In the video at the reveal it truly looks like ONE THIN card...but the gimmick you get is THICK AND
DOESNT LINE UP AT ALL....horribly indexed and doesnt come off like the video. UNUSEABLE
That's why he's a pro and you're not.
That's why he's a pro and you're not.
bkingmagic, you got it all wrong: it is not about being a pro or not because we are seeing only through the lens of a camera in specific situations: (1) low lightings, and (2) audience very wound up and very aware of the camera. Putting all those variables together, I call it a marketing misdirection or bias trailer. I purchased the gimmick and I am disappointed because I am a close-up magician and I can only show this trick close-up situations where there is low lightings and the audience is half drunk or high on something.
This is a fantastic effect. It's a shame people who don't want to put the least bit of work into using a gimmick are allowed to write reviews. This is very easy to use close up, unless you're sticking the card right in their face in which case you're performing it poorly.
Slackerking, dude, those people in Blake's trailer are either drunk or high on something, that's why Blake got away with doing what he was doing. That is why his trailer does not show any performances in broad daylight - got it? Furthermore, the gimmick makes ***noise*** as you thumb through gimmick to find the card; try to do that in a quiet, elegant drawing room, and the thumbing gets worse as you get into the last two Q's or get further into the K's section. If you have a fat thumb, don't even bother, you will regret buying this trick. Think about it now, Blake said that he was holding on to this trick after all these years, well that is because no self respected professional magician wants to risk his/her reputation on this "mini" filing cabinet - that's why.
If you'd only practice the trick instead of whining about it, you would find that you don't have to run your thumb along the cards. After a while, you can pretty much separate the cards at the right place instinctively.
Really bkingmagic, instinctively? Dude no matter how you chop, dice or slice it, you ***need*** to use your thumb to open the gimmick and if you think that you can insert your thumb in the right spot without leafing the corners of the gimmick, then your gimmick only opens at one card and you have been performing for audience who only call out that card, other than that you must have been performing for kids only. Instinctively, why not voice command?
"voice command" hahahaha :D
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Misleading video BAD gimmick
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