 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 case from Sam's Minds and the Sam's Minds Creative Lab. What is the case? At its core, it is a cell phone vanish, specifically an iPhone. Okay, specifically an iPhone. You can have your iPhone slide it into your case and when you turn the case over, the cell phone has completely vanished. This one's a real worker. Let's watch the trailer. Imagine having a secret weapon that protects your phone and also allows you to vanish the phone in the cleanest way possible. Three years in perfecting the gimmick, Sam's Minds Magic proudly presents you this diabolical device. The case. A full illusion design scaled down to fit right in your pocket. The case is precisely engineered to disguise and fully function as your everyday phone case. You always have it with you as long as you have your phone. Whenever you desire, you can introduce your phone and show that it is actually a fully functioning phone. They see the very moment the phone comes out and goes back into the case right before the vanish. Actually, I lost my phone three times a day. In the morning, I just check everywhere. I can't find my phone, but I check this out. Can you guys see this? It doesn't matter where my phone is. If I snap a finger. After the magical moment, the phone reappears to anywhere you want. Just with your hand, just go inside. Can you feel that? Just take it out. The only way to find the phone back is to call my number. Call my number right now. Oh wait, this feels so weird. Did you hear anything in there? Of course, the phone and case can both be handed out to the spectator because everything is 100% fair from start to finish. Can I hear it? Where is it? Where is it? So welcome to the case. Alright, so that was the case from Sands Minds and the Sands Minds Creative Labs. 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? You're going to get the DVD. The DVD is 43 minutes long. You're going to get the iPhone case, of course. And then you're going to get the gimmick that you're going to need to be able to do the effect. Is it what I thought? It's exactly what I thought. Only because this really is a classic of magic. I used to have this effect a long time ago when I was a little baby magician. It was one of the first tricks I ever got. It was a vanishing deck of cards. And it was almost identical looking and appearance. I mean you had a black case that was your deck case and you would slide your deck of cards in and it would vanish. Since then I've done a review for V-Deck, a vanishing deck from Peter, Nardi and Alec, and that's a similar effect. But in this one you slide the cards into the card case and then the cards vanish. And so people who are familiar with this effect already will know exactly how this trick is done. Alright, so how are the angles? The angles on this are pretty good. You can either watch from the video or watch from my performance right here. Kind of what the angles look like. I mean from the sides you're okay. Of course you wouldn't want anyone behind you. That would give it away. But other than that I think this works great for walk around, great for street magic. Can it be inspected? I guess it would depend. I mean it depends if you have overly grabby people or not. I mean for the most part I think I wouldn't want people to inspect it. You know this is kind of thing you'd want to do in a beat and then move on. From I think a casual glance, a casual inspection wouldn't reveal anything though. Because it is a very well made prop. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? Like I said the video is 43 minutes long. Sam's Minds always makes really good DVDs. Everything is well explained as always. You know Jason's out on the street doing the performance. Herman's back in the studio doing the explanation. Great music, great editing, great sound, HD cameras, good menus. Everything you could expect from Sam's Minds creative labs. Is it well made? It's extremely well made. In fact Sam's Minds boasts that you can use this case and the gimmick as your standard iPhone case. I mean this could be your everyday iPhone case if you wanted to be. And you know if I didn't know any better when I looked at it I would say this is a real case or I would say this was a real iPhone. So it does look extremely good. It does look exactly like its counterpart. How much practice does this require? It depends. I guess if you've had some experience with this style effect before it won't really take you any practice. One thing you have to be wary of is the hole on the back of the case where the camera or the flash would shine through. You kind of have to make sure that's covered. You probably saw me cover that in the video. But other than that I think it's just finding a routine that works around it and you'll be performing it really soon. How much setup and reset is there? Really almost none. It's the same setup that it would take to slide your phone in and out of a case. And so set up wise there's practically none. Positives. All right. What are the positives to the case from Sansmines? The Sansmines team have taken this classic vanish and brought it into the 21st century with a hyper relevant edge. Magic fans of the iPhone will love this effect and carry it with them everywhere. Negatives. All right. So what are some of the negatives for the case? You know like we say around 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. You've got a couple of limitations with this. I mean, number one, you have to be an iPhone user. That goes without saying you have to be an iPhone user. Number two, it is an older model iPhone. This would be the iPhone 5 or the iPhone 5S series. It doesn't come in any other devices. It doesn't come in any other options. So there's that limitation. And then it comes in silver, gray or gold. So you have to fall in that realm. iPhone user, your iPhone has to be a 5 or a 5S and it has to be silver, gray or gold. If this looks fun or exciting to you, I would say that's probably your biggest negative. Is it worth your money? It's 60 bucks, $60. It's not the cost of a new phone. But it is kind of on the high end. And I think it's because of the quality of the gimmick that you are getting. This is a quality gimmick from Sansmines. There's no DIY. There's nothing to build. You're getting everything for you. It comes in a great little magnet sealed box. That's awesome too. So there's great protection for it. So I think if this is something that you think you could work into your routine or that could become a part of your magic program, I think $60 is well within reason. Who would like this? I think people that like to do walk around, people that like to do street magic, especially somebody who would be an iPhone user would like this a lot. And so I definitely think it tailors to that kind of younger, relevant market. All right, so that is my review for the case from the Sansmines Creative Labs. As always, I want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this for me so that I can review it for you. And if you would like to purchase it for yourself, you can find it from your favorite, Murphy's Magic Dealer. Thanks, bye.