Magic Tricks

So I was lucky enough to receive a review copy of this, from Rick, and I must tell you, I was pretty excited because I personally love getting down and dirty for these types of Souvenir effects which is exactly what this is.

First off the 'Gimmick' is well thought out and I can see this working 99% of the time depending where your from particularly because, in my case, Matchbooks are almost never used in South Africa as we have the slide-out Matchboxes however I can say this, If you put the time and effort into adapting this effect to Matchboxes, it would serve as a perfect phase for Vuja De by Rick Lax.

Now onto the real business. Because this effect is very intimate and up close I feel like it's very easy to make the handling of the match very choppy and mechanical because of how small of a prop you're working with and it might be easy to lose your audience so I feel like this particular effect needs to be reasonably practiced and the handling has to be smooth.

With that being said the moves themselves are very easy to get down which is perfect because you can really build on your presentation, also if you have good audience management then you're good to go.

Gimmick construction is quite time consuming and, as you will be told, it's wise to make about 20 or 30 of these gimmicks in one sitting and just be ready to go. In terms of you're audience I would limit the audience size to about 5 or 6 people just to ensure that everyone gets a feel of what's going on and angles are relatively good, in theory you could do this surrounded but you'd have to have pretty bad management skills if you're performing surrounded.

All in all I LOVE this. Totally worth the price and for next to nothing you can carry a miracle in your pocket, ready to go. The only time I can see myself leaving the house without it is if I've run out of supplies, but Rick Lax has you covered on that in his section of the Download.

And at the end of it all you've created a kicka** souvenir. You'd be mad to second guess this.