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Two new DVD
releases from World Magic Shop
Attack of the Bag by Craig Petty
Flipped Out by Craig Petty
Reviewed by Gary Jones
World Magic Shop have some excellent new effects/DVD's which are being released
for the Blackpool Convention, including a couple of great DVD's from Craig Petty
and of course the much awaited coin bending effect, Coinvexed, by David Penn.
I was lucky enough to be sent the two new DVD's by Craig Petty, I had heard some
great things about Craig's coin work and after watching these DVD's I wasn't
disappointed.
The first DVD, Attack of the Bag, is a DVD based on coin effects which use a
small but very clever mesh type bag. I myself have worked on effects using this
bag so I was really looking forward to this DVD.
The first effect on the DVD called Chop Bag, is exactly that, a chop cup type
routine but using coins rather than a cup and ball. This routine is a worker,
easy to do and with an excellent jumbo coin final. Craig uses a great utility
move throughout this routine (it's used throughout the DVD) it's not only very
deceptive it also overcomes the main problem in this type of routine. Excellent
magic.
Piggy Bank....This is a wonderful three coin production, almost like a mini
Misers Dream, this would be an excellent lead in to any coins across routine but
is strong enough to stand on its own.
Coins in Cartoon Motion.........This is my favourite routine on the DVD, I
myself have a similar type routine but Craig has really expanded on this and the
result is an awesome piece of magic. This is one of the cleanest three coin
vanish and productions you could imagine yet very easy to do. In this routine
Craig begins by showing three coins in the bag, the coins are now tipped out and
Craig then proceeds to do very clean vanish of each coin, the coins are then
produced one at the time on top of the bag. Once again the very cleanly coins
vanish only this time the first coin is found on top of the bag, the second
under the bag and the last one actually inside the bag. This is just brilliant
visual coin magic and Craig's handling is excellent.
Recorded Delivery...........This is a copper/silver type effect but using signed
coins, most of the work is done by the bag so you can really concentrate on your
presentation. In this routine Craig makes great use of the spectators hand, this
is the strongest point about this routine.
Strange Exchange...........If you want an easy to do four coins across routine
then Strange Exchange fits the bill. With the DVD you get supplied with two bags
and this routine uses them both. Four coins travel from one bag to the other but
once again the bags do most of the work for you.
Wild Thing...............Craig has taken Peter Kane's Wild Card plot and has
come up with probably the easiest version of this using coins. Three £2 coins
change one at the time into silver half dollars and are dropped into a coffee
mug, the coins are then tipped back out again and instantly change back to £2
coins. This would be a great routine to change base metal into gold.
Money in the Bag..................This is another strolling magicians dream
effect, three coins jump from Craig's hand back into the empty bag, one coin
jumps from the bag to Craig's hand, then the next coin, this coin now penetrates
back into the bag and out again finally all three coins end up in the spectators
hand, brilliant routining.
Scofield Coins..................Based on the hit TV program Prison Break, a
visual and stunning effect where three coins vanish one at the time from your
hands and appear inside an empty bag, the last coin makes its appearance
visually.
Multiple Selections......................You have a spectator choose an
imaginary coin from a selection of four, they name their choice, you now turn
over a bag which has been on show at all times and inside is one coin, you've
guessed it, the coin matches their selection. You now tell them that on the
other side of the coin is an ESP design, they choose any one (no force) you tip
the coin from the bag and on the other side is the chosen design, it doesn't get
any better than this.
To sum up, Craig is a wonderful and very skillful performer and has excellent
coin handling skills, most of these routines will work in the real world and the
production of this DVD is top notch, you don't just get one bag, you're supplied
with two bags. Craig and the guys at World Magic Shop have also remade these
bags so they work like a dream and have added a great colour coded teaching aid
to make everything easy to follow. Now for the best part, you get both bags,
Craig's excellent teaching DVD all for around the £15 mark. One of the best
deals in magic at the moment.
The next DVD from Craig and World Magic Shop is called Flipped Out, this DVD is
devoted to the wonderful gimmicked flipper coin.
Cartoon Coin....................Craig's take on David Roth's Portable Hole, the
combination of the flipper coin and Craig's excellent routining leads itself to
some wonderful and visual vanishes. Craig developed this routine so he could use
this in his restaurant work.
Flipping Wild...................A quick and very magical wild coin effect. Craig
openly removes two silver half dollars from a purse, tosses them into his other
hand and one changes into a £2 coin which is placed onto the table (or a
spectators hand) The second half dollar is visibly changed into another £2 coin,
both coins can be examined. Clean, visual and easy to do, great little routine.
Empowerment..................This is just AWESOME, how about doing a coins
across but into a spectators hand, now how about doing a coins across routine
where you stand back and the coins go from one spectators hand into another
spectators hand, yes you read that right, the coins go from one spectator to
another. This routine has to be the ultimate in coins across routines, this
alone is worth more to a worker than any other coins across routines out there.
WTF.................A very visual coins through table routine with a surprise
"jump back" climax. The use of the flipper coin in this type routine is just
perfect, you drop four coins onto the centre of the table and when they land you
just see three, one coin has visibly passed through the table, this is repeated
until you get to the last coin, just when you think you know what will happen
the coins coins pass back up through the table to join the last one, visual and
extremely baffling to watch.
Flipped Across..................Once again another coins across but using two
spectators, clean and very easy to do.
Flipped Out.....................Show your hands empty, produce three coins, the
coins travel from one hand to the other and then they all vanish. For this very
clean and magical sequence you will need also need an expanded shell. Now if you
use two of the most powerful gimmicks in coin magic you won't need me to tell
you the stunning results, Craig has come up with a very commercial workable
routine where most of the work is done for you. What are you waiting for!!
Full House Assembly...........................Craig has combined a coin assembly
with a coin that finds the selected card plot (Tosheroon), but Craig has also
added a terrific "kicker" ending which will definitely catch them off guard. The
use of a flipper coin in a Matrix type routine really does simplify the
vanishes.
Coincussed.........................Imagine being able to do David Roth's
excellent Hanging Coins but without having to do the edge grip or having to
worry about your angles etc, Craig has come up with the perfect solution, by
using the flipper coin he has eliminated the edge grip and angle problems and
this routine is great for the strolling magician.
Flesh Pockets......................How would you like to do a 4 coins through
yours and a spectators hand which is not only visually stunning but also easy to
do. Craig has come up with an excellent presentation for this and the last coin
passes through the back of a spectators hand into another spectators hand, this
really does look like real magic.
If you own a flipper coin then you need this DVD, if you don't own a flipper
coin then this DVD will change that. Craig is an extremely slick and talented
coin worker and the amount of thinking which has gone into his routines just
goes to show that he really thinks about his craft. Every effect on this DVD and
on the Attack of the Bag DVD can be used in the real world. I know this may
sound like that old cliché but every routine on these DVD's are worth much more
than the asking price.
Thank you Craig for sharing your brilliant thinking and routines with us and
also a special thank you for World Magic Shop for selling these superb DVD's at
a very reasonable price.
Available from:
www.worldmagicshop.co.uk
© Gary Jones AIMC,
February 2008.
www.garyjonesmagic.com