Quidditch (the board game)

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"Got a question for you--has anyone played the board game 
Quidditch?  Doug & I bought it, brought it home, & played it 
tonight.  It's soconfusing that we couldn't even finish."

"On the same note, I have heard that the "Mystery at Hogwarts" was
equally hard to play...hmmm...were they even tested with children?"

"Mystery at Hogwarts" is very difficult - like Cluedo but slightly 
more complicated.  Our youngest, who is 8, found it too hard to grasp 
the first time and now has to play in a team with someone else.  It 
isn't ideal. The trivia game is excellent though - especially if you 
get the 
prefect edition.  The whole thing is beautiful, especially as there 
aren't any character pictures to spoil it."

Where is all this merchandise coming from??  I've seen only a tiny 
fraction of all the stuff that's been mentioned in my local WB store 
(which, btw, is right across from a Disney Store - the staff can 
throw things at one another across the atrium in the middle of the 
mall) ... but anyway.  I have a feeling a lot of it simply isn't 
available in the UK, and never will be, if they're really going 
through with this threat to close all the Studio Stores (my local has 
already cut its trading space in half - and last year was getting by 
running Pokemon trading sessions on Saturday mornings) we won't ever 
get to see half of it.

Question - isn't this slightly unfair.  They're British books after 
all ... why aren't we getting all this cool stuff?

Or am I missing something fundamental here ...

Oh well ... the only thing I actually want out of that rather 
lacklustre collection is the Platform 9 3/4 bookends.  All the rest 
is shoddy corporate bully-boy type art.  Still, it *would* be nice to 
be able to see it.

Al
*where schnoogling happens a lot, and we think Nancy Stouffer is hot*