Jay Sankey - Creative but not in the ways you think.

There is no doubting that Sankey is clever and creative, but some of his methods of being creative are known by another name. STEALING.

Jay has two marketed effects out that are total rip-offs of tricks that were first sold in the 70's and 80's.

#1 - Killer Key
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Killer key is a very clean transpo effect in which a key placed in one hand changes places with a coin placed in the other.

The clever gaff does all the work for you and the handling and overall effect really is super clean.

However, this effect is not Jay's. He's basically stolen a Roy Baker idea that was being sold back in the 1980's. Here is an ad from a magic magazine back then...

Key Boodle

#2 - Three Ring Circus
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You can see a demo of this at Penguin Magic, and on the demo Jay rants about how he tried to think of a way of making the linking rings make sense, etc. Then he bangs on about how good HIS idea is. In reality he just stole it.

Again here is an advertisement from a magic magazine from the 1980's for a trick called 'Ring-a-ding rings'...


Ring-a-ding

Now Sankey has gone a little way with the presentation, what he does is somewhat better than the routine described in the ad. But does Jay credit poor old Harry Reeve?

Of course Jay has been clever in choosing who to sell the effect through. He's chosen Penguin Magic who have no morals whatsoever and don't give a rats arse about crediting or plain idea theft.

MW.