Chris Randall brings us a very visual, and very different effect for us restaurant workers. It’s not a card trick, not a coin trick, and not a mental effect, so it already stands apart from most of the products on the market.

Let me say up front while I know many people will enjoy this effect, it requires just too much set up for me to use it in my own work, personally. Although there are several methods to accomplish the effect, many of them do not instantly reset, and you will spend more time setting it up before your gig than actually doing it at your gig. This doesn’t make the effect itself bad. It’s actually very good, but you will have to decide if it’s good enough to set up before every gig.

That aside, let me say Randall has a great personality, and he is a great teacher. He gives a full history at the beginning of the DVD, and he talks about how he took the advice from reviewers each time he released the effect. This latest product is a DVD that gives fantastic instruction, dozens of handlings, and plenty of options for you depending on what your performing situation and style is.

The effect is clear enough. A colored marker, or crayon, is freely chosen, and a sugar packet is placed in a spectator’s hand. With just a wave of your hand, the marker or crayon changes to white, and the sugar packet is torn open to reveal that the sugar has changed into the chosen color. There are versions with and without a force, versions with gaffed and ungaffed crayons, and even versions where the spectator can taste the colored sugar, if they are suspicious (or dumb) enough to.

If this effect sounds interesting to you, and you don’t mind a ton of preparation for a single effect, then you can’t really go wrong with this.