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The Effect
Using one or two bottle caps (examinable!) you can perform the impossible coin transpos under one cap to another with minimum or no handling and it can all happen in the spectators hands.

more info can be found at: http://www.alakazam.co.uk/product-Rattl ... Hauss.html

Cost

£ 25.99 in most places

Difficulty

This is close to self-working, a few basic moves and audience management required.


Review

This is lovely! you get a well produced DVD, 2 gimmicks and also 2 indian coins, which in the uk can be replaced with 1p i think. The basic effect is that the spectator can hear and feel the coin under the cap and yet it yet it vanishes completely and all can be examined. With these 2 gimmicks there are so many applications. On the DVD Dan teaches a few routines which are ok but his presentation style simply sucks. However you'll yet lots of ideas from watching it and the coin in bottle routine by Francis Menotti is very good!

What i like most about this gimmick:

* the spectator can hear and feel the coin

* the spectator can do almost everything by themselves

* the gimmick is not a weird looking prop but a normal looking cap which is examinable

* When pulled off the effect is very strong

* the gimmicks look very good (like a normal cap) and will last a long time

* 5 second reset

The con's:

* When you put the coin inside the cap you cant really visually see it going in there. Just watch the demo

* On some moments in the effect the spectator can ruin the trick and possibly reveal the method.

* When you first receive your gimmick it won't work as seen on the DVD. I
tuned mine with sandpaper to solve it.

Overall

All above has said it really. I can see many professionals using it. Been playing with this for a week now and i simply love it. If you like the demo, get this, you wont disappoint.

9.5/10 from me

Could this be used as a follow on to " Flow "?
Regards.

exactly! Dan says in the end of the DVD that Flow and Rattled go well together

I'm in Kuala Lumpur at the moment where its been sold out for some time but next week I'll be home and will buy both Flow and Rattled. Thanks for the reply. Rod

I've been trawling the web to find "rattled" and " flow " - rattled has taken off - and most places are out of stock. But I've seen re-fills for flow can anybody explain this ( without exposure ) as there's no indication of this in any reviews.
Regards Roddy

After trying many dealers - who were all sold out - I came accross this one who had Rattled in stock plus free delivery.
http://www.MagicTricks.co.uk

regards

roddy, the gimmick to flow is a substance which a child would buy to possibly make... an item normally filled with helium... but instead of latex covering ... it's more of a plasticy substance... which comes in a tube.
I've tried to not give it away as to my vague-ness... but it's a really old concept anyways, so I'm sure no one will mind. If exposure, please delete post.

Thanks it arrived this morning and all is clear. regards Roddy

How examinable is the cap once the coin has vanished? How much scrutiny can the gimmick handle as I'd love to be able to perform this in the spec's hands as shown in many clips.

Is this genuinely feasible?

ACE T wrote:How examinable is the cap once the coin has vanished? How much scrutiny can the gimmick handle as I'd love to be able to perform this in the spec's hands as shown in many clips.

Is this genuinely feasible?

100% examinable.

When it first arrived I scrutinized it and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.

Then I watched the dvd and thought "you cheeky bugg3r!"

It is clever but was not for me so i sold mine.

Beardy wrote:

ACE T wrote:How examinable is the cap once the coin has vanished? How much scrutiny can the gimmick handle as I'd love to be able to perform this in the spec's hands as shown in many clips.

Is this genuinely feasible?

100% examinable.

When it first arrived I scrutinized it and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.

Then I watched the dvd and thought "you cheeky bugg3r!"

Do you still have yours for sale or did you trade it for the cats teeth?

Oh - and can you use different coins than the ones provided?

Not wanting to start any sort of heated debate,but.........

In the initial reviews, you highlighted 3 cons to the trick/effect yet still only dropped .5 from a perfect 10.

Is it REALLY that good if a spec can ruin the whole thing during the routine?

Maybe someone could come up with a table of 1 - 10 which would allow us to mark accordingly. In this business we always see fantastic scores. I've done it myself in previous reviews I've done. Maybe we should all wait a month and see if it's in our thoughts then, before actually scoring it.

Would it be possible on each review to have a vote at the top numbered 1-10 where by people who own the effect can give it a mark and we can take the average? Just a thought.

Alec

sounds like a good idea!