Product Link:http://www.magic.org/store/product_info.php?products_id=5235
There's a great demo vid of this on the page
Review:
I've had this particular product for over a year now and use it weekly. If you're not familiar with this trick, it's bloody brilliant. It's a cell phone penetration of a bottle(or any small object cell phone size or smaller). I use it with the cell phone mainly. You can BORROW any plastic bottle(water bottle, soda bottle, gatorade bottle, whatever) hold it in one hand with absolutely no set-up of the bottle, borrow a spectators cell phone, and gently melt the phone into the bottle. You then proceed to pull out a knife and cut open the bottle to remove the cell phone. Yes, the phone is actually in the bottle! You can shake the bottle as evidence. I'm sure you're minds trying to process how this is accomplished. The bottle can be borrowed, you never conceal the bottle, it's out in the open the entire time. Trust me, you won't guess how it's done.
Gimmick:
The gimmick is devious. I can't say enough about it. It's easily concealed(no palming or anything of the kind). It comes with Insta-Ditch which is another gimmick that allows you to ditch the Scarabeus gimmick easily and quietly without any misdirection. There isn't much difficulty in this effect. It will take a little practice to do smoothly but not very hard at all. Difficulty is probalby 3/10.
Overall:
The price might be expensive in some eyes 49.95, but it's priceless to me. It will last me a lifetime, and I use it frequently. If Criss Angel didn't use so many damn camera tricks to do his phone penetrations and whatnot this is the product he'd probably use. Get it if you can. The only con I could think of is the spectator can't handle the bottle with the cell phone pentrated, but I've never been asked, I shake the bottle and show it on all sides so the spec. is absolutely convinced. Beautiful effect. It's not well known due to it being created by a magician based out of Tulsa, OK. He only promotes it on his site www.magic.org. I believe Penguin carried it for awhile but sold out and didn't re-stock. Get it!
Zack
There's a great demo vid of this on the page
Review:
I've had this particular product for over a year now and use it weekly. If you're not familiar with this trick, it's bloody brilliant. It's a cell phone penetration of a bottle(or any small object cell phone size or smaller). I use it with the cell phone mainly. You can BORROW any plastic bottle(water bottle, soda bottle, gatorade bottle, whatever) hold it in one hand with absolutely no set-up of the bottle, borrow a spectators cell phone, and gently melt the phone into the bottle. You then proceed to pull out a knife and cut open the bottle to remove the cell phone. Yes, the phone is actually in the bottle! You can shake the bottle as evidence. I'm sure you're minds trying to process how this is accomplished. The bottle can be borrowed, you never conceal the bottle, it's out in the open the entire time. Trust me, you won't guess how it's done.
Gimmick:
The gimmick is devious. I can't say enough about it. It's easily concealed(no palming or anything of the kind). It comes with Insta-Ditch which is another gimmick that allows you to ditch the Scarabeus gimmick easily and quietly without any misdirection. There isn't much difficulty in this effect. It will take a little practice to do smoothly but not very hard at all. Difficulty is probalby 3/10.
Overall:
The price might be expensive in some eyes 49.95, but it's priceless to me. It will last me a lifetime, and I use it frequently. If Criss Angel didn't use so many damn camera tricks to do his phone penetrations and whatnot this is the product he'd probably use. Get it if you can. The only con I could think of is the spectator can't handle the bottle with the cell phone pentrated, but I've never been asked, I shake the bottle and show it on all sides so the spec. is absolutely convinced. Beautiful effect. It's not well known due to it being created by a magician based out of Tulsa, OK. He only promotes it on his site www.magic.org. I believe Penguin carried it for awhile but sold out and didn't re-stock. Get it!
Zack
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