 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Worth It Oxy, my name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Trojan Horse from Steven Himmel. What is it? Trojan Horse is a card utility that allows you to magically vanish or magically produce a card from a tiny card packet. If you'd like to see what it looks like, this is it. Music We got your two. Here. Watch the two. Goes into the jokers. I'll turn it towards you so you can see it a little better. One, two, three. Music This is a new utility gimmick that can be used for many different effects. Just say stop whenever you like. Remember that card. Does everybody see it? Watch. We'll leave that right in the center. Just like that. Oh, wait a second. It's won too many cards. These are the jokers, right? I want you to watch the space in between the jokers. Watch. Watch the space in between the jokers. So look. We've got the jokers, right? And your money card. See if we can print some money. Check my money, makers! Can you sign your name on the face of that card? And take one last look. Don't forget the card. Got it? You can see it sticking out. Do not shuffle. You shuffle the deck, right? You square the cards up, you shuffle. Now these jokers have been sitting here the entire time, right? Remember, I placed a mystery card between them. Which actually is weird because it has your name right there. I was able to pull it out between the two jokers, which was insane. Because it had been in the deck the whole time, so move my mind. So let's saddle up. Here's the Trojan Horse. Alright, so that was Steven Himmel. You might remember he did Force Thought. He did Ricard Monty. This was published by the Good People Down at Murphy's Magic. And they supplied this for me to review. And so I want to thank them for all their support and for just the privilege that it is to be able to review some tricks for them. So a couple of questions we always ask about all of our Magic products. The first of which is, what is in the box? Alright, so what's in the box? You're going to get a couple of things. You're going to get the DVD. The DVD is 48 minutes long. And you're going to get the gimmick already completely 100% built for you. And that's awesome. Is it what I thought it is actually? When I first watched the trailer, I thought, oh, this is how I would do it and this is how they do it. And the only reason that I was tipped off to maybe its possibility is actually I did a review for another effect a few months ago that has a similar look and the gimmick, although not exactly identical, used the same technology. And so I was already familiar with the method and I kind of figured that's how it would be, especially with the name Trojan Horse. The name almost even gives it away. But I was still happy and I wasn't disappointed with it at all. How are the angles? The angles are really good, but you can't do it surrounded. You just can't do it surrounded, but they're still really, really, really good. You can do it for walk around, you can do it for table hopping, any sort of setting like that where you have a group of people. It probably works the best if people are seated. But again, the angles are still really strong. Can it be inspected? No, it can't be inspected. You pretty much use a joker or two jokers through all of your tricks. And I actually show you, this is the gimmick right here. This is the gimmick. I'm showing it to you live. This is what it looks like. And so just when people are kind of grabby for cards, they might want to grab this. And I would just say you just have to use this probably as an opener or as a closer. I would probably use this as an opener. It would be a great way to start the routine. And then you quickly put your little packet of cards away, pull out a whole deck of cards, and immediately go into something else. And that would be the best way to handle audience management. Alright, so what's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? Shot on HD, you got multiple angles, great settings, great environments, good quality teaching, easily navigatable menus. It's a great DVD. Alright, so is the gimmick itself well made? It is well made. And they do cover how to build another one for yourself. So, if you already have some designer decks or some decks that you like, you could easily build this and use it with any deck of cards. I will say that the gimmick is not difficult to make, nor is it like blow you away genius. You're not going to be like, whoa, I never would have thought of that. I mean, it could backfire on you. Let me just say, you could open this up after watching this review and thinking, oh, this is the greatest thing since sliced bread. You open it up and then you see the gimmick and you're like, ah, that's it. There could be that for you. I want to pause you and keep you from feeling like that. Before you make up your mind about it, watch the DVD all the way through. Watch the DVD all the way through. Watch the effects that you can do with this and watch the reaction of the people that watch the magic and then make up your mind. Don't throw this away because you think the gimmick looks too simple. There are a lot of powerful magic effects that use very simple methods. Magic doesn't have to be complicated to be awesome. Magic tricks don't have to have a million slices and show off all your prowess just to be a cool trick. Not every trick needs to be a magician's fooler. All right? And so I, and I was a victim of this. I opened it up and I thought, oh, it's that. But let me tell you, you watch the DVD and the DVD will convince you. The DVD will convince you that this is still strong and this is still powerful magic. How much practice does it require? Not much. Once you start feeling your way around the gimmick and you watch the tricks that are provided on this, it won't take you long at all, especially if you're already familiar with handling of your cards. How much setup and reset is there? There's zero. You basically put your cards back in the tuck box and you're good to go. The gimmick itself will actually fit into your tuck box seamlessly. And so, yeah, there's no setup, no reset. What are the positives to the Trojan horse? It looks very clean. Okay? Because it is. It is very clean. No dirty work. No knackiness. It's a very clean effect. It allows you to do slight less miracles for cheap. Okay? A lot of use style effects. So the tricks in here, I've seen other magicians do, but they do with a lot of experience and they do it a lot of practice. Okay? There's a lot of splites involved to do a trick like this. This would allow you to do those same effects slight less and easy. And so I think that is awesome. And I think you're getting four really good solid routines on here. A lot of good positives with the Trojan horse. All right, negatives. Negatives for the Trojan horse. So these would be just the negatives that I've seen. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. Like I said, you might have buyers remorse. You might open this up and be disappointed. Don't feel that way. I'm just letting you know you might feel that way when you get it. So I'm saying don't. The gimmick looks cheap. But like I said, it's still, there's still some powerful magic you can do with it. The true negatives to this, the true negatives to this are the gimmick itself has visual clues that give away its construction. So you will have to be wary of your angles, wary of how you hold the gimmick and wary of the lighting in the situation. They do cover that on the DVD and so I encourage you to focus on those parts so that you can get the most out of the Trojan horse to be able to perform this with confidence. Is it worth your money? Absolutely. This is only 25 bucks. 25 bucks and you get a 48 minute DVD that goes over all the ins and outs and allows you to build your own gimmick and a digital gimmick that's already constructed. $25 is a drop in the bucket. You should go and add it to your shopping cart right now. Alright, so who would like this? People who are car workers already. People who want to pull off some really skilled magic tricks but you don't have time to learn all those fancy slights. I think would definitely love Trojan horse from Steven Himmel. Alright, so that is my review for the Trojan horse and if you'd like to purchase your own, you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic Suppliers. Thanks, bye.