Hey everyone. Quite a while back I purchased the Dan and Dave PDF Package available at store.dananddave.com. It contains a treasure trove of knowledge, and features 6 PDFs, 48 tricks, almost 200 pages, and includes authors like Syd Segal, JC Wagner, the Bucks themselves, Chris Kenner, Henok Negash, TG Murphy and so many more acclaimed magicians. For any of you who wish to get the Trilogy, I recommend this instead. The Trilogy is nice for the visual explanation, but everything is very well explained and easy to obtain.
I'm starting with Nursery Rhymes Volume 1, which the Bucks put out while they were still in high school. Talk about ambition. In any case, it's a great deal, and to my knowledge is only available through this combo deal. There are three total volumes of Nursery Rhymes. Sleightly Magical, Five, and Full Metal Jacket are also included in this magnificent bundle.
//NURSERY RHYMES VOL. 1//
BLACKJACK PRODUCTION
Effect: From a cut and shuffled deck, four hands of matched blackjack materialize suddenly.
Review: Sadly this was not explained that well. I got so far and then got lost. The illustrations were clear but confusing. I don't know about this one. I'd like to do it offbeat, but the Bucks have many cooler ace productions in later NR volumes, so don't worry.
COLLECTORS
Effect: The four aces sandwich some selected cards.
Review: Very flashy and cool. This can be used to sandwich three or two cards. I prefer the two card version for its simplicity and visual aspect. It's grand and I hope to perform it in any two-spectator situation.
FERRARI 360 SPIDER
Effect: FLOURISH/ Cards spin in multiple Revolution cuts and Murphy deck flips.
Review: Surprisingly, this is easy if you can do both flourishes mentioned above. It's fast, visual, and simple. The only hard part is getting it up to speed, but it's relatively easy to do. A fun one if you're into cardistry/XCM.
SECOND DEAL PRODUCTION
Effect: You deal a bad strike second, but then the aces appear!
Review: I like this one. An unusual ace production, and a magician fooler. For laypeople, it's best to do it on smartalecks, that way they never know what hit them. You might want to make the deal obvious for maximum effect, but it's a great offbeat production.
MOLECULE 2
Effect: FLOURISH/ A false cut and false cut/production.
Review: This is again surprisingly easy to do. This has become one of my favorite false cuts. It's flashy, simple, and very oh so flourishy. Basically you divide the deck in three, strip one out and the last one does a 360 revolution. This can be modified into an unworldly production. This has evaded me, but the technique is easy enough and with enough practice, it will come.
So there's the review. 7/10. It's small but mighty. The later NR volumes develop on these ideas, introduce new ones, and have more content, but this is still an outrageously cool volume. Released in 2001 and made famous by the evil/eviler Buck Twins. Highly recommended. Great deal.
//NURSERY RHYMES - VOL. 2//
NR2 is a great set of notes that elaborate on volume one.
MOLECULE 2 PRODUCTION 2ND VERSION
A four-card production using the Molecule 2 cut from NR1. It's nice, flashy, and effective, similar to Kevin Ho's Top Pop, which can be learned for free on everyone's favorite video-sharing sites. I like this production, although it's a bit knacky.
THE FORTE FLOURISH
This allows you to stand up a spread on a table, then knock down the cards like dominoes but with one card standing up - their card. You learn the TPC and the spread technique itself. Knacky but it looks friggin' sweet if you have a table handy.
SPLIT CHANGE TRANSPO (TRANSPLIT)
This is basically a snap change with three cards and a transposition. Confused? It's like Twinsplit Remix with a transposition. It's a great routine, and the snap change used - a variation of an Ernest Earick change - is a great technique. You can easily do Twinsplit Remix as well.
DRIBBLE THIS!
A nice, flourishy control. You can use this as a control to top, bottom, or card to box. The Bucks give several methods to work with. It's most practical for card to box, but used as a dribble control to hide the move it's insanely great looking. A good control.
KRYPTONITE
A one-handed false cut. Looks difficult. Practice!
PANDEMONIUM AT THE CARD TABLE
Suitable for gambling demonstrations, this is a nice four-ace assembly done on the table. Wow.
ACE VENTURA
This is like a cross between Kryptonite and Josh Brand's Portal Production. It's a variation of Brian Tudor's YTBN Cut, in this case used to produce a card. It may seem difficult, but it's relatively intermediate and can be used as an impossible looking sandwich. If you do Kryptonite, you'll do this; if not, this is actually easier than the aforementioned cut. Great effect.
WEST COAST CHAOS
This teaches the one-handed cut used in the full cut from The System, and then it teaches you to produce one card with it. I personally wayyy prefer Aaron Fisher's Popover, but kudos to the Bucks for creativity.
8/10. This expanded on good ideas in NR1, but has more originality and overall awesomeness.
//NURSERY RHYMES VOL. 3//
TiVo TRANSPO
This is the infamous prequel to the infamous Tivo 2.0 that every magician has their variation of. My variation is so unique, it's the original. Anyway, this is a pretty cool transpo. Teaches a bluff display and Ben Harris' amazing Superflip color change. All for the price of one!
WATCH
AKA Realtime. A four ace assembly stretched on yo arms.
THE DMB SPREAD CONTROL
The Bucks' Convincing Control. This is pretty neat.
SHUFFLED ACES
Four aces are produced by a shuffled deck....wow. Self-descriptive much. Good though, and not difficult.
TRANSPOSITIONINGS
Essentially Deja Vu without the sandwich part of it. From the PDF itself:
Nice! I like Deja Vu a bit better though. I'd buy the OnDemand to learn it properly and fully. You learn Flippant and the Duck Change as well.
BOTTOM DEAL DALEY
A version of Dr. Daley's Last Trick.
CARD TO MOUTH
What happens here? Also known as Hand to Mouth from the Trilogy, it's an amazing card to mouth. I prefer this to T11's release, though I don't have the latter video.
CARD ACROSS
One card travels from pack to pack. You must know the Popover by Aaron Fisher, from his book the Paper Engine. He also released a DVD on it. It's basically Hello Goodbye from TPE.
THE THRICEINATOR
A tabled three-packet false cut. Nice.
LAY DOWN AND SPREAD 'EM
A tabled four ace production. This one is quick and nice.
TG MURPHY DECK FLIP/AERIAL LIFT
The Deck Flip is taught, which is a stellar move, along with a few applications such as revealing a double/triple/whateverple with it.
Continued below....
I'm starting with Nursery Rhymes Volume 1, which the Bucks put out while they were still in high school. Talk about ambition. In any case, it's a great deal, and to my knowledge is only available through this combo deal. There are three total volumes of Nursery Rhymes. Sleightly Magical, Five, and Full Metal Jacket are also included in this magnificent bundle.
//NURSERY RHYMES VOL. 1//
BLACKJACK PRODUCTION
Effect: From a cut and shuffled deck, four hands of matched blackjack materialize suddenly.
Review: Sadly this was not explained that well. I got so far and then got lost. The illustrations were clear but confusing. I don't know about this one. I'd like to do it offbeat, but the Bucks have many cooler ace productions in later NR volumes, so don't worry.
COLLECTORS
Effect: The four aces sandwich some selected cards.
Review: Very flashy and cool. This can be used to sandwich three or two cards. I prefer the two card version for its simplicity and visual aspect. It's grand and I hope to perform it in any two-spectator situation.
FERRARI 360 SPIDER
Effect: FLOURISH/ Cards spin in multiple Revolution cuts and Murphy deck flips.
Review: Surprisingly, this is easy if you can do both flourishes mentioned above. It's fast, visual, and simple. The only hard part is getting it up to speed, but it's relatively easy to do. A fun one if you're into cardistry/XCM.
SECOND DEAL PRODUCTION
Effect: You deal a bad strike second, but then the aces appear!
Review: I like this one. An unusual ace production, and a magician fooler. For laypeople, it's best to do it on smartalecks, that way they never know what hit them. You might want to make the deal obvious for maximum effect, but it's a great offbeat production.
MOLECULE 2
Effect: FLOURISH/ A false cut and false cut/production.
Review: This is again surprisingly easy to do. This has become one of my favorite false cuts. It's flashy, simple, and very oh so flourishy. Basically you divide the deck in three, strip one out and the last one does a 360 revolution. This can be modified into an unworldly production. This has evaded me, but the technique is easy enough and with enough practice, it will come.
So there's the review. 7/10. It's small but mighty. The later NR volumes develop on these ideas, introduce new ones, and have more content, but this is still an outrageously cool volume. Released in 2001 and made famous by the evil/eviler Buck Twins. Highly recommended. Great deal.
//NURSERY RHYMES - VOL. 2//
NR2 is a great set of notes that elaborate on volume one.
MOLECULE 2 PRODUCTION 2ND VERSION
A four-card production using the Molecule 2 cut from NR1. It's nice, flashy, and effective, similar to Kevin Ho's Top Pop, which can be learned for free on everyone's favorite video-sharing sites. I like this production, although it's a bit knacky.
THE FORTE FLOURISH
This allows you to stand up a spread on a table, then knock down the cards like dominoes but with one card standing up - their card. You learn the TPC and the spread technique itself. Knacky but it looks friggin' sweet if you have a table handy.
SPLIT CHANGE TRANSPO (TRANSPLIT)
This is basically a snap change with three cards and a transposition. Confused? It's like Twinsplit Remix with a transposition. It's a great routine, and the snap change used - a variation of an Ernest Earick change - is a great technique. You can easily do Twinsplit Remix as well.
DRIBBLE THIS!
A nice, flourishy control. You can use this as a control to top, bottom, or card to box. The Bucks give several methods to work with. It's most practical for card to box, but used as a dribble control to hide the move it's insanely great looking. A good control.
KRYPTONITE
A one-handed false cut. Looks difficult. Practice!
PANDEMONIUM AT THE CARD TABLE
Suitable for gambling demonstrations, this is a nice four-ace assembly done on the table. Wow.
ACE VENTURA
This is like a cross between Kryptonite and Josh Brand's Portal Production. It's a variation of Brian Tudor's YTBN Cut, in this case used to produce a card. It may seem difficult, but it's relatively intermediate and can be used as an impossible looking sandwich. If you do Kryptonite, you'll do this; if not, this is actually easier than the aforementioned cut. Great effect.
WEST COAST CHAOS
This teaches the one-handed cut used in the full cut from The System, and then it teaches you to produce one card with it. I personally wayyy prefer Aaron Fisher's Popover, but kudos to the Bucks for creativity.
8/10. This expanded on good ideas in NR1, but has more originality and overall awesomeness.
//NURSERY RHYMES VOL. 3//
TiVo TRANSPO
This is the infamous prequel to the infamous Tivo 2.0 that every magician has their variation of. My variation is so unique, it's the original. Anyway, this is a pretty cool transpo. Teaches a bluff display and Ben Harris' amazing Superflip color change. All for the price of one!
WATCH
AKA Realtime. A four ace assembly stretched on yo arms.
THE DMB SPREAD CONTROL
The Bucks' Convincing Control. This is pretty neat.
SHUFFLED ACES
Four aces are produced by a shuffled deck....wow. Self-descriptive much. Good though, and not difficult.
TRANSPOSITIONINGS
Essentially Deja Vu without the sandwich part of it. From the PDF itself:
Nice! I like Deja Vu a bit better though. I'd buy the OnDemand to learn it properly and fully. You learn Flippant and the Duck Change as well.
BOTTOM DEAL DALEY
A version of Dr. Daley's Last Trick.
CARD TO MOUTH
What happens here? Also known as Hand to Mouth from the Trilogy, it's an amazing card to mouth. I prefer this to T11's release, though I don't have the latter video.
CARD ACROSS
One card travels from pack to pack. You must know the Popover by Aaron Fisher, from his book the Paper Engine. He also released a DVD on it. It's basically Hello Goodbye from TPE.
THE THRICEINATOR
A tabled three-packet false cut. Nice.
LAY DOWN AND SPREAD 'EM
A tabled four ace production. This one is quick and nice.
TG MURPHY DECK FLIP/AERIAL LIFT
The Deck Flip is taught, which is a stellar move, along with a few applications such as revealing a double/triple/whateverple with it.
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