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Leading Thoughts (2 DVD Set) by Chris Rawlins - DVD


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Chris Rawlins is an emerging voice in the field of mentalism. His no-nonsense, direct approach to mindreading is at once realistic and utterly amazing. On this DVD-his first-he shares seven of his most coveted original creations. You'll learn "Hack," the fairest newspaper test we've seen, "Lucky Lottery," a streamlined and practical lottery prediction effect, "Flutter," a tremendous thought-of name revelation effect, and much more.

This is an evening parlor mentalism performance where you get to see Mr. Rawlins work the room, define his character, and amaze a room full of people with his polished brand of mentalism. You'll learn:

Hack: Involve everyone in your audience with this clean, easy, and astonishing newspaper test.

Credit Guard: A high-stakes yet playful mentalism "game" in which you correctly determine where a spectators credit card is. You end with a hands-off revelation of someone's credit card info, yet you never touch or see their card.

Lucky Lottery: Six number are called at random by the audience. You then reveal the selected numbers printed upon a real, genuine lottery ticket, inside an envelope, inside your pocket.

Flutter: You reveal a thought in a playful and interesting way, that gives both the audience and spectator moments of amazement.

E-Numbers: You demonstrate super-human taste buds by recalling the exact combination of candies that have been created by your spectators. A Little Lead In - A moment to add texture to your show.

Drop Card: A spectator finds another spectator's thought of playing card, while their eyes are closed.

"A fantastic collection of workable material that you can perform as is or add your own style too."
- Chris Cox

"Chris Rawlins has released a very interesting DVD set for the Modern Mentalist. Chris is a charming performer, and his effects are clear and to the point. I was impressed with his approach to Al Korans Newspaper prediction Countdown. His method removes the stress, which I experience when performing the effect. I enjoyed the DVD very much."
- Graham Jolley

"Chris Rawlins' new DVD set is full of practical material that will delight all performers of contemporary mentalism. His effect Flutter is the best use of a certain classic mentalism idea released to date, and it would be worth buying the DVDs even if Flutter was the only trick on them!"
- Mark Elsdon

"Some great and practical methods for a working mentalist"
- John Archer

"Drawing inspiration from masters both past and present Chris Rawlins provides a series of classical effects with modern twists that pack small and play huge. Chris delivers them all with his own unique charm and provides in depth instruction that makes them suitable for even the most novice of performers."
- Michael Murray

"In this DVD Set Chris explains real workers routines from his professional repertoire. All of the routines are very well thought out and each psychological aspect, staging and nuance is perfectly covered. If you want to add some strong routines to your show that are very entertaining and pack a punch, this is the DVD set you are looking for!"
- Luca Volpe

Two DVDs in a beautiful slipcase.

Total running time: 2 hours, 40 minutes.

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Tedious and Nothing New Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 11th, 2015
What was the hype all about for this uninteresting 2-DVD set? The effects are ho-hum and the performance (in front of friends and family, obviously) is tedious. A gave it a 2 instead of a 1 only because if you want to understand what NOT to do with your mentalism routines and structure, this is worth watching.
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Terrible, Boring Mentalism at its Worst! Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 11th, 2015
I was excited to purchase this 2 DVD set and was really looking forward to performing the "Lucky Lotto" routine. First off the Lucky Lotto routine does not play out as described in the advertisement. The reveal is not on an actual lottery ticket and the numbers are not printed. The other 6 routines play out extremely slow & boring with a lot of quiet moments of nothing really happening.

I really cant recommend anyone of the 7 routines, they are all long and boring. This is how you DON'T want to perform mentalism for a crowd in my opinion. The last routine is the worst... "E-Numbers". You watch Chris Rawlins chug down a martini full of M&M candies and after what seems to be about 30 seconds of him chewing and swallowing, he finally reveals the exact amount of M&M's by color that he swallowed.

Stay away this DVD set, you will be disappointed. I am surprised that Bob Cassidy recommended this product, that's honestly why I purchased it. Save your money on this one, you have been warned.
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Long winded and waste of money Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 19th, 2015
I do not review things that often but this one I had to say something, I do not understand how vanishing ink could publish this,
There was nothing new in terms of methods, and the presentation and explanations were unnecessarily long! A lot of ideas in this were not his to begin with, and 1 of the strongest pieces in the DVD, you would need to get another product to achieve that effect (which is about the price of the DVD). Ok, there is 1 effect that is quite clever (credit card mind reading) but the process takes too long and imho is not worth doing. (Better methods out there) waste of money!
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Boring, boring, boring... Report this review
Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 9th, 2015
Boring methods, boring presentations, boring performances… If you want to know how NOT to present mentalism on stage, then you really need this DVD.

Let me tell you why I think this DVD set is boring, we live on en era where mentalism must be dynamic and if you are doing stage or stand up, must be combined with some kind of comedy, if not then you will have BORING MENTALISM. Besides that, the revelation of every effect must be visual and for every member of the audience, if not you are doing a close up effect for just the person is helping you on stage…

This is one of the worst mentalism DVD I have ever bought.
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Leading Thoughts (2 DVD Set) by Chris Rawlins - Report this review
Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on February 3rd, 2015
I only got this for one trick, The lotto one. It was not the way they made it sound on the dvd. For that I feel it was a waste of money.
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