Trick: Switcher
Manufacturer: Richard James
Price: £19.99 from
Magicbox
They say: Ask a spectator to choose a card and sign the front. You now take the card and rip it up into tiny little pieces. Now draw their attention to a card, which has been in full view trapped between two other cards. Turn the cards over to show that this card is, say, a joker. Pull out the joker and wave it over the pieces you just ripped up. Watch their faces as you turn over what was the joker to show that it is now the signed card they watched you tear up earlier! The pieces on the table are now the joker!
Difficulty: So simple it's untrue. I want to give this a 1, however to be technical there is a sleight involved. However, you know it already!
I say: This has been reviewed (?)
here, however I thought it deserved a proper write up! I had a very similar idea myself (ever so slightly different mechanics), however discovered this as I delved further into research (I just KNEW it was too good to be true!). This gimmick does EXACTLY what it says on the tin. You can switch a card RIGHT UNDER the spectators nose. In fact, you can SHOW them the face of a card... the slide it right out and it has changed. Hell, you can even SHOW them it changing... whilst sliding it back and forth! Remember the trick (forget what it's called) where the card flips over in the "zone"... so you slide it back and forth and can see the card is flipped back to front? Well it's almost the same effect... only THIS time the card can change to a completely different card... AND you can slide it right out and hand them the changed card! So many ideas will come flooding when you sit and play with this.
1) Switch a card
2) Print a card
3) Kill a card (blue bike to ghost bike, anyone?!)
4) Reverse a card (same as the "zone" trick mentioned above, but FULLY removable!)
5) Torn & restored card (explained on the DVD)
6) ...?
Overall: I'm gonna have to give this a 10/10 for several reasons. It's almost foolproof, and anyone reading this should be able to perform this minor miracle. Not ONLY is it extremely well made, there is also a section of the DVD that teaches you how to make this work with ANY card. So this is NOT (I repeat, NOT) a "one trick pony".. you can set up to have ANY card change into ANY card. I really cannot say enough about this, so I will end on these final words...
EXTREMELY EASY!
MAGI/MUGGLE SLAYER!
BUY IT NOW!