"The Flat Pack appearance was pure eye candy, then Jason pulled the cards out of it and I could have punched him it was so good!!"
- Ben Williams
"This is the ultimate 'Packs Small, Plays Big' effect!"
- Eric Jones
"I've seen a lot of gimmicks out there. Some are ingenious but fragile. Others are sturdy but limited. Flat Pack is one of the few that has the best of both worlds: strong gimmick for strong effects."
- Jeremy Griffiths
Created by the genius behind "Double Take," Jason Knowles created Flat Pack to be a surrealistic visual opener and closer that gets you in and out of your set with flair.
Imagine
showing your spectators a neatly folded tuck case pulled from your
wallet. With one move, the folded case expands from a crimped piece of
cardboard to a fully functional box of playing cards. What's even more
impossible to comprehend is that all 52 playing cards are kept
flawlessly inside!
Flat Pack turns the ordinary action of
pulling out and putting away a deck of cards into an impossible moment.
Clearly the box is folded into quarters. Clearly it couldn't possibly
fit a full deck of cards. And yet clearly it somehow does exactly that!
Finally,
when you've wow'd them with enough overly ambitious or extraordinarily
triumphant enough card magic, you simply take your cards, place them
back in the tuck, fold it back up into your wallet, and wait as your
audience gasps and stares at your final miracle. It's impossible for
them to understand how those cards fit in that folded case. It's even
more impossible for them to forget that moment of magic that you've just
created.
What you receive in your box of Flat Pack: