2 reviews for Mystery Blox by PropDog, Steven Macrow, Nicholas Dakin
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Andy Martin –
For almost twenty years I have been performing John Kennedy’s amazing and beautiful Mystery Box. I’ve purchased every variation of John’s box that came along and also many other Card to Box variations. But to this day I still prefer John’s version (I use Mystery Box II, but all of the early ones have pretty much the same impact). The Mystery Box is perfect in almost every way, and I have not wanted for more. So when this new version came along from Dave Bonsall’s Propdog I didn’t really expect anything to change. Boy was I wrong …
What a clever idea filled with significant improvements over every previous version I’ve seen. Using legos is such a good idea because they look so innocent and normal. Even though no one has ever commented on the Mystery Box not looking normal, clearly it is a special box. But making a box out of legos in front of the audience and then tipping out their signed card from the lego box a few minutes later is simply beautiful and a genius idea too. Mystery Blox will be the version of this effect I use going forward.
Really amazing stuff from PropDog, Steven Macrow, Nicholas Dakin, this is just perfect, thank-you so much for bringing it to the community 🙂
Andy Martin –
Since 2019 the Mystery Blox as been my version of choice. But sadly I have gone back to John Kennedy’s Mystery Box II due to reliability issues.
I was practicing with the Mystery Blox this holiday season and the gimmick came apart unexpectedly. I replaced it which was relatively smooth. However, my Mystery Blox has never been the same. I tried it on some friends and it went drastically wrong twice. I even tried a brand new box from PropDog and had the same issues.
It is true if you really work it in you should be fine, however the more you work it in the less life the gimmick has, so now you are stuck between a rock and a hard place. If you work it in too little it can fail you, and if you work it in too much it will also fail you by breaking on you when you least expect it.
So as much as I love this box and idea it certainly can be more unpredictable than the original Mystery Box and as a result I have now switched back to as my go to set: https://www.martinsmagic.com/allmagic/cards/mystery-box-ii-by-john-kennedy/ . I just don’t have the time or inclination to deal with issues that can arise with this box.