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I believe that Peter Nardi (Alakazam) has exlusive rights to sell it in the UK...

ahh ok, thanks bananafish.

I was speaking to a guy last night who's a regular worker and has this. He said it's currently the trick that gets the best reactions for him, and the wallet has yet to be questioned. So maybe my assumption that people would jump straight on the gaff was wrong.

Nightfall wrote:The reviews and comments of this product really make it seem very very interesting.
I have some questions (hopefully somebody can answer them) :

1. Can beginners (like me) perform it well with a little practice ?
2. Is it angle-proof ?
3. Can you perform it again quickly ?

Thank you all !

1. It is completely beginner/idiot proof. There is hardly any room to go wrong if you use all the materials provided. If you choose not to use certain items and go for card control instead then it obviously depends on your skills but for a beginner I'd recommend using all the items supplied and then you can't go wrong and you can concentrate on presentation.

2. There are no angle issues that you need to worry about.

3. Reset is instant, easy and is part of the effect really so nothing particular needs doing anyway.

IMHO the only thing this trick lacks is a decent presentation/script but I'm working on one along the lines of:

'You know how your body is surrounded by an aura? Well I want you to select a card, put your initials on it and just hold it close to your body for a second, inside your aura. I will look away whilst you do all this. When you've done that put it back on top of the deck. I'm still looking away! I'll just cut the cards (still looking away). Here you take the deck and cut it too. OK - now you'll agree that I can't have seen either the front or the back of your card but I'm going to look through the deck and find your card by searching for the one which has some of your aura still stuck to it.
Here - this looks like the one. I'll turn over your card. What that isn't it? Oh dear.
OK well sometimes your aura can be so strong as to act to mask your real thoughts and feelings and I think that's what's happening here. Its like your inner self has chosen a card but your external self has masked your choice. Your aura can be cancelled out by glass so I'll just try putting your card inside this plastic sleeve and we'll see if it will cancel out some of the aura. Now if I just give it a shake ................. here you pull out your card.'

other presentation ideas which dont involve auras include:

keeping a 'magic' photo in the wallet, e.g. houdini, a picture of your kids, a rare collectible card, and say that it can cause magic to happen.

Changing the wallet into a name badge by putting a clip on the back, many routines possible with that idea.

Mixing it with sankeys paperclipped for an ultimate transposition.

i am currently perfecting the handling of a routine which uses both WOW and Ambelitious Card, a real masuda tour de force.

I have seen this performed twice by working pros and even thoe i know how it works i was still amazed. To me i have to have one and when i get it it will probally have a very good fight with my in a flash (jay sankey) as my closer. One of these pros told me there patter and it was amazing and a perfect way to use the wallet. Im obviously not going to say his patter because that his is own but i think if your a good enough performer and give good reasons for using such gimmicks no one will suspect the wallet or sleight of hand they just accept it as how it is MAGIC and thats what we as performers are trying to achieve anyway. A bit of imagination can take you along way in our chosen career.

Curse you, CUPS. Curse youuuuu! (Should be here today.)

Here's my review.

An expensive toy for lazy 'magicians' who don't want to learn an Erdnase change...

Or perhaps some that prefer variety and comparatively "impossible" conditions. I've put my time in learning the appropriate color changes. Thanks for the condescending view, though. Keep card manipulation pure!

Addendum: I think this is simply a tool. Simple as that. It will have a unique application in this case.

Seriously though, the effect is flawed because the method is obviously mechanical.

It's not going to make your spectators go away thinking 'how the hell did he do that?' It's going to make them go away thinking 'I wonder where I can buy one of those tricked up plastic sleeve things so I can do that trick.'

Now if you could do the same change without the sleeve, you'd have a winner.

Euan, I had the same opinion as you but my mind's been changed by seeing the effect used on lay people and hearing nothing but good things from other performers. Simple as that.

WOW rocks...no one suspects the wallet. After I pull the spectators card, I pass it under the wallet to show it's clear perspex. I also do this before inserting the card.

Even if I did want to buy this, I couldnt. Here in Boston USA, they are all sold out, and the next batch of them is already spoken for through pre-order. Guess we'll be seeing a lot of this.

Hate to revive an old topic, but I gotta put my two cents in. I'll attempt to not let my obscene delay in receipt cloud my judgement of this one, but - c'mon! Took me over a month and a week to get this baby to my doorstep. Quality handmade products take time, apparently. In the meantime, I spent my free time puzzling over the methodology, and was surprised to find, upon the much anticipated arrival, that I was correct. Don't let this deter you from purchasing this fine product, however - this puzzling was only done while waiting for the distinctly purchased gimmick. This was not done by a passive spectator properly pattered and lulled into a false sense of comfort with this amazingly unsuspicious little sleeve.

All in all, I give it a 9/10. ...A 9 simply because 1, I don't wish to modify it to have it hang from a lanyard, and 2 - because I am inherently suspicious anytime anything but a sharpie is produced during a seemingly innocent card trick. Don't pass this one up, though. If you can get your hands on it... with the proper patter and presentation, you'll be fooling specs in no time.

Thank you, CUPS. Thank you for taking yet another 50 bucks out of my pocket - but this time actually making it worth it.

I now keep my Wow in a small black plastic case some other packet trick came in and I keep the gimmick loaded with one of my business cards inside it and some other business cards on the other side of the case.

When the trick 'goes wrong' and I fail to find the spec's card I get out the 'business card' case, show both sides of the business card in the Wow gimmick and then do the business to reveal their chosen card.

This gets my business card into their hands as well as presenting a highly visual card change right under their nose with no funny hand movements to be seen.

I love it and more importantly so does everyone who's seen it and still, amazingly no-one has asked to see the gimmick - though I do tend to pocket it fairly quickly and move on to my next trick.