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The Effect

A twinkling red light is levitated between the hands, floats around, follows the directions of the magician, then settles in a hand, the hand closes and the light is gone!

A demo video can be seen here:-
http://www.premiummagic.co.uk/product_i ... ucts_id=95



Cost

Shop around, £22.00 to £36.00



Difficulty
(1=easy to do, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

I'll give this one a 2, it could be a 1 but it certainly needs practice to perfect and it's restrictive by the conditions in which you can use it.



Review

To be honest, I was a bit disappointed with this when I opened the box, but, shrugged my shoulders, knowing that the look of a trick and the effect it produces can be startlingly different. My reason for buying was that I'm specifically looking for 'light' tricks since I wanted to combine a few tricks with my DJ'ing, which, by it's nature is usually in the dark. The instructions are just that, ie, prepare it like this, do that and there you go. Basically just a couple of lines. After playing with it for a while, it's becomeing evident that it's VERY restrictive with regards what conditions you use it under, in fact you would need almost total darkness. At the point of ordering, I was planning on using this with a d'lite TT routine that I already do. However, the 'flight' works from a TT, so that restricts things a little. Although you could do a clean remove with it, I also think that setup would not be so clean. I can see that I'm going to have to work with this one in my 'location' before I finally decide if it's even usefull at all.



Overall

Honest opinion, if I could have tried before buying, I wouldn't have bought!
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Thanks TopHouse for taking the time out to review this. I have been looking for a review and demonstration of D'Lite Flight for some time now. Only a couple of days ago I came across two perfomance videos of this product. One which I have posted here for all those who are curious to see:

http://www.thetrickery.com/?nd=full&key=7714

It seems to me that two TTs are required to pull this off which I can see what you mean by being quite restrictive. But the movement of the light seems quite erratic and less linear from what I would have expected from a setup like that (which is a good thing).

So do you think you need almost complete darkness to get away with this one? Hmmm... that's a pity (on occasion I have felt the same way when attempting difficult sleights ).

Nonetheless I thought the link I posted has quite a neat perfomance of this product which makes it seem quite magical. I am still a little tempted to buy (the fool that I am! )

I'm being totally honest here, in my opinion, if you were as close as the camera is on that video, you would see the gimmick at certain points on that video, I also suspect that maybe that video isn't entirely honest, OR, it's lost some contrast in the video compression. The video at the link I gave above is much more 'honest'.

Yes, I see what your saying. I actually had somehow skipped your link (with eyes like mine, no wonder I could never find a demostration of this product! ) With your link it is more obvious how this illlusion is achieved - it is one TT that is required and not two as I had originally thought.

An other perfomance video I had seen shows the light floating underneath a thin veil held over it, which would probably assist in covering up part of the gimmick but I believe it takes away a lot of the magic.

I wonder if they could improve part of the gimmick by making it thinner... my guess would be that it then would not be strong enough to stabalize the light in that way.

So let me get this right TopHouse. Do you think the only safe way to perform this would be with a dark shirt, a dark background and very very poor light? Man that sounds pretty tough!
It is a pitty because something like this, with the right perfomance, would look like true magic! I mean we are talking Peter Pan here!

costas wrote:With your link it is more obvious how this illlusion is achieved - it is one TT that is required and not two as I had originally thought.

Correct

An other perfomance video I had seen shows the light floating underneath a thin veil held over it, which would probably assist in covering up part of the gimmick but I believe it takes away a lot of the magic.

Do you have a link to that video?

So let me get this right TopHouse. Do you think the only safe way to perform this would be with a dark shirt, a dark background and very very poor light? Man that sounds pretty tough!

Yep, I'm afraid so, which is why I'm currently posting in the tips section regarding construction of a zombie type effect but using a glowing 75mm juggling ball. Technically speaking, the 'flight' is a miniature glowing zombie without a silk.

That sounds really interesting, I am curious to see what you finally come up with .

As far as the other link you asked for regarding the demonstration of the Floating D'Lite and veil, here it is:

(Note: the music is a little over dramatic for this sequence but these guys at FunTyme Magic seem to always use the same music for most of their advertisments)

http://www.funtymemagic.com/shop/item.asp?itemid=964

Had a look and i have to say that's REALLY poor handling, although his finish was good. I'd say the handling was so poor that just watching the movement of the light would allow people to easily guess the gimmick. I watched it a few times and I'm almost certain that if you watch closely you get the very slightest glimpse of the gimmick as well. I reckon if you could slow it down just a little, then you certainly would.

That sounds like exposure, which is not aloud on this forum.