> Thought Toon by Scott Alexander

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 5th, 2019
There are many reasons I purchased this. One, I had two cartoon decks and they eventually bit the dust to the bar. Love ya Dan but they didn't live through the alcohol test. Secondly, I don't like using having more than one deck at the bar. A private gig, understandable. Cartoon, Cartoon 2, Fartoon are all great card tricks that are not card tricks. Third, You can easily replace the souvenir give-away card, unless you can't draw worth a crap. Then all you have to do is cut out one of the restock cards with an exacto knife and color within the borders of the cuts. And if you can't do that...then um...there is always Uber or Lyft.

One step further you can reveal anything. Words, numbers, ages, symbols...if you can peek it, you can tweek it. Being surrounded at the bar, this thing is angle proof. It's different enough from cards, sponge balls, ring rope, fire wallet, wikitest, haunted deck, floating dollar, and all the other hard hitting quick things I do. The cards come installed with some funny and cute visuals that I am going to turn into some very offensive humor.

If you are a worker...like...get paid to do magic like I do...this is very much worth it if you know what you are doing. If you are new to magic, on the download Scott teaches you a lot of methods to get information from your spectators. Actually, methods more than in a $30 download and years of reading the old Dover book classics...so you newbies get your money's worth.

Where we magicians were lazy, Scott wasn't. He put a cartoon where it was supposed to be on...a stack of durable business cards...not on playing cards. Now it's uniquely it's own effect and focus's on it. I have my own ideas, cause I am a practical method guy with convoluted dreams. And since this is a review, I'll leave it in the discussion section.

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THEmagicjj
Jan 09th 2019 8:40pm
Dude - I really appreciate you sharing your opinion on this product, but you should really consider toning down your ego in magic reviews. How many times do you have to stroke your own ego in one review?

If you get paid to do magic LIKE I DO! I GET PAID!

YOU NEWBIES will like it too. I'M NOT ONE, BUT YOU NEWBS WILL LIKE IT.

Seriously man... This is the kind of ego that ruins the magic community. Demeaning "newbs" is not helpful to our craft. How hard would it have been to say, "There are good routines taught for beginners, and experienced magicians can use this as a reveal for any number of effects." Wow, I said that without reiterating how I'M SUCH A GREAT MAGICIAN.

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vvssovann
Jan 12th 2019 11:37pm
You know WHAT!!! You are absolutely right! I didn’t mean to come off that way if I did. I’ve come across those who said some effects were over priced, and those were the ones I was directing to. There is good magic for every level. Actually I’m an ok magician with some cool tricks. I’m not much in the magic community and I will take your advice as a lesson from this point forward. Thanks for voicing this!

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James927
Jan 15th 2019 8:59pm
Funny, I experienced this review as having personality not ego. I appreciated it. And I was impressed by the OP's ability to gracefully find value in the criticism.

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jayfrasier
Oct 31st 2020 4:20am
I agree with James927. So many times I've seen people get so mad and bent out of shape due to some criticism like this, and I really appreciated how the OP was able to be gracious and respond in a mature manner. Wow! I am really impressed!

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