Product description : I love Joshua Jay, I love his magic, I love his magic, I truly love everything about him. Out of Sight is his latest release, which he use in the famous show “Fool Us” with Pen and Teller and guess what ? He fooled them ! The idea behind id is genius, you explain to people you had to show a trick to a blind person. So you had to come up with something unique, which you did. Somebody thinks of a card, never say it out loud. You blind yourself, and without seeing the cards, you manage to pull out the card the spectator is thinking of ! As a climax, the whole deck is now blank ! They can even look at cards, they’re regular. But is it as good as it seems ? Let’s find out !
Price and where to buy it : This is sold at $74.99 and you can find it in Vanishing Inc shop !
What you get : You get a small cardboard box, it really is well made. The deck was made by Cardshark who did an amazing job, the cards are very good and the whole packaging looks great. Inside, you will find the deck of cards, as well as a blindfold. There is also a DVD, which is pretty rare those days, the DVD is amazing, well shot, easy to understand. Overall, you can’t be disappointed by it, yes it is expensive but well worth it in my opinion. From the quality of the gimmicks to the quality of the teaching, everything is perfect.
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 :
[if !supportLists]– [endif]It’s a little bit expensive but the cards have been printed specially for the trick, so consider it’s a unique deck you’re holding.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]This trick is not the usual close up trick you can do, it needs space, time and a special atmosphere. So this is something you may consider doing this at the end of the gig.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]It’s a one trick deck, you can only do this routine with this deck. Also, the deck isn’t examinable.
THE PROS :
[if !supportLists]– [endif]This is really poetic ! It’s not only a trick, it’s a full story which brings the spectator into a wonderful journey, that is a huge plus for me.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]As I said, the material is fantastic, you wouldn’t be able to do this with any other deck on the market, it has been specially manufactured for Out of Sight.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]The trick is really fooling, people never say out loud their card, but the public still knows which card has been selected.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]Compared to another similar trick, this isn’t boring at all, the “coding system” is very very simple and easy to understand from a spectator point of view.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]There are multiple phases in this routine, first you guess their card, then you pull it out from the deck (all of that blindfolded) and at end, the kicker, the whole deck is completely blank !
[if !supportLists]– [endif]Thanks to the technology available, you do see a full deck at the end, not half of it or something else, it’s a REAL full deck.
[if !supportLists]– [endif]There is a little subtlety which allows you to hand out several cards to the spectators, it’s a real convincer.
Overall rating : This is really good, the routine Is well structured and the trick is amazing, it’s something which involves the way magic is perceived by people, I love it ! 4/4 hearts.
As for the difficulty level, nothing really hard, you should be able to pick this up really quickly, I would say 2/5 stars.
Similar products : I hate card trick from Stephen Bargatze is a similar trick but I feel the procedure for this one is too convoluted.