hey everybody welcome back to my magic
orthodoxy my name is David and this is a
magic review
hey welcome back to the channel thanks
for being here it got a lot to cover
today so we're gonna jump right on in
but before we do make sure you hit like
and subscribe because I do magic reviews
all the time I do playing card reviews
all the time and I do giveaways wouldn't
want you to miss those doing giveaways
all this month so just make sure you hit
your notifications so that you're
alerted when those videos go live today
we're gonna look at the how to read
minds kit from Peter Turner and
illusionist comm how to read minds this
was a Kickstarter project allied
Kickstarter successfully funded it was
like gangbusters it sold great got mine
in the mail last week been tearing
through it all weekend just just totally
devouring this whole thing this whole
project just so excited to share it with
you let's get into it and I purchased
this product myself so that you always
get honest and factual reviews every
single time my reviews are simple I
always ask the same straightforward
questions and the first question is what
do you get what's inside the box the box
is all done in black and white the
graphics are really cool says how to
read minds and there's a skull on the
front 20 powerful mind reading skills
taught within taught by the
world-renowned Peter Turner including
reveal someone's iPhone unlock code one
side says learn skills no one thought
you'd have and the graphics all around
say mayhem madness mentalism illusionist
how did you do that never be boring
again and the back side has some
promotion has some ad copy for
illusionist and tells you a little bit
about the Kickstarter hey that's
everything I can say about this awesome
box let's take a look inside opening the
box you get two layers there's a top
layer and a second layer the top layer
has the marked cohort Dec this is the
second edition this is the e7 stock
you're getting a nail writer you're
getting two sets of ESP cards you're
getting a USB key that has all of your
video instructions you're getting a bank
card that you can put it in your wallet
and you'll get a practice spoon for
spoon mending it also includes a UV
light and an invisible ink pen on the
second level you'll get a huge stack of
billets you'll get a switch wallet
you'll get two envelopes the Dracula
book test and
piqué wallet alright so how are the
props are they well made
what is the deal like you're getting one
of these beginner magic kits and we've
all purchased them right we've all
bought a beginners magic kit at one time
it's usually like cheap plastic it's a
bunch of garbage and you know the stuff
that you're like yeah maybe I'd give
this to my ten-year-old cousin right is
this what you're getting absolutely not
that the the amount of stuff that you're
getting in this box and the quality of
the stuff is professional-grade this
these are the these are some of the best
props now that I own like of the book
test for one the book test is beautiful
the Dracula book looks exactly like a
book should it's very easy it's not
complicated to do the two wallets that
you get are both real leather they're
really nice I'm gonna I'm totally gonna
use these even the billets the billets
aren't like rough hewn edged like blank
business cards they actually have a nice
smooth gloss edge to them they feel
really good in your hands and they give
you a considerable amount the mark deck
I gotta say this is hard for me to admit
because I have the earlier cohorts deck
that bicycle printed and now this new
one this is a second edition with the e7
card a mundi stock I like the e7 stock
better I do I had both the X side by
side of my hands and I gotta say I like
the e7 stock better the the edges are so
much more smooth I love the fact that
they give you a USB key for your
instructions I know people were looking
for it in there like Illusionist profile
but you know it's this is a Kickstarter
so they have to you know give it to you
on a USB key
they don't everybody doesn't have an
illusionist profile but I love this over
a DVD because now you have digital files
you can take those digital files with
you anywhere I load them onto my phone I
take them with me you know in the car or
in the airplane or you know reading in
the dentist office like you can take
these files with you wherever you go
so that and that's great because some of
them are an hour long so you want to
take them with you where you have time
to watch them even though a little
plastic credit card that comes with this
set looks like a real credit card I
think I've had two or three others of
these little fake plastic credit cards
so they never look kind of real because
sometimes they even
like your name instead of the actual
name like you know you expected to see
have your name or you expect it to have
like phone numbers or something on the
back it shouldn't look like a magic prop
and this doesn't this looks like a real
rewards card credit card slash gift card
thing that you would have in your wallet
and it looks totally this it looks great
these are all top-notch products now
don't some of you mentalists that you
know our intermediate or advanced
Mentalist so she already owned some of
these props like you've already owned
like a nail writer and a switch wallet
you already own a book test absolutely
of course you can that's the great thing
about this project also because Pete's
giving you introductory level effects
that you can do with these props and so
it doesn't matter if you own some of
these props or not because that the
teaching that he gives you will apply to
the props that you have as well I mean
personally out of all the props
I have ESP cards that I already use and
I like mine better so I will continue to
use my ESP cards I have a nail writer
that I use and I like better so I will
continue to use that so I mean that's
the great thing about this kit is
everything so interchangeable
alright so pocket space how big is
everything the wallets are really nice
and small and thin billets you know you
can take a smaller stack as you want and
carry it with you the UV pen is you know
the pen size even the Dracula book is
something that's probably small enough
that it would fit in your back pocket or
your inside jacket pocket so even if you
carried every single thing in this box
which you never would write even if you
did you probably could load it all on
your person with an outside jacket I
think you probably could do it so none
of these props are large or take up a
lot of space all right so what's the
overall quality in production value of
the videos you're gonna get one
performance video it's a long our live
party that was filmed in South Point
Tavern in Miami Beach Florida and you
get to watch pete work the room and he
does all the different effects sometimes
he doesn't exactly like the teachings
sometimes he changed a little bit but I
think when you watch it you'll pick up
on that as far as the explanation of
videos you're gonna have Peter talking
to Garrett Clark and Brad Christian and
Dwayne Williams from illusionist
he's usually you know like a
at a in a white room with a white marble
table there a big window of Florida in
the background or he's filming over in
Manchester England he's gonna give you
theory all the way through this the
videos are very conversational Pete is
such a generous teacher he gives away so
much more than just tricks he gives you
extra ideas and tricks all the way
through this and fact I've loved these
videos so much this is a great little
USB key I've watched several of these
videos more than once just because I
feel like I wanted to go back and pick
something up
as far as Ray's gonna teach you I'm
gonna go through this really fast
because there's so much but I want to
give you the breakdown there's 20 videos
in all first there's an introduction
where Pete just briefly you know says hi
it's about two minutes the first video
covers the bullets and it's 32 minutes
long you're gonna learn two tricks on
that the second video is really an
illusionist video it's guaranteeing to
you about how to read the markings on
the cohort deck it's eight minutes long
then you're gonna get Pete again on the
third video he's going to cover the mark
deck it's a 33 minute video he's gonna
cover and any card to any number he's
gonna cover the crisscross force and
he's gonna cover how to read somebody
with these cards then the fourth video
covers the switch pad that's 43 minutes
you're going five tricks on this video 5
is the envelopes that's 11 minutes long
this is the trick he did with pink cake
pig cake in that video had three
envelopes your kit only comes with two
but it's teaching you a single trick
video 6 is the bank card it's 31 minutes
long you're gonna learn five tricks just
with this fake card alone video 7 is the
whisper that's a seven minute video and
you're gonna learn one trick video 8
covers the nail writer that's 13 minutes
and you're gonna learn two tricks video
9 is a double-sided presentation video
it's 15 minutes long you'll learn a
single trick video 10 is a life equation
trick that's 20 minutes long again you
learn a single trick video 11 is a
theory video it's 9 minutes long and
Pete talks about predictions and how to
turn some of these tricks into
predictions and not exactly just
revelations video 12 covers the peek
wallet it's 11 minutes long and you're
gonna learn three tricks video 13 is the
ESP cards that's as almost an hour it's
53 minutes long you'll learn five tricks
video 14 covers the Dracula book as 24
minutes long
you're only learning the single trick
just there's only one trick for the book
video 15 covers how to do readings
that's 20 minutes long again this is a
video on theory and it's an essay kind
of like on ambiguity and reading a
stranger video 16 is the spoon Bend
that's eleven minutes it's a single
trick video seventeen covers the UV set
it's 25 minutes long and he's just
working out different ideas for
Revelations video 18 is the phone unlock
it's 20 minutes long he's gonna give you
several methods video 19 is the
performance video like I said it was 52
minutes long in total and video 20 is
just a URL video that covers where to
find refills for this kit once all the
kits have been mailed out to the buyers
all in all this is 8 hours and 20
minutes of instruction 32 tricks and
ideas I counted right it literally
counted I counted up all the minutes I
counted up every single trick 8 hours
and 20 minutes 32 tricks and ideas
alright so positives what are the
positives about this kit like I said the
quality of this is amazing every single
piece in this is a great piece and I
could definitely see using it in real
life
I think Pete's teaching is also very
entry level which I loved I have a ton
of Pete's material and I always watch it
and I always love watching it but then
there's a part of me that's just I don't
know a little fearful of approaching his
style of magic because it is his style
and it seems to work for him and I don't
know how well it would work for me but
this as an introductory level to
mentalism I think is great I think this
is a wonderful start for anyone that
wants to do mentalism or to do what Pete
does so really I think this kit does two
things if you're a beginner and you're
just starting off I think this
definitely gets you up and going but if
you're an intermediate or advanced level
magician and you receive this I think
with your eyes you would see the
potential so much greater then someone
just starting off I mean for instance I
am NOT gonna use the switch wallet at
all the way Pete teaches in the video
and I won't use any of those tricks
because as soon as I saw the switch
wallet I thought oh my goodness this
would be great
for cribs this is the most perfect prop
for cribs and I probably have three
tricks right now that either involve a
crib sheet where I have to memorize
certain words in the book test or I have
a business card trick that involves a
bunch of math utilizing phone numbers
and URLs or on the business cards and
there's a lot of calculations involved
this switch wallet is me perfect because
I'll be able to show the wallet show the
you know this is my paper here's my pans
and I'm gonna write on and as I turn
around boom my cribs already opened they
never saw it and I could probably put
three different cribs on that and be
ready to and then I could close it and
it could open it later do another trick
you know or you could even say you know
I think there's an A in this yeah than
this word and I think there's a there's
that L in this word you know in fact I
don't even need this list anymore let's
just let's just talk like this and then
you've eliminated and ditched it but
this
I'm totally gonna use a switch wallet
for cribs all right I don't love
memorizing lots of different things I
like my magic to be a little bit more
self working and so this crib wallet is
gonna help me out a ton but going back
to people just starting out beginner
Mentalist if this is your first time as
an introduction to Peter Turner welcome
but if you devour this kit and you love
it and you want to get something next I
would suggest freeform mentalism from
Peter Turner I think a lot of his stuff
is very advanced level but I think if
you went from this to freeform mentalism
I think they'll be a good next step in
his material all right so negatives what
are the negatives you know there's
always good and bad with everything one
of the things I had mentioned earlier
the ESP cards I did not love them
there's a feature to them that
illusionist even tells you about they
say oh look at this cool feature I
didn't like that feature I think it's I
think it's too noticeable and like I
said I already have marked ESP cards
that I love and use all the time and so
I'm gonna use those okay but that was
really the only prop that I didn't love
in the whole set the other thing I would
just warn you about is 2500 people back
this campaign right 2500 people which
sounds like a lot right that means
there's 2500 other people out there
we'll all 2,500 people devour this kit
and become medalists and get out there
and work probably not right there'll be
a good number of them that just look at
it as novelty and they'll probably never
go back to it there's there's there's
always those people but as a mass
marketed item it just means that a lot
of magicians a lot of people will have
these props and know how these things
work okay so it being so mass marketed a
lot of people are gonna understand and
and have this kit but but let me just
say like personally for me like I know I
live in a community of maybe five
thousand people right five thousand
people in my community I'm probably the
only one that holds it in my entire
community so 2,500 people sounds like a
lot and it is but in the grand scheme of
things you know and you're talking about
the world or the United States it's not
a lot of people who would like this I
mean I've been saying this with the
whole entire thing people who want to
get into mentalism I think another
another consumer that would really like
this it'll probably somebody like me who
loves Peter Turner loves Peter Turner's
work gets everything Peter Turner does
it's excited about it but then also is
very hesitant about performing his work
because Peter is so bold he takes he
takes risks sometimes risks that maybe
an average magician wouldn't take
doesn't have that same confidence that
he has I think if you wanted to take a
step back and then enter his mind with
this kit this is a great entry-level
product and I think that's something
that has been missing in the magic
community is an entry-level mentalism
kit from Peter Turner so I think
definitely people that like Peter
Turner's work will love this I think
even the intermediate and advanced
Mentalist would like this too like I
said the props are awesome and it's just
great to hear his teaching I always
learned something listening to him I
mean just listening to him talk about
theory and confidence and working
smarter and not harder and keeping
things simple those are all good things
to remember is it worth their money
illusionist had this for $100 on their
campaign you can pre-order it if you
didn't pick it up at illusionist calm
for one hundred and twenty dollars so it
is one hundred
dollars now if he didn't originally back
it but again even at a hundred and
twenty dollars it's definitely worth
their money
all right I've talked long enough that's
everything I can say about the how to
read minds kit from Peter Turner and a
lucious calm like I said if you would
like to pick this up head on down to
illusionist com to place your order
thanks guys I'll see you next time bye
you
