The Smartest Card-to-Envelope I’ve Seen. Sealed³ by Axel Hecklau.

Hello, my name is Steve Falner and today I'm going to be talking about a card to envelope. There's loads of those, aren't there? Loads of them. Why do we need more? I think we do and you'll see why in a minute. [Music] Before I go on to this review, I'd like some very important things for you to do. I've got some very important things for you to do that. Uh, I'd like you to look at onlinemagic.co. code. Do it afterwards if you want or pause this and go and have a look at it. Please have a look at it. Scroll down. There's individual courses there. There's a membership which is £9.99 a month. You get a cancel anytime and you get everything pretty much everything I know and everything I continue to learn. I share heart and sleeve everything you want to know and you can request stuff. Live sessions, special guests. Um Axel Heckler actually popped on the other day which was a lovely surprising talk. It was a completely different thing which was really special. 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This envelope, this sealed envelope is sealed three. >> Full admission here. because I've forgotten the real word disclosure. There you go. Is that I am a huge fan of Axel Hector. I don't think I've ever really met a magician, especially one who performs professionally and uses his stuff that isn't. Axel is someone that never releases anything just for the sake of filler, just for Blackpool. Everything he does is quite often a a classic take a a take on a modern take on a classic routine such as news flash his new paper newspaper restoration just a cup his his cup and dice cup routine which is like a chop cup but not a chop cup um spoon round which I haven't got yet axel I'll review it if you want I want from the collection uh and and this and his cube routine which isn't called just a cube I clue what was saying. Uh anyway, all brilliant, all amazing, all just totally groundbreaking, wellmade, brilliant. So, straight off the bat here, I love I love everything. So did no surp I don't really in review things I like because we don't spend time with rubbish but why do I like it and are you going to like it maybe not that's really not the thing here I'm going to give you my opinion so what this is and when he said I'm doing this I thought I already do that and then he was like no but you know what he probably was thinking no no I've made this he's actually saying now this is different I'd like you to to have a look at it so the first thing I gathered And I don't watch the trailers first. When I opened it, which what he had told me this actually, it was an envelope inside of an envelope inside of an envelope. Now, I do nest of wallets a lot. So, I was like, well, I've got a kind of thing that does that. And then I opened the box and went, "Oh, this is very, very different." And actually, when he came on the live session, he I'd had it for quite a while. And he's like, "How you getting on with it?" And I was like, and I had to I said, "It's here by my feet, meaning it's getting reviewed soon." I hadn't opened it because I didn't want to open it till I was ready. and I opened it up and just went, "Wow, there is a lot going on here." So, why is there a lot going on? So, it's all about detail with Axel. First of all, the envelopes themselves, I do switch between envelope and envelope because I got ADHD and I can never decide. They're both right apparently. I have looked it up quite extensively. It looks great. It looks like a a nice thing. So when you get that out and go, "Oh, he's got they kind of go, "Ah, that's nice." And he does talk you through it. It comes with a stickers and that looks like one of those proper seals. It is actually sealed with a sticker. Or he tells you how to do it with a proper wax thing, which I love the idea of. So you open it up. There'll be video footage. I've done it loads and close up. Now, I still don't do it very well. I'm still a bit fumbly, but I get away with it. Um, and instead of kind of just ripping it up, you show the seal. they've signed a card obviously. Well, not necessarily obviously depending on how long you've been in the game, it goes from the deck and instead of opening up and it all because that can be really messy. It can take people ages or you do it and you start peeling and then they peel off the special peely thing. I think that's what it's called. And then they obviously think you're going to take the card out and you go like this. You show a second on the envelope really clearly and they they pull the thing off anyway, but they it's all in their hands. They undo it. They look in they pull out the next one and they so often get which now no they got to undo say you don't have to do it. Turn it round. And this is the lovely thing. So the detail so far up to this point is the fact it looks brilliant. mostly they're doing everything. Especially that last couple of moments where actually you do it all. You kind of walk away and it's such a lovely feeling that you they do. Oh, I've left my phone and that's really annoying. I hope it don't ring and and they turn it over. Everything looks beautiful. Everything looks great. Everything looks solid. The color everything just classy, right? But not over classy. It's important, right? If it's too much, it's a bit bling. It's a bit desperate. and they go and they turn it over and there's a a window like a plastic see-through sort of cellophane window and their card is locked, you know, totally sealed. Their signature is on the card facing out and they get to keep that as a giveaway. Now, that's a lovely thing because yes, I know that we all get that thing and people say, "I've still got that card after years." But you give them that and they're going to have more than the card. They're going to have it sort of presented in a nice thing in a kind of unusual thing. An envelope with a w that's quite unusual anyway that big and it's all sealed in there and they'll have it and they'll be showing their friends and they'll go, "Look, you can't get in there. It's completely sealed." So, this has got so much going for it. All the other stuff that you're going to want to know. Is it easy? Yes. Are you going to be able to do it straight away? Yeah. I mean, I I did did it quite badly a few times. I just wanted some footage and still totally got away with it. Um, that's not the goal. Practice it more than that. This is just for the sake of review, but now I'm getting more and more comfortable with it. It's fine. Um, there's a couple of things you're going to need to know that some of you might go, but it's all good. The what was I going to say? Yeah. Is it easy? Angles are not a problem at all. Absolutely no problem at all. closeup. It's perfect for closeup. I think parlor as well. Now, Axel said he did make this for close-up. He wanted that giveaway thing and it's totally versatile. Now, it's a big old thing that as well, and he's he's thought of everything. He gives you this kind of it looks just like a bit of card but what it does when it's in your pocket it will prop the envelope up to the height of your jacket so that when you go in you if you've got other things in your pocket refills of this or whatever you don't get it mixed up with all them but importantly it's a lot higher than everything else. So that's I didn't use it for a bit because I thought it's kind of sticking out of my pocket as well but it's brilliant. It just makes it so much smoother and easier and it's great. So he thought of all those things. He gives you everything. It gives you the things to make things up. The glue, the the stickers, you've got it all. Now, so some of you may get this and go, "You shouldn't. You really shouldn't." Or you may find out the next thing I'm going to say and go, "You shouldn't worry about that either." Depending I'm not saying you shouldn't, but depending on what the use is for this. The first thing is you can't just make this out of any old envelopes. When you put this together, you'll see how much there is so much in this. It's not just, oh, he's made three in a little shoot or something like that. No, it's it's he he's made sure that when they open it, it's going to be totally sealed. You could leave it for weeks and weeks and weeks and not worry about it. They can't mishandle it. There's not really any audience management required. It's foolproof pretty much. Pretty much. pretty once you've got it in there. You don't need to do a palm. He goes for a reason to about that. But you have to it uses a specific envelope. So when you get the starter pack, you get So I got the next bit wrong. I haven't even done me air yet and it's nearly 3:00. This is how hard I work. You see, I've been sitting here slaving away. The starter pack, I digress. you you get 35 envelope sets. So 105 envelopes or whatever. Um but you get 35 sets so you can do the trick 35 times with all the glue and all that stuff. That will kind of a lot of that last you for the next bit. Then you can buy a refill pack. Now that is €9. Then the refill refill refill pack is €140 and that's for 70 more sets. Listen on. But then after that when you run out you're going to have to buy them. Now those of you that do liquid forks, those of you that do card tricks where you rip cards up, you know, anything like that, you you got to make that judgment of is it worth it? Now, even if I did it at every table, it would still last me a while. And I'm a professional magician. Therefore, I look at the price of that and I go, is it worth doing the gig if you wanted to? You could bang another bit of money on the gig and nobody would really, you know, care if it was, you know, you work it out on average, you're going to get your money back. But the important thing is you've got this giveaway. Now, you can put your business card in there as well. You could put a note in there. You could put something else in there. You could write something on the back of it, which I was actually I was writing my name and on the back of it I'd say, "Do you want me to write on it?" And they so they've got your name so they can look you up. So, and that they're going to show people. So, the work the potential work that is generated from this and they work out I think about €2 an envelope. So, even if you just wanted to do them at the top table and Axel says, "No, he does it everywhere." And and I think I would not maybe every single table, but if someone looked a bit flash, I might do that. But you've got your other giveaways like your forks if you do that and they I think work out about the same price and it's a lot. You don't give one of them forks away as a giveaway which I know you're supposed to do. They all put them in their pocket and they're going to you know it's a harder one to go for whether this is is just something they could potentially carry around and I know a lot of people do that with cards. So you got to make that judgment. I think and I'm not just saying this it is totally worth it if I'm doing gigs like I was going out to Maldes a couple of a year. I take loads of them because those people have got a bit of cash and I'm happy to give them that so they remember me and it's an opener for a conversation. I'll put my name on the back of it and if you want to look at my Instagram account, you know, all that kind of thing, you can do that in a in a kind of respectful way. So, loads and loads and loads of potential. I really like this. I didn't think I was looking for another card to envelope, but it's just so clean. It's so beautiful. But it gives you a nice routine that is more than just a ambitious card which has got a few subtleties in it which I think are great. If you're worried about palming and that don't if you think about it you're old in the cards there you got to go there even if you palm badly like I do sometimes but you haven't got to palm there's like I said lots of different ways of of doing this. There is another version of this which I haven't looked at yet where instead of getting the card in the envelope you can get like an add-on thing where it's like a something you open up and read out and their ring or a coin with of a signature on it is like in a little envelope sort of stuck to that as you give it. So sealed as well. So but I purposely haven't looked at that. I want to play with that. But I have used this professionally now. I've taken it out. I've performed it. I've performed it to people that have seen me a lot long a lot of times that have seen the card in envelope or the ringing envelope before and this just feels like a different thing. It's not I'm saying it's not better. It kind of is in one way. But there are there are tradeoffs. But for those of you that are professionals or they're going to last you a very long time if you're not a pro, you want to get work to do this to get work I think is a great thing as well. Maybe people put it up, you know, if you go into a bar put it up there and you know it's a nice keepsake. I'm not just saying this to oversell it. I've done all these things and they really work. You know, it's very very powerful. Um, and I think it's brilliant. So, the I think that's all I've got to say. Any questions you've got. Oh, and the arts and crafts, that's really important. You have got to make them up. Now, it did take me when he talks you through it and he talks you through it in detail, detail, detail. Like I said, he gives you everything you need. It's not messy because it uses these special glue things. It's it's all very, very clever. When you make the first one, it takes quite a while because I was like, I don't want to get this up. Once I've made two or three, I just know exactly what I was doing. It was so much quicker. I became more confident. So, it's not messy arts and crafts and everything comes in the start. You're not going to need anything at all. No, you're not. So, and I really enjoyed it. I love doing that because actually you learn the workings of it as you're doing it and you get to understand the trick a bit more and understand why it works. I couldn't work out at the beginning. It was so or seemed so much in it. So, there you go. Well, axle head clouds knocked it out of the park again with something I didn't think I needed and now I can't do without. And I mean that. Sealed free is well worth it. Look, look at all this stuff. Go to the links below if you like. And there's no affiliation. I don't get any money for this. Um, if you if you like good quality magic that is commercial and you can perform, do have a look at Axel Axel stuff. And incidentally, I'm the most thing I'm spending my time on now, the thing I'm most spending my time on even is my linking ring routine. And that was inspired by Axel 2. So, his linking ring master class is stunning. So, have a look at that. Silent uh silent rings. So, there you go. I'll stop talking now. This has been about three and a half hours. If you're still here, well done. Like and subscribe if you like it and you want to subscribe to it. Check out onlinemagic.co for all the reasons I've said. Read the Trustpilot reviews. It really is very special, I reckon. But I'm biased. Have a look at it. Steve Thornton's Magic Show podcast. Please subscribe to that. Don't just listen to it, share it. And Instagram at Steve Falner. That will do. Thanks very much. Have a great one. Bye. [Music]