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William Draven Elite user Las Vegas, NV 486 Posts |
Title: Extortion
Artist: Patrick Kun Producers: SansMinds Magic Retail Price: $29.95 Learning Difficulty: Easy Length of DVD: 40 Minutes Notes: Some Assembly Required Includes: • Gimmick • Instructional DVD Features: • Play All • Menu • SandsMinds Products • Credits Extortion is Patrick Kun’s ultra visual solution to the classic bill change that takes place at your finger tips. No more fancy folds, thumb tips, or sleight of hand required. Extortion happens real quick, is real visual, and is a real attention getter! In the field of close up magic there’s often a debate that finds people siding over if they should use gimmicks or not. Honestly I don’t see what the big deal is. If it works, and you get a good reaction from your audience who really cares how you do it, or how examinable everything is right? It’s the results we’re after not always the method. Extortion, as far as bill changes go, is gimmicked to the hilt, but the gimmick is so easy to use, and so deceptive that the results justify the use. The DVD tops out at just around forty minutes long, and the bulk of that is spent teaching you how to build the Extortion gimmick. Though the gimmick itself isn’t anything too difficult to build it is however time consuming. There’s a lot going on with this gimmick that will require finesse and precision during construction. Once you have it built though, and you’ve worked it in a little, this thing handles like butter. It’s smooth and dear god is it visual! You can do one of a couple different things with Extortion. You can either do a transposition with it, or you can do a at the fingertips bill change. The transportation from a bill held in the spectator’s hands to the bill in your hand is nice but I loved the bill change. Dear god is it just so visual it’s almost impossible. You obviously can’t let the spectator handle the gimmicked bill, but that’s easy enough to switch out for if you need to. I’ve seen a lot of bill changes on the market this past year, and every time something new comes along it raises the bar just that much higher. Patrick’s contribution to the subject matter has done nothing less than this. He’s met the bill change challenge head on and produced a simple to use, relatively easy to make, gimmicked bill change that is super visual and super easy to perform. The gimmick does the work for you meaning all you have to do is just focus on the performance. It’s practical for almost any situation where close up magic would work. Extortion has quickly become one of my new favorite bill changes, and it’s one that I’m sure is going to live in my wallet for many years to come. When I give my product scores below I am measuring them on a scale of 1 to 10. 1 Being absolute the worst score possible, and 10 being the absolute best, making a score of five average. The four points that I grade upon is Product Quality, Teaching Quality, Sound & Video Quality and Overall Quality. Product Quality: 9 The price isn’t bad, and the magic is very visual, and easy to perform. Teaching Quality: 9 Everything from the construction to the performance is well taught. Video & Sound Quality: 9 Good sound and video. I’d expect nothing less from SansMinds. Overall Quality: 9 There is a lot of options for bill changes out there. Do yourself a solid and make Extortion one of the ones you personally use. You won’t be sorry you did. Have a product you want reviewed? Want to see if it will stand up to the Draven Seal of Approval? Contact me directly at draven@williamdraven.com to find out how your product could be on the next Draven Reviews! Don't forget to like my blog where all my reviews are posted at www.williamdraven.wordpress.com. |
C.J.Magic New user 69 Posts |
What a professional, thoughtfully worded review!
I would have thought it over the top, but I've been using Extortion the last few months and I have to say I agree with the review on all points. . I also like that he gave it 9's instead of all 10's. 10's, for any product, would be almost impossible. For those that feel not being able to hand out the gimmick bill si a downside, I'll state that it is a non-issue because all attention will go to their closed hand. You could vanish the proverbial elephant at that point. Have a dupe in your pocket and just switch it. I did that at first and after well over 100 performances, no one asked to see my bill. Unless you do this for friends and family, no one will want to see the bill. |
Slackerking Special user 613 Posts |
Really nicely written review. Extortion turned out to be one of my best purchases of the year.
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wanderwizard Loyal user 221 Posts |
The question is Extortion or Changeling or Money?
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TheGreatRaymondo Special user Manchester, England 969 Posts |
Another excellent review Draven. Think I may invest in this effect.
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