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hmmm i would of bought them if they got a 7.9/10... ah well...

Haha JoeCarr14! lol


Thank Abraxus! I'm really glad you see the true potential!

"Its not just for simple color changes". Exactly!!!

i think they have a lot of potential, but they just seem like the kind of thing that people would want to grab at instantly, or just people might work it out and then after they see you do the trick, theyll burn your ahnds after and you wont be able to do a t*p ch**n** etc... but i may get some anyway to experiment, they seem worth it...

joecarr14 wrote:I think they have a lot of potential, but they just seem like the kind of thing that people would want to grab at instantly, or just people might work it out and then after they see you do the trick, theyll burn your ahnds after and you wont be able to do a t*p ch**n** etc... but I may get some anyway to experiment, they seem worth it...

Not performed magic to 'people' much, have you mate ?

nope, you cant call schoolkids 'people'.... worst audience ever, but gives you good experience... teachers are good..

Yeah man, you need to OWN your audience, and you definitely need to own some Alpha Cards!!! I think you'll get a kick out of them, and so will your spectators.

You give the spectators too much credit! If they ask what that card is, tell them they feature real alien technology. You actually "got them from an alien you met recently, they use them like regular playing cards I guess!?" You just use them for silly magic tricks, etc... then run away like you've been followed by secret agents...

haha imaginative stuff... but my mates are'nt really into that kinda stuff....

what? aliens, or silly magic tricks? haha

i dont mean to bring up an old topic but i have so meh. i recently decided that i might buy these cards but let my girlfriend watch the video first as shes my usual spectator and helps me out a lot when refining my tricks. now when i looked at it i thought ''wow thats cool, people will love this, they'll be scratching their heads for hours''. so i had my girlfriend turn watch the demo and just said ''it's obviously a trick card, heat sensetive ink or something, dont buy it''. now my girlfriend is very intelligent but that does not detract from the fact in my opinion i think magicians now do not give our audience enough credit. i think looking at it, it may just be too visual, if you catch my drift. now most people dont believe what we do is really magic, but they go along with it, and we get that ''how did you do that reaction'', they know we did something, just not how. so when i perform a card change that involves me rubbing my hand over the card first there is that moment in time where the card is not seen, where i could be doing anything, and that's where the sneaky move comes in. afterwards they smile because they have been fooled, the magi did something that seemed impossible, under the cover of the hand of course. so when something like this is presented and all you have to do is hold the card until it warms up and the trick happens for you it kind of detracts from the magic, the 'trick' of it. as the spectator does not see the sneaky move they assume one of two general things, you are either capable of real magic OR you used a 'funny' card, neither being desirable in my opinion but the latter being the most devestating. this is probably grounds for a new topic but does anyone who reads this share my viewpoint, do most of us take our audience for being less intelligent than they really are?