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LOOK

Limin

Magic Soul

(Based on 2 reviews)
Everyone has seen googly eyes on toys before but with this product a magician can employ them in a new and interesting magic trick.
During the performance, the eyes will follow the audience member's selected card just as if they were alive! At the end of each show, both the card and eyes can be given to the audience as souvenirs.
This is an extremely practical trick that is sure to leave a magical impression.

Easy to prepare and perform HD teaching video available online Audience checks possible before and after performance Freedom of choice - personalize the trick yourself! Lovely souvenir for your audience to take home

Reviews

Doc Johnson

Official Reviewer

Aug 04, 2022

WHAT YOU GET

You get a half page folded in half “booklet” explanation with drawings and links to performance and explanation videos. In addition, you get ten blank cards to make “googly eye” faces. You also get 20 self adhesive googly eyes.

WHAT IS COOL

I feel like I was generous with the rating and I’ll explain why. I really think the concept could be fun, especially for younger audiences. We’ll get into the problems, but first the good parts. The gimmicks works well when used as explained. The idea of having a participant create their own googly eyes face could be fun, yet you don’t have to do this part, You could simply have a googly eyed face ready to perform. You could incorporate this into any routine that you like, to add a fun element, especially for the right audience. This could be a way to take a trick that appeals to adults and to keep the kids entertained as well. This could also be used to engage more females, who on average, tend to like magic less than males. I’m sure what I just said might be considered “horrific and sexist” by some, but in my experience performing magic, that is the case. I have had to learn ways to engage different people differently to keep them engaged. The quality of the props and materials is good. The ad is fair.

WHAT ARE THE DOWNSIDES

The explanations and methods weren’t great. Great magicians know that great magic is in the details.

For example, at one point you pass cards over the googly eyes face and it doesn’t react and they are turned over and placed aside. When the googly eyes face finds their selected card, for no apparent reason, that card is placed on top of the deck and then turned over. That is just bad magic. However, I didn’t downgrade my rating for what could be a special something to add to your bag of tools because of this. I would rather just warn you in this review and urge you to think about your magic more deeply than apparently they did.

Another example is there are some areas where hindu shuffles are used. In some parts of the world, that makes sense. In other parts of the world, that just looks weird and suspicious. Again, I didn’t downgrade my rating because you could simply use overhand shuffles and/or cuts instead.

I did downgrade the rating because while this might have some good potential, you are likely going to need to look to other sources to make this better. If this is the only magic trick you purchase, you might be stuck with some not so great handling.

AT A GLANCE

Skill level required: 3 of 5.
Audience management skill required: 3 of 5.
Performance angles: 360 degrees
Reset time required: You can reset in front of your audience.
DIY time involved in advance: None

VERDICT

I really think that this could be a good addition to a magicians set of tools and it could be used in a variety of ways that are slightly different than what was explained to enhance your magic, particularly for certain audiences, like younger audiences.

Suggestions

If you think you can work around some of the “not so great” explanations, then this might be a good addition to your set of magic tools.
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Stuart Philip

Official Reviewer

Sep 22, 2014

Look away! LOOK, by Limin is not worthwhile. In LOOK, the performer gives the spectator a bunch of arts and crafts googly eyes and a blank faced card. The spectator sticks two google eyes on the blank card, draws a face around the eyes and names the character. The performer tells the spectator that they just created the magician’s assistant for the next trick. The spectator then freely picks a card, signs it (although that step is unnecessary) and after a Hindu shuffle, the performer indicates that the magical assistant will help the magician find the card with the googly eyes. The magician then passes the cards from the top of the deck, one at a time, over the googly eyes card, which is resting on a table. Eventually, the eyes move and follow one of the cards. The card is placed on top of the deck, face down, flipped over and it is revealed to be the spectator’s card. The performer then hands the selected card to the spectator and when they pass over the googly eyes, it no longer moves as the assistant only listens to the magician. This trick is very easy to perform.

This trick comes with a half page folded paper pamphlet with English instructions and a link to a 12 minute Taiwanese how-to video, with English sub titles. The trick also comes with 20 googly eyes, 10 blank cards that you can write on (and erase) with a dry erase marker and a bicycle backed gimmicked playing card. The written instruction are clear and easy to follow. The instructions warn that some of the googly eyes may be defective and may not move. In my packet, one 1 out of 20 was defective as the eye did not move at all, therefore making it totally useless. The promotional video accurately depicted the performance, which is underwhelming. However, if you like the way that performance looks, then you may like this trick. I found that when the eyes moved to follow the chosen card, it was sometimes not so noticeable and needed to be repeated for the spectator. Additionally, if you pass over the googly eyes too closely, or too far, you will have a problem with the trick. I cannot elaborate on this issue without revealing the trick, but the method was obvious to me when I watched the promotional video.

The trick takes too long to make and draw the arts and crafts "assistant” card. Additionally, passing the cards over the drawn assistant, individually, can take some time and cause the audience to lose focus. If the spectator looks away for an instant, they will not see that the eyes have moved, ever so slightly. If the googly eyes were bigger, the effect may be better and more noticeable. Although I do not think this trick is suited for adults, it may be a fun activity to do with a child.

Unfortunately, I would just look for a different close-up effect to entertain.
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