Reviews of products by James William Elliott
1 ★★★★★ reviews
Elliott's Last Legacy
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by Gregg Webb (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Sunday 03 May, 2026)
Somebody might like this, but my impression is that the items described seem like Rube Goldberg inventions to me, and besides the fact that I don't like a lot of apparatus in my magic, I don't think these would actually work in a real-world, practical way. The old magazines called these things "pipe dreams", meaning that if you smoked some opium first, you might like these apparatuses better, or maybe that the person doing the inventing was high on something when they thought of them. In any case, that phrase is not a compliment, and unfortunately, because they need props that don't exist, one can't even try the tricks out without having a working machine shop at hand and the ability to make the odd props. Truth be told, I was expecting more card tricks and practical ones.
Elliott's Last Legacy
Overall customer rating: ★★★★★reviewed by jordan Byrd (confirmed purchase)
Rating: ★★★★★ (Date Added: Monday 08 December, 2025)
Picked this up because it was described as a classic read. Good info. Dated. Nice section on theory and presentation. A bit hard to follow at times, but easily worth the cost of admission.