 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 distance from Nicholas Lawrence and sans mines. What is it? It's a floating pen cap trick. You take the pen cap off your pen and then almost the entire distance of your chest the pen cap flies all the way back and lands on the pen perfectly. You want to see what it looks like? This is it. Distance is a fast attention grabber with what appears to be nothing but a pen that sits in your pocket. Not only is it visually engaging but everyone walks out with a new skill they learned and can't wait to share with their friends and talk about you. At any time you pull out a pen from your pocket and teach everyone a simple trick. Everyone is welcome to try if they have a pen around them. Rub the pen and cap to get some static electricity and watch the cap snaps back to the pen. You want to learn it? It's very simple. Here's how it's done. You simply squeeze the cap and it snaps back to the pen like this. With practice you can gain distance over time like this. Distance is a trick that walks on the fine edge of reality and miracles. It's so believable because it's something people can learn in seconds yet so utterly impossible when you do it. Whether if you are a miracle worker salesperson event host organization leader or public speaker it will help you break the ice and engage people at an instant. It takes up no pocket space once it's set up. It's self-contained and always ready to amaze from your pocket. What are you waiting for? This is distance. All right so like I said that was published from Sandsmines and just a couple of questions we always ask about all of our magic products and the first of which is what is in the box. What's in the box you're going to get an hour-long video an hour-long DVD it's going to come with two pens both of which are un-gimmicked and unprepared and you will get the utility in order to which you can create magic and give the appearance that things are flying things are floating okay and so you're going to get those three things of course then on the video you're going to learn how to put it all together. Sandsmines does give you all the materials that you will need to fabricate this but you will need some tools and some time and some patience. Is it what I thought? Yes because when you watch the video there's one thing that immediately jumps to your mind and you said I wonder if it's this I mean most tricks that look like that are done this way and yes this is how it is done. The method of course is the part that they teach you so not necessarily the process right the process some people I think most magicians was able to guess but the method itself I think is what you're learning especially the handling the setup and the rigging of it that's the new part to distance and I think that would be your primary reason to purchase this. How are the angles on this? Your angles are on distance are just like they would be on any effect where you make things float or fly so I think people who are already familiar with that style of trick are already going to be familiar with those angles. Can it be inspected? Absolutely not. You will have to do a switch out that's why they give you two pens one you'll have that is gimmicked and the other will be able to be your one that is inspectable. What's the overall quality and production value of the DVD? Again like most Sandsmines effects the DVD is awesome it's all done in HD you got lots of beautiful shots multiple shots multiple angles nice background music good quality product. Is it well made? Like I said earlier you make it so it will be as well made as you make it. How much practice does it require? The setup itself the rigging of it will take some getting used to especially if you're not familiar with wearing a setup like this. I am and I've used material like this before and I think most magicians who've had experience with levitation flying wising okay are familiar with this style of setup very old-fashioned rigging I would say but yeah you can't just wing it you can't just pull a pen out and start doing this you will have to do some setup in advance all right so what are the positives to distance positives are it takes that old magic trick gaff that gimmick where you take the pen off and make it magnetically fly back that a lot of people know how that's done it takes that trick and then blows it up to the nth degree and then you're literally making it fly back and it's very visual and I think anytime you can make something float or levitate or fly it certainly hits home for a lot of people and it really does look magical and I think it can really be a heavy hitter this would be a great closer to your close up routine all right so negatives what are the negatives to this I'm always going to ding sans mines negatively for making me build my own gimmicks I just don't like arts and crafts I never will other than that there I don't think there are that many I mean just like I said it's it's familiar territory for a lot of people and I think going into this you kind of already expect a certain level of sneakiness that you're already familiar with I'm trying to be big but I think if you go into it already assuming it's going to be this and then get the product I think I don't think you'll be unhappy with it so and I don't know how you could improve this this is really you know I think they've honed it down to this is how you would do this trick and so again I think the only negative for me is just building it yourself all right so is it worth your money it's 35 bucks it's 35 dollars and like I said you're getting two pens that you could buy at any dollar store the utility that you need to put it together that's pretty inexpensive as well you can pretty much buy it in bulk normally and then you're really paying for the DVD and then the revelation to how to do it 35 dollars a little on the high end for me but again it's going to be whether you like this trick and whether you can incorporate it into your routines all right so that is Distance from Nicholas Lawrence and Sans Mines and if you'd like to purchase your own you can find it at one of your favorite Murphy's Magic suppliers thanks bye