Reviews

This wonderful item is from the British lock expert Mick Hanzlik and what a unique item it is.  I don’t believe Mick had these custom manufactured (particularly based on the original price), so my best guess is he saw found in a store and immediately saw the potential for a card effect.  What is interesting is you have to handle the deck slightly differently from how you normally do to get the best out of the movement.  So Mick clearly spent some time with it once he found it.  I could be completely wrong, here but it seems like the sort of item you could find around Halloween and Mick was smart enough to see the potential 🙂

Depending on how you spread the cards and where precisely you place the hand down on the cards you can get better results.  In fact, when I was just posing it for photos I had the hand moving more cards than I did in my video.

The effect is not is not hard to do at all, but if you play with it you can maximize the number of cards that are moved.  Something a little different to keep them on their toes 🙂

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Reincarnation is one of the most popular and unique items created by El Duco. It is one of those items that seems like it will be harder to perform than it is. A switch is required right in front of the audience after all. However, there is not really any heat on you at the time of move as no one is suspecting anything yet.

Once you do it to real spectators you might be surprised of their reaction and that will diminish how big the move is in your mind until you can do it without guilt or fear 🙂

The reset is very fast and I could see performing this a lot once you got over the first time.  In that regard it reminds me a lot of John Kennedy’s Mystery Box – I put off performing that for years, but after I did it the first time the result was so strong the effect became one of my most popular live items and I still perform it today.

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This is an updated version of the Steve Dusheck and Jim Hill effect: Cases of Metamorphosis c. 1984.  All of these effects are versions of Al Baker’s Cherchez la Femme.

This is a finely made version by Viking Mfg. for Howie at The Trickery. The Jumbo frames are very substantial and long lasting. The real problem with this effect, is the routine is over too quickly and there is no real meat to it.  This is not true Baker’s original because you have the by play of finding where the queen is. 

To overcome this I suggest you using just a single frame in conjunction with a McCombical Deck to make the routine a little more interesting as I demonstrate in the Speed Demo.

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The Escaping Vampire (or Vampire Block or Vampire Die or Visible Vampire as this type of block penetration is often known as today) was created by Ben Wallace c. 1945.

This is a one of a kind stage version of the custom Vampire’s built in 2020 especially for Hocus Pocus  by a good friend and craftsmen.  It is more detailed than the regular size and stands almost 17″ high with a 4″ block.  It is quite impressive to behold.  And of course works perfectly.  The tower is sturdy and interesting, the block is heavy and solid with a strong brass chain, and the spike is also hefty and memorable.

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