Price$10.00
Media TypeTrick
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedSep 11, 2013
Jacks in the Box
Colombini, Aldo
Wild-Colombini Magic
(Based on 2 reviews)
Reviews
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PROS
This is a great packet trick because Aldo took a great Roy Walton Oil and Queen trick and created some clever custom cards with a “Jack-in-the-box” design with Roy’s permission. The effect is being produced now by the Magic Apple with a nicer card design.
It is a great effect because it combines an oil and water illusion with a card transposition illusion and ends with an unexpected climax.
CONS
As with many packet tricks, when the cards get worn out, you will need to purchase the effect all over again. If you find yourself performing this effect repeatedly, then perhaps it is worth it for you to purchase the effect again for the refills. The “Suggestions” section will have some additional ideas.
VERDICT
Great packet trick that is unique because of the Roy Walton effect and the clever custom printed cards.
One example of a routine premise is to create patter that is about movies. On the blank face cards, write down the titles of four of your favorite movies for the final revelation.
Another example is you could tell the story of four dogs, “Spade, Diamond, Club, and Heart”. The final revelation could be drawings of your four dogs.
This is a great packet trick because Aldo took a great Roy Walton Oil and Queen trick and created some clever custom cards with a “Jack-in-the-box” design with Roy’s permission. The effect is being produced now by the Magic Apple with a nicer card design.
It is a great effect because it combines an oil and water illusion with a card transposition illusion and ends with an unexpected climax.
CONS
As with many packet tricks, when the cards get worn out, you will need to purchase the effect all over again. If you find yourself performing this effect repeatedly, then perhaps it is worth it for you to purchase the effect again for the refills. The “Suggestions” section will have some additional ideas.
VERDICT
Great packet trick that is unique because of the Roy Walton effect and the clever custom printed cards.
Suggestions
This is a very good and clever routine. As you learn the routine, you will find that you could draw anything on four blank face cards to create your own routine. If you purchase a deck of blank face cards, you can make 13 sets of refills for the price of one blank face deck.One example of a routine premise is to create patter that is about movies. On the blank face cards, write down the titles of four of your favorite movies for the final revelation.
Another example is you could tell the story of four dogs, “Spade, Diamond, Club, and Heart”. The final revelation could be drawings of your four dogs.
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This is not a fresh, hot off the presses, revolutionary, must see, gotta check out get, of the moment...well, you know what I mean. I keep an eye on what is constantly coming out to greater market-while my other eye is looking ever into the past. This trick, is based on a Roy Walton trick, which I learned from a Nick Trost book several years ago. It starts with an oil water premise, shifts to a translocation, then, takes another surprise turn at climax. People have been floored by the original version, which I end with Queens.
Aldo Colombini managed to make this strong trick even more memorable I think-by using Jacks, the card box, and, the pun of Jacks in the Box. More, the final cards are terribly cute and charming, which makes the trick perfect to show to children. With magic, in this case, card magic, I have seen countless 'improvements' either in books, or marketed effects. Sometimes I wonder 'how is this an improvement? Do we really need this?'-As I said, Walton's Oil and Queens is strong-but I appreciate that Aldo added humor, and a justafiable punchline to the trick. I think it's more memorable, and, funny indeed.
Along with the intial handling, Aldo includes a second which uses the Mirage Count at the beginning-for those who may not care to use the Hamman count. This mirage option is a bit smoother, and it also introduced me to a count I hadn't know earlier. Finally, the trick comes with one quick bit of cute business-a trick using a jack and two jokers. The jokers go into the card box, the jack onto the box, and in a blink-the jokers snap into the hands, and the jack..well else would he be? Very charming trick. I definitely recommend this, whether it's to be shared with children or adults.
Aldo Colombini managed to make this strong trick even more memorable I think-by using Jacks, the card box, and, the pun of Jacks in the Box. More, the final cards are terribly cute and charming, which makes the trick perfect to show to children. With magic, in this case, card magic, I have seen countless 'improvements' either in books, or marketed effects. Sometimes I wonder 'how is this an improvement? Do we really need this?'-As I said, Walton's Oil and Queens is strong-but I appreciate that Aldo added humor, and a justafiable punchline to the trick. I think it's more memorable, and, funny indeed.
Along with the intial handling, Aldo includes a second which uses the Mirage Count at the beginning-for those who may not care to use the Hamman count. This mirage option is a bit smoother, and it also introduced me to a count I hadn't know earlier. Finally, the trick comes with one quick bit of cute business-a trick using a jack and two jokers. The jokers go into the card box, the jack onto the box, and in a blink-the jokers snap into the hands, and the jack..well else would he be? Very charming trick. I definitely recommend this, whether it's to be shared with children or adults.