[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Quidditch (the board game)

[Riet Strijker]

Hello all,
The only thing I saw recently was in a bookshop, some little notebooks with pics of "Harry" in front. I didn't see games or other HP-related stuff. Now I know that I live in a small town in the Netherlands, and I can blame this on the size of the town and of course for the fact that we, Dutch people, are a bit too down to earth. But sometimes I'm wondering, isn't HP being taken over by (hostile) commerce?
Correct me please, if I'm misstaken.
Riet 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: hamster8 at hotmail.com 
  To: HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:29 AM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: 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*


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