I find it kind of annoying that people are not as into the product because it's on Ellusionist and not theory11.
What should it matter? Same DVD anyways...
But the candy scam one sounds amazing but it's ben taking out? I would of bought it for that trick.
What makes you think that's the reason?
Personally I love WH's material, but I don't have much interest in this release. And it has nothing to do with where it's being sold. That's just silly.
I just don't think the price is justified. All the tricks have already been previously published, so there's no new magic here. Which leaves the 1 hour documentary. And for $35 + shipping you're looking at $40 for a 60 minute documentary. I'm sure there's some good stuff in the documentary, but I doubt there's much in it a lot of us who read magic books haven't heard before. At first glance it seems as if it might be a bit self indulgent as well. There's nothing wrong with putting yourself and your friends on video to talk about the first magic trick they saw, but in the end you have to ask yourself--what's the point? If the stories aren't just small set-ups to talk in depth about much larger subjects, then in the end it's just a collection of fanboy anecdotes.
I'm sure that's not the entire case with AoM. I haven't seen it, and I wouldn't expect Wayne to fill a DVD with just that. But at some level that
does seem to be a part of it. And when I'm paying $40 to sit down and watch a 60 minute show I'm looking at my watch every time I think it's moving into the realm of self indulgence.
Again, I have not seen AoM--I want to make that clear--so these are just my thoughts on my first impressions of it based on the trailers and clips and descriptions we've all seen and read. I could be totally wrong. But for $40 I think my money could be better spent elsewhere in trying to expand my knowledge on the craft/artform. And that's what I've done. The "magic money" I had set aside this month I put toward Darwin Ortiz's
Designing Miracles. Just got it yesterday, but so far it's an amazing book.
I think Wayne is an awesome creator and an incredible performer. I have everything he's released so far and I use all of his material. The man knows magic and I'm a big fan of his work. So perhaps my first impressions of AoM are totally wrong. And honestly, I hope they are because I love when I'm wrong about something in a positive way. I love when I'm not expecting some thing to be great and it blows me out of the water. But as of right now it just doesn't seem to be worth the asking price.