Magic Tricks

The effect here is a great visual transformtion, and a nice addition to the host of sandwich routines out there, BUT, there are a couple of places where you might easily flash the gimmick. The DVD gives an alternate handling to cover one of these instances, but IMHO, it seems a little awkward and less natural than the original handling.

The real crime here is the DVD. I don't think it's the best instructional video, even if you speak French, but for an English speaker, it's a nightmare. The disc doesn't have conventional DVD subtitles. Rather, it has additional chapters with English subtitles burned into the video... and the subtitles are VERY awkwardly translated. What's worse, you have to skip to a second menu screen to get to the English-subtitled version, and the disc is incorrectly coded, so you can't just play through all of the English chapters; sometimes it will skip back to a French-only chapter! For your reference, Titles 10-15 are the English-subtitled ones.

There's a couple of minor card slights involved, so this is by no means a "self-working" trick. Once you understand how the gimmick works--which isn't immediately obvious--the handling is still very important. Also, because of the translation, you get NO patter for this effect... at least not in English. I rather wish Penguin would take it upon themselves to shoot their own video for this trick to post in the "Learn" section of MyPenguinMagic!