GREAT effect…. but…
I love the way it works, but….
Why in the world is not the whole gimmick flesh colored?????!!!! Bright colors for a gimmick that needs to be palmed?? Where is the logic?
It would get 5 stars if it was flesh colored! Works great and easy to "ditch" right after use.
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Classic Escape
This is the solid chrome version of this effect and I’ve always liked. I think it was called electronic release in the UK. So named for the speed for which you can release and shackle yourself. It’s Great!
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Very simple, easy to handle
This is a very easy trick to handle, simple and effective. I like it!
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I’ve always liked this effect.
I don’t know where this principle originated but I’ve owned the same basic effect with props from Alan Warner, Wild Magic, and this one. I think I prefer this one as it uses real dominoes, that are ungimmicked.
The effect is simple and clean: the spectator mixes the dominoes and lays them out in domino fashion ane each time you predict what the two end dominoes will be.
The method is easy to do, but not easy to figure out and the prediction you make can be different every time. In fact, you could easily do this effect 3 times in a row, each time predicting a different outcome as they mix and lay out all of the dominoes. For the finale you could even be blindfolded and still determine the final outcome, without seeing or touching the dominoes.
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Quality Coins and easy changes!
These are a heavy set of coins that make it pretty easy to change colors from a Black Chinese Coin, to a Red and to a Blue that can be handed out for examination if so desired. I just like to spin the coin in the air at the end showing the hands as clean as a whistle.
The moves are easy and there is not much to learn. The coin is heavy and better than many I have seen. The only issue I found is that you have to be a bit careful when you show the black coin, as if you are not you might expose a slight blue coin. It is probably not a real issue, but it is something I noticed whilst practing in the mirror.
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A Surprising Stroll Through Marlo’s Mind
This is a volume that breaks the usual mindset magicians hold toward Marlo’s work. Far from the usual sterile descriptions of Marlo’s card effects, this intriguing volume offers his handling for some common, non-card items. Having briefly worked in a friend’s magic shop myself, I was surprised to learn that Marlo had been a demonstrator in a Chicago magic shop peddling slum magic to the masses. This book reveals many clever variations Marlo developed to deceive even the wise ones with items like the ball and vase, and color-vision.
While not diminishing his rightful iconic status, this book embues Marlo with a surprising humanity. The anecdotes included demonstrate he was quite a rascal, intellectually obssessed with fooling all and sundry.
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Cute-Cute-Cute
Here’s an over-looked novelty.
It’s probably best done with an assistant to operate the rising cards and the surprise finale`, but it’s sure to delight both children and adults.
To be sure, this is NOT the rising cards effect for a solely adult crowd, but it lends itself well to use with easy-to-identify alphabet cards for the kiddies.
It’s small to pack, but easily seen and very light weight.
Look at the photo: It’s a good looking prop.
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Creativity+Prop=Entertainment
When this prop arrived it failed completely almost immediately. A replacement was sent and has worked fine.
Suggestion: Obtain ‘flashers’ from your hardware store that drop into light sockets so the bulbs flash for animation.
This prop does what it’s advertised to do, but it requires clever and original thinking to make it entertaining.
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Use Your Imagination
I’ve owned one of these for years and used it with children for a very funny reaction. It is NOT a trick in itself, but a supporting prop. In this use it’s a humorous item.
It’s also been featured in my annual Halloween show with an adult, but in a much different, darker manner. It was not —and wasn’t meant to be— funny at all.
It’s well made and works well, too.
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Really Terrific
If you can create a clever presentation, this is a very well thought out prop that —with one exception— works exceedingly well.
The clever arrangement that allows a non-forced —but signed— card to wind up in the serpent’s mouth is genius. However, the concept hasn’t been engineered to the degree of being foolproof. The very smart inventor devised a method for the signed card to appear along with the serpent, but the thread that facilitates this tangled with the coiled spring of the snake. My personal routine, using children and alphabet cards, doesn’t require the actual selected card to be in the snake’s mouth so I just removed the thread.
The supplied basket is fine, but I found a more exotic one. The self-contained mechanism can be placed into anything.
The SUDDEN appearance of the snake is a high point for audience reaction.
This is a great prop.
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