Price$25.00
Media TypeDVD
CategoryClose Up
Date AddedSep 27, 2007
Just like the original, but now on DVD for easier to understand and many EXTRA tips!
A card is chosen and the corner is torn and given to a spectator to hold.
You make a magical gesture and EACH AND EVERY card in the deck is shown to be whole.
The selected card is clearly gone. You now point to an "impossible" location and have the spectator retrieve what he finds...
IT IS THE TORN CARD!
Not just that, but the corner matches EXACTLY. And the best part - NO CORNER SWITCHING AND NO PALMING.
This truly is an impossible location with a torn card. Clean and easy to d - pure Kenton Wizardry as usual!
Includes special gaffed cards.
Running Time Approximately 14min
A card is chosen and the corner is torn and given to a spectator to hold.
You make a magical gesture and EACH AND EVERY card in the deck is shown to be whole.
The selected card is clearly gone. You now point to an "impossible" location and have the spectator retrieve what he finds...
IT IS THE TORN CARD!
Not just that, but the corner matches EXACTLY. And the best part - NO CORNER SWITCHING AND NO PALMING.
This truly is an impossible location with a torn card. Clean and easy to d - pure Kenton Wizardry as usual!
Includes special gaffed cards.
Running Time Approximately 14min
Reviews
(Top ▲)
The Lady Travels is a version of card-in-impossible-location that uses a torn corner (instead of a signature, for example) to verify the authenticity of the selected card. There are many versions of this trick, of course, so for me the essential question is whether or not this one is any better.
Well, maybe it is. Not to sound too much like a relativist, but it does depend on your definition of "better." Every method has its downsides and positives, right? The method you'll find in Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic, for example, leaves you dirty with a torn corner to dispose of. In The Lady Travels, you're still dirty, but in a different way. In the classic method, you can use any card that suits your performance. In The Lady Travels, you must use the Queen of Hearts, but this is justified in the suggested script that Kenton describes.
Apparently, an earlier version of this product included written instructions, but now you get a DVD instead, along with a $10 price increase. The DVD is of acceptable quality, so no complaints in that regard, but I found it to be overkill. This trick is not at all complicated, and the one move that might benefit from additional instruction and finesse is glossed over by Kenton in the demonstration and explanation. And, in detriment to my reaction to the trick, not performed very convincingly either. (I don't want to reveal too much, so lets just say it has to do with creating the corner.)
You'll get three gimmicks, which should last you more than a lifetime. The Lady Travels is definitely workable, and you'll have no problem learning it, you just need to decide if you're so unhappy with the classic methods that this one is worth the trouble and expense.
Well, maybe it is. Not to sound too much like a relativist, but it does depend on your definition of "better." Every method has its downsides and positives, right? The method you'll find in Mark Wilson's Complete Course in Magic, for example, leaves you dirty with a torn corner to dispose of. In The Lady Travels, you're still dirty, but in a different way. In the classic method, you can use any card that suits your performance. In The Lady Travels, you must use the Queen of Hearts, but this is justified in the suggested script that Kenton describes.
Apparently, an earlier version of this product included written instructions, but now you get a DVD instead, along with a $10 price increase. The DVD is of acceptable quality, so no complaints in that regard, but I found it to be overkill. This trick is not at all complicated, and the one move that might benefit from additional instruction and finesse is glossed over by Kenton in the demonstration and explanation. And, in detriment to my reaction to the trick, not performed very convincingly either. (I don't want to reveal too much, so lets just say it has to do with creating the corner.)
You'll get three gimmicks, which should last you more than a lifetime. The Lady Travels is definitely workable, and you'll have no problem learning it, you just need to decide if you're so unhappy with the classic methods that this one is worth the trouble and expense.
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Included in the package:
- Instructional DVD
- Three gaffed cards in an envelope
First off, I was pleasantly surprised to have received three gaff cards. As only one card is used during the performance and it is not actually torn, they should last you a long while. As usual, the cards are printed on standard Bicycle stock and are very realistic (but will not withstand close scrutiny!)
It seems to me like more and more effects are now coming with instructional DVDs. This is by no means a bad thing, I think, and the visual element does make it easier to learn certain tricks. And you can't argue with personal instruction from the originator of an effect. The DVD lasts fourteen minutes, broken down as follows:
Performance - 2 minutes
Explanation - 7 minutes
Bonus section - 5 minutes
Knepper performs The Lady Travels for a single spectator and he then goes on to explain the method. The bonus section contains some additional hints and insights, plus more handling tips which I found very useful. He also briefly goes into the history of the effect. Not a second is wasted - there is no padding here. Knepper's friendly style is concise and easy to understand.
OVERALL
I like this one very much. It's a nice card trick that has a strong effect on the spectator and is just slightly off the beaten track. For owners of Big Blind Media's 2wo Faced DVD, you can do a similar effect with one of the gaffs in that package; I particularly like Knepper's version because it offers the same impossible location as the 2wo Faced gaff, but with the added element of a torn card. I would recommend The Lady Travels if you're after something a bit different to the usual, but still gets good reactions.
- Instructional DVD
- Three gaffed cards in an envelope
First off, I was pleasantly surprised to have received three gaff cards. As only one card is used during the performance and it is not actually torn, they should last you a long while. As usual, the cards are printed on standard Bicycle stock and are very realistic (but will not withstand close scrutiny!)
It seems to me like more and more effects are now coming with instructional DVDs. This is by no means a bad thing, I think, and the visual element does make it easier to learn certain tricks. And you can't argue with personal instruction from the originator of an effect. The DVD lasts fourteen minutes, broken down as follows:
Performance - 2 minutes
Explanation - 7 minutes
Bonus section - 5 minutes
Knepper performs The Lady Travels for a single spectator and he then goes on to explain the method. The bonus section contains some additional hints and insights, plus more handling tips which I found very useful. He also briefly goes into the history of the effect. Not a second is wasted - there is no padding here. Knepper's friendly style is concise and easy to understand.
OVERALL
I like this one very much. It's a nice card trick that has a strong effect on the spectator and is just slightly off the beaten track. For owners of Big Blind Media's 2wo Faced DVD, you can do a similar effect with one of the gaffs in that package; I particularly like Knepper's version because it offers the same impossible location as the 2wo Faced gaff, but with the added element of a torn card. I would recommend The Lady Travels if you're after something a bit different to the usual, but still gets good reactions.