A new deck and an old deck – both reduced
We’ve spotted two deals worth looking at this weekend. MagicNevin have a regular weekly markdown, and this week it is the Bicycle Red Star playing cards – reduced by 25% to only £4.12. And at JP...
View ArticleWayne Dobson – Early Dobson – review
As an avid Dobson fan, I was looking forward to taking a look at this latest release from Dtrick. Most of the effects on this DVD are taken from his one-off television appearances from around the 80s...
View ArticleThe Matrix Pad – Review
The Matrix Pad is a great new little pocket trick which combines some great ideas from different places to create a micro magic miracle. In effect, the performer draws for spots on a small post-it pad...
View ArticleBicycle Gold Deck – review
We haven’t done a new deck review for a while and so we were delighted when the Bicycle Gold Deck landed on our desk. It has been out for a while now, but it is new to us, so here are our thoughts on...
View ArticleDavid Penn – Tie Shell Colour Changing Tie – Review
This is possibly the most unusual magic trick we’ve ever reviewed on www.bicycle-cards.co.uk – indeed it marks a small step away from our homeground of close up magic effects. However, the reason we...
View ArticleUnboxing – Review – Nicholas Lawrence
SansMinds have put our some interesting effects over the last few years – but someone needs to tell them to chill out! The introductions to their DVD may work well in the US but feel completely over...
View ArticleMindsight – Review
We have a fondness for mentalism here at bicycle-cards.co.uk – and I’m so old it even pre-dates Derren’s revitalisation of the area – so we were pleased to take a look at MindSight by Andreu. This is a...
View ArticleLast Laugh review – Mark Elsdon
This is one of those magic reviews which is tricky to write. But let’s start with the effect – a very good place to begin. Last Laugh is a fun and fooling effect – after a very fair looking selection...
View ArticleGone – Review – Daniel Bryan
Of the making of packet tricks there will be no end. But Gone is a nice little contribution from Daniel Bryan. In effect one of the cards in a packet of five vanishes in a visual way – and then in an...
View ArticleOut of sleight review – Cameron Francis
Over the last few years BBM have put out some consistently strong volumes of self-working magic so we had been looking forward to the chance to do this Out of Sleight review. And the DVD begins with a...
View ArticlePeter Eggink – Phantom – Review
I can still remember the feeling of anticipation, when I was a boy, when I had ordered a new magic trick. I’ve been around the block a bit since then, and though I still get a little bit of that...
View ArticleLatest Bicycle Cards – November Edition
There are a few really nice decks we’ve not featured before that are currently available in the UK. Let’s start with the Nightshade Limited Edition deck. As it’s name suggests it is a limited edition...
View ArticlePedro Morillo – Reshuffled – Review
If you’re familiar with Paul Gertner’s original Unshuffled effect (published in his classic Steel and Silver – now rather hard to get hold of as a book, but Unshuffled is on Vol 3 of his DVD series),...
View ArticleLuxx Palme Deck
Whilst we do our best to be objective when reviewing playing cards (and let’s face it, it is a very subjective process), I have to say that I am predisposed towards liking the Luxx decks – since so far...
View ArticleLuca Volpe – Senti-Mentalism – review
Senti-Mentalism is my first direct encounter with the mental magic of Luca Volpe, and I have to say my first impressions were very positive. He has a positive and engaging performing style and it is...
View ArticleChris Ramsay – Red Pill – Review
I’d never heard of Chris Ramsay until I started looking at Red Pill, and so when I got to the words (and they come quite early on the DVD) ‘there’s nothing more powerful’ – I thought it was a big claim...
View ArticleLawrence Turner – The Rough and Smooth Project – review
If you’ve ever wanted to know anything about using rough and smooth techniques with playing cards, then the Rough and Smooth Project from BBM is a great place to start. It features Lawrence Turner who,...
View ArticleLimin – Zero Set – review
We’ve commented before on the way that similar ideas seem to come at once in magic – and I don’t think it’s just down to the copycat effect! Well Zero Set is another effect involving an ID holder (so...
View ArticleSean Scott – Rise – review
There was a lot of buzz around Rise when it was first advertised and we were keen to see whether it lived up to the hype. The demo (see below) is really visually impressive and, as if you could want a...
View ArticleMichael O’Brien – Tour de Force – review
Of the making of versions of the Triumph effect there is no end. Here’s one of the latest – Michael O’Brien’s in the hands triumph – Tour de Force. It is the familiar effect – a deck of cards is mixed...
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