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The REAL floating card
Price: £18.00 from eMagictricks.co.uk
Format: Region free DVD

Difficulty: 2/5
(1=A cat could do it, 2=No sleights, but not so easy, 3=Some sleights used,
4=Advanced sleights used, 5=Suitable for experienced magicians only)

Description
The NEW floating effect:
Angle proof, instant re-set, clean start, clean finish. Perfom totally surrounded.
Such a strong effect, you even believe it yourself for a moment!

The magician shows his hands to be clean... a deck of cards is shuffled by the spectator, and the magician then takes the deck and immediately offers the spectator to 'pick a card'. The card is placed on top of the deck and immediately starts to rise - eerily.
Then, the impossible: the magician takes the card BELOW the floating card to prove there's nothing below - but he then moves it ABOVE the floating card to prove there's nothing above.
The card slowly descends - and lands back atop the deck, and the whole deck is immediately handed out for inspection - clean. And the magician's hands? Clean also.
At this point, there is speculation, but the magician immediately takes any chosen single card from the deck and floats it again! The card rising three inches from his palm!
Once again, the card settles, and the magician AND the card are totally clean.

Review
I know what you're thinking, and you're right! There's only one way this can be done!!!
Even so, I bought it, and was pleasantly surprised that this new handling really does look like magic (after some practice).
The DVD is of a very good quality - clear pictures, simple explanation and you even get a link to a support forum! And no padding in the way of menus and stuff... the thing just kicks straight in and gets you down to business.

The guy who actually demos the effect shows step-by-step the setup, and various performance methods. The whole thing is a no-nonsense, straight to the point affair.

As you can gather, there's no bells and whistles here, folks...

Overall
I've been asked a couple of times about this effect on this forum, and the trouble is, to explain it is to give away the secret! Let's just say that you'll be pleasantly surprised. Watch the demo video! Also, be aware that there's nothing but a DVD in the box, and you will possibly need to make an additional purchase. Enough said.

Rating: Effect/item: 8/10, Quality of goods: 8/10, Value for money: 8/10

The bottom line...
I've only used this effect twice in public so-far, but I was pretty amazed at the reaction. It does feel like real magic. The other effects I've got of a similar nature always leave me cold and flat, and I've rarely repeated them.
This brings a totally new (to my knowledge) handling to an old effect.
A good street magic effect, or even dropped into a closeup routine.
A little pricey, though... a £6 paper leaflet would probably have sufficed.

sory if im stepping on toes but you could have downloaded it from "expertmagic.com" for about £12 (depending on exchange rate) but i must admit this is the ONLY levitation i'll even consider using

True... it can be downloaded (I've recommended it elsewhere...)
But the purchase price AND the source are biased towards our host

yeah i noticed that... just pointing out though... i bought mine from expertmagic as soon as it was available and have never been let down by it yet

Wasn't I the one who recommended the download to you????

Well, it's a great effect anyway!

(However you obtain it )

eh????? nope... it was actually one of the first effects i bought, i didnt even use forums at that point!!!!.... hehe

My mistake... sorry

I had a 'deep and meaningful' with Jabs over this one...

Note to self: make appointment with Vision Express tomorrow, and book a session with Alzheimers Annonymous