside of Europe and from there Asia became our main focus with large populations of children.
The 1980s saw an amazing expansion for our company with Wacky being exported to Hungary, Canada, USA, France, Austria and Germany.
1987 – Budapest Hungary Autumn Fair was where Wacky was introduced to Hungarians, who went wild over this new Magical Pet Wacky. During this 10 day event the sales was more than 24.000 pcs. with the best daily record being 2.600 pcs. Wacky and Anders had been featured on TV, which basically made Wacky go viral in a country where it was still hard to find many products.
1987 – The first 40 foot container of Wacky was exported to Japan with Anders demonstrating the Wacky in stores all over Japan. Sales targets were being hit one after another on levels never seen before. Department Stores like Sogo, Takashimaya, Yaohan and many more were reporting Sold out within hours after receiving shipments. This was also the first time using TV commercials on a broad scale.
1994 – Manila here we come! On the 26th of January we opened our first outlet at SM Mega Mall, which is one of the biggest malls in the World. Again Wacky was an instant hit with sales of more than 10.000 Wacky Worms the first month in this 1 location.
A young Anders demonstrating his products in MBK Center in Bangkok Thailand in 1987. Thailand was the first country in Asia to experience our Magic.