I completely disagree. Your right that it's not the greatest effect since sliced bread, but I think your wrong on many other fronts. First off the price. Check out Ellusionist before you complain about that. Then you may come back saying "You could get a DVD with a bunch of tricks on it for the same price". True. But this is a signature effect, not one you toss into a DVD with other random tricks. And I disagree with the replication as well. With correct performance you should have a presence that represents power, control, and magic. Your spectator shouldn't want to try and replicate what you just did, and chances are even if they tried that couldn't do it right. If you don't leave holes in your performance, you can turn a double lift into the best card routine on the planet. As far as not leaving a "Real Magic" impression, I disagree again. This IS real magic. Taking something that is in a spectator's world everyday, and taking it to an extraordinary level, and you say it's not magic? Performance, patter, and attitude is key when performing magic, and in my opinion, if this is how you feel, I don't even know that you've given pressure a fair chance. You can completely disagree with me, but I know that this effect is powerful. Oh, and as far as the cleanup leaving discrepancy, honestly, 99% of spectators are going to think the trick is over, and if you don't leave holes in your routine, and constantly keep them focused on what your doing at the right times, they won't even notice. The wetness could have just as easily run out from the hole in the balloon you bit out, or even from your mouth when you bit it. That's my two cents.
I'll summarize what was a hugely long post that I just wrote and then lost.
A good effect should support a performance, not hinder it. This effect is both obvious and you end filthy, and has an equally obvious clean up. It forces you to perform amazingly well to cover huge flaws in the trick, to the extent that even when Danny G performed it, I knew what he was doing from end to end, and that was on an edited teaser.
It doen't withstand long term thought. Anyone who thinks about the trick for a while will be like....I bet its that. Even if they only guess the first part you're busted. I like magic that they can think about for weeks and still never get any closer to the method. That's not true of this effect.
If you think its worth 25 bucks adn is amazing, then go right ahead, but I don't post because I'm concerned about my performance. I performed it, I got good reactions and I've not been rumbled, but I still think its a fricking weak assed trick, and there are a lot of people who have been marketed into buying it that won't be able to perform it, because its not as it was billed. I post my opinion so people can make a real and informed choice about whether or not to spank 20 bucks on an effect like this, with huge flaws in it. Sure it can be covered by master level performances, but the truth is, there are inherent flaws to the method.
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