The Effect
They came. They saw. They vanished.
The four Kings are shown and placed into your back pocket. The remainder of the deck is spread cleanly, and then it happens. The deck instantly vanishes in your hands -- leaving only four cards. The cards are shown to be the Kings. And where's the rest of the pack? In your back pocket. No sleights. No funny moves.
This is what real magic would look like.
Cost
$24.95 From www.theory11.com
Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)
3, the couple sleights there are in the routine are extremely easy though, I'm just using the guidelines.
Review
alright, first I'm going to take the add copy and just pick it apart.
They came. They saw. They vanished.
does that make sense? whatever, the vanishing part is true at least.
The four Kings are shown and placed into your back pocket.
Yes, it's EXTREMELY clean. You have the deck in your hand, and then you take the top four cards off of the deck, and put it in your back pocket. It's truly amazing.
The remainder of the deck is spread cleanly, and then it happens.
Okay, how do you spread a deck? Because if you look at the picture, I doubt that that is how you spread a deck. He does give a couple reasons to spread it that way though, so that it might be a reasonable vanish
The deck instantly vanishes in your hands -- leaving only four cards. The cards are shown to be the Kings.
Very true. You spread the deck out, you push it in, give it a little squeeze (or just push it in and show the four cards. And they’re the four kings. That’s super clean.
And where's the rest of the pack? In your back pocket.
You got it right there. You can even have a spec take out the cards from your back pocket…
No sleights. No funny moves.
No sleights, but one funny move in the beginning, but that can be taken care of easily.
This is what real magic would look like.
Well, frankly, I don’t think a real magician would be doing a card vanish.
Overall
The disc has a few different ways of doing the effect, the first being the most practical, and best.
It also has a bunch of tips, some interesting stuff on magic theory itself.
The problem is, the DVD is totally aimed at, as with Ellusionist, teen boys. In fact they even say stuff like “when you’re showing this to you’re mom and dad… when you’re hanging with your friends at the mall…” and stuff like that. So really feels like you’re being played down to. The production is decent, but all that zooming in and out can get you dizzy.
Performance: I showed this to my dad (what can I say, I’m a teen boy.) and he did really enjoy it. The set up is 2 seconds, and you can do it extremely easily.
My rating: 8.5/10
Probably worth the money
