 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 Bear from the Other Brothers and Vanishing Incorporated. What is it? Basically, it's a utility that allows you to put a prediction directly onto your spectator's skin that you would reveal later in the classic ash routine. You want to see the trailer? This is it. Bear is a utility sharpie that allows you to stamp your spectator with any simple image you'd like all with your bare hands. Once your spectator has been stamped, you can reveal it by sprinkling anything on their hands like pepper, sugar, salt, ash, dirt, anything like that. And then the best part is you end clean. Your spectator can wipe that off and there's no residue to be found. Bear is very simple to do, comes ready to perform right out of the box and the best part? Every pen was made by these bare hands. You can use it as a force or use it real time and what's great is this pen will last you for years. All right, so that was Bear. That was the other brothers. If you've watched my channel for any amount of time, you know, I'm a big fan of the other brothers. I've done a lot of their trick reviews in the past. What is this? What is Bear? What are you going to get? You're going to get a little cardboard sleeve and then inside that you're going to get the utility. It's basically a sharpie marker that's been redone, reformed so that you can transfer this special material and you're going to get the download code to the video. The video is 35 minutes long. Is it what I thought? Yeah, it's what I thought because they pretty much spell it all out in the ad copy and they even show you that it's a sharpie marker, a modified sharpie marker. So yes, it's exactly what I thought. How are the angles? The angles are, it's all pre-show work. So really the spectator might never see the pen unless you're doing it on the fly. You could do it on the fly, but I would probably recommend that you do this as a pre-show work where you're forcing something. Okay, you're going to set up force. Another towel you do the ash effect when it's on your own skin as well. Okay, so they shouldn't see any of the pre-show work, shouldn't see any of the set up. So you shouldn't have any angles there. The only other angle would be in how you transfer it to their skin, but there's tons of easy ways around that. Can it be inspected? Well, of course, absolutely it can be inspected. And I think the spectator can even wipe the ash off their own skin. They're not going to feel anything or see anything. If you put it on with ash or pepper or some sort of dark, grainy substance, all they're going to feel is the pepper. They're just going to feel the ash. They're not going to feel anything else. And there won't be any residue left over either. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Mostly it's the other brothers, the two of them, they're sitting on a couch, okay? And they're just kind of in a living room, and they're both talking to a stationary camera. I don't believe they're miked, and they're not a lot of bells and whistles to this. It's pretty much just a standard, straightforward shot. And you know what? The other brothers are just fun to watch. They're just fun teachers, and I enjoy just watching them. And so I think it's a great video. All right. So what's taught? Really, they're just going to go over the effect. It's just a single effect, and they're going to go into some ins and outs like how you could do this on the fly if you had to, best ways of transferring the material, best ways of writing your predictions, best materials to use when making a prediction. Okay. They're going to cover all of that. In five minutes, they're pretty much going to cover all the ground. And so I think it's great teaching. All right. So is it well made? The pen will last you for hundreds of performances, provided you take care of it, of course. And it's all disguised within an authentic looking sharpie marker. That said, refills, you're just going to buy the trick again. So how much practice does this require? It's super easy. There's no difficult slights. There's no difficult moves. The only thing you're really going to do is practice how you write your predictions. Okay. There's a secret to how you write them. You practice that, but really there's no good way to practice this without doing it. You know, you're going to have to do it every time you practice. So you'll either learn through your performances or you'll probably practice on a friend. How much setup and reset is there? Like I said, it's all advanced. It's all stuff you're doing off camera, off stage. So you're doing all of that and then going into your effect. Probably want to do this first, probably want to use this as an opener since you want to make sure that you can transfer the material and then go on from there without having to worry about it. Positives. All right. It's one of the positives to bear. The other brothers have taken this classic effect and given it a wonderfully fun facelift. If you perform the ashes routine in your act, you're going to want this upgrade. Is it worth your money? That's $35. $35. You're getting the single pen and you're getting the 35 minute video. So it's a dollar a minute really and you're getting the gimmick. And like I said earlier, the gimmick is going to last you through hundreds of performances. I don't think it's outside of the price range. You might think, well, $35 for a pen, yeah, but the pen is just the utility. The magic is all going to come from you. Okay. And the other brothers will certainly give you some fun, creative routines to go along with it. Who would like this? I think people who do street magic. This definitely plays. You've seen David Blaine do the same trick, but he's done it on himself. Now you can do it on your spectator. So you know, level bar here now here. So awesome. People that do restaurant magic might like this too. It's going to depend on your lighting, of course, but I mean, if you're going to do this routine with pepper, restaurant magic is great because you've got pepper everywhere. Right? So I think this totally plays for restaurant magic or dinner corporate walk around. All right. So here's my review for bear from the other brothers and vanishing incorporated. I want to thank Murphy's magic supplies for allowing me to have this trick so I could do the review for you. And if you'd like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from one of your very favorite Murphy's magic dealers. Thanks. Bye.