Magic Tricks

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Unbelievalope.

I've felt reluctant to write this review because as much as possible, I want to keep this to myself. But I feel I owe this to the creator Jeff Kaylor.

If the following is too long to read, take it from this:
I bought one set of Unbelievalopes a little over a month ago.
I just bought two more sets (total of 6 Unbelievalopes).

I spilled coffee or something on one of mine so it is stained,
and another one I stapled in several places (was trying a weird idea).

The point is, I NEVER want to be without my Unbelievalope,
and I will never regret buying another two sets, just in case.

In short, my audiences have chosen the Unbelievalope
as their favorite thing in my show.

With Unbelievalope, you can do ANYTHING.

In the latest few months, in my show I perform around 10 tricks.
Some have been discarded and others have been added. Therefore Unbelievalope has competed with more than 10 tricks.

At the end of most shows, I ask the audience what their favorite thing was. Unbelievalope has risen to the top, with the most votes.
My audiences have whittled it down to Unbelievalope.

In my opinion, Unbelievalope is better than the Mullica wallet or Paperclipped (which audiences love as well, and I also love).

The three above tools achieve the same end.

In the following four ways, Unbelievalope beats Mullica wallet and Paperclipped:

1. It is more natural and familiar in appearance.

2. The prediction can be larger (I've used a blank Tarot card as the prediction, which is much larger than a playing card), lending itself to confabulation (which I have not done) or drawing duplication (which I have done several times with Unbelievalope but would never do with Mullica or Paperclipped)

3. Partly because the cover for "the move" is larger, it is technically easier.

4. It is easier and more natural to perform remotely via webcam than Mullica (Unbelievalope beats Mullica Wallet on #4, however Paperclipped is also easier via webcam)

5. In #2 point, I mentioned that you can do more things with Unbelievalope than you can with other switching devices because you are not restricted to a playing card size or business card size billet. But moreover, Unbelievalope arouses less suspicion from the outset.
There have been several times when I displayed my Mullica wallet that a spectator remarked, "That wallet is huge!" or "Haha, what? A wallet inside a wallet?" It didn't ruin the effect of course, but it's a statement on the point of how natural and familiar that device is to laypeople. If a mentalist use this as a serious prediction, then the Mullica wallet looks too "magicky." It will still blow people's minds, but frankly, some will wonder "what is up with that weird wallet within a wallet."

With the Unbelievalope, I started using brown Kraft envelope within the Unbelievalope with the prediction inside the smaller envelope. It was both more technically difficult for me to load the prediction and seal the brown envelope, but also its appearance was more magicky. I was making my performance much more difficult, but not improving the end effect (except maybe it would impress magicians watching). So I cut off the edges of the brown envelope and now use just the brown billet inside, so it looks like a greeting card or something in an envelope (it makes sense).