The Extractor
Available from http://www.alakazam.co.uk/acatalog/Hot_List_1.html
Price £50
Card utility
Difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 . You will need to learn a bit of handling of cards but no hardship and THIS is the gimmick to learn with.
They say:
The Extractor is the latest brainchild of mad genius Rob Bromley. Refined and streamlined over the last year by Rob and Peter Nardi, this fabulous utility item is now ready to be unleashed to the magic community.
Up until the 2008 Blackpool Convention only five people had ever seen the final Extractor gimmick. Then, at that convention, Peter demonstrated the power of The Extractor by performing his signature effect - "Impossible Card to Pocket." This incredible trick was the talk of the convention and the exciting news is that Peter's trick is just the tip of the iceberg...
The Extractor is a true utility item for the astute magician and each unit is painstakingly hand-made by Rob and is a piece of master-craftsmanship. The card effects possible with The Extractor are only limited by your own imagination.
Your Extractor comes complete with an in-depth companion DVD full of tips and effects by Peter Nardi, Mark Elsdon, Gary Jones, Chris Harding and Chris Congreave. The effects include Peter's signature effect mentioned earlier, Mark's show-stopper version of 'Harry In Your Pocket', an unbelievable red and blue deck transposition/prediction guaranteed to melt your audiences' brains, plus fantastic handlings of card to wallet, card to spectator's pocket, card to shoe, in fact, card to almost anywhere!
As with our recent Riser Deck, due to the complexity of the Extractor's construction, it won't always be in huge supply, so don't miss out on your chance to own one of the effects of the year and one that has baffled some of the top magicians in the world.
I say:
OK...all hype aside... it's true. This thing is a serious boon to card magic. It takes the almost prison-like situation of a card placed into the middle of a cased deck... placed there by the
spectator themselves... and lets you ignore that seemingly impenitrable fortress. Yup, the card is slipped into the cased deck.... basically ANYWHERE into the cased deck, BY THEM, it is cleanly closed up and you put it away...
done. Well...
they've been done!
This is a fairly 007 device but without batteries, electronics, readers, Bluetooth or any such nonsense. It is good old fashioned engineering and craftmanship.
I won't say anymore about the Extractor unit itself as it could tip things but you WILL be happy playing with what you get!
The routines and explainations on the DVD are plentiful in the extreme and there are sure to be more to come. Peter Nardi and Marc Spelmann do a superb job of demonstrating, instructing, explaining and coaching. They sure don't leave you guessing as to what to do or what the possibilities are.
Overall:
Wow... impressive! I am super-happy with this and can't wait to have a play witha number of the routines and even more excited about making up my own... there are a million possible uses for this bit of kit.
Wanna spend some dosh and be happy that what you get does what it says on the tin? Get Extractor.
Rating out of 10: 9/10
If we can hit that bullseye then the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... Checkmate!