 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is Steven and this is a Magic Review. Today we're going to look at Metallica from Ben Harris. What is Metallica? Basically it's a pamphlet. It's a little booklet that walks through seven different routines that Ben has put together for a couple of different already published marketed tricks. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. It's a book. They don't have trailers for books. Sorry, there's no trailers for books. I don't know why. I wish they didn't make trailers for books. I think that would be cool. And Ben Harris is a really cool magician. I think it would be cool to see him on video selling his book. But I don't have a trailer. Sorry. Alright, so if you don't know who Ben Harris is, you've been living under a rock. He is synonymous with his company, his brand name, WowBound. He did Alita a long time ago. It was like a card that floated off the table. He did the original floating match. That's his. Quirks and quirks. This is probably one of my favorite magic card books. He did that too. He's just a creative mind. He just comes up with these crazy out of the box looking like real magic things. Alright, so a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews. And the first of which is what is in the book? What's in the book? You're going to get a 28-page stapled book. It's seven full-size pages folded in half and stapled. So it's a really well-made booklet. It's all type reading. So this is all type reading. There's no diagrams to show you how to do the magic. The photographs that are in this are just title photographs. So you're going to be reading. This is a book on mentalism. And so really there's nothing to visually show you. And the other thing is Ben is using other marketed effects in his book. So he can't exactly take pictures of those. He doesn't own the rights to them. So there's no instructional pictures. Alright, so how accurate is the ad copy on the book? You just need to pay really close attention to there's one line that says New presentations and uses for existing props. That means if you don't own those props, you can't do those effects. There's one little piece of advice about doing mentalism like in a mall or grocery store. That you don't need any props for. But it's more of an idea, not necessarily a trick. And there's a drawing duplication at the very beginning that you don't need to own either. And really that drawing duplication trick is worth the price of the entire book. So if you just want a really cool stage drawing duplication, you can't go wrong with Metallica from Ben Harris. So what are the props? What are the props you're going to need? You're going to need the mother of all book tests. You're going to need pro mystics multi-dimensional. You're going to need shift, which is that bending key that illusionist sells. And you're going to need Chris Congreve's amazing zippo gimmick light. If you have any of those effects already, you might want to pick up this book because Ben is going to give you an additional routine. Something that kind of moves that store-bought trick out of one element and into his. So you don't need all of those tricks, obviously. I would think even one of those tricks, even if you own one of them, this book is going to help you in that area. Positives. What are the positives to Metallica? Number one, it's name. Oh my goodness. Who doesn't love Metallica? So I mean just calling your book Metallica and saying it's heavy mental magic. That's awesome. So cool right there. And props to Ben Harris for releasing another really cool effect. Another positives are, you know, they're just great new twists on old tricks. It's really great outside the box thinking these tricks are great for the working professional. And so I would just argue if you read the ad copy closely and make sure this is a book that's going to work for you. Negatives. What are the negatives to Metallica? It's not so great if you don't own any of the props and you aren't a working professional. There are good ideas in here and I certainly think those ideas can be shifted over into some of your effects. But if you don't really own any of these, you're not a mentalist and you're not a working professional. It's probably not a book for you. Is it worth your money? It's 20 bucks. It's $20. And like I said, the first trick in here is worth the price of admission. So right there you're getting your value. But also, like I said, it is just 28 pages of text. And so if you'd rather own the PDF, it's $5 cheaper. Alright, who would like this? Mentalists, stage-working mentalists, professional mentalists. That's really kind of your arena. People who own those five tricks or a couple of them and would like to be able to do them better. Alright, so that is Metallica from Ben Harris and Wild Bound. We want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we can review it for you. And if you want to pick up your own, you can find it at your favorite, Murphy's Magic Dealer. Thanks. Bye.