 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 Wink from The Other Brothers. What is Wink? You have a wine glass, okay? It has some liquid inside of it. Your spectator is allowed to think of some sort of object. Maybe it's an ESP symbol, maybe it's a playing card, something like that. And just by swirling the liquid inside the glass, they are able to see their thought appear in the liquid. Sounds pretty cool. Let's watch the trailer. Hello, Williams. I'm Darrell Davis. We're The Other Brothers. This is Wink. Wink is an impromptu crystal ball. It allows you to reveal any image, word or card inside of a borrowed spectator's wine glass. Hey, you guys ready for some magic? Yes. Alright, let's do cards because those are my favorite. I turned the cookie monster with cards for a second. This is like our eighth glass of wine. Here you go. So, what did you see? All the cards are different. All of them are different. And now I'm just going to go through here and you're just going to touch the back of one with a finger. That one for sure. Now, just hold your hand out for me and go ahead and hold onto that. And you go ahead and look at it. Don't let me or Eddie see it because Eddie's going to be a part of it. You got it? Okay. Now, I'm going to put the cards away. Now, Eddie, you have no idea at all what her card is, do you? No. So, Eddie, now, I want you to look into this wine glass, okay? Okay. Do you see anything right now? No. Nothing. Just like your face. This is my face. Hey, pretty, right? You don't know what her card is, but I want you to watch. This wine is a crystal ball. Okay. What do you see? The Ace of Diamonds. Ace of Diamonds. There you go. You got your wine glass back. Thank you so much for letting me borrow it. Thank you. Was that it? Was it? Yeah. You're a magician. I win that crystal ball. All right. So that was Wink from The Other Brothers and Vanishing Incorporated. A couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box? What's in the box? It's not only a box, it's just the DVD sleeve, okay? You're getting the cardboard DVD sleeve. You're getting the DVD that goes inside of it. And then your gimmicks actually fit inside of that. Is it what I thought? I didn't really even know what to think, really. I didn't know what to think with this. And so getting it, you know, I'm pulling it out of the box, I kind of initially already understood, you know. So didn't know what to think before, but even without watching the DVD and pulling the gimmicks out, I was like, ah, yes, of course. How are the angles on this? I will say there is some angles, okay? And it almost feels just the whole, just aside from angles, as far as performance, but then also angles getting in and getting out. The whole thing feels a little necky, it feels a little dirty. Kind of reminds me of something that you'd see Paul Harris do, maybe in an art of astonishment type thing. You know, Paul Harris, I think, is very brave with his magic. And he really counts on it working and coming together. And not that I don't say that wink is not sure fire. I think it is, but I think there's some... You've got a risk, okay? You have to invest. You have to put something into this to get something back out of it. But absolutely, there are some angles that will need to be resolved. Can it be inspected? At the end of the day, there shouldn't be anything to inspect. You should be able to take the spectators' borrowed glass, like if they were walking around with a wine glass, be sure to take it from them and hand it back to them with nothing to find. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? The video is 31 minutes long. It features both of the other brothers, Daryl and Daryl, behind a bar counter, like home bar, which is, you know, a setting that is appropriate. Most of the video seems like they're speaking to a stationary camera. They don't appear to be miked. There are some close-up shots, perhaps, where one Daryl is filming the other Daryl. But there wasn't any performances on this at all, whether they be live or studio. There was no performance of this effect. They just kind of went into, okay, here's how you do it. And I get that it's kind of a hard trick to film, but I kind of just would have liked to have seen it anyway. Is it well-made? You know, actually in the write-up, they say in the write-up that they will teach you how to make your own gimmicks, and they don't actually do that. So they don't teach you how to make your own gimmicks. The only way they would have taught you is that when you pull the gimmicks out, you look at them and say, oh, I guess I know how to make this. Like, you just figured out by looking at it. But I can't imagine it being made any different or any better. How much practice does this require? Just like I said at the beginning, there's some getting in, getting out, ditching, loading-ish stuff involved. And then I would also say that it's going to require a good deal of audience management from you, especially if you're performing this for a room or for a party. So just with that said, and I don't know that this really comes out in the video itself, but I would say, you know what, this trick is really leaning more towards a magician who is at an intermediate skill level to advance. Somebody who just has experience working a room, like I said, audience management with spectators, especially if you have multiple spectators, knowing your angles, just knowing your environment, getting in and getting out, I think there's a lot there. And I think without some of that advanced knowledge already on your part, this would take a lot of practice. How much setup and reset is there? There's some initial setup that is kind of arts and crafts, but nothing that you didn't learn in kindergarten. And as far as reset goes, it's pretty instantaneous. Your gimmick should last a very long time should you take care of them. But it should fit seamlessly into any of your pockets. You should be able to get in and get out with no issues. Positives. All right, so what are the positives to wink from the other brothers? You know with this, the other brothers have created a very beautiful crystal ball illusion that is sure to convince your spectators that you have superpowers. Negatives. All right, so what are the negatives? You know, like we say right 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. Would have liked live performances. Would have liked maybe just a little bit more on the video besides 31 minutes. It just feels like there could have been more given. There's some mention of using other types of liquids and other types of containers. That would have been interesting to see that more explored because really from the video initially, from the commercial, I think most people would just assume, oh, I can only do this with a wine glass. But you could do it with a bottled water, as long as the label wasn't there. You could do it with any see-through device that didn't have any sort of restrictions. And those restrictions are covered in the video and I don't know what those are. But I think if they had pitched it more like, oh, you could use a water bottle. I think they would probably grab some more people who thought, well, I don't walk around with a glass of wine. I don't know. So yeah, that's just my two cents. Is it worth your money? You know, it's only 20 bucks and you're getting everything you essentially need. A lot of magicians I know do work bars and parties, especially like restaurant magic, where a wine glass would be available. I think this seamlessly fits into that. That said, who would like this? Definitely people that do walk around in restaurants for who do party magic. All right, so that is Wink from The Other Brothers and Vanishing Incorporated. As always, I want to thank Murphy's Magic for allowing me to have this trick so that I could do the review for you. And if you would like to purchase this for yourself, you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic retailer. Thanks, bye.