 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic By Thoughts and my name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Indigo from OmniVed and Beautiful Mind. What is Indigo? Basically it's a mentalism effect. It's a four spectator card reveal effect. So you have four spectators and they are allowed to pick four different cards and they can actually change their minds, switch their cards back and forth amongst themselves before you make your revelation. You want to see the promo? This is it. So that was OmniVed and Beautiful Mind and just a couple of questions we always ask about all of our Magic Reviews. The first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? What's in the box? Not much. You're going to get a tiny little cardboard box and that's it. So this little cardboard box that I'm holding in my hand, this is the only thing you're getting. And basically what's inside of it is a bunch of paper gimmicks that are pre-printed some and others are just like little pieces of foam board and you're getting a download code. So you're not getting a video and you're not getting a completed Gash. For $30 you have to build your own Gash and muddle your way through the download video. Is it what I thought? No, it is not what I thought. There's not what I thought for a lot of reasons. First of which is they make the trailer out to be like this really cool thing and then when you get the product it's this little tiny box and you're kind of wondering okay what what do I have to do and then when you see that you have to assemble your own gimmick and muddle your way through the download video to figure out how to use the gimmick you just become so overwhelmed with the work that they're expecting you to do that you kind of just give up halfway through and you think I don't even have the patience I don't even have the time to do this. I mean the trailer is neat it's fun to watch the live performance but then after that you're kind of left with you're kind of left with a school project that you have to complete and it feels like a bit much. Hey how are the angles on this? The angles are fine. I really wasn't worried about the angles so much. The gimmick talks though it might talk more depending on how you make it because remember you have to build the gimmick yourself. There's some movement action to it and the movement action actually can speak a little bit and not that just that but there's just an angle issue that you have when you're lifting the gimmick and moving it around you have to be sensitive to people behind you or just just your angles in general so you have some angle issues you have some talking issues so that's just kind of like what I would say about any angles. Can the gimmick be inspected? No it is a working moving gimmick and so you can't hand it out. They definitely teach you a switch on the video and so you could switch it and you could bring in a gaff that they could feel and hold for certain but while the gimmick is in play you have to make sure that nobody grabs it. Alright so what's the overall quality and production value? Here this is where it really is lacking. Let me just say that the video itself is two hours long and two hours long. One hour is gimmick assembly. So if it takes one hour for them to assemble the gimmick on the video it's probably going to take you longer because you're gonna have to pause, grab materials, glue, wait for things to dry, etc. The performance video is also an hour so and the effect isn't that long right? The effect isn't really that long. I could probably explain to you what you would have to do to do this trick in 10 minutes. They took an hour and in the granted they're trying to cover every base and I give them credit for that but when you don't have a DVD menu where you can easily navigate between setup, presentation, tips and advice, handling and you have to muddle through an hour long video it makes it extremely difficult to watch, navigate and learn. In addition to that there is also a language barrier. They are speaking in English but it is very hard to understand, very difficult to muddle your way through the video both with trying to listen audibly as a learner and visually as a learner. Yeah I felt the video extremely difficult to navigate, didn't want to complete it, didn't want to watch it, it was boring me and it was just frustrating me so not well taught, not good quality or production value at all. Is it well made? Like I said you make it and I take issue here. I really do and we'll get into that when I talk about is it worth your money? When you pay $30 for a magic trick you expect to receive something right but when you have to not only download the two hour video yourself and you have to assemble the gimmick yourself you're really almost getting nothing you know you're you're getting the parts to put it together sure I mean that's nice and you're getting the video but give me one or the other for my money give me an assembled gimmick or give me a DVD that I can navigate give me something help me out a little bit as the consumer and I just don't feel like they did that for you. How much practice does it require? Not much I think anybody who's already familiar with card tricks especially already familiar with forcing you're gonna have to be able to force four cards okay so it's not a free selection you're gonna have to be able to force four cards but I think anybody who's already kind of familiar with working a table is gonna be able to pick up and to go pretty quickly. All right so what are the positives? Positives to this the positives for this are is that this trick allows you to make a pre-prediction with no switches okay and after the cards are on the table the spectators can swap cards and you are still able to determine which person has which card that in itself is a really cool effect that's a cool gimmick okay that was a cool trick unfortunately it just takes you a long time to get there with the product that they give you negatives aside from all the negatives that I've been saying this entire video essentially you still have to know how to force four cards right and so any card magician that already knows how to force four cards could easily do a four card prediction the only thing they wouldn't know how to do is allow the spectators to switch the cards at the end so that's really the part that indigo does for you it allows the spectators to swap their cards and you still can name each person so you give them names you say this person the spectator a and they're going to have the four of clubs the spectator b is going to have the six of diamonds okay so you're saying so that part that's the cool part but like I said any magician who's worth their salt who knows their way around like a card they know how to force four cards to four people so the negatives are there's really only one kicker and to pay 30 dollars for that kicker and you have to assemble the gimmick yourself just seems like a lot isn't worth your money no that's all I have to say about that all right so who would like this mentalists people who are into mentalism and people who do table hopping I think this trick works itself best right when you have three spectators and going table hopping uh you're going to find those tables that have three people sitting out there so I think people that do table hopping venue events places where you're hired out I think would uh like indigo sorry uh so that's my review for indigo from omnivet and beautiful mind and if you'd like to purchase your own even after I gave this really terrible review uh you can find it one of your favorite murphy's magic suppliers thanks bye