Name:
Reality Twister
Price: £12-£15 (£13.95 from
www.emagictricks.co.uk)
Availability: Almost anywhere
Skill level: 2/5
Practise time: 30min max!
My opinion: 5/5
Effect:
A spectator examines your new experimental "Reality Twister." It bears a remarkable resemblance to a normal hunk of clear plastic, about the size of a credit card. The spectator also looks over a pen ...which bears a remarkable resemblance to a normal hunk of pen.
Your giddy-with-anticipation spectator holds the pen on her open palm as you hold the clear Reality Twister lens just above the pen so she can see the pen directly through the lens.
You give the lens a twist ...and the center of the pen becomes transparent ...and then completely invisible! She can even see right through her spread fingers where the pen was a moment ago. Another twist of the Twister and the missing center of pen suddenly becomes visible!
You then slowly twist the Reality Twister and in full view the center of the pen visibly distorts ...then melts itself into an extreme twist!!! Your astonished spectator immediately examines the deformed balloon doggie pen.
There's no explanation ...except that the Reality Twister is not a thing you'd want near any of your favorite body parts.
No Switches or Extra Pieces
Uses only one pen (which you or the spectator can write with before and after the effect)
No Reset
What Do You Get?
Reality Twister comes complete with everything you need: the incredible gimmick, pen, detailed and fully-illustrated instructions and leather protective lens case.
Basically this trick is a gimmick which when given to the audience seems completely ordinary.
I like the fact that you can write with the pen and that the effect is so individual. The finish is unexpected and this is part of the reason you get away with such an easy gimmick.
I would recommend only doing this to a few people at a time becuase the audience may see something they shouldn't. Any good close-up magician should get one and you can usually pull a joke about being carefull what you twist somewhere in the trick.
All in all 5/5,