Price$24.00
Media TypeTrick, One-Trick DVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedSep 11, 2010
Phantasm
Daws, Jamie
Alakazam UK
(Based on 2 reviews)
A NEW PIECE OF VISUAL CLOSE-UP & AN IMPOSSIBLE SOUVENIR
Imagine taking the classic card warp to exciting new visual extremes. Well this is exactly what Jamie has done!
Phantasm looks impossible and the card seems to instantly turn from face down up to face up and as if this wasn't enough your are left with a weird souvenir to give your spectator
This can be used as a packet effect you keep in your wallet, a full blown routine with two selected cards or as a great promotional idea with your business cards!
Comes complete with a gimmick, full DVD instructions, bonus ideas and a PDF template to create an amazing promotional give away using your business cards!
Reviews
(Top ▲)
PROS
This is an excellent version of Roy Walton’s Card Warp. The DVD shows you how to make a gimmick that can be handed out as a very nice souvenir.
The instruction is very good. It is brief and to the point.
There is a bonus section that teaches how to do the same routine with a couple business cards.
Also, in the DVD it is suggested that you simply take out the two cards and perform. While this is the common way of performing Card Warp, I think it would be better to have the cards in the pocket, go into the pocket with your deck in hand to get something and come out with the gimmick cards on the bottom of the deck and present it as if the cards were removed from the regular deck. I think that would be stronger.
This is a great use for old practice decks. Take a couple old decks and create some card warp gimmicks that you can hand out as souvenirs.
CONS
The only caution I would have is I wouldn't think of this as a replacement for Roy Walton's classic great Card Warp, but rather just another version of it. If you are going to perform this, I would strongly suggest you also learn and perform the classic card warp.
VERDICT
Great effect and very nicely presented. I see this as a nice variation or addition to Roy Walton’s card warp, not a replacement.
This is an excellent version of Roy Walton’s Card Warp. The DVD shows you how to make a gimmick that can be handed out as a very nice souvenir.
The instruction is very good. It is brief and to the point.
There is a bonus section that teaches how to do the same routine with a couple business cards.
Also, in the DVD it is suggested that you simply take out the two cards and perform. While this is the common way of performing Card Warp, I think it would be better to have the cards in the pocket, go into the pocket with your deck in hand to get something and come out with the gimmick cards on the bottom of the deck and present it as if the cards were removed from the regular deck. I think that would be stronger.
This is a great use for old practice decks. Take a couple old decks and create some card warp gimmicks that you can hand out as souvenirs.
CONS
The only caution I would have is I wouldn't think of this as a replacement for Roy Walton's classic great Card Warp, but rather just another version of it. If you are going to perform this, I would strongly suggest you also learn and perform the classic card warp.
VERDICT
Great effect and very nicely presented. I see this as a nice variation or addition to Roy Walton’s card warp, not a replacement.
(Top ▲)
“Card Warp” is a classic. It’s near perfect. Why, oh why then, would anyone try to ‘improve’ it? Jamie Dawes claims to have done that, and he even claims his version is ‘more visual’ than the original. I’m not sure how an effect that’s ALL about the visuals can be ‘more’ visual.
For almost twenty-five bucks, you get a DVD that teaches you how to make a gimmick that allows you to do this less than stellar effect. The original “Card Warp” requires only about a ten-second preparation, while this takes several minutes. You also have to start with the cards already pre-folded, so from the very beginning you seem more prepared than in the original version.
He also claims that the situation of the cards at the end are ‘more impossible’ than the torn cards left at the end of “Card Warp.” Where he gets this idiotic logic is more incredible to me than his effect. I’ve discussed the original “Card Warp” with some of my friends over the years, and we’ve ALL had people examine the torn pieces for the rest of the night. Once again, Jamie’s ‘problem’ with the original does not exist.
There are several awkward moments in the handling, making it look much less clean than the original. Go ahead, look at the preview. If you really think it looks better than Roy Walton’s genius effect, then you deserve to lose twenty-five bucks.
The only positive thing I would have said about this product is that I thought it was packaged nicely, until I realized they misspelled the creators name on the package. The DVD was somewhat well edited, and it was over quickly. However, it's not enough to keep it from getting the dreaded half star!
For almost twenty-five bucks, you get a DVD that teaches you how to make a gimmick that allows you to do this less than stellar effect. The original “Card Warp” requires only about a ten-second preparation, while this takes several minutes. You also have to start with the cards already pre-folded, so from the very beginning you seem more prepared than in the original version.
He also claims that the situation of the cards at the end are ‘more impossible’ than the torn cards left at the end of “Card Warp.” Where he gets this idiotic logic is more incredible to me than his effect. I’ve discussed the original “Card Warp” with some of my friends over the years, and we’ve ALL had people examine the torn pieces for the rest of the night. Once again, Jamie’s ‘problem’ with the original does not exist.
There are several awkward moments in the handling, making it look much less clean than the original. Go ahead, look at the preview. If you really think it looks better than Roy Walton’s genius effect, then you deserve to lose twenty-five bucks.
The only positive thing I would have said about this product is that I thought it was packaged nicely, until I realized they misspelled the creators name on the package. The DVD was somewhat well edited, and it was over quickly. However, it's not enough to keep it from getting the dreaded half star!