Props
The kit (MSRP: $12.99) promises to teach ten tricks but only comes with four props that include: cups and balls, ball and vase, vision box and a magic wand.There are some good props here. The ball and vase, vision cube and cups and balls are excellent beginner's tricks. The plastic props are decent quality for toy magic kits. However, the ball and vase is barely passable, although I've seen worse.
Instructions are decent and feature helpful illustrations. I don't care for the additional tricks that employ the props, particularly, those that use the wand.
Fourth and Ten
To get from four props to ten tricks, the kit explains a couple of tricks with the cups and five more tricks with the wand. One trick that employs a single cup is a well known one where you vanish a cup on a table. The second is a well known challenge/puzzle style trick that is out of place in this kit.The tricks with the magic wand are the usual ones that you can perform with pencils including the suspended wand and other well known ones. One trick, the "Wandering Wand," left me confused. In this trick, the magic wand is supposed to "wander." However, I don't understand what is supposed to happen here. Because of this, the kit only teaches nine tricks.
Cool Tin
With its cool tin box, the kit has a definite cool factor when sitting on a store shelf. And it's association with the well known book will work in its favor. But in the end, it's just an average to slightly below average kit in its price range.Dangerous? Hardly.
