Price$34.95
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJul 13, 2010
Innovative Card Magic
Goni, Mariano
Mariano Goni Fernandez
(Based on 2 reviews)
In this DVD you'll find 11 items, some from his professional repertoire. There is stuff for everyone, card routines, quick visual effects, new sleights and color changes, and it comes with necessary materials to configure your "Eagle" gimmick. This trick by itself is worth the half the price!
Raikiri Shoot: The selected card is ejected by itself during a cascade.
The Hurricane: A devilish method to make a card spin at high speed!
Sidewinder 2.0: A natural looking card control, can be used as color change.
Color Strike Mama: The red hot mama plot on steroids! A visual transposition.
The Lightning Change: A fast, center packet double color change. Has many uses.
The Harmony Stone: A multi-phase routine that goes better and better and ends with a surprise.The Shotgun Change: A center packet change, one for four cards, eye popping.The Evolution Change: Another great center packet color change, ending with a clean pack!Color Triumph: Mariano's own routine for an easy to do color triumph with two selections.
Floored!: A street effect. A signed card lying on the floor, changes under spectators foot!
The Eagle: A closely guarded secret used by Mariano to fool knowledgeable magicians. Learn the identity of a stopped card under impossible conditions. Guaranteed to fool anyone who does not know this secret.
Running Time Approximately: 112 min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
Effect
Well . . . they are various and sundry. Let me start by saying this . . . you'll be getting 11 moves/tricks that certainly are what they claim to be, innovative. These are fresh and new approaches to many familiar plots.
Color Mama & The Lightening Change
This is one of the most visually stunning color changes I've ever seen. The Lightening Change is used in Color Mama to create a very visual and impossible seeming version of Al Leech's classic Red Hot Mama
Color Triumph
Here you'll find a variation on the Professor's powerful plot. A blue deck is used. Magically, the half the spectator chooses changes red. A red card and blue card are chosen. The cards are mixed blue into red. Yet in an instant, the reds and blues are separated except for one blue card in the red section and one red card in the blue section. This is fresh approach to the plot and pretty easy to do.
The Harmony Store
This takes the coincidence plot to a whole different level. The short version is this: the spectator finds four different four of a kinds from a shuffled deck using totally random and totally free choices. That description doesn't even come close to doing justice to the power of this almost-self-working effect.
There are many more moves and effects, but those are a couple of highlights to give you a sense of the kind of material found here. Two other quick mentions are the Raikiri Shoot and The Eagle. I would be shocked if you aren't completely fooled by these to "effects" (they're really utility moves). The first one, simply: a selected card flies out of the pack into your left hand as you dribble the cards to the table with your right hand. This one is in the trailer and it really does look as good as you see it in the trailer.
The Eagle is an extremely clever and nearly undetectable method for peaking a card from a borrowed and completely shuffled deck. It's very deceptive and has a ton of applications in card magic.
Method
Well . . . they are various and sundry. Generally speaking, the methods are quite advanced knuckle-busters. However, there are also some nearly self working effects and a good combination of both. All of the methods are so well constructed and developed that they resulting effect is full of impossible moments, and visual impact that is very powerful. A few notes: much of the knuckle-busting stuff is a bit angle sensitive and will not come easily, so be willing to put in the work. Most of the methods are pretty practical once you've learned them, but be prepared to do your time.
Ad Copy Integrity
Well . . . you thought I was gonna say "various and sundry" again didn't you. The ad copy appears to be full of hype, but it's not. It's 100% dead on. These effects really are as visual or powerful or fooling, etc. as they claim to be.
Product Quality
Product quality. This one took a small hit. The lighting was a bit sketchy and some of the camera work was a bit sketchy, and the DVD menu was very confusing.
Final Thoughts
As you know, I typically prefer to let you see what the effect is, and then I just attempt to convince you that the product/trick is (or is not) what it claims. However, when reviewing multi-effect DVDs, it's really hard to not talk about effect. I have to explain it to you since you don't really get to see a full performance. If you're a fan of the many brilliant magicians in Spain (Juan Tamariz, Dani DaOrtiz, Ramon Rioboo, et al.), you'll very much appreciate the work of Mariano Go
(Top ▲)
This is a card magic DVD from another performer I had not heard of before, but I’m sure I will see more of him in the future. The material is pretty good, but the DVD itself is less than stellar. The menu is complicated, the chapters jump around and change order when you watch it all the way through, and the disk didn’t play in my main DVD player. Also, the quality of the film changes. Some of the performances look like they were filmed with a web cam, and others look fine.
Some of the material doesn’t look like magic, it just looks like he’s messing around with the cards. That aside, there is some really creative, solid material that really fooled me.
“Color Triumph” combines some Color Changing Deck elements with Triumph. Though it could be somewhat confusing for laypeople, I think it would really impress a group of magicians.
“Floored” looks absolutely impossible. This completely fooled me. The end change looks too perfect. Worth the price of the disk.
Despite the flaws of the DVD, the material is solid and worth looking at if you are a fan of card magic. Just be prepared to deal with some technical difficulties.
Material is Four Stars. DVD is One Star. I’ll give this an over all rating of Three Stars, though I wish I could give it more.
Some of the material doesn’t look like magic, it just looks like he’s messing around with the cards. That aside, there is some really creative, solid material that really fooled me.
“Color Triumph” combines some Color Changing Deck elements with Triumph. Though it could be somewhat confusing for laypeople, I think it would really impress a group of magicians.
“Floored” looks absolutely impossible. This completely fooled me. The end change looks too perfect. Worth the price of the disk.
Despite the flaws of the DVD, the material is solid and worth looking at if you are a fan of card magic. Just be prepared to deal with some technical difficulties.
Material is Four Stars. DVD is One Star. I’ll give this an over all rating of Three Stars, though I wish I could give it more.