Great Rotuines, Nice Wallet
The best part of Gregory Wilson’s Stockholder is surely the huge book of routines that it comes with. The Stockholder Wallet is certainly nice, but I don’t know if it is as practical as something as simple as Doc Eason’s Out To Dinner. Either way there is no better way to breath life into the old Out To Lunch principle.
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Amazing puzzle from Masuda
Masuda creates some wonderful effects. I’m not sure you would perform them all to lay people but they are still very clever all the same. This effect is truly a mistifying puzzle and looks exactly as it says.
You start off with an empty blue case and a criss-crossed red case where a blue deck is running through a red case. You pull out the blue cards and freely show and shuffle the cards they all are complete with no holes. These cards are placed into the blue case and fill the case. Now you notice that there is still a full deck in the red case – this time they are red and you pull them out, freely show and shuffle them. When they are returned to the red case they are also shown to fill the deck.
Where the heck did the red deck come from? It was in the X-Zone all along!
Very easy to do, nothing is added or taken away, and you are ready to fool the heck out of them!
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Very Clean, but harder than it looks!
If you watch the video for this it looks incredibly clean. There is one envelope sticking out of the wallet and the spectator can choose any of the 5 ESP symbols, and when the envelope is handed to the spectator it clearly has one card only in it, and it is their chosen card. It can be this clean for sure – the method is clever and the props are well built.
However, I have found to perform this as flawlessly as the video it requires hours of practice. For me the envelope sticks easily in the wallet and when it does come out you have to be sure that the gimmick does not show up. The reset is fairly easy but I have found that the whole gimmick needs to be reset each time, it is not just a matter of slipping one card back and you are all set to go. For this reason, I would not recommend it for walk around situations. It is best suited to the one off as shown in the video demo.
I really like Masuda’s magic, but this one I found to be not as practical or as easy as it looked. It could be me, but I spent a lot longer practicing this than normal and still found it difficult to make it flawless everytime.
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If you work with children get a clatter box.
I have two different clatter boxes but the above box has worked for years and has never broke. The "special" nobe was a little hard to pull but I make sure the pin is almost all the way out to make things work better. Once again if you work with kids you will have some fun finding the silk you vanished return to the inside of the clatter box.
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Just Ducky!
I do not use playing card for my duck I just got a deck of cards that have letters on it and I let the duck spell out the topic for my lesson.
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Great Effect but one problem
The effect is wonderful and I have used this for many years. You have to watch out for a slight noise problem but if you are talking no problem. The big problem is keeping the two little wooden rods on the outside of the case from falling off or moving around. I built a box that keeps everything safe and sound and now it is not a problem.
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I owned It!!
As with all Tenyo products this one is one of their best and unfortunately unavailable. The only draw back is that the serrounding strip brakes away and comes un-glue after several uses. Nonetheless, the mentalist effect is completely undetectable and mesmerizing to audiences and close up spectators alike. There is only one magic shop who still carries them and they are in Belgium, named Mephysto.
Rasputin
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Card Go Revisited
This is a very nice item from El Duco, and although there is no mention of it in the instructions it is clearly based on the old Jack Hughes Card Go. The quality is better than the Jack Hughes version and the routine includes a nice twist that allows you to vanish the card instantly and then have it appear in an envelope. The card can even be signed.
This is certainly a nice looking prop and one of the better things that El Duco makes. The only issue I found with it was causing the card to vanish takes a bit of practice since the release requires a tilt action rather than moving a pin as in the older version. But otherwise it works everytime and the card vanish is smooth and accurate.
The whole unit packs flat for transporting.
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WOW
This trick is a real eye opener. Good quality and workmanship. The only thing is giving a reason for having to put the wrong card in the plastic sleeve in the first place. As with most tricks of this type you can only perform it once to a group, unless you have another WOW. Other than that I have had nothing but great reactions to the trick.
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STar Trick
As usual this is ver clever original magic from Mentalism Unlimited. The poster is very well done on heavy paper so it will last a long time. The force is very clever and is done right in front of your spectator. The reveal of the chosen star is great and everything is clean at the end.
Very effective original magic.
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