Magic Tricks

This gimmick is way, way overpriced ... especially given the observations below. Beyond the cost, there is the very "sketchy" marketing used to sell, sell, sell it.

1) SET UP is not just “a bit awkward” (as one reviewer characterized it). Set up is virtually impossible in the real world! You might actually pull it off in a coffee shop, IF, oh lets say, you cover yourself completely with a poncho/tent to do the set up in a remote corner of the shop. Of course, that tactic would get you tossed out cuz you’d look like a junkie trying to discreetly shoot up.
Or ...
Stroll to the restroom (with all the necessary items) and do set up in a stall. And then you’d have to carefully stroll (BACK FROM THE CRAPPER!) to your table with your “full” cup of coffee.

2) NOT INSPECTABLE — it would require a close up audience of nitwits not to insist on IMMEDIATELY inspecting that crushed cup! The only “out” is IMMEDIATELY turning your back to your audience on your way to a trash can and VERY QUICKLY extracting the gimmick and then trying to palm it … BEFORE the cup gets tossed. ‘Cuz anybody (with a brain) will rush right away to the trash can to check out that cup sitting on top. Or if you are blessed with nothing but brain dead nitwit audiences — you extract the gimmick out from the trashed crushed cup later?!! C’mon … really?!!

However, to be fair --- I will give props (in terms of inspectability) to the coffee switcheroo into beans bit.

3) NOT REPEATABLE — obviously because of the Set Up rigamarole. This trick only works reliably on YouTube, video or maybe up on stage.

4) VIDEO DEMOS — note the first 2 demos show the trick already set up waiting for passersby … for obvious reasons stated above. But the #3 video demo (meant only for Penguin clientele) is VERY deceptive! It shows a cup at a Keurig being FILLED FULL and then cuts right to the trick. Hey, Penguin, love ya ... to include Acar's "PS's" ;o) BUT you're supposed to be about helping us trick our AUDIENCES, NOT you tricking US into buying waaaayyy over priced gimmicks!