NEW ellusionist stuff! MINDBENDER by Anthony Co.

source : http://www.ellusionist.com/order/Mindbende...{CATEGORY%20ID}

watch the preview video. visual magic. damn soild.

freaking stuff. i think is mind blowing.

-Borrow a deck and perform it surrounded and naked*
-Easy to perform, brilliant method and technique

reviews?

cheers~ new product. :D :D :D

where got so fast?

just came out only, relax a bit, wait awhile man..

i doubt anyone here has it already...


anyway it doesn't look all that good... its kind of boring.. i dunno if its just him taking his own sweet time, but he takes a long time to bend a freaking card.. lol

cool effect but it dose not have the wow factor and abit slow...

Yeah. I also think so. I find that it is quite boring as compared to the spoon/forking bending. I can't feel the WOW factor too. :rolleyes:

HAHA.. relax.

cause i just want ask u guys about the effect. guess i have to give it a second thought. no WOW factor. :)

shanghaidunk,

I guess you will find more reviews on the Ellusionist Forums itself.
I personally find this effect lacking of something.. Its the so called "Wow effect" thats stunning to people you perform to.. The only good point about this effect is that you can fully concentrate on your presentation.

The key things to this effect is, ungimmicked, impromtu. So this is the 2 thing that attracts me to this effect.

Yes, the process is slow, i think we should blame it on the video, not on the effect, i surely think that this effect have lots of potential. Will get one to look at it. Hopefully i wont waste money on it. :)

I don't know whether the video was intentionally slow or what. But... if its that slow... It kinda loses that WOW factor... But the ungimmicked borrowed deck is great...Also impromptu

I just got it awhile ago, being the mentalism fan I am it just got to me when I saw the preview video. So let me give a little review for it right here.

Mindbender by Anthony Billan Co
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Difficulty: Simple, like ABC's
Impact: 4/5

If you're an amateur magician I don't see how you can have any problem pulling this off, but when I say simple for difficulty I really mean that the technical skills required to do it are simple as for presentation skills thats a whole different story.

It is crucial to have good presentation and even better routining to make it a HUGE effect, and it can get quite huge.

This is something rather new, there have been other card bending effects(I think) but the handling for this is rather ingenious.

Its a great pre-metal bend routine or even post-metal bend routine effect. If you like PK/ESP/Mentalism effects this is a good one to note.

For those who say it takes a long time? Well the card can arch like a gymnast in a matter of seconds but it depends on how well you are able to do the first phase of the bend.

Oh Mindbender really has at least 3 phases if you routine it well it can even go up to 4 or 5. It bends more and more with each phase until its curled up like a snake. :lol:

Just a few hours ago I did it to one of my mates who happens to be a magician -_- Well he was indeed taken aback by it. The unfamiliarity and cleaness of the effect got to him, he tried in vain to figure at least a little nip of the madness but to no avail :lol:

Hope this helps... <_<

I've seen this 'live' and honestly, it looks ridiculous to me.

StrykerZ thanks for a detail review.

great!!

and thanks buds for all the reviews and personal thoughts of the product.

please give me more reviews. thanks.

btw StrykerZ, where did u get it?

any local shops selling it?

cheers~ :D

Ya, finally a geninue review from singapore, told you guys that it have lots of ideas hidden in it.

Hmm, our dealers still not able to get it, (I asked around) So i think he got it directly from ellusionist.

:)

Straight from Ellusionist.


shanghaidunk - What more can I say? <_< if you are impressed by the preview then get it.

but is the presentation really necessary to be that slow?

Yeah. Same question. Is the presentation that slow. It gets rather boring after awhile... Yeah. Thats all i want to ask. :D

I already said the card can start to bend in a matter of seconds, so why not hurry through the presentation to your liking?

You guys should read the forum before asking this question. Anyway to answer your question, i will use the metal bending effect.

Do you wan your fork to slowly bend or you wan it to bend so fast that it breaks within a min?

When its slow, people's mind can digess that it is bending and it set them into a wonder that something impossible is happening.

When it is too fast, when its over, they will say, "Over? So fast?"

So it depends on what u do during ur presentation, it can be slow, but the end effect is good and impact. Y not? Mind you, it is the video you are seeing, not the live effect.

ya. agree about what LarryDK said.

i hope our SMC or local dealers will get it asap.

i am not very familiar about online shopping.
to save toublesome transaction and stuffs.

LarryDK , you are fast. you already ask the dealers already.
(thumbs up)

guess i have to wait.. thanks guys.

And they can no longer say that our hands are fast as an excuse. Hahaha.

hmm, isn't it an instant download? So no worries about shipping and all. I might get it within these few days, will post something up soon if i do.

Alexander, what do you mean by 'ridiculous'? Too silly to be performed and wouldn't work, or its out of this world, like no one can see thru the trick?

Ok.. three words which i hope would really convince you.

Don't Get It!

It really is.. haha.. alright.. I would draw your sub attention to
Floating Match on Card Levitation Effect
and the
The Hummingbird Card effect.

Nope it's not the thing that is used.. That's not my point..you draw your own conclusions.

Yes, performed naked.. But prob at least 6 meters away from audience? And haha for close up magic? Really bad.

Yes, it take relatively that long. Because it becomes too obvious how it is done if it is done too fast.

B)

Ya...DOn't get THIS!! (i want it to myself)

this trick is so amazing...at first when i saw the method...i was like :blink:

how could it be? it was untl i tried it on myself....then i was like :!!: :!!:


don't get this...when you know the method, you will kill yourself..its so simple :P :P

i got this trick too.. the method of doing the trick is abit shocking.. but well thats magic right? u learn the trick is for the effect not because the method is bad you change your mind? anyway i don't know about the others but i did to my class before and their all standing so close to me. I personally like the speed of the card bending because you can ask the specatators to focus on the card and when they do it, they can slowly see the card bend and thats will blow them off ^_^ (just a thinking of mine)

I would say get it... it looks really good cause it happens slowly.
Presentation is important... dont do this as a first trick.

Can the card be examine after the trick?

And also if it is done by a gimmick, can it be seen easily close up?

i think the method is ingeniusly simple. :lol:

btw, what's wrong with doing it close up? i don't really perform this trick, but its seems fine close up to me.. :P
oh wait. don't answer my question, cozz that would be exposure. =.="

anyway, i think its a good trick, if you use it to your advantage.
get it if you want to add something to your spoon bending, fork bending, etc... (now there's card bending, see?)

definitely not a good trick on its own. LOL. imagine saying "hey, watch this."
den you can really bore your audience to death with it. but if you add in spoon bending.. etc. you already give them the idea that its a bending day, so.... they understand that you're bending a card. ^_^ just my opinion

Card can be examined for sure... after you get rid of the "GIMMICK".
Those of you who bought the trick will know what is "GIMMICK"

I think the 1st part of this post is misleading, you CANT control the speed of the bend. To explain more, it is up to the GIMMICK.

yeah what lefty say is right. However. in the video, this trick consist of 3 phases,

it is very well taught on how to get the bend. ;)

Anyone selling this?

Well... I have the trick as well and I would like to add that it is the presentation and misdirection that makes this one work. "GIMMICK"?? I know some might find that it is too easy... well it is just another case of "Why didn't I think of that!!" Well, Anthony and Co thought about it first and I think it is a brilliant effect. Simple, able to be done in about 99% of the time. (when the "GIMMICK" is available)

Just my 2 cents worth.

By the way, I bought the trick immediately after seeing it.

hey if any one wants to buy this i would tell them never. the effect is worth
it the method is just unbelievable . BUT every penny is not worth it.
simple to do . method is so ingenious has been around for 30 yrs or so.

Hmmm so what do you mean? I'm abit confused.... So is it worth it or not?

And this trick is really about presentation..... cause everything is really self working..... you don't even have to learn to use the GIMMICK haha

Most methods to ANY magical effect has been around for a LONG time. If one just bothers to go to the library and read some of the magic books you'll realise that majority of today's effects are just a repackaging of older ideas. I don't think the method should be an issue as to whether or not you want to purchase a particular effect.

If you looked at it and said "WHOA - that ROCKS!" the first time you saw it, chances are - that's exactly what your spectators would say too. If you're in this magic business to entertain your friends, then that's really the main criteria with which to decide if you want to buy something. The only other of course, if it suits your performance persona and style.

Hope that helps you Ace... :)

I don't understand. You say the method is ingenious and unbelievable. Yet you wouldn't recommend it and every penny is not worth it.

Care to shed some light on the 30 years method (not how its done but the history)?

I have the effect, i think its ok, even though i have so many vids. I'm pretty sure its something most of us won't think of. I don't really think how long or who started the trick is the main issue or whether one should get it or not.

In my humble opinion, just go with your gut feeling whether you like it or not. It can always be incorporated into something else to become more striking or a better effect.

End day no matter how many tricks you learn, if its not really useful to you, it doesn't serve the purpose.

I think its a fine trick. =]

i know the method but i only perform it once... just wondering, how many of you peform this trick

I do perform this...when the GIMMICK is available haha :)

From experience this is not a effect that will get a WOW reaction.... In most cases it just leave people with the puzzled ??look on their face.... They'll try to figure out the trick but find no answer....

This is because the bend is not very visual...unlike fork or spoon bending....The process is slow... the audience will be going "is it bending? Hey it bent a little bit...." ..... You really have to present it well to get the attention of the audience.....

sometime i wonder...does the amount of gimmick applied affect the speed of the effect?

Simple solution!
Drop a card into 'the gimmick' and see the outcome for yourself! ^_^