He made his way to the town in the Arabian desert, but this time disguised himself as a simple street dweller.

He gathered many new lamps into a basket, then made his way to Aladdin’s palace when he knew that Aladdin wasn’t there.

He knocked on the door to the palace and waited for a response, his basket in hand. Aladdin’s wife; the princess, answered.

“Hello, dear princess,” the magician said as he opened the lid to his basket, showing her his lamps. “Would you like to exchange some old lamps for new ones?”

While his lamps were much newer than the one that contained the genie, they did not hold any special powers.

The princess did not know that though, as even she was not sure where Aladdin’s sudden and very massive fortune came from.

“I think Aladdin would be so happy to see a new lamp in place of that dusty old one in our palace!” the princess exclaimed.

She switched the old lamp for the new ones that the magician had in his basket.

The magician was happy to finally have the lamp. Quickly, he rubbed it to summon the genie.