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Jean-Luc.R. Inner circle QUEBEC - CANADA 1488 Posts |
WoW!
I think it is genius again for this new gimmick by the French magician Mickaël Chatelain. Here is the video demo: http://www.gimickmagic.com/pick-me-francais.html Here is the ad : PICK-ME Created by Mickael Chatelain "Take a look at this 100% accurate description! PICK-ME is simply the most incredible thing I've been able to come up with for a long time". Mickael Chatelain Effect : Take out of your jacket pocket a deck of cards, a marker and some stickers. Invite a spectator to sign a sticker with the marker. Now take the cards out of their case and show them both sides. This is a ordinary deck where the cards are all different. So far, everything is clean! Invite your spectator to freely choose a card in the deck. He can change it if he doesn't like it in other words, there is no forcingof any kind! As on the sticker, the spectator signs his card with the marker. The card, once signed, is lost in the deck. Nobody knows where it is! Not even you! Without any manipulation, the whole deck is immediately put back in its case and closed! Invite the spectator to take his signed sticker and to seal the opening of the case himself. You make clear that everything is clean and no manipulation is possible! Give the case to the spectator and ask him to shake it... is the deck inside ? Also ask the spectator if the sticker really seals the opening of the case ? The spectator verifies that everything is perfectly above board ! Pick up the sealed case with your fingertips and slip it into a pocket of your jacket... Ask your spectator how much time he would give you to remove the sticker, take out the deck, look for the right card, take it out, put the deck back in the case, close it and seal it again with your sticker? All this seems time consuming and almost impossible to do in less than a minute, especially since the deck is in your jacket pocket ! Show your empty hand... Slowly bring it closer to your pocket... Ask your spectator to count and immediately put your hand in your jacket pocket. Your hand hardly goes in and immediately comes out, holding a single card between thumb and index finger ! Believe us, you have to see it to believe it ! The spectator hasn't even had time to start counting by the time your hand comes out! Ask for the name of the chosen card as you turn over the card you are holding. IMPOSSIBLE, it is indeed his card! His signature proves it! How could you find the spectator's card in less than a second? But that's not all ... Take the case out of your pocket and give it back to the spectator ! It's UNBELIEVABLE, the case is still sealed and the signed sticker prevents the opening of the case ! Invite the spectator to shake it, the deck is still inside ! Then tear off the sticker and take out the cards... one card is missing, the spectator's card ! Order here : http://www.gimickmagic.com/pick-me-francais.html |
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Bande Elite user 429 Posts |
Reminds me a bit of Extractor -- lovely presentation but I wonder if you could not achieve the same effect with Extractor. Could easily be wrong as I am just an amateur not a pro.
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RNK Inner circle 7493 Posts |
You can also definitely do this effect with David Regal's new release Accomplice. Also Accomplice is cheaper than this and seems to be more versatile. But time will tell if this is in fact the case.
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Jean-Luc.R. Inner circle QUEBEC - CANADA 1488 Posts |
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no2ss Inner circle California 1027 Posts |
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On Sep 10, 2020, Bande wrote: My initial thought as well. You couldn't quite do the same effect with Extractor though, but probably close enough that spectators wouldn't quite notice the difference. This is presented with some convincers that would be more difficult with Extractor -- but it kinda feels like those convincers are only necessary to convince people who already know Extractor exists. So I'll probably just stick with Extractor. |
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rowdymagi5 Inner circle Virginia 3616 Posts |
This look cleaner than David Regal's new release Accomplice and much cleaner than you could do this with the Extractor. Video demo's can be deceiving though, so until someone gets this and reviews it we wont really know.
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dj Inner circle 1178 Posts |
That looks very clean and strong.
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RNK Inner circle 7493 Posts |
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On Sep 11, 2020, rowdymagi5 wrote: I don't think that would be the case since you can hand out the box with Accomplice and I'm speculating that you cannot hand out the box with PICK ME. With Accomplish you can easily reach right in your pocket and pull out their selected card after you have boxed all the cards with their selection. You can do all the sticker bit with Accomplice just like PICK ME and you end with a clean examinable card box.
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Kenco Regular user 153 Posts |
With Extractor you cannot hand the box out to spectator before nor after and you cannot fan out the deck before or after. I'm waiting on a review from someone once they receive it to make sure the video is not misleading because it looks to clean to be true. Not even Accomplice is as clean.
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RNK Inner circle 7493 Posts |
Accomplice is very clean because when they ask to see the box you can let them exam it. Do you even have Accomplice?
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dman11 Inner circle USA 1067 Posts |
This does look great. However, look who makes it. Mickael is a freaking gimmick genius for sure but you're probably going to need to unflap a few things, pull a string, disengage magnets, do four jumping jacks and call your aunt Mary for this to work right. And the ad copy doesn't mention that it wont work if you don't have an Aunt Mary or an engineering degree to fix it. I hope I'm wrong! It will be amazing if it looks that clean and really is.
Accomplice on the other hand, may not look quite as clean to a magician but I don't think specs would notice a difference since they don't know what is about to happen. It is simple, cards and box are examinable and durability should last a lifetime. No moving parts to break. that's the last I'll talk about Accomplice as I kinda want it to stay "underground". Good luck to Mickael, I really hope its as good as it looks. |
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RNK Inner circle 7493 Posts |
Your point are well validated dman. Last a lifetime. But I am always interested to hear about Mickael's creations.
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John C Eternal Order I THINK therefore I wrote 12945 Posts |
Nothing that looks that clean in a vid is really that clean. We should know this by now.
But, it does look pretty clean. But there has to be some dirty work or it would be real magic!! The question is, what is the dirty work? We don't necessarily part with our money because we love the effect, we do it to discover the dirty work. Am I correct? |
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pegasus Eternal Order United Kingdom 10537 Posts |
Agreed with all above. This is extremely clean looking. However, I’m also dubious WRT the dirty work involved that may not necessarily be shown on the demo.
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wanderwizard Loyal user 221 Posts |
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On Sep 12, 2020, John C wrote: You are bang on John,I am nearly 70 now retired, but still purchase effects that I can't work out,I am sure its a form of addiction, if my wife knew what I'd spent over the decades she would go crazy for sure,I can't fathom this but I'm not going to buy it, |
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emyers99 Inner circle Columbus, Ohio 4741 Posts |
This looks great. Clearly can’t be done with Extractor because you can’t remove or let them examine the Extractor deck. Not sure about Accomplice. Was incredibly underwhelmed by the demo for that.
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Jean-Luc.R. Inner circle QUEBEC - CANADA 1488 Posts |
Mickaël Chatelain has a private group on Facebook that can be found by all of you named « Gimickmagic Secret by Mickael Chatelain » where he gives all the secret about the Pick Me gimmick and the full working .For free!
So go and watch by yourself this diabolical stuff right from the creator. It seems that there is no dirty work and it is very very clean. You will buy or not by knowing everything . Very generous and transparent from Mr Chatelain. Judge by yourself! |
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4385 Posts |
I went to the murphy page, but no purchase options.
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Jean-Luc.R. Inner circle QUEBEC - CANADA 1488 Posts |
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On Sep 12, 2020, 1KJ wrote: However it is there in red and blue : https://www.murphysmagic.com/search.aspx?t=5&cm=628cba2fce |
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pegasus Eternal Order United Kingdom 10537 Posts |
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On Sep 13, 2020, Jean-Luc.R. wrote: Thanks for the link. Hopefully I can translate into English. |
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