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Has anyone had any experience of Jay Sankey's "Just Imagine?"

http://www.jaysankey.com/product.php?product_id=34

Cheers

You have probably seen the penguin video clip. If not it is definitely worth watching. Sankey is an awesome performer.

It look's very powerful, although I believe that just from watching the clip I have fully worked out how it's done. After sayiing that I don't think that a lay person would work out the method though as it seems to use quite a few principles.

My problem with itis two fold. First I would be worried about the complexity from the spectators point of view. There is a lot for them to remember. A card, a colour and a shape. We all have been in situations where they don't even remember the card least of all two other things. This of course could be sorted out by getting them to write down their selections as they make them. My other poblem is that perhaps it is a little magiccy for a mentalism set - but after saying that the final revelation is pretty strong, as in theory you have predicted something they just thought of.

At £8.39 though, it is probably worth buying just for the ease of it being already made up, although if it works as I think it wouldn't take much to make up a set.

If you want to know more - please pm me.

The idea is good, but it's a magician trick, not a mentalism trick !
And Sankey is a very very bad mentalist
If you buy it, work on YOUR presentation, not Sankey's.

bananafish wrote:At £8.39 though, it is probably worth buying just for the ease of it being already made up.

It doesn't come made up, unfortunately, which miffed me a little as my thinking was the same as bananafish's. It's true it didn't take a lot of effort to rectify that, but it actually took a bit of searching to get a fifth coloured marker pen, (after black, blue red and green).

I don't think it's a great routine or product and the move/justification towards the end, to get the spectator's card to the front of the deck, as demonstrated by Sankey, is a little hokey.

Hey, I'm considering to get this trick although I too think I know how it's done. But somthing still blows my mind. Can you simply take the card out of the envelope and it be the one. Or must you place it on the pack then flip it over.

You could take the card out of the envelope and it occasionally be the one...

What do you mean by "occasionally."

occasionally

Kati

Blade Master wrote::? What do you mean by "occasionally."

I mean you could place a prediction card in the envelope, and occasionally, (1 in 20 times), have a miracle.

Nice one Kati.

Loving your work

Thanks

Nice siggy by the way...

Kati

Thank you for answering my question.

I could see very little logic in this effect.
Why be so carefull not to touch the envelope all the way through, only to pick it up at the end ? And then, why do an un natural thing like using the deck as a table when you have a table sitting there in front of you?
no, i agree with one of the posts above. As much as i love Jay's work, and admire his aparently endless thought process , Hes in no way, shape or form a mentalist.

His height and youthfull looks just dont create the right image.

His height and youthfull looks

He'll be happy to hear that!

Hey Tom, its Jesse here...

I have Just Imagine, and I LOVE IT. There are also a couple of different methods that can be used:

One is to put the card with your written prediction on the table face down. At the end, it is turned over...

The other is to keep the card on the top of the deck and reveal it at the end... Both are equally deceptive... I like puting the card on the table after I have stared at them and "made a confident prediction". Talk to you later!