> Control (Gimmicks and Online Instructions) by Darryl Vanamburg

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Verified buyer Pro Privacy ON (login to see reviewer names) on January 5th, 2018
I am going be honest, I was expecting better. Especially coming from Vanamburg. I am a big fan of DV and have purchased a lot of things with his name on it, but this is just a rehashment of something old , Instead of making it more steamline and easier to camouflage. This thing is the size of a babies head. It’s just to bulky and clunky and not easy to concealed when the heat will be on the hand. It’s not silent either, so a little slip up and you will be busted. I mean let’s be real spectators are not that blind and stupid to not burn the hand at the critical moments. This thing is so easy to flash and see the gimmick it’s almost ridiculous. I understand you need the size for the power but even the enhancements to the side are too thick to conceal properly. Maybe I’ll learn to Love it since I paid all this money for it. Sandsmind has the right idea where the path should go for this type of thing. theirs may not do the same thing as control when coming to power, but at some point you cannot sacrifice stealth and comfort just for sheer power when it makes concealing this beast impossible. Something like this has to has to be designed to be as invisible as possible. Meaning When used the performer feels like it’s a part of them, feeling no fear or doubts of moderately flashing because you are going to have to do that to make it believable To flash this beast you going to look you have mental issues because to get away with it you are going to have to move your hands so fast that is going to look crazy unatrual which leads to the question “why?” to the construction and production of the gimmick in the first place. I am sure I am going to get beat up on this review but it’s just my honest opinion after playing around with it. So enough of my rant. The package is nice and has some good and unique tools that you would have a hard time finding or trying to make yourself so this is why I give 3 stars. The main gimmick design I had to take two away. I mean Greg is one of the best out there. This thing could of been the size of a car and he could still find a way to make it look amazing but the average buyer will pull this thing out and play with it in front of a mirror and will see that you will not get away with flashing this gimmick at all and for me that in where lies the problem” You cannot flash the palm of your hand” to me that is not a step forward, it’s not a step at all in the right direction for this type of gimmick. Like I said above and will say it again I believe Sansmind has the right direction for this type of thing. As if they got it right don’t know because I don’t own it yet but may send this back for that. Anyhow RANT OVER 🤐

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