I've had this for a few years and I've performed it many, many times. The quality of the product is
holding up very well over the years; it still works like new.
Also, this is actually
pretty fun to perform. There's a lot of room for improvisation and to tailor this to your character.
It's not quite so routine-driven, if that makes sense.
I'm sure you do like I do -
whenever I'm learning a new trick, most of the first people I perform for are friends and family. So
here's the thing: this is the one effect that everyone I know always talks about, even years later.
It is THAT memorable. One of my closest friends often tells me how she still has that quarter, the
one that somehow I bent in her hand. I've heard her brag to other people that I have this ability.
My mom is the same. She's often telling me, "I still don't know how you did that thing with the
quarter..." and of course, everyone I've performed this for still has kept their souvenir quarter.
Safe to say: this effect leaves a lasting impression.
It may have to do with my
presentation. Coinvexed is the climax to my routine where I talk about imagining coins doing this
and doing that. (I precede this effect with a few other coin effects, including Imagination Coins by
Garret Thomas.) When you convince someone that THEY have bent the coin with their own imagination,
they don't soon forget it. Oh, sure, they know it was me and not them...but you can see they are
thinking, "what if...just, what if?" They know that I do tricks, but this? They really do seem to
feel it's magic. It's powerful.
The point is, of all the magic I have ever performed for
friends and family, this is the one effect they always remember and want me to repeat. (Which, of
course, I never do!) Pricy, perhaps, but this effects pays off.