Professional magicians reviewing commercial magic kits without being either a shill or needlessly mean is something I love to see. Just an honest assessment and fun to watch. Edit: okay what I really like here is that you broke the pieces down to their influences and what Shin added, and who this would be good for and an overall value. I'm honestly surprised how much was in there that wasn't just cheap junk cashing on his name.

I had a svengali deck as a kid, it was so awesome. Learned how to do a double lift and blew people's minds with that one trick ever since. My son and I love watching your channel Doug! Thanks for this!

Great unboxing! Love the magic you perform.

This looks like it would a lot of fun and a great gift. I appreciate the honest review. Love your work Doug!

Helpful! This looks like a great gift idea!

absolutely love your Svengali routines... they have opened my eyes to actually love these effects.... it bored me before but youve shown me the vast landscape that is Svengali... thank you

Great Review Doug and good to see the unboxing of the set. Saw your demonstration of the tricks of the set which are really cool👏👏.

Love your videos Doug! Thanks for this review. I already own most of this, but will be picking this up for my son!

Great job on the unboxing and review. Really enjoyed watching it. The kit is definitely designed for older kids. I was thinking 10 or 11 years and up as you were going through the box. I love the darker overall design and colours for a more serious approach to learning and performing magic.

Great set, even the packaging looks classy

Thank you for all you do!!

Pretty cool. I know a couple kids that would love this. Gonna click the link and/or share with family members.

Love these long form video. Please do more of these.

It's better then the magic kit I had. loved your review honest also fun to watch, also loved that Shin Lim teaches the tricks that this kit has inside. a lot of kits that I had didn't come with instructions or videos to learn, for example ( this is not a magic kit just an example) buying the linking rings 8 set they came in a bag and being young not understanding how they work or what to do with them there was videos on KZfaq. having no access to the internet till I was 14 after buy my first laptop loved it heaps, I still use the Olivetti Lettera typewriter, I'm not gonna make this too long anyways Great kit, loved your review and recommend. Thanks Doug

I already own this... cant wait to learn things from you on how to use some of these effects... right on man!

‘395 magic tricks, and they give you a couple of plastic things.’ So true!!!

Thanks for the unboxing, was curious about it

heyy:) i’m pretty early. i love your shorts and videos!

Very interesting unboxing, thank you very much!

This really took me back. The official Magicians' cards were branded Fox Lake," and the most common size was "Bridge." My very first set of "MacDonald's Aces" came with gimmicked Bridge-sized cards. In fact, there were times when I was hard-pressed to find a Poler-sized trick that required special cards. The rest of the kit was, for the most part, far better than the magic kits of my childhood. And by childhood, I am talking about most of the 1950s and 1960s. I don't recall a single card trick in a magic kit. Those kits were amazingly cheap, Japanese-made (yes, this was before Dr. W. Edwards Deming taught them Total Quality Management) garbage. They contained the coin slide that would change a penny into a nickel, a wallet that made things disappear and reappear (which took an 8 year old 2-3 seconds to figure out, and the tube with the rubber band that was stretched across the bottom, and you went in from the top t try to hook the band with the too-short wooden hook. Bringing back any unpleasant memories? Yes, I am that old. This kit is easily worth $50. And the thumb tips are a very valuable inclusion. I think I will give this kit plus Joshua Jay's book/DVD combo as a gift for my grandson, who will be almost 8. The book will make sure his dad is involved. He used to watch me around the time he was 8 or 9, so I taught him a number of effects and routines. It would be nice to see him get back into it. But in any event, a great father-and-son or daughter gift. Nice job with the unboxing/first impressions review. It was well worth the time spent watching it, plus the time required to write this comment a 3:15 am.

Thanks for the review this helps

Always a pleasure Doug!

Great review

Good unboxing Remind me of relaxingend

This is actually a pretty good beginner trick kit. Better than what I had.

Man I always love stuff that come from Shin Lim

Awesome magic kit. Shin teaches u how to do tricks. Awesome.

Great Review Doug! Looks like a great kit :D

Love your work❤️❤️

Love the box!!! That's definitely going to be a collective one day ♠️♦️♣️♥️

Looks really good! Hope my like and comment boosts the algorithm for you

Commercial release shin lam looking sick

Good video!!!! Only thing he got wrong was saying the vanishing deck box was made out of metal instead of plastic. Other than that awesome video.

I remember Jack chainn a noted philly magician used a chrome cloaking device to show color doesn't really matter. It is how you use it.

Great video

Cheers doug great un boxing

Very nice and interesting review Doug ! I decided to buy it for my kids for Xmas (and a bit for me too haha) !

I know what's on my Xmas list 📃 🎅

Just helping out the algorithm. Thanks, gef

This was literally the first Video I ever clicked because the creator Asked in Such a polite way.

I gotta say, if I got this as a gift and excitedly opened it just to find the color of the cloaking device did not match my skin color I would be so disappointed.

my deck only has 24 short cards and 24 normal caeds so 48 in total is that normsl or did i loose some?

Looks like a great kit. So many are cheap. I’ll probably get this one for my Grandson.

Nice review

Does it have a deck of playing cards? (regular)

What is the name of the folding dollar effect?

Nice!

"Includes 400 magic tricks" 🤣🤣🤣 so true!

So cooool😁😋

So pretty. So pretty

I enjoy this

Great Time Christmas is Coming 😀

Doug, can you make a video explaining how to actually USE a Svengali Pad? How do you keep the spectator from seeing all the pages have the same thing on them to make them "think of" the force term or picture? Many thanks and keep up the great work!

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The algorithm is working 👍

Super

Wow box!!!!

Just an appreciation comment for doug. Lets beat the algorithm.

I would try to cut the deck at the shorts, perform a faro shuffle and then the deck is ready to use 8:37 . maybe ill try that on my family and see if it can be done in front of a spectator

Just bought this cause of you mr conn please let me know how to patreon you

What do you do for Christmas

It s shame I don’t have a son to gift it to

Wow I'm pretty early

Comment for the algorithm.

Algorithm 🙏

Books are not the best way to learn for everyone... some instructions are VERY hard to understand with just words..