It's been a couple of years since you wrote your review. I still have to ask, did you watch the trailer? Did you not see the "intensive process"? lol The entire basis of the effect is to make fun of the "intensive process". I have presented this effect nearly five hundred times and it kills! It's a personality piece that requires the performer to engage with the audience, which I admit can be hard for some newbies to magic. Stephen's effect won Worker of the Week AND Worker of the YEAR on the Wizard Product Review. So I kind disagree with your "Skip this" review.