Mike Hammer with a Magic Wand
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Harry Dresden, an odd person in his own right, hunting weird things down and such. In this tome, someone is hunting Harry more often than he is hunting them, and it leads places he does not want to go.
Well paced, humourous, campy and very well described as 'Mike Hammer with a Magic Wand', Harry Dresden is the penultimate private detective.
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This Air hammer is very good for the money! Seems to be very well built and have decent power. And if you want to make it even better you can get a quick attach from Mac for 65.00. Im very impressed with it for the money!
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My 10 year old son loves this wand. The lighting effects are very cool. He loves the way he can "magically" make the light come on with just a snap. You do have to be careful when storing it to make sure the light is off!
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Nothing like a little slight of hand to stir the excitement juices.  But when four magicians--aided by a mysterious and anonymous third party--come together to rob a French bank, the FBI comes calling, and the charms and outright fun of NOW YOU SEE ME come to the forefront.  Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher (wolf howl), and Dave Franco play the magicians; naming themselves the Four Horsemen, they rob the French bank doing a show in Las Vegas, steal all the money in their greedy benefactor's (Michael Caine) bank account in New Orleans (distributing over $140 million to the audience), and pull off the climatic show in New York by stealing a safe from a corrupt manufacturer containing half a billion dollars.  All the while a debunker of magic shows (Morgan Freeman) continues to warn the FBI Agent in charge of the investigation (Mark Ruffalo) and his Interpol counterpart (Melanie Laurent) that law enforcement is being set up for the ultimate comeuppance.  Yet there is a surprising (and very satisfying) plot twist showing ultimately who gets played the fool.  Accordingly the four magicians join the Eye, the metaphysical level for elite practitioners where magic really is magic.

This is one fun romp.  The pacing and plot and acting are all fast and furious, as the Four Horsemen are always one step ahead of their pursuers.  And it's a good thing NOW YOU SEE ME gets out of the gate and moves; if it slowed down where the viewer can actually think about the plot and how the "magic" is performed, the movie would unravel in a heartbeat.  Thankfully such is not the case here, making NOW YOU SEE ME a thrilling, entertaining, and very fun ride.  Highly recommended.
--D. Mikels, Esq.
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the spiritual successor to the Maverick Rev 6 is finally here. Forget about the strongarm.

now if only it had one handed priming like the Hammershot.

Still, interestingly enough, megas fired from this whistle better than from the Magnus. Not sure why.
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love the gun, buy the wands to go with it did a nice job on all my cars
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The item needs continued manipulation to perform as depicted.
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I picked up the new Nerf Zombie Strike Hammershot pistol the other day.  The box said it was a Target exclusive.  It comes with 5 neon green darts.  There is no logo on the darts like there are on the pack of zombie refill darts.

The gun itself feels good in the hand, and shoots the darts remarkably far.  Much farther than the regular 6 shot revolver.  Seems like the accuracy went down lot though.  Darts seem to fly all over, but still a lot of fun.

The barrel spins freely by hand which makes reloading easy.  Cocking the hammer back is what actually revolves the cylinder to the next dart for firing.

You can hold down the trigger, and "fan" the gun to shoot all 5 darts quickly, but in general you won't get near the distance for each dart that normal firing gives you.

I lent it to my 6 year old to try out.  He had a bit of difficulty cocking it without having his finger on the trigger.  In general this is probably easier for larger hands.

All in all, a really fun gun with a cool theme.
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This is a great wand! When I took it out of it's box the first this I realized was it was much thicker than the real wand, to hold the batteries, and was made of plastic.
At the bottom of the wand there is a little slot, were you stick a key and that is how you insert the batteries. Of of the leaf designs is popped out, and is a button that so make the light on the wand increase and decrease with a touch. To get the light on you simply wave the wand. To turn it of you wave it again. It is incredibly fun to play with, and could be used as a flashlight. But, the light is EXTREMELY sensitive to any movement and can turn on. The detail is also superb, it may not be the best replica, but it's definitely a fun toy!
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WalMart was giving these away today for under $22 so I picked one up without knowing anything about it. Got home and checked out the Amazon reviews, so that motivated me to move on out to the back yard and check out this axe's performance on some old sycamore that had so far resisted the best efforts of man or machine.

Well, the reviews were right -- it's more like a magic wand: just wave it and the wood gets split. No work at all, but lots of fun watching the wood almost split itself, even in hot sunshine.  Will now be clearing the whole backlog of splitting just for the heck of it.

Sharp? Not to the touch, but after one or two passes with a ceramic rod, I scratched my thumb enough to draw blood.  Metal does notch a bit, but it is metal after all.  Length?  Not a problem at all.

All things considered, this really deserves the name "Miracle Tool."  They should make info-mercials about it.  Revolutionary, but hard to say exactly why.  Just does the job by itself. The user points it and goes.
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My grandson had to have a magic wand to do his magic tricks with and this one fits the bill.  He loves it.
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Put Farewell to Steam on your CD player with your remote in hand. Start off at low volume, and as the pressure slowly rises, and the chuff-chuff, slip--chuffchuff-chuff of the pistons gains speed and meaningful  rhythym,crank the volume ever louder until you'll swear there IS as  railroad running through the middle of your house--as the throaty roar of  the engine's whistle pierces your living room, don't be surprised if  neighbor kids come to the door, asking, "What is that? " Sure hit  with railfans of all ages, and a curiosity for folks under the age of 35,  who've never experienced the real thing.  The above method is also  surefire for waking slug-abeds for whom an alarm clock is a mere annoyance.  (I know. This recording, in a previous incarnation, was used by my parents  for that very purpose.)
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Very nice little hammer.  Was what I had hoped for.  Seems solid with good weight, appearance and function.  I bought one each for my four small grandsons as the starting point for their future tool sets.  The were excited and enthusiastically hammered away on a small birdhouse project.  A great time for all of us.
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This has to be one of the finest of the Hammer collection. Lee is piercing in his role as the Duc De Richelieu. There are occultists galore and it's up to Lee and his pal to save the son of a friend and his lover from the  eternal grip of the creepiest villan Hammer studios ever unleashed.  You  must see this movie in widescreen! The visual created by director Terrence  Fisher, of the English countryside, will give you a warm fuzzy until the  final clash between good and evil.
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Excellent hammer with exceptional 5 different heads! Clearly marked for which head to use!
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Love it!!!!  You will love it too!!!  Even had the hidden 2 sounds as well!!  Only problem I have with it is you still have to press the button to release the claw!  I wish they would make it more screen accurate to where you can just "flick" the claw open and not have to press a button.  That's just me nitpicking because I'm a Whovian who wants a screen accurate sonic.
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Wand is at the vanguard of an emerging West Coast garage rock scene, along with Thee Oh Sees, Mikal Cronin, Meatbodies, White Fence and together PANGEA.  They would fit in equally well among heavy psych groups like The Entrance Band and Wooden Shjips.  Of all the various recordings those groups have released in recent years, Wand seems to have hit the sweet spot between heavy rock and psychedelic pop with Ganglion Reef.

It's only fitting that Wand's debut was released on Drag City Records (actually God?, a DC imprint), the home of Royal Trux and Bonnie Prince Billy.  This record kind of splits the difference between the two, promising to explore strange new worlds, yet solidly anchored in the organic and familiar.

To my ears, this is early Pink Floyd mixed with 70's glam, 80's sludge rock and 90's shoegaze.  Slowdive, Hawkwind, Amon Duul II, Plastic Ono Band, T Rex and probably dozens of others are echoed in this music, whether intentionally or not.

"Clearer" has a sort of baroque quality to it that's unusual for a band that seems so firmly rooted in garage rock primitivism.  The juxtaposition of glassy synth strings, falsetto vocals and thunderous guitar fuzz can sound a bit unbalanced at times, but they make it work fairly seamlessly.  The synthy knob twiddling sounds like dolphins talking to each other in stuttered squeals.

The song "Growing up Boys", a 70's FM radio-style throwback, trades the sludgy distortion for folky acoustic strumming, while keeping the rest of the formula intact to uncover a different element of their sound.  It reminds me of "Congratulations" by MGMT, or "Space Oddity" by Bowie, and perhaps even Elton John.

It's very similar to Ty Segall, who may have been involved in producing this album, but with a bit more sweetness and melody.  Or perhaps just a different kind of sweetness and melody.

There isn't a whole lot of info posted about this band online, so it seems as if they've literally just sprung up overnight, fully formed and ready to plug themselves into the great vintage pedal board of the collective unconscious.

I first heard them when I saw these guys play at a festival in Oakland over the summer.  They really stood out in a lineup of dozens of artists, including some heavy hitters.  Finally tracked down a copy of the vinyl by attending their small club gig in SF.  It appeared to have been sold out online within days of its release.

The packaging on the vinyl is pretty spare.  The only extra is a single sheet insert with a Tolkien-esque map of Ganglion Reef on one side, and a surreal drawing on the other side that looks like it could have been taken from a splash page in Alan Moore's Swamp Thing.

Anyway, I'm glad I finally got ahold of Ganglion Reef.  I expect good things from these guys in the future.  I may look back at this album 5 years from now and wonder what all the fuss was about, but at this moment there's no question in my mind that this is one of the best rock releases of this year.