Magic Tricks

Mine arrived with blue (paint?) spots on one of the metal buckles, but that's not why I give this 3 stars.

The creator demonstrates how you can wrap the band left over right or right over left, and the magician gets to choose which is more comfortable. There is no velcro. However, the version you get in the box has velcro, so it is designed to work to attach in a specific way. That's minor, but finding the velcro was disappointing. For large wrists, the velcro doesn't attach and there's a gap, so the velcro ends are useless. In fact, even worse than useless.

The inner part (facing the skin) is the scratchy wire, and the opposite piece (the cloth part of velcro to catch the scratchy wires) is on the outside. That means when the velcro doesn't close (because your hand is too wide), the scratchy part is tight against your wrist. It's very annoying. This could have been avoided by placing the scratchy part of the velcro facing out and the cloth velcro facing the skin, or offering a version without velcro at all.

The strap comes with 6 'belt' holes. Using the furthest 3 holes, the velcro pieces won't attach, and your wrist has the velcro wires scratching it. Such a simple swap (put the scratchy piece of velcro on the outside instead of against the skin) or no velcro at all would be a fantastic improvement.

The gimmicked area is very thick, seemingly so that when the wrist is small and the gimmicked area is curled up, a dollar coin can still fit. However, on a large wrist this could be as much as half the material for many vanishes since the gimmick will be flat against a large wrist. One positive is I believe you can fit more coins with a larger wrist than a smaller one, but a less bulky gimmick might be better.

The video tutorials are great. The audio for the intro is very bad (the mic must have failed and they used built-in camera audio) but don't worry, the rest of the video is better. I would have removed the first 4 minutes or simply re-recorded a 30 second intro over Skype or remotely with a better mic or earbuds, rather than keeping that bad echoing audio from a camera.

One idea is to find a matching piece of soft velcro to protect the wrist from the feeling of the scratchy velcro rubbing against it, but since there's blue paint on one of the buckles I'll have to make my first penguin return/exchange anyway.