That is the most true thing I’ve read.
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In all seriousness, I’ve noticed every trick recently has just been a rehash. I would do like maaz and take the high road and not name any particular effect, but Woops.
The cat paw from Ellusionist is clearly just Micheal ammar’s little hand.
Pot of jam- one of the stupidest plots I’ve ever heard of, but it is clearly just the orange trick..... but a pot of jam instead of an orange. THATS IT!!!! The only difference.
A couple of the recent penguin effects seem incomplete and unpolished in my opinion, but I could be wrong.
Pretty much the exact ones I was gonna mention, plus a few others.
I mean the cat paw isn't even original (and they do not claim it to be so). It's from an Old Paul Harris effect and then the Michael Ammar version.
Pot of Jam made me question a lot of things. I mean, it doesn't seem like an original effect at all, I've seen effects and presentations of the exact same thing using balls, coins, paper, whatever. Yet it's a gimmick? I don't know about you guys, but carrying around a gimmick for 1 trick that I can accomplish using pure slight of hand just seems impractical. Yes, you can make anything appear at the end. But what makes it so special? We always hear about companies getting mad that someone ended up publishing a similar trick as before, but these are literally just old tricks rebranded and given a little quirk to make them look special. Maybe I'm being a bit harsh, but some of these things are just plain old dumb.
Ellusionist made some very good products recently, but for everyone like Quiver, Clone, etc., there has been a random product.
And yeah, penguin has put out some random stuff too recently.
Btw, this is NOT me taking a shot at any company for pettiness, these are just my thoughts on recent releases.
But they are organic, highly visual, must-have effects that kill, slay, murder and then resuscitate the audience. Every magician quoted has been amazed by them. In fact, they are the most amazing trick since the last trick they were quoted on.
^ This