It’s our birthday! It’s hard to believe it’s been a whole year since we alohamora’d the door to let that first batch of passionate fans in for the very first time. Since then we’ve welcomed around 100,000 people to Quizzic Alley, from all over Canberra and the region, from interstate and from overseas. Every week […]
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Accio the popcorn because The Crimes of Grindelwald is coming to Netflix this month. All set for its Australian Netflix debut on Friday 13th September, the flick is the second instalment in the Harry Potter spin-off series Fantastic Beasts. It was released in November last year, starring Eddie Redmayne, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, Dan Fogler […]
Planning a trip to the UK next year? Do you remember seeing photos of the Lumos Wand Installation in London, ahead of the release of The Crimes of Grindelwald? It looked quite magical illuminating the City of London near St. Paul’s Cathedral and it’s now on the move. Residents of the UK were invited to […]
Break out your wand and dust off that witches hat– The Great Wizard’s Ball is coming to Canberra. This is your chance to get dressed up to the 9¾ and live your wildest wizarding dreams. Quizzic Alley in Fyshwick is leaving no philosopher’s stone unturned to create a magical and immersive dining experience, complete with […]
The Quizzic Alley online store is finally up-and-running which should be good news to all our fellow Potterheads who live interstate. Shop away like you’re facing almost certain death in the Triwizard Tournament tomorrow but please be patient: there are still some Peeves-like bugs and gremlins we have yet to address. So, if you come […]
Break out the Butterbeer and the chocolate frogs. Hell, we should have us some vomit flavoured jelly beans too! Because the boy who lived, Harry James Potter, turns 39 today. He may be a totally fictional character but every year we celebrate his birthday and, thanks to the happy location of the International Dateline, we […]
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For Harry Potter fans around the world, the time has come. The Statute of Secrecy Taskforce has called on witches and wizards everywhere to save the wizarding world from ‘the Calamity’, by playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. The new game by Niantic (makers of Pokémon Go) officially launched on 21 June, but—thanks to a dose […]
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Sometime in 1999, probably around March and not even two years since Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was first published in the UK, Jo (we were on a first-name basis) was pretty happy. Although she was still relatively unknown in Australia, her book about a boy wizard had won a number of awards in the […]
