In this book the teams that have been employed by Jonas (an evil magician) compete against each other to get the items that he needs. When a team loses the kids in that team would vanish. I liked this idea because it made the story more intense, and harder for the characters.
When they had the second challenge it was violent. The kids with tanks powers threatened people a lot. The tank powers gave the kids super strength and durability. The tanks accidentally break or twist a girls ankle, but they don't hurt much more than that. They just act and talk violent.
Closer to the beginning Summer, Nate, Trevor, and Pigeon find out that John (a police man that keeps the magicians under control) and Mozag (a powerful good magician) have disappeared. They then go to arcade land to investigate and find something out of the ordinary.
They find that four stamps are worth the most tickets. The stamps are a tank, race car, submarine, and jet. Only four kids can inherit each stamp and will get to enjoy an unlimited supply of them. They will also get to join a special club.
Thinking that they'll be able to gather important information and bust John and Mozag out, the kids start earning tickets for stamps. While earning their tickets they meet Roman, who is also earning tickets for a stamp. He claims his friends told him that the stamps are awesome, and encouraged him to earn one.
Roman and Nate have a few competitions with a basketball game, and Nate wins two of them with the help of magical candy. Roman tells Nate that if he and his friends earn enough tickets for a stamp, they shouldn't take the last two slots for the jet stamp, because he wants to be with his friends. Roman is helpful by giving Nate hints on how to earn more tickets playing games.
Then later in the story when Roman becomes a tank he also becomes violent. He no longer is nice to Nate. He isn't nice to his friends Chris and Risa either. His personality really changed.
One thing I didn't like is that Nate and his friends carelessly used magic candy to get tickets faster. The thought even occurred to them that the owners would be suspicious of them earning so many tickets so quickly, and winning big almost every game. I thought it was just dumb when they still continued, not trying to cover up. I think that Brandon Mull should have changed this part.
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