There are many reasons I purchased this. One, I had two cartoon decks and they eventually bit the dust to the bar. Love ya Dan but they didn't live through the alcohol test. Secondly, I don't like using having more than one deck at the bar. A private gig, understandable. Cartoon, Cartoon 2, Fartoon are all great card tricks that are not card tricks. Third, You can easily replace the souvenir give-away card, unless you can't draw worth a crap. Then all you have to do is cut out one of the restock cards with an exacto knife and color within the borders of the cuts. And if you can't do that...then um...there is always Uber or Lyft.

One step further you can reveal anything. Words, numbers, ages, symbols...if you can peek it, you can tweek it. Being surrounded at the bar, this thing is angle proof. It's different enough from cards, sponge balls, ring rope, fire wallet, wikitest, haunted deck, floating dollar, and all the other hard hitting quick things I do. The cards come installed with some funny and cute visuals that I am going to turn into some very offensive humor.

If you are a worker...like...get paid to do magic like I do...this is very much worth it if you know what you are doing. If you are new to magic, on the download Scott teaches you a lot of methods to get information from your spectators. Actually, methods more than in a $30 download and years of reading the old Dover book classics...so you newbies get your money's worth.

Where we magicians were lazy, Scott wasn't. He put a cartoon where it was supposed to be on...a stack of durable business cards...not on playing cards. Now it's uniquely it's own effect and focus's on it. I have my own ideas, cause I am a practical method guy with convoluted dreams. And since this is a review, I'll leave it in the discussion section.

this is a great trick well taught by scott ,however i feel that the card stock is too thick because if you try to riffle the whole packet it is so stiff that you are flat out seeing the stickman ,the only way i could do it is to split the packet in half and do the riffle with the top half first then pick up the bottom half and finish the effect ,perhaps penquin can rework this effect for a future release ,thats the reason for 4 stars. errol

What a clever idea. Why didn't I think of it - and I do lots of personalized magic. Damn you're good, Scott.

When Scott begins to explain the procedure for performing the magic I found it to be somewhat confusing. When he does the switch from one pack of cards to another, it is very easy to see him doing so. Some of the other manners in which he handles the switch are better and less easy to identify.

Over all the trick just isn't as clever or unusual as one might believe it would be. When compared to many of the other tricks that I have purchased from Penguin Magic, it is very over priced.

Thanks,

I don't normally write reviews but I want to address the negative comments, about this effect. The issue seems to be the thickness of the cards supplied.

1. It would be an easy matter, to take the cards to and office supply store and have the images transfer to a paper stock more consistent with a flip book.

2. However, the above solution is unnecessary if you follow the instructional video no BEVELING the cards. Then the thickness of the card doesn't matter.

This is a really good effect of mental magic and not only amazes but truly entertains the audience with a cute representation, of your "psychic helper" which is how I present it. Recommended highly.

Very easy to do - plays nice and big - cards are nice and I love that your can do on the fly

This is one of the best purchase I have made in a long time. You can really adapt the handling to your own level and the reactions are simply awesome.
Scott + Dan = Awesomeness!

This a clever and fun trick except the card STOCK USED MAKES IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO SEE THE EFFECT. THE CARD STOCK IS TOO THCK.