My opinion?
Stop - Don't purchase anything.
You've got
Dangerous and
Believe on their way and you already own
The Trilogy and
Panic. I'm sure you have a few other items in your posession.
All I'm saying is the stuff you've got on your list is MORE than enough to create a kick-arse routine.
Magic
(in terms of effects) isn't about having the latest and greatest, it's about
BEING the latest and greatest - Your audience doesn't care how much magic you show them, they care about THE magic you show them. I could have all the magic products in the world but I wouldn't know how to use any of them. Armed with nought but a double lift and a double-backer, I've got a miracle in my mind.
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Exempli Gratia
I was in school in one of my frees after a day of lessons and I had my
Banachek PK Sharpie on me. I was just fooling around with it and a small group of people saw it peripherally and asked me what I was doing. I explained how I'd "Been looking into the Uri Geller world [etc. etc]." and I offered to demonstrate with the sharpie.
After about 3 times to prove I wasn't blowing on it, I said I'd try something I'd never done before, turned around and took 5 paces away from the pen. Made my concentrating action and the pen fell inexplicably. They all screamed and asked me to do it again. I said, just once more and coughed deliberately to build suspense. I did it once more and coughed loudly, one person asked me to do it again and because of the way I'd built this up, one other actually said "No don't, look it's hurting him man." I put my pen away and sat back down with a drink.
Successful performance by my standards and for me personally. Overall it was a 10-15 minute performance.
Fin
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Do you see how even though I only did one thing, it was a successful performance in it's own right? Sure having material is good, but you have to settle-down sometimes, stop and just look at what you have and create fantastic magic with it.
Just my $0.02 even though I'm from the UK so technically 1p.
- Sean