Zero stars? Calendar by Rick Lax is a great idea, but the prop is awful, making it unusable. The
effect talks about fortune telling (which implies what will happen in the future), but the prop
addresses 2of the 5 dates in the past! And the third is this year, which is almost 3/4 over! So, in
3 months this year will be unusable as well. A wonderful idea, but the prop is crap - so much so
that I will never(!) by a Rick Lax prop again. And Penguin should give me my money back; in fact,
they should refund to everyone who bought one.
Another reviewer, FLYING DRAGON MAGIC, has made a similar point in a 2019 2-star review, but joshburch commented in 2019 that this concern does not in fact affect the viability of the trick. Is joshburch right, do you think?
Just use your imagination and change the presentation/narrative slightly.
"I got this ages ago", should do it.
How about "a friend of mine died recently and I had to help sorting through his stuff. He was really into Horoscopes and I found this in a box".
As the years are only there for the performer, they aren't important to the audience, work a way around it.
If you can't, then maybe performing isn't what you were cut out for.
I think it's a great piece of magic, and a brilliant updating of an old method.
The only problem I have with it is keeping up a conversation while doing additions and retaining information in my head.
But I have difficulty walking and chewing gum! So that's my problem!
The magic and it's presentation is beautiful.
But you have to make an infinitesimally tiny adjustment to the script to make it work.
Keep up the good work Rick!
Just use your imagination and change the presentation/narrative slightly.
"I got this ages ago", should do it.
How about "a friend of mine died recently and I had to help sorting through his stuff. He was really into Horoscopes and I found this in a box".
As the years are only there for the performer, they aren't important to the audience, work a way around it.
If you can't, then maybe performing isn't what you were cut out for.
I think it's a great piece of magic, and a brilliant updating of an old method.
The only problem I have with it is keeping up a conversation while doing additions and retaining information in my head.
But I have difficulty walking and chewing gum! So that's my problem!
The magic and it's presentation is beautiful.
But you have to make an infinitesimally tiny adjustment to the script to make it work.
Keep up the good work Rick!
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