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Yes. Yes. Yes. Can't wait to receive mine.

Mine arrived (just before snow stopped post!).
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nice review. I will send Costas the link, just in case he hasnt seen it.

still have to wait!

I just got mine yesterday. I toyed with it a bit, then tried it out.

Brilliant little magic to start off with your routine with a normal deck of cards! I let my whole deck, except one card, travel to the box, after saying: Do you believe I can make one card disappear from this deck in my hand and re-appear somewhere else?

Good instructions DVD comes with it and gives you further ideas and shows you how you can personalize it to suit the deck you use.

There is also a little twist there from our very own Dale Shrimpton, how to turn your whole deck into a £20 note.

The Travelling Deck is even better than I expected it to be!
Highly recommended!

gunnarkr wrote:
Good instructions DVD comes with it and gives you further ideas and shows you how you can personalize it to suit the deck you use.

Thanks for the information. Can I adapt it easily for use with my British Waddington's Number 1s, or can it be used only with American poker cards?
Hope you don't mind me asking please.


V

I am sure that you can adapt it for bridge sized cards... A few snips in the right place will make it fit.

though you should realy be using poker sized cards... they are much easier to handle

Like Dale said, yes you can. The beauty of the DVD is that they teach you, step by step, how to disassemble the gimmick and re-assemble it for your daily deck.

Santa bought me this for Christmas, and after just a few minutes of playing with it I'm very impressed!

I was doing a 3 hour gig in the restaurant/bar of a London Theatre yesterday sunday and I took this along and put it to the test as an opener in place of my usual opener. My usual opener never fails to get the folks laughing from the top of the show, then amazes them and requires no reset. So this had to match up to that to become a permanent part of my show.

I was surprised by the big reactions that it got, people liked it and were fooled by it. I have a short little bit of rhyming patter that went with it that broke the ice and got a laugh too.

This is a nice little trick, it works well when done with some short and bold patter. My chief concern with it at present, and why I only performed it a few times yesterday, is the reset. I couldn't help noticing that the men in the DVD needed two hands to do the reset. I stuck a piece of IT onto the underside of mine to make the reset slightly easier, but the deck still requires a secret two seconds to do it and get the deck back in the card box. I don't know how magicians who carry all their stuff around in their jacket pockets will cope with this. I think the deck may require some work on trying to reset inside their jacket pocket naturally with only one hand and putting it back in the card box.

I guess some may argue that there is no need to put the deck back in the box, but to me the taking the deck out of the card box is one of the convincing aspects of it. Without that convincer it is less of a trick in my opinion.

If you circulate with your stuff in a magic box like me then you may find it easier to put both hands in to do the reset quickly and easily, but its a bit fiddly even if its quick to do. So I'm not convinced at present whether the Travelling Deck is for professional magicians, which is a shame because the folks liked it when I performed it. I think I need to think around how to do the reset without hassle before this becomes a permanent feature of my show. But as an every now and then trick it is good at the moment, got some big reactions yesterday.


Victoria.

Hello again Folks,
Something I forgot to mention when I wrote that earlier in the week is that although I think it says in the sales literature about this trick being an opener, there is nothing about it that necessitates you opening with it. You can take out the card box and perform this any time during your routine. It isn't one of those tricks where you can only perform it as an opener. It can be performed anytime during your routine.

Just thought I'd point that out.

V.

I think tha the blurb mentions that this makes teh perfect opener... And i think i wrote that bit By you are right, it can be introduced at any point in the routine.

I love the effect of pulling out the deck, turning it into a joker, dropping it into your pocket, then pulling out the deck again.

You could say, 'We'll just get rid of the jokers...', and turn the deck into two jokers rather than one. This makes more sense as many people will know that you usually get two jokers.

(I expect you can do that? I can't see why you couldn't have a second card, a real joker, beneath or on top of the gimmick.)

So it would be like an afterthought. 'Oh, we'll get rid of the jokers...'