Product description: Making a deck vanish is a real piece of magic, spectators seeing disappear from your hands is quite a strong moment. This was the hit at Blackpool 2019, Christian was deming it over and over at the Vanishing Inc stand and I think he sold several hundreds of these. The idea is simple, you show the side of a deck of cards and with just a wave, half of the cards disappear. You pull them out from your pocket. Another wave and only one card remains in the hand of the magician, it’s the spectator’s one and can be handed out. It’s quick, visual and
Price and where to buy it: This is sold at $30 and you can find it in nearly every Murphy's magic partner !
What you get: You get a small little box, with a cardboard sleeve and a foam inside in which you’ll find the gimmick. It’s really well made, it’s made of durable material, I don’t think this will ever break even if you make it fall. You have to customize a bit your gimmick so it looks more real but nothing hard and you’ll have everything you need at home. It will only take you 30 seconds. You also get a card with the explanation on it, which is like 10 minutes long done in music, with English subtitles. I wished the explanation were a little bit longer, because this is far from easy to do. Christian explains how to handle the gimmick as well as how to go from a regular deck to the gimmick setup. Overall, it’s a nice little product, clever idea and well produced but I wished they covered more things in the explanation.
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:
As I said, this is not easy to do, it will require several days of practice to make it looks as good as Christian does it. But I like the fact you need to work a bit.
You have some bad angles with this, nobody behind you and you need to do some dirty work to end clean.
THE PROS:
This is not that expensive, even though the gimmick isn’t high tech, this is really priced in my opinion.
I like the fact you need to work in order to make it look good, there are so many gimmicks out there with which you can perform without having to put too much work in it. The reward is better when you put time and effort into it.
It’s very visual, seeing Christian does it is a real pleasure and a fooler! Once you master it, you’ll love doing it.
This is the sort of thing you’ll have in your pocket at all time and you will be practicing whenever you can, it’s addictive!
You can use any poker size card you want, you’re not limited to red bicycle for example so it’s quite versatile in terms of deck you can use.
Overall rating: This is a nice little surprise, not the sort of thing I would perform at a gig but definitely something I enjoyed working on and very satisfying when you get it right ! 3/4 hearts.
As for the difficulty level, this is far more difficult than what I expected, it will require good days of practice to be able to do it smoothly, 3/5 stars.
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