First, I love it when Joel says "Pocket" :)
This is a great rendition of a classic illusion
and so well
crafted.
Joel explains the effect and training very well.
And has
another idea for this illusion.
Oh and a pdf comes with this.
It's in my restaurant
work right now.
And the price is so good.
Oh and Joel says "Top" so cool too.
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This reminded me of Will To Read by Steve Dela and Alakazam as I love everything mentalism they
release. Penguin and Alakazam have been working together if you visit the sites so I am happy to see
that. This download/ email blast I knew this was a worker and I must say that I was extremely
fooled. I knew that "Something" had to happen to make this work so freely, but was clueless on the
rest. Before even making up my business cards I had to write a review of this.
Joel, and
Penguin - you have released a MONSTER Mentalism effect that takes up zero space, all you need is a
sharpie and some business cards to make it. You will create this in less than 5 minutes, and
performing right after the video (with practice of presentation of course making it your own). I
will also say that without getting into the details, if you own certain Wallets - you could also
perform this effect with the Wallet! I am deffinetly going to do it that way. This is something you
can have multiple setups for being that the effect is so simple, (just as WILL TO READ by Steve Dela
is) so you can focus more on your presentation.
As Peter Nardi says in Screen Test:
"Mentalism is when you present something that may be simple to perform, but it is YOU who makes the
magical connection happen to the spectator, leaving an everlasting moment from your performance.
Joel, Penguin - Amazing job. So excited to use this, and P.S: Joel gives you various ways
to reveal/ and perform this effect - so as i mentioned one tool that if you have it will work,
otherwise look no further, hit add to cart. I do see this rising in price, the value in the method
is worth 5x what you are paying. Like mentalism? Have $10? Learn NOW!
P3 - Andrew Ace
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I have been doing close-up for 44 years. THIS IS ONE OF TOP 10 I have purchased from PENGUIN. The
other two are. VAULT energy bill by Gerald $11.99 download and 24-Karat by Greg Wilson $9.95
download. All three for under $32. You will forever THANK me. wgF
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I am a hobbyist magician and I have already spent a considerable amount of money on all sorts of
magic products.
I recently purchased Volition and performed it to friends as part of a
sequence of magic effects I put together with others magic effects from my extensive inventory.
Volition was the one that got the best reaction by far, no doubts. Which is mind blowing to me,
considering that this is an absurdly simple trick to perform and to prepare. This forced me to write
my first review here on Penguin Magic.
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I bought this trick some weeks ago. In the meanwhile I had to reorder business cards. Damn, I never
ever gave
away that many business cards. The secret is an evil masterpiece, although you can
simply re-engeneer it when you see the „unedited“ trailer. The trick is worth it's money, easy to do
– you can perform maybe 2 minutes after you watched the video. I already have 2 gigs resulting from
this trick. And I’m not a pro magician– I do this as hobby.
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First of all I must say that I am a little disappointed because the trailer is misleading. They cut
out a key moment in the trick to make it look way better prior to buying the download. It is not
even close to how clean it looks on the promo video.
With that said.. it is still a clever
trick. Is it the best download on Penguin, absolutely not. Is it worth $10, probably not.
The method does work and it is a cool trick to get your business card out there. But once again,
was a little disappointed they cut out key moments of the trick. Probably would not have purchased
if the full performance was shown.
Finally, please don't let my negative comments above
totally push you away from buying this trick as it is an interesting effect. So if this is something
you're interested in, I would pick it up. $10 isn't going to kill you even if you leave with a
little distaste from the misleading promo.
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This is a terrific worker and a great prelude to perhaps stronger effects in a set. It is virtually
impromptu, clean, straight forward and makes an impact.
I already had his book "Head
Tricks" which contained this effect, but purchased this as it advertised "V2- his preferred method
now." Turns out V2 is the version that is in the book.
Just a heads up.
That being
said, it is a nice visual supplement to go along with the book and considering the price for an
effect that will be (and is) a worker for me, this is a no-brainer.
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It’s a good routine and, in my opinion, more magical that the blue-chip or EVolition version. Great
at weddings (I’m a wedding MC and Toastmaster) and my routine doesn’t always use ‘pocket’ as ladies
don’t always have these in their wedding outfits. I use one table’ instead.
My eyes are not as
sharp as they used to be (I’m in myseventies) so I’m careful about lighting.
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As stated above this is a great trick to carry around. It's also something you can pull off
impromptu,I always like to have something on me in case someone walks up and asks for me to show
them a trick. This is the perfect trick to pull-out it packs small and plays big.
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I have performed this a few times in a performance situation, and each time the reactions have been
INCREDIBLE!..... and why not, in all it's ease of performance and simplicity of technique, Volition
is an amazingly POWERFUL piece of mentalism!!! This thing hits HARD!!! I will do this in my close-up
shows and parlour shows and so should you. This is a GREAT opener, and given the accompaniment of
superb presentation a very POWERFUL closer. Your spectator's will be WOWED!!!! Toe-Knee, Street
Magic at its Finest wants to give this masterwork in simplistic mentalism ten stars!!!!!
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