Magic Tricks

I got this as an open box item, so I didn't pay the full amount for it and am generally not unhappy with the price to product ratio I got it for, though I think I would've been had I paid full price. This isn't so much a bad effect as it is a comparatively lesser one - ie, there are better tricks to spend your money on.

-Though it has nothing to do with the trick, the production quality on the DVD is lower than what you'll find on more current tricks (but admittedly better than other DVDs I've bought). Take that at face value - it has nothing to do with the trick or the effect, but it was the first thing I noticed.

- There's not a natural way to start the trick. He talks about bringing it up in a bar where there are already bottles, but the setup required doesn't lend itself to natural transitions out of conversations you have in a bar.

- It's potentially easy to see what's happening. I think a spectator would get this trick easier than they would get another trick, and therefore it wouldn't amaze them as much as others.

- For me at least, the effect doesn't have a bit enough "wow" impact. It's kind of cool, but a quick French drop would impress people more, and that a ton easier to less time consuming to present.

I give Jordan a ton of credit for thinking through the routine and putting this together. There’s definitely a lot of thought put into this. But for me the production time necessary to produce it is not worth the level of reactions I think it would produce, and so I won’t be putting it into my routine.