| Go to page (Previous) 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 ~ 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 ~ 9 (Next) |
|
|
algebraic
Special user
532 Posts
|
Posted: May 1, 2012 8:51pm
Avoid Outlaw's Re-Animator. I paid in full for this item over two and 1/2 years ago and I still haven't received it yet!!
|
mndude
Veteran user
388 Posts
|
Posted: May 1, 2012 9:13pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-01 20:35, daffydoug wrote:
OK. I have little money to spend on magic this year. I want to make all my purchases wise purchases. So I would really like to see this thread continue with several more suggestions on effects to wisely avoid. I will not purchase "Rattled." I.R. is in. (If I could come up with the bucks.)
Somebody mentioned "Ink."
Can someone tell me more about that? Is it really bad? I think the effect looks great in the demo, but they all do, right? I hope someone can further enlighten me, because I had my heart set on purchasing that one.
|
|
Well, I doubt it's 2011, but I'd avoid getting Super Coke.
|
Steven Leung
Inner circle
in search for the Magic Rainbow in
1113 Posts
|
Posted: May 1, 2012 9:49pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-02-08 04:20, David Klass wrote:
Am I the only who thinks it's odd to have a "Most Dissapointing Trick of 2011" thread in the "Latest & Greatest" section? 
Not latest & not greatest then...
|
|
Better have a new section, we need to ask Café staff to open this new section.
the most memorable moment in my life - Photo on the left with Maestro in FISM Asia 2011.
"Being fooled by a trick doesn't always mean they are having a good time" - Homer Liwag
|
ralphs007
Special user
922 Posts
|
Posted: May 1, 2012 11:45pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-01 21:49, Steven Leung wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2012-02-08 04:20, David Klass wrote:
Am I the only who thinks it's odd to have a "Most Dissapointing Trick of 2011" thread in the "Latest & Greatest" section?
Not latest & not greatest then...
|
|
Better have a new section, we need to ask Café staff to open this new section.
|
|
Not a bad idea !
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him".
James D. Miles
|
Magicsquared
Special user
NYC
932 Posts
|
Posted: May 2, 2012 2:11pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-02 12:11, MR Effecto wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2012-04-29 20:52, Magicsquared wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2012-04-29 20:30, Sammy J. wrote:
Quote:
|
On 2012-04-29 17:37, MR Effecto wrote:
Anyone that let me down.
|
|
Now that was helpful!
|
|
He's attempting to get 50 posts so he get into the For Sale section (he mentioned this the other day).
|
|
Not true. I ask how to go the for sale fourm and someone emailed me and said you had to have 50 posts. that's not why I left that comment. I was trying to leave a funny comment. I guess it did not work. But being new here it would be nice if my piers would not put up comments like you left.
|
|
Oh, you misunderstood me. I wasn't making a judgment. I just thought people might be confused by your posts which have -- so far -- been 100% content free.
I'm sorry to hear about the harassment you're feeling from your piers. To be fair, those things extend past the buoys and are completely wobbly. So what do they know?
|
cardbiker
Elite user
484 Posts
|
Posted: May 2, 2012 4:42pm
For me the top two worst tricks would be Drift and Aura.
|
saysold1
Inner circle
Recovering Cafe addict with only
4129 Posts
|
Posted: May 2, 2012 11:37pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-01 20:35, daffydoug wrote:
OK. I have little money to spend on magic this year. I want to make all my purchases wise purchases. So I would really like to see this thread continue with several more suggestions on effects to wisely avoid. I will not purchase "Rattled." I.R. is in. (If I could come up with the bucks.)
Somebody mentioned "Ink."
Can someone tell me more about that? Is it really bad? I think the effect looks great in the demo, but they all do, right? I hope someone can further enlighten me, because I had my heart set on purchasing that one.
|
|
Doug-
As I recall the feedback on Ink was generally just fair - and comments that the gimmick was somewhat visible. Don't have it - just recalling the thread.
|
bsears
Inner circle
1006 Posts
|
Posted: May 3, 2012 11:24pm
Rattled is soooo clever, and yet it's been in a drawer ever since I bought it. Why? I was disappointed by the conditions required to use it, a misleading demo, and issues of reliability, so it gets my vote as well, which is sad because it had so much potential.
ps - I knew that the Sliding Clay Man was very misrepresented the first time I saw it. I feel terrible that anyone paid so much money for that thing.
|
brehaut
Inner circle
kentucky
1847 Posts
|
Posted: May 4, 2012 9:02pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-01-14 21:43, Magikbob wrote:
My two disappointments last year were Slo Motion and Electro Magic Squeaker. Too much noise from Slo Motion and not enough noise from the Squeaker (difficulty finding a "sweet spot" for the trigger mechanism). I was lucky that last years "wins" outnumbered the "losses" though.
|
|
Agree Slo motion to loud
Twitter: @GSBKY and Author of "Inspired"
|
J-Mac
Inner circle
Ridley Park, PA
3004 Posts
|
Posted: May 5, 2012 12:48am
Slo-Motion for me.
Mine isn't loud but it is very finicky. IOW, I must have just the right size stirrer and it must be very smooth or I get little or no motion. And it shipped to me with a couple stirrers that didn't fit in any size LifeSaver. Straws? We were told it would work on them but mine won't. Had to buy a box of stirrers and then sand each one lightly to get the right smoothness.
The effect is seriously not worth the effort! To most it looked "cute", but not very magical.
Jim
|
Atom3339
Inner circle
2167 Posts
|
Posted: May 5, 2012 11:49am
Love this thread! You guys have saved me a LOT of money! Sooooo your disappointing purchases of 2012 so far?
TH
Occupy Your Dream
|
Sammy J.
Inner circle
Castle Rock, Colorado
1730 Posts
|
Posted: May 5, 2012 4:14pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-05 00:48, J-Mac wrote:
Slo-Motion for me.
Mine isn't loud but it is very finicky. IOW, I must have just the right size stirrer and it must be very smooth or I get little or no motion. And it shipped to me with a couple stirrers that didn't fit in any size LifeSaver. Straws? We were told it would work on them but mine won't. Had to buy a box of stirrers and then sand each one lightly to get the right smoothness.
The effect is seriously not worth the effort! To most it looked "cute", but not very magical.
Jim
|
|
Wow, Jim. Magic is a Strange Mistress!
Mine works perfectly every time. I just grab a handful of stir sticks at Starbucks, a bag of lifesavers at Walgreens, and I'm good to go. I never test them. They just work, in both directions, on command.
I worked a Quatro de Mayo party last night. I performed this 5 times, leaving the lifesaver and stick at each table. They unwrap the lifesaver, they draw the arrows, they put it on the stick. My hands are completely empty. All is good.
To each their own, but I find this to be one of the strongest, easiest to perform things I currently do, and I have been doing close up for 33 years. The reactions are very strong. In a number of cases people are talking about it days after the performance.
Sorry to hear you have had a poor experience with this. Mine has been superb.
Cheers!
Sammy
Sammy J. Teague
When the Docs give your wife 18 months to live and it has been 10 years, that is a miracle!
|
edh
Inner circle
4702 Posts
|
Posted: May 5, 2012 6:26pm
I guess it's hit and miss with this effect.
If you get a good working one it's great. If you get a bad working one it's terrible. Not worth the gamble for me. 
Magic is a vanishing art.
|
J-Mac
Inner circle
Ridley Park, PA
3004 Posts
|
Posted: May 6, 2012 1:24am
Even when it is working OK, it just doesn’t translate as "magical" IMO. Kinda cute but it doesn’t really "Wow" anyone - in my experience anyway.
Jim
|
TheGreatNancini
Veteran user
Ohio
358 Posts
|
Posted: May 6, 2012 2:03am
I vote for Slo Motion. Matthew and I bought two of them so we would each have our own. They are both equally as finicky as one person noted, and I really don't think anyone (spectators) thinks that it is all that magical.
I really felt like we wasted our money.
~Nanci
-- Nancilee N. Jones --
Website | Facebook | Twitter
|
Fire Starter
Inner circle
1277 Posts
|
Posted: May 6, 2012 6:38am
Aura, Rattled ,Note, insider and Holey are ones I don t care much for and are in my draw.
|
daffydoug
Eternal Order
Daff could give a rats butt that he has
11226 Posts
|
Posted: May 6, 2012 1:06pm
I am enjoying this thread, (and no Braco's floating ball!) but I am still in the dark about the effects on Paul Harris website.
The difficult must become easy, the easy beautiful and the beautiful magical.
|
NFW
Special user
UK
839 Posts
|
Posted: May 7, 2012 2:22pm
I found slo motion way too noisy also.
|
Zombie Magic
Inner circle
I went out for a beer and now have
6523 Posts
|
Posted: May 7, 2012 2:38pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-06 02:03, TheGreatNancini wrote:
I vote for Slo Motion. Matthew and I bought two of them so we would each have our own. They are both equally as finicky as one person noted, and I really don't think anyone (spectators) thinks that it is all that magical.
I really felt like we wasted our money.
~Nanci
|
|
Nanci, I had it in my cart. And now...it's out. THANK YOU for posting!
Clarke
|
takeachance
Inner circle
2152 Posts
|
Posted: May 7, 2012 4:34pm
I can see it is definately different strokes for different folks when it comes to Slo Motion. When I bought this I never imagined it to be played as a feat of magic. I basically use it to show an unusual skill. I offer the kids $5 to who can do it after I demonstrate blowing gently on a fruit flavor life saver and straw then hand them out to all. Then whoever is the birthday kid, I say, look they almost have it and just take hold of one end of their straw to make it happen. It goes over a treat. Its a party type game. Mine is quite as well so I luv this little marvel.
Little man is another item that gets slammed that I'm absolutely delighted with. If you bought that for some sort of voodoo or bizarre magic then of course it would fail. There was much talk from people wanting it for those areas of magic. I bought it to entertain my grankids in the 2-5 age group. What a beautiful little piece of theatre this is. When the little heart is placed on the playdough man and he travels to the little women the kids eyes light up, its priceless and something special they always ask for when they come around. It gives the opportunity for a great little story, and its playdough, what young child doesn't relate to it. When I'm long gone those kids will still remember and by then embellish the story of how Pop made the playdough come alive.
|
Dellor
New user
45 Posts
|
Posted: May 8, 2012 1:20am
Like a lot of people said rattled was a huge disappointment. It was so painfully obvious
|
mndude
Veteran user
388 Posts
|
Posted: May 8, 2012 9:02am
I can't believe someone wouldn't love SloMotion! Maybe mine is the exception, but it's really quiet. It's definaetly my best $40 gadget that I have. Zombie Magic... I thought you made this gimmick?
|
mahucharn
Veteran user
388 Posts
|
Posted: May 8, 2012 10:51am
I quite disliked Vertigo.
|
Andre Hagen
.jpg)
Inner circle
1260 Posts
|
Posted: May 9, 2012 10:32am
My vote for 2012 (at least so far...who knows what other duds I will purchase) would be Shift Key. I wonder who, if anyone, can keep this key straight for any length of time. I couldn't even get mine completely straight.
It took some back-and-forth emails, but I finally got a refund.
"Arthur, I see that magic is really just a lot of bull****."
"Yes Pop, you've got it. It is, but you've got to know just how to shovel it."
-Arthur Brandon from his book Milo and Roger
"If they like you as a person, they'll like your act."
-Nate Leipzig
“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.”
-Karl Germain
|
bsears
Inner circle
1006 Posts
|
Posted: May 9, 2012 1:32pm
I almost bought Slo-motion but fortunately got to see (hear?) another magician do it before I made the purchase. In a crowded hotel room, it sounded like a radio controlled helicopter taking off with an electric toothbrush strapped to it.
|
WARD.GS
New user
5 Posts
|
Posted: May 9, 2012 5:09pm
Must admit to being very disappointed with timeless due to the prep. being lost very easily. I thought it would be exceptional but can't get past this flaw. Happy keep working with it tho.
Wardy
|
brehaut
Inner circle
kentucky
1847 Posts
|
Posted: May 9, 2012 10:21pm
Quote:
|
On 2012-05-09 17:09, WARD.GS wrote:
Must admit to being very disappointed with timeless due to the prep. being lost very easily. I thought it would be exceptional but can't get past this flaw. Happy keep working with it tho.
|
|
My problem with timeless is after using it a couple times, it seems obvious to me that a spectator can look at the watch and see whats going on. I won't say more due to exposure
Twitter: @GSBKY and Author of "Inspired"
|
gabelson
Inner circle
conscientious observer
1819 Posts
|
Posted: May 9, 2012 11:22pm
Not even close to obvious. It's about as perfect an illusion as there is (if your prep is decent). I must have performed Timeless on at least 100 occasions so far. The spectator sees nothing except what they expect to see. Everything looks as it should.
(Early on) I showed it to a couple of well-known magicians at the Magic Castle, they looked quite closely, and had no CLUE as to method. Be bold. No one will catch you out. Reactions are superb. I present it purely as an influence routine.
|
Piz
Inner circle
Chicago, IL
1253 Posts
|
Posted: May 10, 2012 6:21am
LOL
They do come out with killer stuff, maybe this year was not there year?
|
WARD.GS
New user
5 Posts
|
Posted: May 10, 2012 5:31pm
" I must have performed Timeless on at least 100 occasions so far. The spectator sees nothing except what they expect to see..."......Gabelson please let me know how you get round the problem I mention above. If u've performed 100's of times you must have a way round this. Pm me if ok ? Thanks.
Wardy
|
| The Magic Cafe Forum Index » » Tricks & Effects » » MOST DISAPPOINTING TRICK OF 2011 |
|
|
| Go to page (Previous) 1 ~ 2 ~ 3 ~ 4 ~ 5 ~ 6 ~ 7 ~ 8 ~ 9 (Next) |
![[8]](/forums/images/digits/8.gif)
![[1]](/forums/images/digits/1.gif)
![[6]](/forums/images/digits/6.gif)
![[4]](/forums/images/digits/4.gif)
![[5]](/forums/images/digits/5.gif)