 Hey everybody, welcome back to another magic review for hocus-pocus.com. My name is David and this is Money Morphosis from Vanishing Incorporated, Dallas Fuestin and Jason Byrd. Alright, so what is this? This is the classic animated bill effect, except instead of the bill just folding up into a square, right, or something else that's meaningless, this folds up into a beautiful origami butterfly. Alright, so I'm just going to play the effect for you up here in the corner just so that you can see what it looks like, but it is the classic self-folding bill effect and a lot of different artists have sold their own approach to this, their own take on this. The original effect was done by a gentleman named Steven Schutzer. Alright, so a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What are you going to get in the box? You're going to get a little like cardboard-y envelope pouch carrying case and then inside that you're going to get a card that has the code. So you're going to use a download code and the download code is going to do two things for you. Number one, it's going to give you access to the instructional video. The instructional video is about 30 minutes long. Then there is also another link on there. Don't avoid this, don't miss this. There's a link on there for a PDF. Now the PDF is going to be your template, okay? You're going to need to download that template and print it out and then cut it out and then use that as your template going forward because every single time you perform this you will need to make a new gimmick. Also within that palette you're going to get some materials, some very familiar material to a lot of us that allows you to do this effect. Alright, so how are the angles and can it be inspected? The angles on this are really, really, really clean. And I think the ad copy even says that you can perform this surrounded. I would probably agree with that. And as far as inspectability goes, you are doing a switch. Okay, let's just be honest right now. It does say that you can borrow the bill, but you're doing a switch. You're doing a switch with your gimmick and then you're allowing them to keep your gimmick when it's all finished. So the fact that you're allowing them to keep your gimmick would mean it's inspectable, right? I mean, you're giving them everything and they get to take it home as a souvenir. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? It's filmed really well. You have some really good close-ups. Even though it's two artists, two performers, you're really only getting the one. And you're going to get nice, good close-ups. The audio is very clear. Everything is shot against a black table or a black backdrop. So that makes a lot of clarity for what's going on. It does have some repetitive, looping background music that I didn't love, but that's okay. Alright, so it's taught on the download video. You're going to get the construction, obviously, and the commercial. The construction is almost half of your video. There's a little bit of folding and punching and this and that. You're going to get the performance, obviously, and then you're going to get a secret alternative ending that allows you to do some other things. And one of those would be to make the butterfly fly. I mean, it already animates, right? So why not make it fly off your finger? So there's a couple of alternative endings attached to the end of the teaching. Is it well made? You build it. You know, you build everything. And like I said, if you do this trick in a way that allows a spectator to keep their bill, because if you borrow it, you should give it back, right? Yeah. Then you have to build a new one every single time. How much setup and reset is there? Pretty much once you build it, it's good to go. So you could probably build a couple of these, fold them the right way, keep them flat in your back pocket, and you'd be good for the rest of the night. Positives, all right, sort of the positives to money morphesis. The positive is it's taking the classic bill effect, this classic folding bill effect, and giving it some purpose. Sometimes we do magic tricks, and you almost say, well, why did you do it? Hey, look, I tore a card in half and put it back together. Okay, but why did you tear it in the first place? There's gotta be a story there. There's gotta be a reason behind your actions. And sometimes just to say, hey, watch me do this with this bill, I'm folding it up into force. And someone would say, okay, but why? Where's the story? Where's the motivation behind that? Well, this turns it into a beautiful piece of origami and you give it back to the spectator and say, here, I've made you something. And I think that's beautiful. And I think we can add story. You heighten the magical experience absolutely. And I really do love when designers and creators take a classic effects that you and I have seen, heard, done, you're like, yeah, done it before. But they shine a new little light on it and make it beautiful. Negative, all right, it's one of the negatives to money morphosis. You know, like we say to my interior, there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. A negative for me was it could have just been a download. Okay, you didn't need the little pouch. You don't need the special material. I mean, a lot of us know how to find that material or we have our own preferences to which ones we like. It was nice, it was included and it doesn't make the price point very high. So it's fine as a price point. So I mean, it's give or take. It could have been a download or it could have been like this. I don't know. I mean, it's one or the other. Yeah, is it worth your money though? You know, it's 20 bucks. It's only 20 bucks, so it's pretty cheap. It's pretty affordable. And like I said, you do get the special material with it. So that's nice. So just think of it as you're paying for some of that material and the instructional video. And yeah, it's very affordable. Who would like this? I think people who already do the classic bill folding trick or are looking to make a new one, I think would like this. I think people who are looking for animation would like this. People who already do money magic would like this too. All right, so that is my review for Money Morphosis from Dallas Fuestin and Jason Byrd, Vanishing Incorporated. I received this from hocus-pocus.com and I wanna thank them for allowing me to have this so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase it for yourself, I would head to hocus-pocus.com. Thanks, bye.