this is so cool. It is exactly best of both worlds, a vanishing and an appearing candle (wand) at the same time. i should say about twice as strong and springy then a normal vanishing or appearing candle. you will need to practice with it because if you just relax your hand when it's close in order to make it appear, it is so strong that i will shoot out of your hand up to the ceiling, really!

but once you practice a little it is so cool what you can do with that prop since it is as easy as making it appear as it to collapse it to the vanish position. For those it may interested, the white plastic version the one i bought) is also attracted by blacklight so it glows under uv light, which is exactly what i was looking for in order to use it in an act where all my props are fluorescent and glow under blacklight ( which is not the case for most appearing/vanishing white canes, candles.....)