Nazmi Mostafa • Batu Pahat,Malaysia • 11/03/09
Last day, I performed LIT to my friends and I got not great or good but, best reaction ever! LIT is one of my favourite effect. BUY IT NOW!
Mat La Vore • West Palm Beach, FL • 04/04/09
I'm a hard sell on card effects these days (especially ones that require additional props or gimmicks) -- both in terms of buying them, as well as actually putting them into my performing repertoire. I have learned and played with countless card effects over the years, but I have a solid 19 that are favorites and that I regularly perform for people.
Now I have 20.
Lit uses basic sleights and is angle proof. And for the amount of work you put into accomplishing the effect, you're getting a huge payoff. I've heard Dan White has said this is one of the strongest effects he performs, and I believe it. The routine is solid.
You first take out a book of matches and tear one out. The spectator can clearly see all the remaining matches in the matchbook. You close it back up, light the match, and hand the spectator the matchbook. You then swallow the lit match and blow at the matchbook. When the spectator looks inside there is one burned match, attached to the matchbook. Simple effect, but it plays really strong. (If you own it, Warning by DG works well with this phase also.) You then take out a deck of cards and let a spectator select a card. You then vanish it (multiple ways to do this, multiple ways taught on the DVD + bonus footage as well). Their card is gone. You ask them to light a match, but when they go to open the matchbook, they find the matchbook transformed into their card. To the spectator it seems like the transformation is happening in their own hands AS they are opening the matchbook. Like they change is happening at THAT moment. This really just knocks people for a loop and, in my experience, has consistently gotten a reaction of real astonishment. They just don't see it coming.
Two bonus effects are also included, and both are very good. Neither one is a throw-away effect. The first is a floating match that (as DW says) can also be used to float leaves and other small things. It uses a gimmick quite a few magicians are working with already. The second is a self-lighting matchpack by Andrew Gerard. Very easy and the gimmick isn't cumbersome in the least. Just a clever application of science. You light a match, eat it, blow at the matchbook in the spectator's hand and the entire thing ignites. Very cool.
Again, this is a killer card effect that is a step-off from the beaten path, so for those looking for something along these lines and that plays strong on a consistent basis, Lit is definitely something you want to look into. Lit is a real worker that spectators just go nuts over. I'm having a ton of fun with it, and so are my spectators. Just absolutely fantastic magic.
