My odds of buying a “giant steaming turd” regarding magic effects further depreciate every time I watch a magic TV, & I’m extremely grateful for that. Awesome & edifying content! Happy News Years to you & your stellar fam mate! Looking forward to watch Magic TV continue to grow in the year to come.
Craig, I remember when you confronted Lloyd B on this "card fishing" download lol. Lloyd couldn't place it but you're right, how this got past quality control is beyond me. Love the critiques especially of Peter E effect where he got his own daughters as stooges. I think stooging has a place and a time in performance but not in order to trick consumers into buying?! Anyway, happy new year!
Funny that both Fiddlin Jonny and Ekaterina selected Summit as their TOTY. I agree with you Craig, it never made logical sense to me. But as you said, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
As always great stuff. When it comes to Triple Helix I came up with my own performance that gets amazing reactions. Here me out. Ditch the first box reveal. Inside the blue gimmick put a red Invisible deck. Go through the presentation where they have a real invisible deck. They need to imagine it. They turn the card over. All invisibly of course. You take the “invisible” deck back. Other hand has the gimmick ready to go. Have them really try to imagine their invisible deck. For me I make this a heartfelt moment. Have them think of when they were young and had a wild imagination. They concentrate and suddenly when you go to grab that invisible red deck it pops out of nowhere. And of course their card is the only card flipped over. This slays. That moment when the deck just appears is striking to them. All the heat at this point is off the gimmick. All they care about it that red deck.
I guess I would gracefully disagree about Summit. I enjoyed using it. But I do agree about the 3D printing. Abstract has like 10+ 3D printers. So I think they just print whatever they think up. They are extremely nice to me. For a while there whenever you ordered any little thing would send every single one of their products to you. Plus about 100 little disc magnets. I thought this was extremely odd that they were just giving this stuff away but of course now it kinda makes sense.
I, totally agree with you on the ridiculous, flashy trailers. Just show what the trick looks like to perform. You are not cool, walking towards the camera in slow motion, drop the ego and just sell the trick!
I’m truly sick of these shit product. I just saw Julio released a new trick right before the year ends. I have no faith in it. Looks cool. It may be great but not in a million years is that dude getting my money anymore.
I think I'm the only one who made Chop-Doh work. Granted, I had to make couple extra things with Model Magic (foam clay) and my magnet in a cup is more of a shadow than a blatant spot, and I use it as Daryl's impromptu Cup and Ball routine and compensate the strength of a magnet just once with clever (I think so) scripting.
Other Brothers: This is too bad. I have seen them lecture and their material was excellent. They just don't have the ability to create like someone like Jay Sankey.
Yo, Craig! I've got the best 3 items in my bedroom but you guys miss the Instagram submissions often. I'm not on Facebook. Where should I send my answers?
