 Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at Gonzo from Jose LaQuest. What is it? It is a device It's a holdout device that is secretly placed onto your person that allows you to vanish and reappear Small objects from your hand or your spectator's hand. It's a really cool very creative device very magical very invisible and you want to see what it looks like This is it. Okay, so that was Jose LaQuest. You might remember he also did a trick called strip Gonzo is self Published I heard originally it probably was gonna be a least by Paul Harris But I don't know something in that got fallen through and so now it's just a self published effect But it's pretty cool. So a couple questions We always ask about all of our magic tricks and the first of which is what is in the box What's in the box? You get a big box when it comes to you It's in a big cardboard box as Gonzo went across the top you open it up and then inside. There's a leather fanny pack There's like a leather hip-pack pouch thing. It's a belted leather satchel and It's totally useless. I don't know what you would use it for I guess you can keep it in there while it's also in your magic kit or in your drawer Wherever you keep your magic tricks it protects all your components But I don't know it seems like it was just an added thing that I didn't need to pay for And then there's a really nice cardboard sleeve that has your DVD also You're gonna get a couple of little extras some little tweaks that you can use or add to your Gonzo gimmick To customize it to your specifications. Is it what I thought? I didn't really know what to think the video is very mysterious and it's very magical looking and so There's only one angle shown in the video So it was hard for me to kind of come up with a concept of what it could be But when I got it it wasn't like I was surprised and I was like wow this technology's never existed before like when I saw it I was like, oh, okay. It's that how are the angles The angles are about the same as a raven. Okay about the same but a little worse Really Can't have people on your sides. This is really a trick that you're gonna do one-on-one for somebody It's almost the same. I'll say it is the same Angles as the reality twister where you're having somebody look straight down At an object and so that's kind of your angle. It's really good for video really good for one-on-one. Can it be inspected? There's nothing to inspect You do the trick cleanly and Goodly do the trick, right? What's the spectator gonna ask to inspect your hands your sleeves? I mean you should be able to just go look nothing, you know, and so yeah, there's really nothing to inspect Hey, what's the overall quality and production value? It's great shot in HD. You got lots of multiple angles. You get lots of camera behind the scenes He gives you all kinds of in-and-outs. The video is incredibly long And they just go over the top to just teach you as much as possible And I think you're getting your money's worth here. Is it well-made? Absolutely just holding the gimmick and looking at its construction. It's all made of strong Components there's nothing in here that seems flimsy or breakable and if you take care of it I could see it lasting you a really long time. How much practice does it require? It's gonna be the same practice as any other hold-out device. I mentioned the Raven earlier It's gonna take that kind of practice. You're looking at your angles watching your vanishes your reappearances Yeah, it's gonna take some practice, especially just kind of like knowing your environment looking in the in the mirror to see Your angles and some sensitivity, but yeah, how much setup and reset is there? Set up initially, it's gonna take some especially for the very first time getting the Gonzo gimmick to be customized to your Specifications, okay Once it's on it's on you can wear it all day long you will know it's there It's not gonna just you're not gonna forget. It's there. It's not one of those devices where it's so light or so small You'll know it's there the whole time But reset is pretty quick You could probably do it in front of spectators if it's well rehearsed positives positives are it's not limited to magnetic items like the Raven is And you can also do reappearances which you can't do with a Raven hold-out And it looks very clean looks very visual looks like solid magic negatives Hey, like we say around here. There's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives. I see if you don't have to be the negatives that you see Tall people Okay, if that's you you really need to watch your angles Okay, I would see a disadvantage to people who are tall but everyone needs to watch their angles The gimmick could have a tendency to talk As you bring it out or put it away Could so that's just something to consider. Is it worth your money? It's 90 bucks $90. That's a lot of money I wonder how much less it would be if it didn't have the little leatherette carrying case I would have liked to not have had the case and paid for That part of it, but I guess it probably was like an incentive like hey We'll just they're probably didn't even cost that much to make. I don't even know but yeah at 90 bucks It was kind of on the high end For what it does, but hey clean magic and it looks good And if you like it you might think it's worth the money. Who's gonna like this video performers People just starting out in magic that want to do a really clean vanish People who do street magic. I think we definitely love the Gonzo. Alright, so that is my review for Gonzo from Jose I'd like to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we could do this review for you If you'd like to purchase your own you can head on down to your favorite Murphy's Magic supplier. Thanks. Bye