Dangerous Disc 1: Mystique
Alright so, I've had Dangerous for awhile, maybe about 2 months. I didn't want to write a review for it yet because I wanted to really experiment with the tricks and flourishes and perform them for other people to really see of what I think of it. So lets start with Mystique.
Bad Influence The effect 3 people are chosen to participate, you hand the deck to them and they can shuffle up the deck as much as they like; you then tell them to scan through the cards and try to find a certain card the magician has decided to say. For example, he might say "Try to find the Queen of Hearts" so the first spectator trys to find it, he/she takes it out but doesn't look at it, he/she then passes the deck to the next person and does the same thing, say the magician says "now try to find the 4 of diamonds", he/she will try to find it and takes it out and passes the deck to the last person and does the exact same thing. Then the magician turns over the 3 cards to show that all 3 of the cards were the cards that were selected and said.
My Thoughts Alright I really love this trick! Even since I started magic I've known a trick that's quite similar to this one, but this steps it up and makes it an advanced version! It's totally free and happens in the spectators hand. I've performed this soooooooo many times and have gotten reactions! Something that I like to do is have the person write it down to make sure they remember it because sometimes the spectators will forget their card and I've noticed that if they don't remember the cards, they will still react but if they remember their card, they will really freak out and you will get much better reactions! Love the effect! 8/10
Aces The Effect The spectator takes the deck and shuffles it then gives it back to the magician claiming that even though the spectator has shuffled the cards, that he knows where all the Aces are. With just a quick little Sybil move, he finds and produces the first Ace. Then suddenly the second Ace appears in his/her back pocket. The third Ace appears as the whole deck vanishes and appears as the third ace. The forth Ace appears suddenly on the table on top the aces.
My thoughts Ok I'm not a big fan of this trick. I've practiced it and performed it for people but they don't seem to be all that amazed, they actaully seem kind of confused, probably because of all the flourishy things you're doing. Also, I don't really have that much fun performing it, so not one of my favorites, though if you like flourishy production tricks then you'll like this one. 2/10
Angle Zero The Effect The spectator choses a card and everone sees it, the magician can even see it. He then rips off the corner and hands the riped card to the spectator, very very cleanly he then makes the corner vanish from his hands and makes it appear anywhere he wants, no matter what! The spectator can then pick the piece up and see that it matches perfectly to the riped card.
My Thoughts By far my favorite trick on the whole DVD. This actaully beat my best tricks Stigmata and Distortion, now everyone asks me to do Angle Zero. I've performed so many times and people flip!!! My high school's talent show is coming next Friday and I'm planning on performing it with jumbo cards.
One time I even made the piece appear on a girl's belt!!!! The girl freaked out!!!!!! Very powerful!!! 10/10
Catch The Effect A card is selected placed back in the deck and then with some flourishy moves you suddenly make 3 cards pop out of the deck, 2 of which are a 2 of a kind(2 aces, 2 kings, 2 jacks, etc) and in the middle, a face down card is the signed, selected card.
My Thoughs Ok by far the worst trick on the DVD! I've performed many times and seriously have gotten no reactions whatsoever, not even a smile or a nodd!
Not fun to perform, not fun to watch people react-if they even do and just looks terrible! 1/10
Color The Effect A card is shown and very visably the card changes with no cover and no angle problems.
My Thoughts Ok so this is a variation of the shapshifter that we all know and love. I personally like the shapeshifter better though Color is a really good one to do every now and then. 7/10
Half Vanish The Effect 2 of a kind are shown and placed face down on the table, a card is then selected an signed and place on top of the deck, then with a quick wave of the deck, the card vanishes and the 2 of a kind that was left on the table now has a card in the middle, which is the signed and selected card.
My thoughts This effect is not all that bad. Not many people seem to like it, it's not the best in the world but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be. I use it sometime and get pretty good reactions. I did modify the vanish just a tad just to make it seem a lot more fair. 7/10
Heritage The Effect The deck is shuffled by a spectator and 4 cards are presented saying that the 4 cards are part of a 5 card poker hand but 1 of the cards is missing. The spectator then deals one card at a time, face up, and stops where ever he/she wants, then next, facedown, card is then given to the magician and placed in the middle of the 4 card poker hand which is then found to be the very card he needed to complete the 4 card poker hand. (In the original handling, the Ace of clubs, 2 of clubs, 4 of clubs, and 5 of clubs are the 4 cards and the card that the spectator stopped at was the 3 of clubs)
My Thoughts Alright I love this trick. It seems pretty much impossible to the audience. I've performed it many times and have gotten amazing reactions, I've only been caught once and that was my fault for forgetting how to deal with audience if they are looking too closely at your hands. But overall: 9/10
Lapse The Effect 2 cards are selected by 2 differenty spectators and signed. One of them is placed in the back pocket, the 2nd one is lost within the deck and shuffles. The magician riffles through the deck and they call stop where ever they like and the top cards turns out to be the card that was placed in the back pocket. To the "back pocketed" card that appeared in the deck is set on the table and the back pocketed card is showen to STILL be the same card as the card you just set on the table. The card on the table is then shown to be the 2nd selected card that was lost in the deck.
My thoughts Ok, I actaully really like this trick. It's easy and fun to perform. Only 1 problem I have, I've performed this several times and it seems that people don't realize what is happening. I first thought that I was going to fast and not really explaining everything clearly. So I slowed it down and explained it better but still nothing, they just get confused. Now don't get my wrong, sometimes some people will follow along and understand he freak out, but several times people just get confused. All in all, besides the confusion, I love it! 7/10
Focus The effect A card is shown and instantly changes into another card and the first card that was shown is now in your back pocket.
My Thoughts Not really one of my favorite tricks in the world. It looks great it is angle sensitive and just feels weird to perform for some strange reason. It has gotten some good reactions, I'll just be sitting at my desk practicing and then someone will see me change it, flip out and ask to see it again. 6/10
Role Play The deck is shuffled by a spectator and then they chose card, it can even my signed and places in the deck and lost, like the TV show.
The magician then explains that they will switch places, he/she will become the magican and the magician will become the spectator, so he hands him/her the deck and he/she spreads the cards out so the "spectator"(first magician) can pick a card. The real magician then asks what card was chosen and lost in the deck, and turns out that the card the "spectator" (magician) chose was the same card.
My Thoughts Yet another one if my favorites!!! This is pretty much the trick I do when I'm doing something and someone says do a trick real fast. I've performed it too many times now but still love it! 9/10
Breach The effect A card is shown underneath a glass table and instantly goes through the table and is now on top of the table. Then the card is penetrated through the table again and goes down through the table where it first began.
My Thoughts This trick looks cool but is hard to do especially when most of the places I'm at don't have glass tables. I don't really perform it all that much. I have a glass table here at my home so when my friends come over to my house, I'll show them Breach, but that's pretty much it. It's ok, but not one of my favorites. 5/10
Alright so, I've had Dangerous for awhile, maybe about 2 months. I didn't want to write a review for it yet because I wanted to really experiment with the tricks and flourishes and perform them for other people to really see of what I think of it. So lets start with Mystique.
Bad Influence The effect 3 people are chosen to participate, you hand the deck to them and they can shuffle up the deck as much as they like; you then tell them to scan through the cards and try to find a certain card the magician has decided to say. For example, he might say "Try to find the Queen of Hearts" so the first spectator trys to find it, he/she takes it out but doesn't look at it, he/she then passes the deck to the next person and does the same thing, say the magician says "now try to find the 4 of diamonds", he/she will try to find it and takes it out and passes the deck to the last person and does the exact same thing. Then the magician turns over the 3 cards to show that all 3 of the cards were the cards that were selected and said.
My Thoughts Alright I really love this trick! Even since I started magic I've known a trick that's quite similar to this one, but this steps it up and makes it an advanced version! It's totally free and happens in the spectators hand. I've performed this soooooooo many times and have gotten reactions! Something that I like to do is have the person write it down to make sure they remember it because sometimes the spectators will forget their card and I've noticed that if they don't remember the cards, they will still react but if they remember their card, they will really freak out and you will get much better reactions! Love the effect! 8/10
Aces The Effect The spectator takes the deck and shuffles it then gives it back to the magician claiming that even though the spectator has shuffled the cards, that he knows where all the Aces are. With just a quick little Sybil move, he finds and produces the first Ace. Then suddenly the second Ace appears in his/her back pocket. The third Ace appears as the whole deck vanishes and appears as the third ace. The forth Ace appears suddenly on the table on top the aces.
My thoughts Ok I'm not a big fan of this trick. I've practiced it and performed it for people but they don't seem to be all that amazed, they actaully seem kind of confused, probably because of all the flourishy things you're doing. Also, I don't really have that much fun performing it, so not one of my favorites, though if you like flourishy production tricks then you'll like this one. 2/10
Angle Zero The Effect The spectator choses a card and everone sees it, the magician can even see it. He then rips off the corner and hands the riped card to the spectator, very very cleanly he then makes the corner vanish from his hands and makes it appear anywhere he wants, no matter what! The spectator can then pick the piece up and see that it matches perfectly to the riped card.
My Thoughts By far my favorite trick on the whole DVD. This actaully beat my best tricks Stigmata and Distortion, now everyone asks me to do Angle Zero. I've performed so many times and people flip!!! My high school's talent show is coming next Friday and I'm planning on performing it with jumbo cards.
One time I even made the piece appear on a girl's belt!!!! The girl freaked out!!!!!! Very powerful!!! 10/10
Catch The Effect A card is selected placed back in the deck and then with some flourishy moves you suddenly make 3 cards pop out of the deck, 2 of which are a 2 of a kind(2 aces, 2 kings, 2 jacks, etc) and in the middle, a face down card is the signed, selected card.
My Thoughs Ok by far the worst trick on the DVD! I've performed many times and seriously have gotten no reactions whatsoever, not even a smile or a nodd!
Not fun to perform, not fun to watch people react-if they even do and just looks terrible! 1/10
Color The Effect A card is shown and very visably the card changes with no cover and no angle problems.
My Thoughts Ok so this is a variation of the shapshifter that we all know and love. I personally like the shapeshifter better though Color is a really good one to do every now and then. 7/10
Half Vanish The Effect 2 of a kind are shown and placed face down on the table, a card is then selected an signed and place on top of the deck, then with a quick wave of the deck, the card vanishes and the 2 of a kind that was left on the table now has a card in the middle, which is the signed and selected card.
My thoughts This effect is not all that bad. Not many people seem to like it, it's not the best in the world but it's not as bad as some people make it out to be. I use it sometime and get pretty good reactions. I did modify the vanish just a tad just to make it seem a lot more fair. 7/10
Heritage The Effect The deck is shuffled by a spectator and 4 cards are presented saying that the 4 cards are part of a 5 card poker hand but 1 of the cards is missing. The spectator then deals one card at a time, face up, and stops where ever he/she wants, then next, facedown, card is then given to the magician and placed in the middle of the 4 card poker hand which is then found to be the very card he needed to complete the 4 card poker hand. (In the original handling, the Ace of clubs, 2 of clubs, 4 of clubs, and 5 of clubs are the 4 cards and the card that the spectator stopped at was the 3 of clubs)
My Thoughts Alright I love this trick. It seems pretty much impossible to the audience. I've performed it many times and have gotten amazing reactions, I've only been caught once and that was my fault for forgetting how to deal with audience if they are looking too closely at your hands. But overall: 9/10
Lapse The Effect 2 cards are selected by 2 differenty spectators and signed. One of them is placed in the back pocket, the 2nd one is lost within the deck and shuffles. The magician riffles through the deck and they call stop where ever they like and the top cards turns out to be the card that was placed in the back pocket. To the "back pocketed" card that appeared in the deck is set on the table and the back pocketed card is showen to STILL be the same card as the card you just set on the table. The card on the table is then shown to be the 2nd selected card that was lost in the deck.
My thoughts Ok, I actaully really like this trick. It's easy and fun to perform. Only 1 problem I have, I've performed this several times and it seems that people don't realize what is happening. I first thought that I was going to fast and not really explaining everything clearly. So I slowed it down and explained it better but still nothing, they just get confused. Now don't get my wrong, sometimes some people will follow along and understand he freak out, but several times people just get confused. All in all, besides the confusion, I love it! 7/10
Focus The effect A card is shown and instantly changes into another card and the first card that was shown is now in your back pocket.
My Thoughts Not really one of my favorite tricks in the world. It looks great it is angle sensitive and just feels weird to perform for some strange reason. It has gotten some good reactions, I'll just be sitting at my desk practicing and then someone will see me change it, flip out and ask to see it again. 6/10
Role Play The deck is shuffled by a spectator and then they chose card, it can even my signed and places in the deck and lost, like the TV show.
The magician then explains that they will switch places, he/she will become the magican and the magician will become the spectator, so he hands him/her the deck and he/she spreads the cards out so the "spectator"(first magician) can pick a card. The real magician then asks what card was chosen and lost in the deck, and turns out that the card the "spectator" (magician) chose was the same card.
My Thoughts Yet another one if my favorites!!! This is pretty much the trick I do when I'm doing something and someone says do a trick real fast. I've performed it too many times now but still love it! 9/10
Breach The effect A card is shown underneath a glass table and instantly goes through the table and is now on top of the table. Then the card is penetrated
through the table again and goes down through the table where it first began.My Thoughts This trick looks cool but is hard to do especially when most of the places I'm at don't have glass tables. I don't really perform it all that much. I have a glass table here at my home so when my friends come over to my house, I'll show them Breach, but that's pretty much it. It's ok, but not one of my favorites. 5/10
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