 Hey everybody, welcome back to MagicReview.com. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey today we're going to look at Tour De Force, the complete addition from Michael O'Brien. What is Tour De Force? It is an in-the-hands triumph effect. A triumph effect is basically where you take the cards, split them in half and shuffle. You invert face-down cards and to face-up cards and then do a series of magical gestures. They all write themselves. You want to see the commercial for it? Here it is. Let's take a look. All right, I'm going to try something just a little bit different. Can you give me a favor? I'm just going to ruffle my thumb down the side of the deck. All you have to do is just say stop anytime you want, okay? Stop. Right there. And go ahead and take a look. Remember that? And we'll go ahead and place it back just like this. Now I used to hand the deck out and let someone shuffle them, but guess what? Was that a bar one time and the guy was really drunk? He took the deck from me and actually shuffled the cards like this so that half the cards were face-up, half the cards were face-down, some back-to-back, some face-to-face. And he handed me the deck back. I didn't know that anything had happened because it looked normal like this. But once I cut the cards I could see something wasn't right. So he hands me the deck back and he says, all right, try to find my card. I said, I'll find your card under one condition. You tell me the name of the card that you saw. What card was it? Seven of Diamonds. Seven of Diamonds? Notice all of the cards are all facing the same way, except one. All right, do me a favor, go ahead and take it out and show everyone. Uh, yeah, ready? Now the thing is fixing the deck and finding his selection wasn't the part that completely threw him off. The part that threw him off was how the heck did he get the cards all back in the same order again? Oh my god. All right, so that was Michael O'Brien. This DVD was produced by David Bonn-Fadini and it was filmed at Rockwell's Cafe in Bakery. You might remember Michael O'Brien from a Theory 11 expose called the rarest of the rare. And if you'd like to learn more about Michael O'Brien, you can visit him at his website at O'BrienMagic.com. This trick, the Tour de Forest, like I said, it's an easy in the hands triumph. It's really streamlined and it's really simple. It makes it really simple to perform. But the moves that you do in this are all really natural looking and the secret moves are virtually indetectable. Michael is going to go into all the details how to do this trick as well as the five variations of the trick. And it's awesome. You got multiple card variation, you got a sandwich variation, a tabletop handling, a collector's plot, and even the trick that finalizes in new deck order. All right, so a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic products and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You get a DVD and you get a box. That's what you get. There's nothing extra to this trick. You're going to be able to do this with any deck of cards. Is it what I thought? You know, I've seen a couple of different triumph effects. I do a triumph effect personally and the triumph that I do does use an entirely gimmick to deck. And the thing I liked about this is the deck is completely standard. However, you do insert one, I'll say gimmick slash gaff into it, but it's nothing that would surprise anybody. But the method did surprise me and I completely enjoyed it. How are the angles? The angles on this are flawless. With enough practice, you should be able to bring all of your angles down to zero. You should be able to do this completely surrounded. Works great for walk around, stand up, going from table to table, whatever you like. Can it be inspected? For the most part, the deck is going to come across as a completely standard deck and for the most part, it is. I would almost say that this could be a completely inspectable deck once the deck is finished. I don't think I would have any issues with the spectator finding the secret. All right, so what's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? This is where it was a little lacking for me. People who were magicians a long time way back might remember back in the day. We didn't used to get DVDs. We used to get VHSs and this is kind of what it felt like. It felt like a throwback to magic videos of long since past. The set that he chose, kata kata echoey feeling where it sounded like the sound was being pulled into the walls and it didn't sound like the different people or might and it just kind of felt like it was very home produced and so it's not really at the standard the HD like high film multiple angle level that some of you might be familiar with. I wouldn't let that attract you in any way from purchasing this. All right, so how much practice does this trick require? It will require some practice not only in some of the slides that are involved but just in the phases as well from the movement to the next movement to the next movement. It's a series of things that you have to remember and I think that series all needs to be rehearsed and so this would be something that I would want to practice over and over again in front of a mirror until I got it right. All right, so how much setup and reset is there? There's virtually none. There is that first initial setup where you're going to have to create your gas. So there is some arts and crafts in this. It's not bad arts and crafts. It's arts and crafts that you've probably done already in the past. It's nothing that you're not going to be familiar with. Earlier I said you could use any deck you wanted with this and that's true but I would say if you want to use one of those custom or design decks, maybe if you use a specialty deck that isn't readily available at the store, you might want to pick up two and make your gaff out of your extra deck. All right, so positives. Positives for Tour de Force are it's a very visual tramp. It's very clean and very elegant looking tramp. I mean the moves you see in the trailer or when you're watching it are the moves he's doing. So the only deception is in just you not knowing what he's doing but it's very clean looking and very simple to follow and I think the simpler you can strip a trick you know and take the clutter out of it the more elegance you can put into a trick. I think the more beautiful and the more interesting to watch it becomes. You're able to do this very slowly and the spectator really believes he's watching all of these phases unfold in front of him where in reality your steps ahead but I think that's what makes this a really cool and really clean trick. All right so what are some of the negatives? Like we say around here there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. I've already mentioned I wasn't blown away with the production value. That's pretty much it. Everything else you get in this is awesome. All right so is it worth your money? You are getting six tricks with this but I would argue that there are really six tricks in one. You wouldn't do these six tricks for the same person. You would obviously cycle through them and just figure out which one you wanted to do in this situation. So in reality you're getting one trick you're getting six variations on a single trick and so you'll have to decide if that's worth it for you. Who would like this? Anybody who collects the triumph effect? Anybody who does card magic and is looking to do a really simple elegant triumph effect would definitely like tour de force. All right so that is tour de force. I want to say thank you to Michael O'Brien for providing me with this copy so that I could review it for you and if you would like to purchase your own copy you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic supplier. Thanks. Bye.