 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 the souvenir from Henri White. What is it? Basically it's a card to impossible location or it's another way of thinking about a torn and restored card. You take the spectator sign selection, you tear the center out of it and then you place it around the stem of their wine glass. They're able to look at it afterwards and examine it and Henri suggests that you could even take it home as a souvenir. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. I'm Henri White. I want to share with you an effect that is elegant, baffling and is the perfect souvenir to look at. A card is selected and signed by the spectator shown front and back. You then tear out the center of the card. That very same card now visibly flicks into the stem of any. It can then be thoroughly examined and treasured by your guests for years to come. This is the souvenir. I'm Henri White and this is the souvenir. All right so that was Henri White. This DVD is brought to you by the Good People Down at World Magic Shop. So a couple questions we always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what is in the box? What's in the box? You're getting a cardboard sleeve and inside that you're getting a DVD. The DVD is 20 minutes long. Just a thought. 20 minute long video in a sleeve for $32 probably would have saved some production costs by just making this a download. In other words you're not getting any gimmicks or gas or any materials with this and a video that's only 20 minutes long probably would have saved Henri some money, probably would have saved you some money if they had just made this a video download. Is it what I thought? Kind of I guess. I mean watching the video you can kind of tell this is probably similar to other torn and restored cards tricks and it is. I mean if you have experience already with maybe preparing your own gimmicks for a TNR it's going to be that same kind of setup and so if you've got familiarity with those kind of tricks I think it's going to be in the wheelhouse of what you think. How are the angles on this? The angles on this are dirty. They are nappy. There is some serious funny business going on and so it's a good thing that this is a restaurant-styled trick. Restaurants mostly are dimly lit and your spectators are sitting and maybe in this you are too and I think just having all the equipment maybe by your chest to knowing that no one's behind you and maybe the loudness of the restaurant and the dimly lit lights I think all might help you but I think these are things you need to think about when purchasing this effect. Can it be inspected? You know the whole premise behind this is Honorius suggesting that you give this out as a souvenir. However I would be very leery about giving someone my prepared gas that I made at home with you know my tools and saying oh sure take it home and keep it forever. Chances are your spectator will never hyper-examine it the way a magician would but it's still possible. It is possible. I think most people the visual clues might fly right by them and they might assume one thing for another and so I think 99% of the time you'll get away with it. The other weird aspect of this is Honorius suggesting that you give a wine glass away as a souvenir. You need to make sure that you can do that. If you work at a restaurant you know that wine glasses belong to the restaurant so the only way around this would be to maybe select a wine glass from the gift shop or bringing one yourself and then doing the effect and saying hey would you like this glass as a souvenir and you get to keep the card around it they say yes and then they have to pay for it but I think you're getting a lot of trouble just giving this glass away. Maybe the best route for this would be to do it at somebody else's house with their wine glasses otherwise I think you'd be doing this trick showing them the wine glass and saying there's your card it's there right they say yes and then saying you know what we have this problem spectators really want to keep the card and so they have to steal the wine glass and so the restaurant has asked me to remove the card and then you remove the card you give them that they keep that as the souvenir and then they still have a great story to tell but you're not sending them home with this kind of gimmick creation that you've made and you're not making the restaurant mad for getting away the glasses. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? It's good it's shot well you're getting all the angles you need and I think Henri does a good job teaching you this effect. Is it well made? Like I said at the beginning it's a gimmick torn and restored card that you make yourself similar to other T&R plots. How much practice does it require? The practice is really going to be in you doing the setup so this kind of goes hand in hand with setup versus reset basically you'd sit down at your table and you bang out a couple of these gimmicks and you can probably make one or you know one every one and a half minutes every two minutes and maybe go to your gig with maybe six or seven of these and then in performance time reset is going to be a new card every single time obviously and the practice really is going to take place in you doing the trick of course you want to practice this at home but it's going to be hard to get into that kind of environment that you're going to need I think the training is going to happen live I think the more you practice this live in a setting like that the more you're going to be comfortable and familiar with doing this effect but definitely angle issues definitely something that you'll need to practice at home until you get the things looking right I don't want to say too much without giving it away but like I said it's a T&R so you're going to have to go through it and practice it and do your setup the same way you would do any other T&R card trick positives positives for the souvenir it's very original looking I have heard however that there are other tricks very similar to this and so I have not checked those out but for me this was very original looking it's a wonderful idea and I think it's a great way to make a souvenir for somebody it's so they can remember their special evening negatives to that like I said before you got the idea that maybe people might steal wine glasses from the restaurant I don't like the idea of somebody taking my prepared gas home to examine it that's something I don't feel comfortable with no matter how good I think my gas looks I think that kind of leads to exposure and then on top of it in the person takes it home I never get to know if they did figure it out or didn't so I don't like not being in control of an effect like that so that would be a negative is it worth your money like I said at the beginning it's $32 and it just seems a bit high for a 20 minute DVD where you don't get any gimmicks for gas who would like this people that work at restaurant magic people that would actually perform this professionally I think this is a professional magic trick okay especially for somebody that maybe is 21 and over where having a wine glass seems natural so those things might be something to consider as well that is my review for these souvenirs from Henri White and World Magic Shop and we'd like to thank the people down at Murphy's Magic for providing this for us so that we could review it for you and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer thanks bye