Trick: Trio Cigarette
Manufacturer: Tenyo
Price: £7.50 from here
http://www.elpees-entertainments.co.uk/tenyo.html
Effect:
This is three tricks in one that can follow each other.
First, you produce a cigarette from thin air, then show the audience a playing card and with a wave of your hand it transforms into a box of matches which you use to light the cigarette.
Finally, you place the lit cigarette into your fist and it vanishes!
Review:
This is my first review here and I did a search to see if this item has already been featured and it appears it hasn't.
I have had this set for years and have always found it useful, well two of the three gimmicks.
The method for producing a cigarette is very effective and has impressed many, but you really do need to watch your angles. For ease of use and the effect it produces I rate this an
8/10
The effect to turn the playing card into a box of matches
has impressed a few people but my only criticism of this is that the card itself is short and stubby and doesn't look like a normal playing card and the matches are not designed to look like a genuine box but more like a child's crayon box. If it looked like a packet of Swan, for instance, the effect would be far more impressive. Perform this bit very quickly!
I rate this
3/10
The final effect, the vanishing of the cigarette is excellent and is simple to perform and is always met with an astonished reaction, particularly as the cigarette is lit. You could vanish an unlit one if you chose to, but this is far more impressive.
Overall: 8/10
Good value for money and two out of three effects you will always find a use for, particularly the vanish which can be used in any situation. I have performed this really close-up and the spectators had no idea whatsover how it was done. My set cost me a bit more than this but the price quoted in the link I have provided above is a bargain!