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March 5, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Gaming
Wizards Unite: what do we know?
Some more tantalising tidbits about the impending Wizards Unite mobile game have been released in an interview with Warner Bros CEO Kevin Tsujihara.Rumours of a mobile Harry Potter game had been circulating for a while when the game’s official Facebook page launched in November 2017 with scant information. And then all went quiet until the first trailer was released a year later. What did it tell us apart from a vague release date of 2019? Well, it seems players will be ‘enlisted’ to help the Ministry of Magic protect the Statute of Secrecy and keep the wizarding world from being exposed
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February 5, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Books and reading
Book or Bonanza? Is your Philosopher’s Stone worth a fortune?
Dust off those well-thumbed, early editions: they could be worth a whole lot of galleons!On a recent episode of The Antiques Roadshow – yet to be aired in Australia – two Harry Potter Books were valued at around £3000 (over $5000) and only one of them was a first edition.In the early days after we opened Quizzic Alley, we hadn’t yet received our first order of books so I gathered up all my old Harry Potter books and put them on display at the shop. “At least visitors will be able to see a book,” I explained to Nearly Legless
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January 30, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Categories: Schools and teaching, Style
10 ideas to make your classroom truly magical
There’s nothing more magical than a Harry Potter inspired classroom. At Quizzic Alley, we know all about decorating a room! Here’s our top ten tips for creating a spell-binding classroom.NUMBER 1 – THEMED ENTRYA themed entry is perfect for setting the scene. Grab a sponge and some paint and a large piece of paper or calico. Use the sponge to create a brick effect for a convincing Platform 9¾ experience. Check out this one from Paper Trail Design.Give the door a stone-effect archway through which wizards can make a grand entrance. Try Hover Dad Incorporated.There are some awesome full-door stickers
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January 7, 2019
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Films and theatre
Cursed Child for $40 – Siriusly!
You can now get tickets to see The Cursed Child for a very mweasley $40.This will come as welcome news to those who overspent on Yule pressies. Thanks to The Friday Forty, you could save up to $250 per person to see the two parts. That’s Ravenclawesome!But there is a catch. Isn’t there always? It’s not just a simple matter of ringing up and booking at this amazing discounted rate. Nope, this is a lottery where a limited number of winners are drawn at random. And, as there are only 40 tickets raffled off per performance, it may be time
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December 20, 2018
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Shop news
Give a little magic!
Flummoxed when it comes to the perfect Christmas present? Need some new ideas? Quizzic Alley has the answer.Just delivered – these awesome, magical gift vouchers, just perfect for the wizard in your life.Choose any value for the voucher and just pop it in the Christmas card. Accio present! Ssoo good, sssooo easy!
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December 19, 2018
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Shop news
We love our car!
Is the car real? Where did you get it? How did you get it in the store? Does it have an engine? Can we get in it? Is it OK to take photos?The magical car is a hit with wizards of all ages. Remember to tag your shared photos using #quizzicalleymagicWe get asked these questions all the time. We do our best to answer them:Yes the car is real. Sadly, the owl inside is not… at least we think it’s not. It may just be very very still…The car came from Goulburn. A wise old wizard owned it for a
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December 19, 2018
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Giving back
In honour of little Lexie
Nearly Legless Mick – owner of Quizzic Alley, Canberra’s very own wizarding store – is donating funds raised through in-store events to Cerebral Palsy ACT in honour of his cousin Lexie.Lexie suffered a catastrophic brain injury in utero and was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy. She lived for nine months with the support of her amazing family and the Cerebral Palsy Alliance (CPA).Mick’s cousin Lexie. Photo by Shelley Mills Photography.Her mum Melissa Agius set up a charity after discovering that CPA was supporting the family using charity funds. “It was a super steep learning curve and we simply couldn’t have managed without
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December 14, 2018
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Books and reading
Storytime at Quizzic Alley
The Kids will love Storytime in our magical Alchemy Classroom. And, while they’re transfixed by Harry Potter, you can have some ‘me’ time or do your Christmas shopping in peace and in secret.Nearly Legless Mick reads Harry Potter classics to apprentice wizardsGenevieve Jacobs and Tim Gavel (both former ABC journalists) are among those will lend their hand at story-telling with books including Harry Potter and the Philospher’s Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and The Tales of Beedle the Bard.Nearly Legless Mick, a Paralympic champion in his non-magical life and owner of Quizzic Alley, is also trying his
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October 12, 2018
- Posted by: Professor Penelope Presto
- Category: Shop news
Visitors come from all over
QuizzicAlley – Canberra’s very own shop specialising in all things wizarding and with the biggest range of official Harry Potter merchandise in NSW/ACT – has been open just one month and owner Michael Milton is working day and night to keep up with demand.The Ford Anglia inside the store is popular with wizards of all ages.“It’s been amazing. Thousands of people from Canberra and as far away as Sydney, Newcastle and Wagga have visited us since we opened on 12 September. We realty didn’t anticipate the demand and sold out of some products in the first few days.“We had planned
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