I don't normally like to review card efx (there are so many of them out there these days)....but HIS
effect is wild!! The reactions I get from it are absolutely incredible!!
7 of 7 magicians found this helpful.
This is a sterling effect. The choreography is beautiful and it kills. This will take a tad of
practice but nothing crazy. All the moves follow one another perfectly. Thank you Adrian and
continued success...
8 of 10 magicians found this helpful.
This has to be one of the best tnr tricks
I've seen in a while, great trick to perform
for
everyone. Penguin was gracious enough to
send me a variety of gimmicks, all I had to do
was ask for what I preferred. I changed the way
I perform this trick with adding an extra piece
to show face up and allow the spectators to see
the two unsigned pieces before placing
them in my
pocket. You could obtain it while placing the deck
in your pocket instead of on
the table. Although it
is still a superb tnr trick just the way it is now.
6 of 6 magicians found this helpful.
This is combination with AW and Screwed Deck by Paul Harris and it's similar to Rejoined by João
Miranda in a some ways. Anniversary Waltz and had been in my routines for years and it feel
refreshing and challenging to do new things. In this purchase, you'll be getting two different
routine create by Adrian Vega and easy routine by Nick Locapo. I like Vega's routine better. Adrian
Vega is really nice guy and I want to help him to get the word out for him. If you're having trouble
with Screwed Card, message Adrian Vega on facebook and he'll be more than happy to do whatever he
can to help you.
I brought the 3 pack saver because I can see myself doing this for a long
time.
I really love this. It's practical, fun and refreshing. Give this a try. (Just so you
know my English isn't my first language. So excuse my grammar.)
9 of 13 magicians found this helpful.
This is the ultimate! I love this routine the handling is great and the effect only gets better as
the routine goes along. love the method on signed cards as it only makes it that much stronger!
this is hands down going in my shows!
7 of 9 magicians found this helpful.
Updating my review after seeing Adrian's recent lecture on Penguin Magic for a walk around/ table
hopping little packet effect with the cards cut in half with a rubber band it is 10x better then a
"card trick" it focusses more as if u would take the cards right out of ur wallet to do the twist of
the cards screwed but a nice intro and a kicker ending! Get his lecture today if you want to learn
it :)
5 of 5 magicians found this helpful.
Even though I didn't like the handling in the video very much, I bought this trick anyway to come up
with my own handling that would suit me better. However, the instructional video teaches an
alternate handling which suits me much better, so I didn't even need to change that part of the
handling.
I don't like having to palm anything, so I did change that part...but it was an
easy fix.
Use this with "Perfect Score" by Jon Allen to make the folds easy and perfect.
;)
6 of 8 magicians found this helpful.
Great, very smooth performance and handling tips by
Adrian. Note this trick is easy to do about
a level 2.5
but will need some practice.
6 of 8 magicians found this helpful.
Great trick to have
5 of 7 magicians found this helpful.
First off, I think Adrian has created a nice rendition of the Anniversary waltz. Now, let me tell
you ALL of the reasons I'm giving this 1 star....
They DO NOT tell you that the back design on
the gimmick is Maiden back. So if you don't use Maiden backs, guess what, prepare to buy some! Now
to some, this may not be a big deal, but as a magician who likes to keep his decks looking
consistent throughout the show, I don't like ringing in a specific deck just to pull off one effect.
And I already buy decks by the brick, so why should I have to go buy more decks, when they could've
and SHOULD HAVE told you that straight up.
Secondly, you DON'T get what the explanation
says you get. Adrian says in the explanation you will receive a full deck of these gimmicks which
will vary which 2 cards are paired on each gimmick. In other words you could have a Queen with a 4,
and an Ace with a 6, etc etc.... no no no... instead you get half a deck with ALL the same choices.
So I have 26 Jack of Spades with the 4 of diamonds. Meaning I would either need to buy 1 regular
deck of maidens and then buy a force deck of Maidens... OR buy 26 decks of maidens to use up all of
these gimmicks. That's absurd. So now ANY time I want to do this effect, I have to force the same
2 cards every single time. Which is total crap. i knew, as anyone who knows ANYTHING about magic,
that going into this I would be forcing cards. However what pleased me about the tutorial was the
fact that I'd be receiving an assortment of gimmicks so that it would be a different 2 force cards
every time which I liked the idea of so that each time you do it, if you happened to repeat it in
front of someone who had seen it before, it wouldn't be the exact trick from start to finish.
I watched the tutorial, and even then I didn't notice it was Maiden backs and he says, "You can
even borrow the deck".... yeah... because non magicians typically have Maiden back cards.... FML.
So after watching the tutorial, I excitedly awaited my gimmicks. Then they came and I immediately
wanted to send them back.
So I just wanted to let you all know the truth about this
before you buy "Screwed" and end up feeling that way too! It's one thing when you buy a trick and
unknowingly have to buy more stuff to perform it, but it's even worse when you buy a trick, need to
buy MORE stuff AND it not even come with what the tutorial says it will come with. Penguin really
dropped the ball on this one. I should've known when they offered a 40% off code that something
wasn't going to be good.
On top of that, they give you two handlings for the restoration.
One that can be done in the spectator's hands, which, even though it isn't a visual restoration, I
feel it's probably much stronger than the restoration you see in the video... WHICH, btw, the
"Visual" restoration is trash. It does NOT appear the way it does in EITHER of the trailers. When
you go to do the "move" to restore them visually, there is a flash every single time he does it.
You can clearly see a card is being unfolded and not just rubbed for restoration. Even though the
ending is strong, I imagine anyone that sees it will wonder, more so, how they didn't see the card
printed in such a way instead of wondering how you restored it.
Where the halves are
separated it's a perfectly straight line... how many of you tear perfectly straight lines? Because
Adrian sure as hell doesn't even in the explanation... the specially printed cards should've been
given a rough edge effect in the print instead of half and half perfectly.
I hope they
post this review. Because I have NOT truly revealed the mechanics. If you bought this and didn't
think you'd get a set of gimmicks that look like the finished product then you probably are too new
to magic to be doing this effect anyways. I'm over 20 years in the game, and even though I was
"lucky" enough to get it at a discounted price, this is by far my least favorite magic purchase of
the year. Save your money, you want a great set of gimmicked cards, buy Masterpiece by Rick Lax.
Yes it's Maiden backed as well, but it's 1 single card you keep in your wallet and it gets a
fantastic reaction every single time. Or better yet just buy a deck of cards that will allow you to
do Doc Eason's Anniversary Waltz, you won't go wrong with the original classic.
2 of 2 magicians found this helpful.