Evolution Wallet by Javier Fuenmayor.

Hi, welcome to Real Magic Review. We're going to talk about the Evolution Wallet, Evolution Wallet, evolution probably here. This has divided people, but has it divided me? Let's find out. Before we go on, like if you like it, subscribe to it if you want to subscribe to it, and please go to stevefaulkner.com forward slash newsletter, stevefaulkner.com forward slash newsletter. Please go there so I can let you know when I do all the different things, like podcasts. I've got a corker going out, Mark Paul this week. That's a good one. Another one, Valik Kirk soon, and I'm recording a very special one tomorrow. So stevefaulkner.com forward slash podcast. But if you go on the newsletter, you will know all about those things. I won't promise. I won't promise. I won't spam you. Promise that wasn't Freudian. And I've just released my Royal Road course. Release it. I cannot talk today. This is going to be fun. 400 videos. Years of my life. I went nuts making it. So if you could have a look at that, that'd be lovely. SteveFaulkner.com forward slash Royal Road. It's a bargain, I reckon. So, this is not going to be an in-depth review, this does so much, I'll be here all day, it covers it on the trailer, this long extended trailer, with Javier kind of going to work and doing it all and making it all, and I'm very proud of this, my face, and it's a big release, but it has divided people, I've seen numerous and very conflicting Reviews is the wrong way to put it, comments, whatever. So I'm going to just give you my overall thoughts on this. So first of all, it does an awful lot. Again, if you look at the trailer, it does switches, visual switches, visual kind of loads, peaks, transpose, visual transformation. It's kind of a switch wallet. It's a card to wallet. It does all of those things. But as we know, Sometimes the more things something does, it kind of can spread itself too thin. Is this the case here? So first of all, its main uses, there's kind of the base unit, which is with two extra things you can kind of use with this. You can choose to use it or not. One is called a visualizer, I think. I might be having a mental block. It wasn't long ago I watched a tutorial. And there's this kind of... sort of visual switching or appearance device so you can switch cards you can make it look like you put the wallet down lift it up and there's money under it that's appeared from nowhere and it all looks really good i will say that it does do those things and it does them well and there's no you know um deception there other than deception there has to be with magic but it does do it well and i can't fault it for that If you want to do those things you're going to be able to do them they're going to take varying amounts of practice which we will also talk about. So first of all at the most basic level does it work as a card to wallet? Yeah it works really well as a card to wallet. Now I have been people that have compared it a lot to the RFID wallet which I don't I sort of get but it's a different thing. The peak with this is the card to wallet by the way just going back to that card load is It's pretty easy. You've got to... You know if you don't watch the whole tutorial it does say to load it with some cards to kind of stretch the leather a bit and I've got the real leather version of the vegan leather version and after that it does work a lot better so that's not a problem. Again going back to the comparisons I think you've got to treat this as a separate thing really because they've built so much into it. So the peak I really like I suppose it does it is a similarity to how you can get that peak with the Orphic but the thing about this is it doesn't look like a wallet that opens that's not a good or bad thing but it can potentially be stronger because it looks like it's a solid unit so if when you put it in there there's no way it's not like a bifold is what we call it um wallet or is that the zed one I don't know no that's the Zed Fold probably isn't it Steve yes So there is that. So the peak is very deceptive and he goes through lots of different peaks and I do like that. I like the fact that you can put it down and it looks like nothing's been opened and you've got the information. It is genuinely fooling when you see him do it. It looks really solid and I think that's great. So the card to wallet, the peak, they're the two things that a lot of wallets can do and it does them very well. Just to interrupt you for a minute so we can keep doing this, here is a word from our very, very lovely sponsor. Then you've got this kind of visual transformation. Now that can look really good. If the wallet's really loaded up with cards you may have a few issues because of the way it works but just don't overload it. So that way that's all the base unit stuff and again I'm not going to go through all of the different things that does but then we've got the added accessories so the thing you get which is kind of switching thing where you can put the wallet down put it over it or just wave it over something and something changes and very many things it's Because it's kind of David Stone Tool-esque. That's all I'll say. And I think that's great as well. The way the brain works when you do that, if you're not used to it, you might think people may see something, but if you think where the eyes are drawn, you can take the wallet away, everything that's completely fair, as long as you don't hang around too long. And that works really well, and I've enjoyed playing with that. I've got no footage of this because so many people have been asking me, so I thought it's going to be another month before I get through everything and practice everything. Would I take it out to work with it? Without a doubt, no problem at all. I wouldn't do everything, but I would use this without a problem. And of course, because it's a smaller wallet than some of the card wallets, you can use your trouser or pants pocket. Don't use your pants pocket in the UK, you'll become arrested. But that's all again, very, very solid. The thing I think maybe people are kicking back about is this visualizer. There's two things about this. One of them is fine, one of them I think could have done with a bit of work. Some of the ways of using it I think are quite convoluted in method, not in the way they're presented. And that's fine if you know what you're doing, but when you're talking about kind of, you know, a kind of cop whilst you're doing a convincing control and things like that, with me, when I'm getting into that level of sleight, that level of sleight of hand, I would probably do that without the wallet. The wallet for me is something. to add on to a routine or to use and do a bit of the work for me and when you're putting so much work into it only some of these moves you that's going to take a lot of practice now that's just a personal thing i'm sure and i've read that some have been using it like that and it looks great and works great and when Javier is performing it he does it very well and again if you just If you just watch the trailer, you'll see a lot of those things. Now there's a kind of load that can occur with this visualizer which I think to do in the pocket is quite challenging it's not an easy thing to do. I love difficult things it's not a problem I'm probably not going to spend the time doing it but if you do I'm sure it'll be fine but it's just pretty fiddly in real time and again for me I do like the effect but when you there's another thing about using the wallet as well It's nice when the wallet, it's your wallet, right? So it's not a big thing. When you use it for so many effects, I'm not saying you do them, you obviously wouldn't do them one after the other. Or maybe you would, I don't know. But I don't like drawing too much of attention, but it's fine, visualise it whenever you do, do one of these visual changes, brilliant, and then it goes away. And I think some of the routines feel like they're kind of at the end of the day going, what else can we do with it? Again, it's not a problem because there's enough in it that isn't that. Sometimes I think less is more and it can become a little bit overwhelming for someone to watch and go you know where do I start. So the difficulty in using that, not with everything, it can be easy with some things and I do like this this lovely thing of you know having the wallet here and doing this and it's changed into a different card or change something it's brilliant that isn't too bad actually that's something that I think you know we could do but you've still got to be accurate you've got to be spot on there. So for me, that's the only thing and the thing with the, I hope it's called the visualizer because I keep saying it, is that whenever sellotape's involved and things like that, I just look at it and go, it could have been a little, had a bit more of a permanent feel. The rest of it looks great and it feels a little bit like there could have been a bit more time spent on just... Sorting that out, the sort of the construction of it, because I think certain things are going to have to be refreshed and replaced. And again, that's fine. It does a lot. Right. So, you know, I'd like to see the positive. I like not to say because of this, it's if I bought it and that was the case, I'd be a bit like, oh, that could have been a bit better. But and I wasn't I would send this to review, you know, total honesty. But I think I'd be I'd be happy with all the things that aren't that. With the amount it does I think maybe that could have been something that either was a bit more constructed or yeah that's pretty much it. I was going to say well they could have done a bit less of it but nobody's lost anything have they by having too much you know you know we're all right we just don't have to do it all. So do I think it's awful like some people have said? Absolutely not, it's totally not. I think other than that bit which I don't think is greatly constructed or very well constructed but it's fine, it's going to work, you just might have to faff around with it every now and then. The rest of it I think is great. Now I haven't taken this out and worked it in a hundred times so that's that but I've had a good look at it and a good test of it and it I can't see any problem the zippers fine it's you know sometimes when you get super cheap zippers that seems fine the switching device I think is good that's a really nice thing um you can you know show that there's a joker in there do a transpo and the joker's turned into their cards and the joker's gone from there and ends up in the pack I think that's really solid stuff right it's really good so I suppose the point of this without waffling even more than I usually do is that I think this does enough. even with those things of going that could have been a bit better but you need to know that because you might buy this to do that and if you're going to do that which is some of the stuff I've talked about in the trailer you're going to have to work at it a fair bit it's not you know going to do most of the heavy lifting for you but I think it's a solid thing again not ultra ultra tested they are my initial thoughts I've sat with it I've played with it I've struggled with the bits that I've struggled with. But if you've already got a wallet that does most of that stuff, you might want to think about it. But if you want a wallet that gives you that flexibility, I think it's pretty solid. But I'd love to hear your thoughts, you know, disagree with me or agree with me. That's better. But either way, please put them in the comments. And when I get enough, I can do a live session and answer your questions. So there you go. Thanks very much. That is. From Javier Fuenmayor, I think that's how you say it, isn't it? Fuenmayor. I just looked at it to get the pronunciation. But I apologise, Javier, if I said that wrong. What I do know is that he's put a lot of work into it, and you can see that. So there you go. Give me your thoughts. Go to SteveFaulkner.com forward slash newsletter, please. And I'll give you some info and no spam promise. And OnlineMagic.co is my membership. And SteveFaulkner.com forward slash Royal Road is my... 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