Price$20.00
Media TypeTrick
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedMay 22, 2008
Trio
David Forrest
(Based on 1 review)
View Clip "TRANSFORMER is outstanding....a terrifically clean, direct routine!" - Peter Duffie
"TRIO is great man! I LOVE the card to wallet. So, freakin' well thought out. The vanish is PERFECT!!" - Cameron Francis
DAVE FORREST PRESENTS THREE STUNNING CARD EFFECTS WITH ONE THING IN COMMON - A SIMPLE GAFF CARD!
EFFECT 1 - 'SHRINK' - A HYPER VISUAL SANDWICH EFFECT.
An incredibly visual sandwich effect with a stunning climax that will guarantee you are remembered. A selected card is continuously discovered in between the two Jokers, each time more impossible than the last. Eventually, you confess to the method - you are actually making the card too small to be seen! With that you shrink the selection to half it's size! This is a stunner!
EFFECT 2 - 'TRANSFORMER' - A MULTIPLE SELECTION ROUTINE
Three cards are selected and lost back into the pack. The Jokers impossibly trap the first selection, let's say it's a Seven. Six cards are counted off the top of the deck and the seventh card is shown to be the second selection! Attention is now drawn back to the Seven, in between the two Jokers - it has transformed into the third selection! A real commercial stunner - perfect for table hopping!
EFFECT 3 - 'FLIGHT' - A 'TEST CONDITIONS' CARD TO WALLET
A card is selected. The spectator signs the face and the back is marked with a large 'X'. The signed card is placed in between two Jokers and the three card packet is left outjogged from the centre of the deck - the spectator can still see the selected card at this point. With a snap of your fingers the deck is spread and there is now NOTHING in between the Jokers - the signed selection has completely vanished! You reach into your back pocket - that you have been nowhere near the entire time - inside your regular, everyday wallet is the signed card!
Running Time Approximately 1hr 11min
Reviews
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The effects are decent. However, I really liked the third effect. It's a card to wallet effect with a lot of virtues over many other card to wallets. However, there are some major restrictions. You have to be seated. You have to be wearing a sports coat or suit jacket that's a bit long. Each time you perform, you have to waste the only card in the deck that the trick will work with. So unless you have a one way force deck, you can't do the trick again. This is one that you wouldn't do strolling anyway, but you also don't need tricks that can only be done once with each deck of cards . . . balance, people . . . balance.
The virtue of this version is that it appears you never go near your wallet during the entire routine. Plus the selection appears to be on the table. It instantly vanishes, and you instantly (with empty hands) go to your wallet in your back pocket and (with no phony moves) really pull the card out of your wallet. No gimmicked wallet required, and the card really is in there. The spectator can remove it. But again, the circumstances needed to create this effect may not be worth the extra effort. I will, likely, never do this effect . . . ever, because of the "rules" for performing this effect. Although I wouldn't perform this effect, it's the best effect on the DVD . . . what's that tell you about the other 2 effects? They're not as good as one that I'll NEVER do.
To be honest, this project feels like something that was kind of thrown together in a hurry because they wanted to unload a bunch of these "special gimmicks" that they had kickin' around. It felt like the effects were just thrown together to make use of this gimmick - again something that you most likely have. In the beginning, I said that I might recommend this, but the more I think about it, the more I'm not so sure . . . because it's relatively inexpensive (only $20.00) and you can get some decent insight/ideas for card to wallet, I'm comfortable giving this 2 stars with a status of grubble (mostly rubble . . . but may be worthy considering).