Very visual!
For the money this Ickle Pickle effect can’t be beat. Just pick up the box show it from all sides and then suddenly in an instant its full of cash!
That’s the way to do it! Make sure you get the Spring Loaded version!
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Abbott’s Daring Spring Trap
This is a very nice item in the right hands. While not an effect, per se, it’s great to use in a card revelation (which is what I do). It’s basically just a standard animal trap without teeth. If you want to do comedy magic it’s for you, if you want to do magick, you can use this and if you want to do geek, this will fit the bill. Very underused, but that’s good for those of us who do use it. While it’s a little scary the first few times, I recommend giving it a try.
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Richbark model of the Devano rising cards..
This deck, while not cheap, is worth the money. You’ll never have to replace anything “sticky”…if you know what I mean. The gimmick has “pinpoint” accuracy. I recommend this deck for the performer.
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Great routine, convicing props, is this real mindreading?
Lee Woodside is a clever magician. He has some great ideas that work. This one is cool and with all the dressing up goes from a simple effect to something much stronger.
Its a clean booktest with bells on. Keep them coming Lee!
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The Poor Man’s Crystal Money Chest!
Of course I don’t do Dove work, but this box really works out to be pretty good if you can’t afford the Crystal Money Chest from Owens at $2300+!
It loads easy, looks clean, and with just a very slight motion is very convincing. The box itself is not as heavy duty as it looks, but as long as you don’t throw it around too much, it should last a long time and service you well. This of course is the price you pay for saving over two grand!
I’m sure it works great with doves too!
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Once you get the knack – a sheer dream!
Ok, so I held off reviewing this for about a year – the reason is that although this effect is very well made, I could not get it to work consistently. So whenever I pulled it out, I worked on one more piece, and with the diligent support of George Robinson, I can now finally make this work 100% of the time.
When you spend over $2000 for a balloon table, it should just work – it should not take a knack. The good news is that since George has taken over the Collector’s Workshop line he is slowly but surely fixing the design flaws that show up every now and then in some of these effects. So when the new versions of these are ready, I’m sure they will have all the trimmings to ensure that they work everytime without any hassles.
I would have given this 5 stars if it wasn’t for the fact that it took me so long before I acquired the knack. But I really love this effect. It starts of pretty similar to many other balloon tables out there: they choose the red balloon, it deflates, the choose the blue balloon it blows away, but finally when they choose the white balloon there chosen card appears as the balloon bursts.
But that is not the end of the effect – so you’ve found the card in the balloon big deal … next you hear a full brass band playing the Star Bangled Banner, then the flags and Applause banner pop up, and finally a burst of air and streamers and confetti shower the place. Now you can take your well earned bow!
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Simple but effective!
So I’ve always been intrigued by this effect, and of course when I received it it was one of those moments that you kick yourself for being so dumb!
But it looks real and this is a nice version of this effect – my daughter was cowering when I pushed the nails through so that is enough for me to be convinced that is looks real. Even if the method is not “clever” it still looks good!
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Nice Box but the New Stuff is coming!
Another nice card box from the Arlen Boys – but now it is time for some new stuff and it is coming!
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Very good to see Arlen moving away from the basics!
So I really like the acquired taste of the great props from the craftsmen over at Arlen Studios. However, so far most of their offerings have been different versions of stock effects. This is fine as far as it goes. But we want some new effects please!
And here comes a nice routine from Keith that looks and feels great, it has a well described routine with the effect too. I can’t do full justice to this routine yet as I have not had time to fully explore it – I will continue my review when I do.
But at this point, the props look and feel great and I think we have another winner on our hands!
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One of the best gimmicked coin effects
I remember seeing the Eddie Gibson version of this 27 years ago and loved it then and still do today. It’s a simple and visual effect where the half dollar can be clearly seen all the way until it changes into a penny. The washer can be shown on both sides and who would suspect the little penny!
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