Price$25.00
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJan 28, 2014
Drunk
Hondo
Magic Soul
(Based on 1 review)
"The top confidentiality that the fans of Infinitum must not miss! For DIY fanciers, "Drunk" should be on your To-Buy list, too." - Nie Te
Hondo was drunk, and got tricked badly!
With the threat of publicizing his filthy photos, he reluctantly exposed his commercial secrets!
This DVD is not filled with magic tricks. However, it provides plenty of confidential information about prop making, which is a great money saver for you!
In this DVD, for the very first time Hondo disclosed how to make the best linking rubber bands in the world. (The quality is exactly the same as the ones provided in Hondo's Infinitum DVD.) After mastering this method, you can customize your own linking rubber bands with the tools supplied in the Drunk package. Thus you don't need to worry about giving away the linking rubber bands as a souvenir , and it lowers the cost for the performance. Besides, this method can be applied to any link-able object such as rings, earrings, and scissors, The only limit is your imagination.
Another feature is Hondo's own marked deck system. Hondo will teach you how to make a one-way marked deck with easy-reading marks. Your own deck of cards will turn into a powerful tool for magic in no time. The marking system exceeds others in it's camouflage, easy and quick reading, non-fading, and no stains at all.
Along with the above secrets, you'll also have the access to:
- How to tie the knot of the invisible elastic band fast and correctly
- How to make liking Polo Mints without visible connection
- How to find the cheap roughing fluid and the tips of applying
- How to make a Svengali deck or others like a stripper deck with precision
Nowadays, in a world with tons of magic products, it's an inevitable subject for every magician to decide how to spend the money efficiently. This DVD doesn't come for free, but it;ll help you save more and more to invest on other magic. Yet, the origin of this project is to inspire all the viewers, all the fellow magicians, with the knowledge provided, to create your own magic!
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Drunk by Hondo Review:
One tool, 6 DIY projects, 1 DVD and $25 bucks. Is it gem or is it rubble? Stay tuned to find out.
Effect
Well . . . you're not really getting an effect at all. You're getting six Do It Yourself (DIY) projects. You learn how to make the following gimmicks:
- Linked Rubber Bands
- "Roughed" Playing Cards
- "Short" Cards (a la Svengali Deck
- Invisible Elastic Loops (from Invisible Elastic)
- Marked/One way deck
- Linked Breath Mints
Included with the DVD is a little tool that makes it easier to make the linked rubber bands.
Method
Each of the methods for creating these gimmicks is very simple and straightforward and easy to learn. The included tool makes it super easy to make the linking rubber bands. Tying loops out of invisible elastic is super simple using this method.
The one way/marked deck is very clever, and pretty simple to learn. It uses a very simple marking system that works on Bicycle 808s. The tips taught for getting a good and consistent cut when making short cards is, again, simple and clever.
All in all, the methods for creating these gimmicks are simple, doable, and smart.
Keep in mind that you'll still need to buy some stuff to take advantage of these techniques. For the linking bands, you'll need the supplied tool plus some glue. For the roughed cards, you'll need to spend a couple bucks at a craft store. For the short cards, you'll need a paper cutter which isn't cheap. For the invisible loops, you'll need some invisible elastic thread. For the marked deck, you'll just need a deck and a razor knife. For the breath mints, you'll just need the mints.
Ad Copy Integrity
The ad copy is pretty solid. There are a couple of points of clarification I should offer. First, it refers to the included "tools." However, there is only one tool included with the DVD. Based on the fact that elsewhere in the ad copy the phrase "best . . . in the worlds" was used rather than " . . . world" I'm going to assume that this (tools vs. tool) is just a case of "lost in translation."
Another point of clarification is the point where they say that you can apply this linking rubber band technique to other things like rings, scissors, earrings, etc. Again, I think this may be a "lost in translation" moment. You cannot apply this to link two rings together. You can, however, apply this to link a rubber band to a ring (earring, scissors, etc.)
The only other thing that's a small issue is that the copy claims that the DVD will teach how to make a Stripper deck. However, it does not. It does teach how to make a Svengali deck, but the tricks and tips shown for making a Svengali won't work on a Stripper deck, so that's one prop that the copy claims to teach, yet it does not teach it.
One other thing that was a small annoyance was the fact that the tricks shown on the trailer were not taught. The handling for the linking bands shown in the trailer and the card trick using the rubber band was not taught. Further, the card and rubber band trick didn't seem to be part of the DVD project at all. There was no gimmick or prop that you learn how to make that has anything to do with the card/band trick.
But to be fair, the ad copy very clearly states that "this DVD is not filled with magic tricks." So it's hard to give too big of a hit to the product for not teaching any tricks, but I felt that if they're going to demo a trick in the trailer, they should teach it.
Product Quality
The DVD is spoken in Chinese, but there are subtitles for Chinese, Japanese and English. It defaults to Chinese subtitles which made it a little annoying whenever I had to go to the main menu. It would always default back to Chinese when I visited the main menu. Obviously I'm not expecting all DVDs to be in English. However, once I choose my subtitle preference it should stay there and not jump to the default.
In the ad copy section above, I mentioned the missing tricks. It's not fair to dock points on the ad copy for the reason I mentioned, but I have no problem docking the product quality for that.
As for the instruction itself, it was very well done. The close ups were great, and the instructions were super simple, brief and easy to follow even without the subtitles. You could watch this DVD completely muted and it would be just fine.
Final Thoughts
The bottom line with this DVD is if you want to save yourself some money by creating some commonly used props yourself, then you'll be very happy with your purchase. If you're looking for tricks to do with these gimmicks, then you'll be very disappointed. However, the advertisement clearly state that you are buying the "secrets" to making some gimmicks, and it very clearly states that you are not buying tricks/methods/etc.
Keep in mind, as mentioned earlier, that you'll need to spend some money to make these gimmicks, so you'll have to weigh the cost to decide if it's worth the cost to make the gimmicks yourself. If you have a routine or trick that requires these props and you don't want to fork over the dough to buy the props, then this is a good solution in some cases.
Final Verdict:
3.5 Stars with a Stone Status of gem.