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Under the tag review you will find more reviews of magic tricks, DVDs and books. As already stated in the heading, I will be really honest with you, but please be aware of that they are also very subjective.
If you want to have your product reviewed by me, please send me an email at mail@escamoteur.de.
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“Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Miser’s Dream, But Were Afraid to Ask” would have been the subtitle that I had chosen for the DVD if someone had asked me. Levent stays a bit more serious in stating “Everything you ever wanted to know about this classic effect!” And exactly that’s what you get when buying this three volume DVD set….

When I got his new eBook from Tom Stone, my first thought was: “Tom must have gone insane to write almost a full eBook about the multiplying bottles trick.”

To me this trick never appealed in any way and so I began to read rather sceptical but also curious as I know Tom is a great [...]

I’m really thankful that Todd Karr with his Miracle Factory releases this series of historic magic videos as I’m much too young to have had the chance to watch these masters of the past live and there is so much to learn from them.
When I got the newsletter from Miracle Factory that announced a DVD [...]

After reading the hyping comments from magic celebrities, I asked Kostya if I could write a review on !Warning. Fortunately he agreed and sent it to me so that I know can make up my own opinion on it and share it with you.
Visiting the product page, it was difficult at first to grasp what [...]

When I got the packet yesterday and I opened it I was stunned. This didn’t look like a normal magic DVD. Already the packaging is a piece of art and so are the other details.

Inside I found a hand signed and numbered DVD envelope and an introductory postcard written with homers very distinctive hand. Also [...]

This is a DVD from the series that captures most parts of the famous New York COIN Magic Seminar of David Roth, Dr. Micheal Rubinstein and Mike Gallo.
Mike Gallo
I’ve hadn’t seen this performer before and I am really enthusiastic about him. His style is very relaxed and casual, his methods are direct if not so [...]

Just imagine you were able to produce a burning business card anytime, anywhere, blow it out and hand it over to someone. See a video and review here.

To be honest, the classic effect of the torn and restored newspaper did not really appeal to me for a long time. Somehow it looked too common and in a way trivial to me. This started to chance while watching the DVD from Paul Potassy who has a very entertaining newspaper routine with a nice [...]