Keep in mind that TV magic naturally must be this way.
You're trying to connect to audiences that can watch Star Wars on the same platform, it's hard to make a close-up vanish beat Darth Vader force choking someone. Even worse you can rewind and tear the thing apart, look up the trick and see how it's done nearly immediately on youtube.
So TV magic HAS to withstand that level of scrutiny (Which makes it very boring to me).
Even tricks you might have seen in the "old days" needed to be specially selected and, typically, performed for the camera and NOT the audience.
This trick, as presented is basically the "coin through glass" for a TV audience. PERHAPS it could be done somewhat similarly in person without a TV crew, but the set-up would be significant, as would be angles and presentation.
Magic is after all magic, and should not be "possible" otherwise it isn't magic at all. So that effect, even if done in person is definitely NOT possible. It must be magic.