This is not a good price at all for what you get. The instruction is awful. For this price you can buy way better stuff. Do not buy this.

The Platt father/son duo have been on my radar since Sugar Rush which continues to get some of my best reactions on a regular basis. Well 'Sharpie Quickie' is another home run! After watching the trailer I was almost certain I knew of the method but to my surprise was I so wrong,... but wrong in such a good way. Listen to these words carefully: you go & borrow the specatator's Sharpie, then snap the clip off the exact cap of THEIR Sharpie & can choose to restore & do it again or just simply hand it back. Without giving away too much I'll just say that you don't need to perform a switch. The gimmick is genius & not only provides the spectator with a strong visual but also a strong audible illusion as well. Brian walks you through 26 mins of instruction on how to break & restore the clip to the cap (4 different variations on restoration). I couldn't be happier with this product & I've had so much fun performing this, even practicing in the mirror with certain variations over & over makes me smile. This is so practical, so much fun & the gimmick takes up almost no space in your pocket. I've snap & restored with the gimmick going on nearly a few hundred times & it's still feels & sounds great! I rarely write reviews & normally am lurking about but this is so good that I hope you'll support the Platt family so they can continue to give us great magic we can all use & appreciate. My highest recommendation possible!!!

is so expensive for what you are going to buy...

I have purchased quite a few magic props in the last couple of months. I love this thing. It's so simple but perfect and it takes up no pocket space. I think there was a lot of useful tips in the tutorial and the credits at the end made me a little emotional. I would definitely consider it a worthwhile purchase.

I love this trick because I can borrow someone's Sharpie, break it, fix it, and give it back to them. This is definitely a favorite of mine.

Nice little gimmick you can use anywhere. You can always carry it around.

This is a clever little idea for a nice little magic moment that ends with you clean and the sharpie in your participant's hands. I use it as the lead-in to my version of Alex Pandrea's wonderful TR.AP trick.

Nothing packs smaller than this, and it plays exactly as big as it needs to. One problem: The actual finish of the gimmick could emulate a sharpie clip better. It has the wrong texture, and the shape is pretty dissimilar to the genuine article. I don't feel comfortable performing it up close and slowly in broad daylight. You kind of have to speed through the trick, which detracts from the impact.

$23 is pretty steep for what you get, but I'm happy to have this in my set.

Right up there with Platt Magic's Sugar Rush, which for me is a real worker. Made my wife smile. Quick is right, but strong magic.

Love this. Performed this in the middle of a magic set as well as a stand alone effect. Both got great reactions. I borrowed a sharpie from spectators at local coffee shop and at work....fried them. Borrow the sharpie whenever possible for best reactions.Takes some practice to get down.Angles are decent. Well made. A must for any magician as its so unexpected. Have fun.

Easy to do, perfectly working. The only qualm I could possibly have is that it needs be executed by me.

And here I go. I will have this issue for now and ever, deciding how to end. But don't let that deter you. After all you DON'T need us telling you what to do :-)...

hkb