WINDOW by David Stone, Jean-Luc Bertrand and Mickael Chatelain

[Jacob Hatfield]

Sam is right on with this tip.

The effect is amazing. One of my favorites to watch and perform.

It's a extreme visual effect that I can only guarantee will be seen on a TV special at one point and time.
This is worth it for the high impact visual aspect that meets the demand of a audience that wants that "TV" magic feel.

-Jacob

[Sam Hindrichs]

yea I bought my neo magnets from walmart, which i do not recommend, and made it for between 5 and 10 bucks and that is totally including the new deck the rubber cement

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and the magnets which were way over priced and very bulky (quarter thick). buy yours off of the internet.

[Jacob Hatfield]

Speaking of walmart...they had buy one get one free decks for cards there the other day.
I bought a bunch.

But yes...I think Window is a great gimmick to spend the time building. When its done, you will feel like you can build any gimmick. And you will have SOOOO much fun performing it.

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[Sam Hindrichs]

this is a weird question but

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[marc019871]

I have considered buying it, but it is really worth the money?
And what about the setup, how much time does it take?

[Sam Hindrichs]

there are like 5 different thread all covering this effect. I n one of the thread haroldross mentions that he bought the dvd and gimmick. I may have taken it the wrong way but he seemed like it was a waste of money. I think it was mainly because they don't teach you moves they just tell you what moves to do to accomplish the effect.

If you do a search of the forum you will find a link of how to build the gimmick. All you really have to do is build it and you are set. Mine works and I don't own the dvd.

[haroldross]

I didn't mean to come across as it being a waste of money. I just expected a little more for my money. I purchased much of my tricks because I want to support the magic community. I personally would have done the DVD instruction quite differently. I love to teach magic one on one and work with younger magicians.

Since I have an engineering type of background I tend to be critical of what I see as inferior workmanship.

The idea and effect are great- that is what you are actually paying for.

Perhaps I should have said something to the effect, this trick and instruction is not intended for the person new to magic.

[bettolone]

It's a very cool effect, but a bit too bulky.
You need a lot of misdirection to do the trick and i do not like when there's more than 1 gimmick involved... too risky...

[Sam Hindrichs]

Originally Posted by dananddavebuck

i've purchased it

nice ideas for CTW!

It's not really a card through window though. Everyone calls it that. Even the trailer for the dvd says its a visual card through window effect.

You never show the card coming through the window in any way (like Kaos). You wave your hand over a card that is taped on the other side of the glass and it changes to the chosen card. It is more of a color change through a window, or a tranpo through the window.
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Originally Posted by haroldross

I didn't mean to come across as it being a waste of money. I just expected a little more for my money.

I know what you meant. It just seems to me they could have used written instructions to get the same result and it would have been a little cheaper and more worth the price they would have charged you. if it were on paper they would have only charged like $30ish instead of $70