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no, I'm not joking...

You can read it here

http://www.mallusionist.com/tradesecrets/black-widow.shtml

Is it suck?

Its a joke

I can't really see magicians depending on real spiders to do the work for them

rongxike wrote:no, I'm not joking...

You can read it here

http://www.mallusionist.com/tradesecrets/black-widow.shtml

Is it suck?

LOL that is great! I really like this bit

The only serious disadvantage to this method is that removing the creature's poison sack would render it too docile to perform, and its poison is fatal to humans in under 30 seconds 90% of the time (hence the otherwise inappropriate Black Widow moniker). Fortunately, the spider will not bite unless surprised (say, but an inadvertent brush against the magician's torso), and the effect is so visual and so hard hitting that, for most street and close-up magicians, it's well worth the risk.

rongxike wrote:no, I'm not joking...

You can read it here

http://www.mallusionist.com/tradesecrets/black-widow.shtml

Is it suck?

That is a joke site. Everything on there is fake

BizKiTRoAcH wrote:

rongxike wrote:no, I'm not joking...

You can read it here

http://www.mallusionist.com/tradesecrets/black-widow.shtml

Is it suck?

That is a joke site. Everything on there is fake

lol rly ? I thought it was true lol jk!

That was so funny, you have cheered me up thanks

I am still considering - to buy or not to buy. Pretty expensive (plus delivery to the Czech republic for me) ... but the videos are amazing. Could someone who bought it earlier post a re-review after at least several weeks of using the Black Widow? Is it really possible to use black widow as a part of longer performance or does it limit you in your other actions? Anyone tried a "card switch" with BW (not that there would not be enough other ways to switch cards )?

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I think it's horses for courses. The BW is a tool and it will take a while to get used to it properly. I'm hanging onto mine until all the hype has died down and then I'll use it as I think it ought to be used. Yes it is a lot of money but not as a professional piece of kit.

well i love it and as David says, one for us professionals.

i've got mine last week, and i love it!

it is much better than raven

This is genius, very James Bond as Stephen says.

But he is also right when he says it is one for professionals. Not that a keen amateur like myself couldn't make miracles with it but simply that there aren't that many occasions when I would want to walk around wearing the thing for an evening. A WP in the right environment wouldn't mind wearing this for a session but I wouldn't want to wear it to a dinner party just to execute one switch or vanish... it's just not worth the hassle. I suppose I could excuse myself and put it on in the loo, then come out and do the trick, then complain about a weak bladder and return to the loo to take the thing off again... but I don't think I'll bother!

So my humble opinion is yes, it's certainly one for the professionals, I suspect that in the right hands they could do miracles with it, but I doubt many hobbyists would find many occasions to use it.

exactly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so...after a month or so of the buzz dying down on this thing....i have a question for you all...

do you still use it? how often?

Yeah, please respond. I love the effect, but I have the Raven also. The Raven is a one-time shot, so if I'm grafting tables at a wedding, it's not going to be practical for me to setup for every table....