Statica

Type: Parlor

Skill Level:

Retail Price: $29

Effect: A card is selected and marked by a spectator. Behind you the spectator's TV is running on a static channel. The cards are thrown at the TV and the selected card sticks to the screen. The spectator tries to take the card off the TV and can't. The card is stuck inside. The card is now moved around by your hand on the screen. The card is somehow flipped over inside the TV and it's marked like the mark made on the back by the spectator. Finally, the card is pulled out of the TV.

Performance Time: 3 minutes

Reset Time: immediate to repeat the trick once

Angles:

Quality: This is the first trick to get our Turkey of the Month prize. The trick is produced by Russini Illusion Works. If you haven't figured it out from the description, it is a video trick. The quality of the video is so bad that it renders the illusion worthless. The supplied gaffed marker, is supposed to be dry. In the trick we received, it was not. The instructions are of poor quality and appear to be hastily prepared and printed on a low end ink jet printer. The only thing of any quality in the package was the bicycle deck.

Mike Maione: This is one to stay away from. It is a dog. The author/manufacturer expects you to load a video into a machine and press play without someone noticing? You'll have to study the tape closely to find some cues you can use to pace yourself because with the tape running, you need to force a card, have the spectator mark it and throw the deck at the TV screen at just the right time. Then you need more time to allow the spectator to try to take the card of the screen before you move it around the set.

The video of the selected card is of such poor quality you can't tell what card it is when it is revealed. There was so much color missing that the red three of hearts looked like the black three of spades.When the card flips on the screen you can't see the mark which was supposedly made by the spectator or distinguish the back design.

Stay very far away from this one.

Dr. Mitch: Mike, who spent his money on this dud, has said it all. You know what they say...if it sounds too good to be true it probably is.

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