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The Box
The Box

 The Vault - The Box - Mickael Chatelain
$19.90
https://www.murphysmagic.com/product.aspx?id=63678

The Hype:

Take a Tic-Tac dispenser from your pocket. As it's transparent, it's obvious to all that there's just one piece of candy inside. This is no illusion, there really is just one dispenser with one piece of candy inside.

Open the dispenser and dump the Tic-Tac into your spectator's hand. The dispenser is now empty and you show it from all sides. The spectator can look inside the opening and can see that it's just an empty Tic-Tac dispenser and nothing more.

Close the dispenser and hold it horizontally between your thumb and forefinger in front of the spectator.

Take the Tic-Tac from your spectator's hand and position the Tic-Tac on top of the dispenser in the middle. All this is so clean there can be no suspicion of manipulation or other subterfuge.

Continue to hold the dispenser a few centimeters from your spectator. The Tic-Tac is plainly visible sitting on the center of the outside of the dispenser.

Your other hand passes in front, hiding the candy from view for barely two seconds.

Completely impossible...

The Tic-Tac is now INSIDE the container, right where it was at the beginning. How is this possible? The hand holding the dispenser hasn't moved and yet the candy is once again inside!

Immediately shake the dispenser to prove that this is no illusion. It's true. It really is not an illusion... The Tic-Tac is really inside!

The only way to retrieve the candy is to open the dispenser once again and dump the candy into the spectator's hand.

The spectator can now eat the candy as it is absolutely real and ordinary.

Remember these important points:

Only one dispenser is used.

The Tic-Tac dispenser is genuine - use your own.

The dispenser is shown from all sides. Your spectator can even tap on each side as proof that there are no openings.

The Tic-Tac placed on the dispenser is the same one that is discovered inside two seconds later. No switch!

VERY easy to do. In less than three minutes, you will master the secret perfectly and you'll be ready to do this incredible trick.

No threads, no magnets, no glue, no manipulation. The secret takes care of EVERYTHING!

A trick that Mickael Chatelain has been presenting for years is explained for the first time with NO DETAILS LEFT OUT! You will keep it with you always, ready to fool young and old, and even magicians who don't know the secret.

My Take:

Mickael Chatelain has made a name for himself creating very clever gimmicks. Quite often these gimmicks are fairly expensive (such as his torn and restored card) so the idea of being able to make one of his creations intrigued me.

He says that you can be ready in three minutes and it is easy to make and do. I am used to seeing a lot of promo like this. Then I find it takes an hour or so to make my first one which never seems to work right. I did succeed on my second try with this. I believe I missed on the first time because I not careful enough in making it. It is extremely easy to make and you will probably make up more than one as the Tic Tac label can show some wear after a while. The only purchase you need to make is Tic Tacs. I made the error of picking up a three pack from my local dollar store then finding out that the ones I purchased would not work. This was a pack of three for a buck so no great loss. The reason they wouldn't work is that the cheaper ones are too small. It requires the full sized package to make this operate. The local supermarket offered a 4 pack of the right size for around three bucks. this is the way to go.

The ad says you will be up and running and have this mastered within three minutes.I will have to diverge from the copy a bit here. True, you can have a gimmick made within the time frame but you are going to have to play with it for a while to be confident that it will work each time. Still, this is a very neat little trick to carry in your pocket. I don't see how you could put this as part of a set but if you just want to carry something to show people at a bar or party, you can't go wrong with this.

Instruction is via a video download and is a little over 12 minutes long. Mickael does a good job at teaching both construction and use of the gimmick. My only reservation on this is that it is a one trick video and I would feel much more comfortable in the $10.00 - $15.00 range. There are a lot of downloads that offer more for the same price or less.Still this is something you will make and carry with you and is up to you to decide if the price is justified. So, recommended as noted.

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