Price$35.00
Media TypeTrick
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedJun 18, 2009
CAPtivated
Alex Lourido
(Based on 1 review)
''We have never had a product sell out so fast at a magic convention as Captivated did at Blackpool 2009! It is so refreshing to see such an original and amazing close up trick with objects that aren't cards or coins for once!" -- Keelan Leyser and Charlotte Marie - Owners of MagicTricks.co.uk
One of the beautiful things about CAPtivated is it can be performed for both stage and close-up audiences. The gaffs -- which you receive eight of -- are beautifully designed and defy scrutiny from the most critical audience. With Captivated you are able to easily change the identity of any bottle cap while in the hands of a spectator! You are also able to make bottle caps switch places while tightly held by two different spectators! With CAPtivated the magic happens within the hands of the spectators.
Three Cap Monte: Now you can perform this classic of street magic for your audiences using bottle caps, but with an incredible twist! You openly display three simple caps of different brands and place them on a table face down. You turn over the center cap, or have your audience choose a brand, as you tell them that this cap is the proverbial Ace, and is the one they are going to try and follow. Then very slowly you mix up the caps and ask a spectator to point to the one they believe to be theirs. To everyone's shock when the cap is turned over it is revealed that they are wrong! This is done two or three more times but to everyone's surprise the spectator chooses incorrectly every time. Then you inform them that you are going to let them in on the big secret. The cap they were instructed to track is no longer among the three! "In fact," you say, "none of the original caps are here!" You ask a spectator to turn over the caps, which reveal that all three have changed to a brand that was originally never there!
To appreciate the amazing impact CAPtivated has on people please watch the video demo!
- Very simple to perform.
- There is no switching of caps.
- Caps can be examined thoroughly.
- No sleeving, pulls or invisible threads.
- You end clean and set-up is virtually instant!
- Can be performed completely surrounded, no bad angles.
Reviews
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I have been practicing and performing magic for 35 years so I have experienced the gammut of everything from overly exaggerated effect descriptions, to badly manufactured pieces, to down right junk, to really, really great tricks and apparatus. CAPtivated falls somewhere in between. Let me explain...
This effect has massive potential to be an incredible, magical, seemingly "impromptu" miracle. The problem I had was obtaining the bottle caps to make it such.
I'm sure this effect killed in it's heyday, when bottle caps were simpler, and unchanged. But todays bottle caps, although unchanged in structure, have gone through some transformations, like including boastful printing on the inside of the cap and additional info on the outside. The gaffs that come with this effect are very good and well made but they are the "simpler" designs that beer bottlers used from years past.
I did find that two of the four gaffs provided did match bottle caps from popular brands of beer. So you can perform some of the material provided. With a little imagination I'm sure that even an amateur can come up with some great material.
CAPtivated is not a bad effect. It's not a great one either. I will say that I do use the two matching gaffs with much success. It's a good party or bar trick with much potential in the right hands. I was just a little disappointed--this time. 3 stars from me.
This effect has massive potential to be an incredible, magical, seemingly "impromptu" miracle. The problem I had was obtaining the bottle caps to make it such.
I'm sure this effect killed in it's heyday, when bottle caps were simpler, and unchanged. But todays bottle caps, although unchanged in structure, have gone through some transformations, like including boastful printing on the inside of the cap and additional info on the outside. The gaffs that come with this effect are very good and well made but they are the "simpler" designs that beer bottlers used from years past.
I did find that two of the four gaffs provided did match bottle caps from popular brands of beer. So you can perform some of the material provided. With a little imagination I'm sure that even an amateur can come up with some great material.
CAPtivated is not a bad effect. It's not a great one either. I will say that I do use the two matching gaffs with much success. It's a good party or bar trick with much potential in the right hands. I was just a little disappointed--this time. 3 stars from me.