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Transferred.

£12 from www.magictricks.co.uk

They Say:

Effect :
A Breathtaking Transposition of a Signed Card and a Signed Bill... You display a deck of cards and allow a spectator the choice any card they like (no force). The spectator then signs the card and it's returned to the pack and lost. The deck is placed on the table. A bill is then borrowed as well which the spectator also signs their name on.

The bill is displayed on both sides and you slowly start to fold it into eighths. With the folded bill at your fingertips, you slowly wave it over the deck of cards and, as you do so, the bill visibly changes into a folded playing card! When the card is opened up, there is the spectator's signature!

Next, the spectator cuts the deck himself and finds a folded bill right where they've cut. The spectator himself unfolds the bill to again find their signature!

Description :
Includes 16-page, full-color and fully photo-illustrated instruction booklet detailing the routine and easy construction of the necessary gimmick and special card gimmick on Bicycle stock. Also requires standard Bicycle Deck (not supplied).

You never touch the deck when the bill re-appears in the middle of the pack
The spectator has a truly free choice of any card
Perfect for table-hopping
Resets in seconds
Any note can be used
"Excellent! Just excellent!!!! Very clever and I can only imagine the impact it must have on an audience. Completely flabbergasting to them, an effect like that would have to be. Great job." -Reed McClintock
"Transferred will blow the socks off of your spectators. Simple yet incredibly powerful. People are going to scream! Peter you [have] out done yourself once again! Congratulations!" -Peter Loughran

Difficulty level : 4
1 (Easy/Self-Working) - 5 (Advanced

I Say:

All in all i really like this idea. Although i've only performed it for real 5 or 6 times, the reactions that i have got have been good. Sometimes very good. It's what spectators would class as real magic. The switch of the note and card is very visual and looks great just being performed to the mirror.
Some of the slieghts needed take a while to get used to, and the handling demonstrated in the booklet is quite strange and probably not the tidiest way to perform it. There is and "alterative handlings" chapter of the book which offers good advice and is quite helpfull. All the same, I've worked on my own ways and different slieghts to what are suggested in the book becasue it suites my style much better.

The performance takes a while and i think it would benefit from being a bit faster. It seems that the audience start to loose interest after about halfway. I've found ways to keep the spectators involved up to a the switch, and after that performance becomes gripping and is easy from then on.

They say practice makes perfect... with this effect practice makes very very good, brilliant, gripping but not quite perfect. You are not left completly clean and it takes a bit of set-up. Also, be prepared to go through a deck or so if you want to practice the full routine again and again.
The idea itself is worth the £12 and the gimmick you get with the booklet is unnecessary in my routine. Essentially you are paying for the method only. In the correct situation, as with any trick, it delivers and you get good reactions. However, i think it is just one of those effects where the practice isn't quite worth the end result.

Conclusion

A very good idea, but a quite demanding and difficult method let this one down. Not one for laymen!

7.5/10

Cheers

Ben

i had this effect a couple of years back, it was one of the first tricks i purchased, and to my great annoyance, was very difficult. So i decided to swap it with a friend of mine who was also a magician for a brainwave deck, which might i add, was a rather spiffing trick!! i now on the other hand wish i had kept the trick, because I'm sure it would have great effects, the gimmick is a very subtle one and the sleight are quite basic (i now know) And i totally agree with the review, it would take alot of practise, but for £12 you cant argue.

Craig - I had exactly the same experience with this trick. It looked great but was too hard for me at the time so it was sold to a fellow TM member as I recall.

It was a CUPS thing back then too

Please search before reviewing... there's already a review of this
HERE
http://www.talkmagic.co.uk/ftopic1648.p ... ght=eggink

to true dat, for shame cups, for shame

Sorry seige. I did search but couldn't see anything. Looking more closley now, i see two others. oops Hope it was ok for a first review.

Ben