 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Thumb Fun from Sid Lorraine and Devon Knight. What is it? It's a prediction style effect that has a really fun kicker at the end. And if you'd like to see what it looks like, this is it. I have brought along a piece of paper, actually several pieces of paper, not these cards. They're in my pocket. They come all the way from Canada. They're photographic paper and they will do an amazing thing. Let me show you. I'm going to pick up these. Would you pick up the card right there? Just the top card there. Look at the card. You can show it to everybody out there. Put the card back on top of the deck and put these cards back on top of that. Do that. Put the cards back inside of the box and then I'm going to show you one of my favorite magical card tricks ever in my entire career because you see it's not really magic. It's scientific. I brought along these little pieces of paper that a friend gave me years ago. They come from Canada and they have a special photographic sheen. I don't know if you can see it if I hold it up to the light there, Mikkel, but it's really there. And I've got about, oh, a half a dozen of them here. Anyway, they will pick up magical brain waves and impulses. Now you know what card you look at. It could be a red card, black card. Do you know what it is? I don't. I'm going to take this top little piece of photographic paper and I'm going to ask you to hold up your thumb like this. We're going to have thumb fun. Never mind. Hold it still. Think of your card and make the thought of your card go right down through your arm all the way past your elbow and up to your thumb there. And I'm going to try to get an impression of it right now. One, two, three. You can put your thumb down now. It takes about 10 seconds to develop, you know, like the old Polaroid. Pretty soon it'll happen instantaneously, but I'm just going to lift my thumb. By the way, you can tell me now, it won't matter. What was your card? Three of spades. Three of spades. The three of spades. Would you look at this? I'm going to wipe that ink off because if I'm not mistaken, that right there, you look at it and you look at it is the three of spades. All right. So that was David Ginn in the video. I kindly asked him if he would allow me to show his performance of it and he graciously agreed. This, like I said, was created by Sylvain, but it was actually brought to you in this form by magician Devon Knight. All right. So a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews. The first of which is what is in the bag? That's right. This is done in a bag. And so I think if you're familiar with purchasing magic tricks, maybe back in the 80s, this would definitely feel familiar to you. That's what it felt like when I got this. I was like, man, did I order this from one of the old magic companies that I used to get things from way back in the 80s? Or your favorite local magic shop? Remember, I used to have all of these little baggies in their glass window and you'd pick something out and inside would be these photocopied instructions and a little envelope that contained your gimmicks and gas. That's kind of the throwback feel that I got when I got Thumb Fun. What you get is you get two pieces of paper printed of instructions. Of course, you get your little color front advertisement there. You get a manila envelope and then inside that you get a handful of cardstock white cut up, same sized pieces of paper, your prediction cards that you saw in the video, and of course the revelations. Is it what I thought? Yeah, it is what I thought. You watch the trick pretty much and you can see everything that's involved and you can kind of come up with your own routine, especially if you've heard of magic before, and you're familiar with some slights and moves. I know they say that there's no slights involved, but technically you're going to have to be able to force a card, so I always consider that a slight. And then second, you're going to have to be able to hide and then reveal the end prediction, the thumb print, and so that would definitely take some misdirection and so I would also venture to say that that's a slight. How are the angles on this? They're really good. They're really clean. I don't think you'd have any issues with this. The one movement that you have to do in order to change the blank cards into a reveal card is really unseen and would go by unnoticed, no matter what your surroundings. Can it be inspected? I think all the cards can be inspected once you are completely finished. Of course, no one's going to ask to inspect this beforehand. There's really no trap doors. There's nothing to find in this and I think that you know you could certainly hand these out to anyone who wanted to see them afterwards. What's the overall quality and production value? Like I said, it's photocopy paper and then cardstock that was run through a printer and then cut up with a paper cutter. So that's your production value. Is it well made? I'll say it again. It's photocopied paper, two pieces of paper, and then cardstock cut with a paper cutter after it had gone through a printer and so that's what you're getting. You're getting the little cards and you're getting unlimited envelope to hold it all in and then you're getting photocopied instructions. How much practice does it require? It's not going to require much practice at all, especially if you're already familiar with some card tricks that require maybe like an Elm's account or some sort of slight way you hide a card that you don't want people to see. I think would be very familiar with this and you would easily begin to adapt thumb fun into your repertoire. All right, so what are some of the positives? Positives for this, it's your opportunity to have a famous Sid Lorraine trick and I think that right there appeals to a lot of people, especially since it's previously been either unpublished or hard to obtain. I know that this trick was also a favorite with Doug Henning and so that's certainly another draw to this and be another reason why people wouldn't want to have it. I think also think it's very cute and it would play very well for children and kids at a party or in sort of some area where you would be in a teaching or classroom setting. All right, so what are the negatives? Negatives to this, just like we say around here, there's negatives to every magic trick. These are just ones I see. They all have to be the ones that you see. It's 20 bucks and I'll just include this with is it worth your money. It's $20 and this style of effect now usually gets sold as a download. I could easily see this as a PDF where they give you the instructions and then another PDF where they say print this out on card stock and cut these out. I think if they had done it that way they could have included more revelations, maybe ESP revelations, shapes, animals, other things that would incorporate itself into this style of effect. You're not just limited with cards obviously and maybe a more creative person could even come up with something where you actually used an ink pad and showed ink on your thumb maybe and so that would be something to explore I think as well. Who would like this? I think anyone who is looking to collect tricks from Sid Lorraine, I think that people who like little pocket tricks, especially tricks that have a very funny or fun, I should say a fun story, a fun theme, and again like I said people that might be into children's magic or performing magic for parties. All right, so that is my review for Thumb Fun from Sid Lorraine and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it on one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers. Thanks, bye.