Product description : Another card to box ! For the people already complaining about "How many box do we need ?", I will answer "As many as possible" ! Having a lot of options is always great so you will have the choice of which one suits you the best. This one is disguised into a mint box, the one you use to see tic tac inside. Pretty organic but a few limitations in my opinion, let's go !
Price and where to buy it : This is sold at $34.95 and you can find it in nearly every Murphy's partner shop !
What you get : You get a big DVD case with inside the DVD which is very well shot, as with every BigBlindMedia release, and you get to learn what you have to learn. You also receive a gimmicked mint box, a gimmick, stickers to make the gimmick either in red bicycle or blue as well as a spare label. Everything is well made and should last a long time.
The pros and the cons : Here is the core of my review, let's begin with the cons, as I will usually be doing, I prefer to keep the good things for the end.
THE CONS :
They had to redesign the label in order to make the trick possible. This has 2 major cons I think. One is that people won't recognize the brand since it is not a real one. Maybe I'm overthinking on this but still, it bothers me a little bit.
The second one being the fact the label takes almost 60 to 70% of the face ! If we could compare this to the clarity box, the label was very small compared to the size of the box. Here people are used to see tic tac boxes and the label is quite big compared to a regular box.
The way they choose the "shape" of the gimmick, it could flash a little bit when tiping out the card from the box. I don't know if it's a defective unit that I got but sometimes, the gimmick does not line up perfectly.
The box is not examinable. I know there is a huge debate among magicians right now, I personnaly prefer to be able to hand the box out at the end.
I wish they included more gimmicks because here, you're limited to using a red, blue or maybe a blank card but nothing else.. You will have to buy more online in order to be able to perform a routine with a bill or your business card.
THE PROS :
It's organic, it's not considered as a prop by layments so it's very cool ! You can casually put the box on the table and without real justification, put a card inside without the spectators thinking "What the **** is he doing ?".
It's not very expensive compared to a lot of boxes on the market right now and when you see the time and efforts that have been put into this, you really feel you got a finished product where everything has been thought !
Everything is self contained which is very nice, all the things are built in the box so it's a pack small play big ! The quality of the gimmick is amazing, you really don't feel ripped off.
It's very versatile because you can switch gimmick very easily without having to go to your desk and put out your tape, your scissors and all the suff.
The retention of vision with the tic tac inside is very very cool, I always found nice to have something else in the box which will fall out at the same time as the card. Very nice !
Overall rating : If the limitations stated above don't bother you, you really won't feel disappointed with this box. I find it very cool, you can't deny a lot of work has been put into this, 3/4 hearts !
As for the difficulty level, you will have to know how to do a control and a mercury fold but nothing very difficult, 3/5 stars.
Similar products : Cameron Francis has a similar trick some years ago and of course very clear box on the market, 360, mystery solved, clarity box and so on !
Thanks to Murphys Magic for sending me this product !