 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is the Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at mini buds from SansMind's Creative Labs. What is mini buds? At its core it is a shrinking headphones effect. There's also another way to do it. You can make the headphones grow, but really it's the shrinking headphones trick that's selling this. It's very visual. You want to see what it looks like. This is the trailer. Everyone's seen one of these. Earphones are one of the most commonly seen objects today. But of course we've all had those times when we've got our earphones all tangled up in your pocket. You know one of those first world problems we've all experienced. Now what if I told you there was a way to solve this? With a bit of magic, of course. It's a modern day miracle that leaves you with a cute novelty your spectators are going to love. What is a common problem about earphones? Exactly. You know I have a perfect solution for the earphones. Still watch the earphone. You can see it's slowly to shrink by itself and it's just changed into a... Oh my god! Just show it to the camera. What is it? Now you'll never have a problem getting it tangled. They hear the music play before and after the magical moment. Does it work? Oh my god. Oh my god! You can also have your spectators stretch them in earphones so they become normal length. It's an everyday starter that can be performed anywhere at any time. Check, check, check. Check it out. What, what, what? It's all about. Get it now worldwide. Alright so that was Mini Buds from Sandmines Creative Labs. And a 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 a DVD. DVD is 32 minutes long and you're going to get two sets of completely working headphones. Is it what I thought? You know when you watch the trailer there's a magic utility that first comes to mind when you see it. When you see the action happening. You're thinking oh it's that. And you're kind of more than likely 80% right. They are going to give you that magic utility that you're thinking in your head but it's not the magic utility that you're thinking of. It's not the one sold in magic stores. It's something that you could find readily available anywhere. But it still does the job, still does the job well. How are the angles? If you watch the video you notice that the same clothing is worn in all the performance videos and that clothing option is not optional if you want to mean. So you will have to have that particular piece of clothing. Those are your angles if you know what I mean. Hush, hush, whisper, whisper. Can it be inspected? Like I said these are working headphones. So in the end when you have the little tiny mini buds you can plug that into their phone and they'll be able to listen to their favorite tune. What's the overall quality and production value of the video? You know if it's one thing that Sans Mines makes really well as DVDs. It's got great editing. Jason does all the live performances. Herman does all the teaching just like before. Great production value, plenty of great content. 32 minutes long you're definitely getting a good instructional video. On top of that they're going to teach you a couple of other effects. They're going to do the expanding headphones trick which is kind of lame. It's not really that great looking. But the other one on there that's really cool I think is better than the others. But basically you have the headphones and they're plugged into your phone and the headphones shrink into the phone. And then the little dangly ones are connected out of the jack. That one I think is way better and in performance that would be the one I would do. Alright so how much setup and reset is there? It is a rig so there is some setup there. And like I said earlier the clothing is not optional. So that's kind of all part and parcel with setup. They talk about how to do the reset on the fly but it just seemed a little wonky. That's not how I would do it. They talk pretty much setup off camera and then walk back in to any situation. I think that's really going to work the best. And if you already know the rig involved I think you'd agree with me. But it's not a slow setup. I mean you could do this pretty quickly. Alright so what are the positives? What are the positives to mini buds? There's no arts and crafts which is awesome. Because I think every time I get a sans mines DVD I'm inundated with tape and super glue and scissors and exacto knives. So I'm glad there was no setup that I had to do on my part. That's awesome. So you get everything you need and you can start doing it right away. So with this trick though I think sans mines has a real flashy piece of eye candy here. This is a relevant prop. It has a familiar application and the bonus handling is worth the price. Negatives. Alright so what are the negatives to mini buds? You know like we say around here there's negatives to everything. So these are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. It needs a little work just so that when the larger headphones vanish your spectator's mind doesn't automatically jump to the stereotypical place. Okay because it's obvious to a lot of magicians and you'd think that that also means it's going to be obvious to a lot of spectators. So you're going to want to do this probably connected to something else. You know I don't know if I would make this the sole trick. I would probably connect this effect with something else to kind of bridge the two. Like make this a piece of flash, admit something else. Or flash, yeah maybe use this with flash paper. You know, disguise some of that retraction. You know I think that might take the heat off of, that's funny flash paper heat. I think it would take the heat off of the obvious choice. Is it worth your money? It's $35. $35 you're going to get two sets of working headphones. Right? And a 32 minute DVD. It's totally worth your money. I think if you like this you should pick it up. You would like this. People that are strolling magicians or street magicians I think this definitely works well. I think it also works well if you're young. You know if wearing headphones like this on your personal already is part of your persona that's what you'd look like all the time. But I think no one's going to be like whoa where'd those headphones come from? You're 80 you know or whatever. Not the 80 year old people can't wear headphones. I'm just saying and I think a younger audience might gravitate more towards it. Alright so that is my review for mini buds from Sam's Mind Creative Labs. As always I want to thank Murphy's Magic for providing this trick for me so that I can do the review for you. And if you want to purchase it for yourself you can find it from your favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks. Bye.