A Mentalism Classic Improved? Propalopes by Looch Review

hi welcome to real magic riew this is a prop by luch sorry I've been practicing the beatbox course this morning and uh I've become obsessed with it I can't do very well yet anyway let's get on with the [Music] review before we do this review can you have a look at my membership site please or afterwards or in between pause and have a look open up another tab pop back here if you will it's uh no do this first probably online magic.co is my membership site a whole course on the Royal world to Car Magic first 200 Page you get loads of courses in there you get spongeball magic coin magic rope magic card magic of course out of handle cards if You' never even handled cards before loads and loads of stuff live sessions most weeks uh and they're all uploaded so there 160 odd of them now or 150 odd and special guest David Williamson luch has been on we're going to talk about him of course and uh many other people not just David Williams luch like loads of people okay this is propal opes and this is a ready to go reusable version of the classic routine that I have had much experience with highs and lows which is the free envelope envelope test four-dimensional telepathy Ted anaman uh studied and published on very much by Bob Cassidy he's written a whole book a PDF which you can get on li.com which is journey into the fourth dimension it's just an absolute classic routine it for me it's like the cups and balls of mentalism and someone said this to me once can't remember it was it might have even been luch no it wasn't who was it ah I think it might have been Bob Pierce wild F wild F anyway that's irrelevant this is the free envelope test where you get three people on stage or in the audience each of them write something or Draw something and you tell them what they've drawn it's a mind reading routine one ahead routine it's the cups and balls of magic of mentalism to me because it's stripped down it's a great routine but you can just add so much to it there is so much space to perform you got free people there poten 10 or more minutes of material on stage it plays so big it's just a stunner and it is a classic for a reason uh it tends to be Bob Cassy does it with uh someone you went to school with a family pet the second person or the other way around and the last one is the drawing duplication it's just great and I said I've had highs and lows with this I've gone back to this over 20 years recently and in my first one man show probably 20 years ago terrifyingly maybe a little bit less I felt like it was a routine that didn't work cuz I wasn't getting responses then talking to the audience afterwards I said no that was our favorite bit we just couldn't get our heads around it it blows people away uses no technology and I highly suggest if you're interested in mentalism having a look at this and by the way having a look at L's membership site uh my mind rocks www. don't have to say that anymore dear my mind rocks I've just had a quick look through I had a look through when he just started it there have been loads of people on there he takes one of his or somebody else's routine classic routine really breaks it down has live sessions on it publish publishes those like I do and again for those people any level of mentalism do have a look at it um him and Maro Dantes talk about it at the beginning of this download very briefly and you really a lot of people don't know about it and uh you need to check it out my mind. RO yes um so the problem I've had with four-dimensional telepathy is there are many many many ways of doing it Bob casty did it with just a flapless envelope for a while you don't need anything just to cut flap off an envelope and then um no consistency there and then with envelope envelope not with Bob Bob Cy's routine um I used Shack and flat which I just think a just a wonderful way to switch a a piece of information which I won't go into here and I'm really glad that this takes that method not because I do it and just because I think it's one of the best methods you can do the problems I've had with it and many people will not have these problems it's just the way my brain works is that I have and I think I've got some footage I've always had some sort of issue and this is again because of me I've prepared it and then things have stuck together I've tried to when you put the flap down with a gimmick sometimes it didn't stick so I've tried so many different things but then that made all the envelopes stick together I done it once and misnumbered them um and that was horrible if those of you that know the routine I I have done it well quite a lot of times but it's always been one of those things I've always felt nervous about just because the amount of times it has gone wrong again it is not a difficult routine maybe difficult routine to perform well but there's no real difficulty in there unless unless you've got a brain like mine this answerers so many of those questions uh those issues it might even solve them maybe first of all this is big right you get these big envelopes which you may think well they don't like look like normal envelopes well I've seen this live and I've actually saw I was in the audience on the download luch shows a performance and I'm glad he shown the performance where he had some issues not really big issues but some things kind of that usually were didn't really work out we had to kind of rush it and I'm glad he showed that one and he talks about that so he talks about a flawed performance again not really his fault or anybody else's fault just a situation because it was before electri out to rush it and I like that because it shows you that you know not at its very best it's still a stunning thing and I watched that performance and just thought it's so great and I just couldn't see what he was doing because of the these they're so big so when you've got big envelopes like this I'm just going to make sure I don't expose anything here when you've got big envelopes like this first of all it makes it easier it makes it bigger and it does play really big even with smaller en envelopes but it this kind of feels like there's left to see because they're so open they're just here they're massive so it feels like there couldn't be any kind of slight of hand and I know you know if you if you're doing a full mentalism show people might not go down that route anyway but if you're doing a magic show and you have a mentalism routine in like I did they might be looking for something very rarely but you never know but just for peace of mind they're just so big and bold that you just don't see how anything can happen and what does happen is incredibly bold but incredibly easy so there's going to be this basically takes the shack and flat makes it a permanent thing puts it into an envelope it's all one piece of it's not card it's these polypropylene oh something like that it's kind of plasticky it's going to last a long time it's durable you do have to be careful with it a little bit as he says because the way it's made but that's okay because you get a lovely box to keep them in which is purposely unbranded and you can also put them in a more permanent box but all that gimmickry is ready to go and if you do it with the shacks and flap you have to remake it every time or remake a load of them that's fine but if you're an idiot like me you might do that wrong as as I have done a few times this gets rid of the other thing of having to how can I say if you get the you what you get the information you need so much more easily and this came from an idea where Luke saw Luke J lecture in Sheffield that kind of cuts out one little bit of it that again isn't problematic but it just cuts out a phas of it you've just got this it's right there and you don't have to rush it you know when you get the information you usually have to look at it fairly quickly again not rush but this time you've got all the the time in the world you can go back to it if you forget it which is so important for me just great and that solves one issue for me the sticking together with bit the making it's not one issue it's loads the making of it the the possibility of forgetting some information if you're in the kind of heat of it and you're improvising around it just great so I don't know you know if you performed like me I like to get to a gig very early but sometimes things happen and you're kind of Rush set up the fact that this is all ready to go is just great he provides you with the envelopes two and oh there's one on the gimmick envelopes as well there's a detail with a double F I'll just say that which answers again which sols the questions and the fact say velcro it's just more and more I keep thinking about so you know the original Bob Cassy thing he had this gag where they would lick the envelope which is quite funny but again you can't really do that now do you lick it I did the thing of of buying the kind of re the glue I tried rubber cement I tried all the different stuff but again I'd either put too much of it on or there was some issue with it this just velcro straight down boom in stairs so when you pull out and you do what you got to do you just hand it to them and there's just no messing around you know you hold it up to the light you do all that stuff you can't see anything through and there are you know powerful lights in here so it's just clean clean clean he provides you with uh some of these to practice with and use also the PDF to make up yourself gives you hints on performing him and Maro talk about the different performances of it but again I it's a simple routine and it's a on the Bare Bones of it you can put some really really good meat um so I really love this I've had it for a while I finally got to look at it and I'm so glad I did four dimensional T telepathy or 4 DT as luch calls it is something I keep going back to keep saying I'm not going to do it again it's this Dicky keep going back to with this I'm all over it I'm going back to it again if you've seen me perform live in all of my onean shows I have this routine and it's all been a bit of a mess but it works in the end and like I said I will put I'll try and find the footage of me get them all stuck together and uh and struggling to get them apart but even with that it's still absolutely stormed so you got a routine here which plays just as strong as anything with any technology couple of Grands worth technology few envelopes at its most basic a simplified version which simplifies the performance of it but not the routine in the effect and it's so customizable this routine you can you know you'll get them to give you free pieces of information so that can fit any theme you want it can fit a corporate event um you want to talk about them what they do at work or what they do in their lives I used it to talk about a moment in their life which seemed insignificant but changed everything for them so think about a moment in your life I also did it where I say some people um tend to me remember things in images some people remember things in emotions some people remember things and the other people in there so one person did an image one people wrote an emotion and one people one people uh one person um uh named someone else that was there and then it gives you this like so many good mentalism routines it gives you this space to play and go code read and practice and again if you don't quite get the you've got the Banger of a routine finale to fall back on it is a brilliant routine and if you're interested in mentalism I really highly recommend it and you know for you can do it in close-up with these without a doubt but I think I love the fact it's so big and bold and gives you time to not panic like I have many many times so and and luch has helped me you know I when I was doing four dimensional celey before these he bought these out I was constantly on on Texas going yeah but what this keep stuck together what can I do and can you help me do this and he give me all the hints and tips some of them I did some of them I wish I had and now we're down after you could have got these so thanks very much luch for making this check out all of L's stuff luch is one of those people who's so nice and lovely we forget how very good he is he's a designer you know by by trade is that the right word he teaches design so he's put a lot into the design the look The feel the durability and very importantly practicality of these check out the routine if you haven't check out my mind. RO and check out these uh proper Loops I hope I haven't called him bonsel Lopes in this I keep nearly calling them bonsel Lopes I have to have a look thanks very much um as well as my m.ro have a look at online magic.co please like And subscribe check out the podcast I'm going to edit another one today another one with lovely no Calla it very funny and very very uh interesting about magic conventions so that should be out soon Steve Fulton's Magic show and uh Instagram @ Steve fuler I do have the @ real magic review thing but I think most of my stuff my stories and uh Etc like me breaking a bottle of wine all over the flooring here the other day is on Steve funner all right Facebook app i' done by Steve Fon as well take care see you later I don't what I've got that for [Music] bye