 Hey everybody, welcome back to another magic review from the Hocus-Pocus.com. This is Acme Hole from Lloyd Barnes and Illusionist.com. What is Acme Hole? Well, if you're an old guy like me, and you remember the Roadrunner cartoons, Roadrunner would run away from Wiley Coyote, and Wiley Coyote used to order all of his stuff from Acme. Acme is like this generic brand name for a company, okay? And he would order these things called Acme holes and they were literally just these black rubber circles and he could throw them up against things and then create a hole and then walk through it. And that's what Lloyd has done. He's taken that concept and done it with a playing card and it's just brilliant and really beautiful to look at. Here, let's watch the trailer. Okay, I'm gonna try an experiment and do something that I last seen when I was a kid. I don't even know how this is gonna work, but wish me luck. The idea would be that you take an object, in this case like a playing card, with a big hole through the middle and how do they do this? They kind of like peel the hole up. How the hell does that work? All right, so that was Acme Hole, Lloyd Barnes, Illusionist.com, $15 retail, probably an intermediate skill level. All right, so you get this, you order it. What are you gonna get when it comes to in the mail? You're gonna get the DVD, DVD is about 47 minutes long. Okay, so it's good quality DVD, lots lots on there. And then you're gonna get all the necessary parts to build your own Acme Hole. Is it what I thought? It is what I thought because I watched the trailer a couple times and I'm already familiar with that style, that technique. And so if you know what to look for, it's kind of glaringly obvious as a magician because you've seen that technique before, but it's gonna fly right by people. They would never suspect. How are the angles? The angles are a little sensitive. You don't want anyone on your sides or back. This is a forward-facing routine. Can it be inspected? Nope, it can't be inspected. You can hand out the Acme Hole, you can hand out the little black sticker, but you can't hand out the card, but Lloyd Barnes will teach you a switch to get out of it. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? The video is well done. It is well done because, you know, it's done by Illusionist. They make great videos and Lloyd's a great teacher. Let me just throw that out there. He's a great teacher. You're gonna get his initial Instagram post. You're gonna get a little bit of him talking about the inspiration and like how this trick came to fruition. A huge portion of the video, like half of it, it's gonna be gimmick instruction. Okay, so like half of that 47 minutes is gimmick instruction. So yes, there's a lot to do. And then the other half is gonna be performance and him showing you how to do the trick. There aren't any live performances of this though. So as far as practice goes, it is a pretty easy trick. Alright, this is not a hard trick. Once you create the gimmick, it's a pretty easy gimmick to use. As far as set up and reset though, there really isn't any. I mean, once it's in your pocket, it's already loaded and ready to go. Lloyd teaches you how to pull it out in its set position and it instantly resets itself. Positive. So what are the positives to Acme Hole? Very creative, right? Very creative. When Lloyd first put this out on Instagram, just the onslaught of people that were coming after him saying, teach us how to do this was incredible. So very creative, very thinking outside the box. People were like, what is that trick? Highly visual, right? You don't have to explain what's going on. They can literally, your brain tells you that it's magic, right? Just watching it, your brain breaks and you say, what just happened? So it's highly visual. It's definitely something different also. This is not your standard pick a card. Here's your card. Is this your card? It's not a standard card trick, right? You almost, it's almost not even a card trick. It's an illusion, right? It's a little tiny mini like stage illusion in a card. You should definitely check this out if this peaks your interest. Negative. If I had to say something negative about this, it would be, I don't like arts and crafts. I would have paid more for this to get it already made. So I hate arts and crafts and I'm so bad at it and I have no patience for it. And, you know, I don't like arts and crafts. There's also some clothing restriction issues. Like there is a clothing, this is not clothing optional. Okay, so you won't need to wear certain clothes to pull this off. But that's really all I can think of. All right. So like I said, it's 15 bucks. It's 15 bucks. It's only $15 guys. So definitely worth your money. You're going to get 47 minutes of Lloyd Barnes teaching you magic, and then everything you need to need to build the effect, $15 is nothing. Like that's a great, great price point for an awesome trick. As far as the people who would like this, I think this totally is street magic, walk around, booyah. Like this is yes. It's almost something you could even carry. I don't want to say in your wallet because I'd be too afraid that it would bend. But you could definitely carry this around in your in your breast pocket. So if you're wearing like a polo shirt or a suit jacket, and you could put this one thing in your breast pocket, bam, I mean, you've got something there that you could fry your brains with easily. All right. So that's Acme Hole from Lloyd Barnes, illusionist.com. It's $15. Like I said, probably in your intermediate skill level, just because of the fact that you have to put it all together. And if this piques your interest, you think this is something you'd like to purchase? 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