The old Ed Massey Ribbon Fantastique and all of its variations was one of the really early effects that I remember very clearly from my teenage years – I had no clue how the miracle was achieved! Well Magic Wagon have taken the basic method and really dressed it up into this beautiful close-up illusion.
Hard not to love Magic Wagon these days, lots of amazing winners!
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The Magic Wagon machine keeps on moving forward and they seem to be getting more input from collectors and magic fans around the world because their effects are getting stronger and stronger. This is a wonderful illusion using ideas from already strong existing magic ideas combined together to make something of a feature mini close-up illusion. If you perform any sort of formal close-up you’ll love this. It is easy to do and totally amazing!
Highly Recommended for Magic Collectors everywhere!
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I’ve always been a fan of the Tele-Vision type box, but I must say I do like the look and clever mechanism that Magic Wagon have employed here. It is simpler and more reliable than the old method and surely a fooler for those not in the know. Just another beautiful day in the world of Magic Wagon!
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Great Gimmick but ruins a perfect trick. Free Will by Deddy Corbuzier is the perfect strolling miracle! All props are 100% normal with zero reset and no moves whatsoever. What Fair Play has tried to do is “improve” Free Will. But to my mind it is a huge step backwards. The gimmick itself is well made and works well once you get the knack, but for this effect not only is it unnecessary it makes a simple premise – the fact that no matter what the spectator does the outcome is always the same (i.e. they don’t actually have any Free Will), but it also adds some necessary reset into the mix and now relies on the props to be in your hand when you do the reveal. Worse, if anyone ever sees the same trick twice they’ll want to really examine the gimmick because it changes based on the outcome – when it is meant to be a fixed piece of paper.
After speaking to Paul Richards at some length about Free Will I know a lot of Magicians don’t get it at first (if ever), but it is not a prediction, it is about the Spectator’s ability to exercise Free Will, which is why it is important the outcome is in fact always the same. I know it took me a long time to fully grasp this. In fact I used to carry two different outcomes around! When I had that mindset I would have given this item five stars, but now that I see the light I will stick with Free Will every time. It is one of my favorite strolling items and doesn’t suffer from any of the problems that Fair Play is attempting to solve.
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There Can Be Only One Magic Bulb!
So if you have read my review for the Cesaral Spirt Bell you’ll know that I consider it the finest one of its kind by a mile. Well Cesar Alonso has done the same thing with his Magic Bulb Pro. It is perfect and beautiful.
The Cesaral Magic Bulb comes in three main styles: the standard one, the pro one, and a remote control one. For pretty much all situations I think the Pro one is the best. You can see inside the bulb and everything just looks fine – it simply looks like a real bulb. When it glows it glows bright and looks like a real bulb. It comes with a switch that you can plug-into the wall to show the bulb is real by turning the switch on and off – which is a real convincer of how normal the bulb is.
Although you can have your own programmed sequence created by Cesar, the standard one will wait for 15 seconds and the produce some bright flickers. Then the bulb waits for 20 seconds and then gradually turns brighter and brighter and then it gradually turns off. After the initial setting it will do this without you touching it again. If you watch it in action, it seems perfectly normal.
The bulb appears to last for months without a recharge and each charge can be used for many performances. As with all things released by Cesaral Magic, everything is well thought through and all appears natural in your hands.
Cesaral Magic is not cheap but it is worth every penny – give me Cesaral Quality over quantity any day!
Highly Recommend for Performers and Collectors everywhere.
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Convoluted but Clever
So I’m not so sure of the story line for this item and it uses water which most of the time is just a pain. However, it works amazingly well and is very clever. In fact, Magic Wagon give directions where you just use one die but I have done it perfectly fine with two and even three. Two is probably the safest but with some practice I think three is also very possible. Of course predicting two or three dice is much more impressive than just one.
The key thing is that the dice can be shaken up many times in the glass and on the tabletop and they will always show different numbers, but when you pour the magic water (Poseidon’s) in, you can always predict the numbers. It is very cool to watch.
Not for everyone, but a clever principle indeed!
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Another Beautifully made Prediction
So Magic Wagon make their props perfectly and this item is no exception. It is easy to operate and set-up and works every time. In many ways this is like Al Koran’s Gold Medallion – both use a similar method and require a little bit of boldness to pull off.
I’m not sure if this one is for me really, but the props are amazing as usual.
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A Beautiful 3-Way Card Box
More beautiful inlayed teak boxes from Magic Wagon. What is neat about this beautiful item is it allows you three outs instead of two with a normal card box. It also allows you to do multiple changes should you want to do that. In some sense it is similar to CW’s Psychic Sword, but it has three options and you can go back to any of them right in front of the spectators if you so desired (although I’m not sure you would).
If you wanted to collect beautiful teak boxes that work perfectly and look amazing, Magic Wagon would be a great place to start.
Highly Recommended for Magic Collectors everywhere!
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Clever Dixon Does it Again!
Rewind about ten years and you’ll find a review from me about perhaps one of the greatest card effects of all time: Carpe Cajones. I still love that effect and wish I did it more as it is so mind blowing. Well I recently picked up an ebook from Doc again called: Psychic Cents and although this is not as mind blowing as Carpe Cajones, it is an amazing effect for walk around with instant reset and really no way to figure it out.
You basically predict the outcome of what appears to be a randomly selected two digit number, and unlike so many of these types of effects it is really clean and does not require a complex choosing procedure or handling. You don’t even need a Himber Wallet, but I think this works great with the original style of Mini-Himber from Jerry.
I’m honing in on nine effects for my walk around shows this year and Psychic Cents is one of the first in line.
Highly Recommended for walk around and close-up performers and anyone who appreciates a smart mind.
Great Job Doc Dixon!
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Anverdi’s Finest Hour?
This has to be my favorite Anverdi effect! For years I ignored it because I thought I knew what it was and didn’t want to pay for it. However, I’m so glad I recently purchased one because it really is a beauty and a 100% fooler!
It looks like a nice looking petty cash box – in fact I load it up with cash so it IS a cash box. You’ll notice when you open the box there is the cash and a smaller box inside – this holds the 7 keys. I show the cash and then take out the little box and rattle it ask the audience what do they think is inside – they invariably say coins. So I say no and tip out the keys and locate the one with the purple key fob (you could use a ribbon etc, but I like the idea of a fob as you could also have a prediction on there if you so desired). I give this to the spectator to lock the box – you never need touch it again after it is closed and locked by the spectator.
I then take off the key fob and shake up the keys so that no one knows which key opens the box. Then I tell the spectator they have 6 chances out of 7 to choose the correct key, and if they do they can keep all of the cash. This gets them interested for sure. Each time they chose a key and they try to open the box I ask them to discard the key in the little box so that we know we tried it. They can change their mind as many times as they want and they can try each key as many times as they want – there is no chance that the box will open. But when they finally leave you with one key, they can pick it up and amazingly the box opens.
This is so clean – nothing added or taken away and it just looks as clean as can be. A real miracle!
Highly Recommended for Collectors and Performers everywhere!
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