This was a real disappointment and I expected more of Dan Harlan. It really feels though with all the content he is working on (i.e. all the routines for the Tarbell series) that he just came up with this one overnight and rushed it out.

The stage routine is really boring and not what I expected from Dan. The audience participants look really bored and not very engaged, I do not think they smile once. And at the end, neither the audience nor the participants really seem very entertained. It really falls flat.

I was hoping that a close up routine would also be included, but unfortunately not. The original Daryl routine is far superior and far more entertaining. This just made we want to purchase that one instead.

The balls themselves are of very high quality and I do like the colour over the original black balls. But, the catch there is that it will be very hard to find a similar colour material to do the Daryl routine with these. You would basically need to re-colour these black to get a good match.

Overall, very overpriced for such a poor routine.

The routines are fine and certainly well-taught and the balls look great but they're not exactly bounce/no bounce. They're more bounce/some bounce. In the past I've only used the smaller size. Those seem more "dead." It's possible that this extra little bounce in the "no bounce" ball is common in the larger diameter balls but, for me, it kind of ruins the effect. I'm sure this bounce can be covered presentationally but not with the presentation I use. I was hoping to move my close-up routine to the stage and get some advanced handling tips to boot. All I ended up doing was blowing forty bucks. If you're starting from scratch and like the effects you see on the trailer video then maybe you'll have a different experience. Dan Harlan is a good performer and a good teacher. I'm not knocking him, just pointing out something I wish I'd known before I spent the money.

I just watched the instructions, and despite the product being depicted as red, they actually come black. The first section of the tutorial is how to recolor them to be red (or whatever color). This requires an additional $15 or $20 dollars worth of stuff.

Pretty disappointed about that.

I really am a fan of Dan but this one did not really work out he tried but it did not turn out well. Not a routine I would perform and way way way over priced if you want bounce no bounce ball you can get them for less than $10 somewhere else just search it on the internet. Good try though!

I've used various bounce / no bounce props for decades, and honestly can't think of anything else that's more effective (maybe 'as' but not 'more') in creating a fun and unexplainable experience for a person or crowd. I've absolutely floored people with it, time and time again. Though Dan's routine may not suit you personally (I think it's excellent, btw.), there's a ton of literature on the subject to explore and build your own routine from. And, like I do, a routine really isn't necessary. I just lean somewhere and bounce it various ways until someone mentions it. I tell them it's an old superball I got when I was a kid and always loved it. I hand the no-bounce ball to them and when it plunks onto the table, floor, etc., I look at it and say "You broke it!" pick it up and plunk it a couple of times, look lightly irritated at him/her and put it away. There's a sense of logic that absolutely stuns them. They know it's a superball, so how could it break? Yet, it did! Get the picture? From the video this set seems to be well made and it's a very reasonable price for what it is and how much fun you'll have it.
Every magician needs a good set of bounce / no bounce balls.
Just wanted to put in my 10 cents worth.

I've been hoping someone would get around to making a larger, more colorful ball to be seen from the stage and now they have!

This is an excellent product. I have had a lot of fun with this and have used it for opening up to kids. The routine is something that I probably won't do but we are not here to copy other people's work, we're here to Create our own.

I have found this trick the most useless piece of magic that I have purchased from penguin.
Large props.Low on the excitement scale.
Dan Harlan is a great presenter, but this is not his best.

First off, I would like to thank Penguin for my order request, I requested that the balls be red, and I got them red. I watched Dan Harlan's routine and as mentioned in other reviews, it bores audiences if its a full routine, it's not an extremely "full" trick, a ball bounces and then it doesn't bounce, that's it. even 60 seconds of that is enough to bore any audience let alone 5 to 10 minutes. I won't be using the routines provided, but I will happily put this in my children's show as a 10 second gag. Love the balls, routine isn't great.

Well made and work perfectly. Dan's take is fantastic and there are a million tweaks you could make to be very individual on this.