January 14, 2025 • 48 mins
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Thanks to our Editor: Tommy
Images of books that are discussed on this episode will be available on Instagram @dialogueallypodcast, as well as DialogueAlley.com and alltheprettybooks.net
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue Alley. Hello everyone,
(00:23):
and welcome to Dialogue Alley, the Official Potter Collector podcast,
where we talk about Harry Potter books, book translations, and
all other things magical. I'm back and I'm Melanie, I'm Kylie.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm Eric, and I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm gonna say I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Good job, aw e cute, still me, still them.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh well, if you're new to our podcast, I've been
gone for a little while because I've been on like
a maternity leap hiatus. But I'm officially back to record
because I've missed everybody so much, and we're Harry Potter
people like we collect Harry Potter books, all different kinds
of Harry Potter books from all over the world, different translations,
(01:09):
different covers.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And today we're having a wingot episode, if you will,
because we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's true, and there's just so much that we that
Carly and I recorded, and Melanie was texting us and
was like, oh, I want to talk about that. I
want to talk about that. Oh I want to talk
about that, And it's like well, let's just do an
episode or all we do is talk about everything that
you missed you were going to talk about, and then
we can get back on track, because really we do
(01:38):
want to hear what you had to say about some
of the things we talked about, and obviously there are
things that happened that I want to talk to you
about too, Like when I saw you a couple months Yeah,
that was going to be.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Where I started. That was going to be where I started.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh Yeah, Eric and I finally met in person for
the first time, which was crazy, and it was so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was so fun. And the funny thing is today's Thursday,
tomorrow's Friday. My uncle and his partner are flying to
New York tomorrow to go to like a few shows,
and they're going to Woa Hops, which is that reality
and I went to so oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
If you like Chinese food and you're in New York
City and you go to Chinatown in New York City,
there's a restaurant called Woe Hop. It is a hole
in the wall place you have to wait in line,
you have to eat in the basement, that's the secret,
and the food comes out fast. It is so good.
And that's where we all eat together.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You need cash money, you need cash money.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You have to have cash money.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And you could also buy a T shirt if you want,
with the pans of bear on it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
My dad bought a T shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
First impression, Eric is a lot taller than I anticipated.
He's like, you're very tall. How can I already see
you sitting down in video chats?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
That's true, Well, it'd be weird if you only saw
me standing would be weird. No, I'm like six feet
with shoes, so I don't think I'm that tall, but
I guess I'm tall.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Taller than your picture on your image.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, it was. It was hard to I don't know.
I just I don't know. You're just tall. That was
literally the first thing I said. I was like, oh
my god, it's so nice to finally meet you in person.
You're so tall.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I should have said yourself short. I would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It was just like awesome, and it just made me
like want to have all of us together, to be together.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We need to do that. It was funny to go do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That well, and it was like Peter was on when
we talked about or I talked about my impressions of
the Harry Potter Store, and I mean, I don't have
to like say it all again, but like I thought
it was okay, like it was cool, but I wish
there was like something more. And I think that's something
more was the VR stuff that they took out, And
(04:06):
so that's that's just kind of where I was like
a little bit let down.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I can understand that. I can understand that completely.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean, I think the differences for me were one,
I was there opening day, so that kind of like
sticks out very like I don't know, like has a
lot of uh like sentimentality to it, I guess because
I was their opening day. And then I also spent
like the first year that the store opened, I went
(04:33):
there probably like once a month, and it was always
so exciting when they had new merch come out and
they redesigned, Like there's one area that they update like
very often with new merchandise and stuff like that. So
like that stuff is really cool. But I will say
what kept me going back as often as I was
was the VR because I would experience it once I
would be like, that was so cool. I have to
(04:53):
do that with this friend I have to do that
with this friend. Now I have to do it with
my husband. Then Peter was in town, I had to
do the VR with him, which that was probably my
favorite one out of all of them.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So yeah, I think hoping.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm hoping that the space they have for the VR,
which one of the spaces is now that photo up
which I told Peter was very underwhelming to me, like
did you do it? I was no. There was one
person getting their picture taken and no line. It just
seemed like everyone else also thought it was just maybe
(05:31):
not the most amazing thing. But I'm I'm hoping that
they like cycle through things that are in that space
and the other VR.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Space well, yeah, they have the whole upstairs space, so
that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm hoping that this photo op thing isn't permanent, that maybe,
like I don't know, in a year or six months
or whatever, they change it to something else, Like it
would be really cool if they kept refreshing things, or
at least kept the one the photo op downstairs photo ops,
and then the upstairs space could like be updated every
so often. Yeah, to be a new experience or something
(06:08):
to give people a reason to go back, especially in
a city like New York, where people like there's so
many tourists go there from all over the world.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So that's a great location too, Like it's in a
really nice.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Spot, but it's not like a tourist destination that people
go to just one and done. Like the people go
there like once a year even, yeah, like once every
few months or so. It would be nice to have
something that continuously updated a little bit to give people
a reason to go back, versus like when I go
to the Nintendo store now in New York, it's like
(06:41):
I go and I see what new shirts they have,
and then I'm like, all right, that was it, and
then I leave, like, yeah, they don't really have anything
like brand new, like a big exhibition or something until obviously,
like Switch two comes out and then they'll be like
a bunch of Switch to stuff. So it's like you
got to go there, But like my last few times
to the Nintendo Store, it's just kind of been the
same old, same old, Like, yeah, I can spend ten
(07:03):
minutes in there and I'm good, and that's that's kind
of how I feel what the Harry Potter Store like
if nothing major changes, like I don't know if I
need to hang out there for hours. It's just kind
of I mean, okay, well what's new. That's it? All right? Well,
that's cool. Off I go.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I mean, the butter beer is really good.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It is really good.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I do go there for that the butter beer, and
then I drink mine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I drank mine on the subway.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, I mean it's good because we were running late.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We always get like they have like butter beer bottles
that you can get, so we usually I'll stock up
on those, Like I like Fizzing Whisby's a lot, so
I'll stock up on those as well anytime we go.
But yeah, you're right, Like, other than that, I feel
like there hasn't been like a big enough draw.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It very much reminded me of like a World of
Disney store or yeah yeah, yeah when those existed. And
obviously that that is perfect. It does exactly what it
needs to do. I think just because the VR thing
was so popular, I had to like impression in my
head that it was just going to be way more
of an experience than just going to US store.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You would have loved the VR.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The VR was just felt more like a store. Yeah, no,
it it felt like a very cool store. Yeah, which
I like.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I did like going to the book airy in the
basement and I was like, that's all the books. Yeah,
come over to my You should come over to my
house and see what I get.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Speaking of books, I got like three. I think I
got like three new books since like we chatted, which
for me is a lot. But again they're like they're
silly books, Like these are silly books. One of them
I got was the twenty fifth anniversary with the sprayed
side Edge.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Which I feel like, I love that one.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I feel like we have to talk about because of
the fact of how much of a fit I threw
over the fact that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Why didn't we just do this from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like this is all I asked for was a sprayed
side edge, and they finally did it, but they had
to mess us around first and give us the ones
without it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Why why Well, Carly.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I talked about that in our like little Midia
episode about the Stencil Book, and it was like it
was exactly that this anniversary it is It's like this
this one was an apology, like, oh, I guess we
should have done something better, And so then they just
came out with just this one, which when Curly and
(09:31):
I talked about just this book, they hadn't announced to
the rest of the set yet, so we're like, how
dumb is this? It still has the spine right that
makes the whole picture, but they only have Book one
with the stencil, and like, why didn't they just do
them all? And then like literally a day after we
dropped the episode, they're like, oh, we're announcing the whole
(09:52):
sets coming out. Were like, of course they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, honestly, that makes me very happy that I didn't
buy the whole set of the original because I only
bought one of the original because I was like, I
hate these and just out of protest, I'll just get
Book one and go from there.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But I might buy them all, but on sale. I
bought them all on sale. I will, but I do
plan on buying the box set with the sprayed edges,
because every sprayed every book looks to have a different
sprayed edge, Like, I think they're going to do it
as big.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I feel like they were.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Using this one to test the waters to see how
is this gonna float? Because the other I think they
figured out. We were kind of upset out. Maybe someone
who has.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The podcast though still because people that are going to
buy the box set of the sprain edge are probably
the ones that already bought Book one, also the ones
that bought Book one without the spray.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
How are people going to know if they're buying the
box set whether or not it has a sprayed side edge,
because it's going to be like in the box They're
going to have to like advertise on the box like, yeah, featured, they.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Show sidedge, they do.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They show the illustration with the whatever has a right now,
it's a cartoon with all seven books showing the sprayed edges,
like a mockup of the sprayed edges, so we can
kind of see that it is this and then it
has the box cover art from the twenty fifth anniversary.
So again, minimal creativity, minimal effort was done, but I
(11:17):
did we're on the right track now, Scholastic, why not hardcover?
I'm just gonna throw that out there.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
But that's not the.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Way Charlie and I concluded. If the only gripe that
we had, like let's say this box set was released
for the twenty fifth anniversary with the sprayed side edge,
and that was it, but it was still soft cover.
Our only gripe would be like, well, I just wish
it was hardcover, but this is pretty great. Yeah, like that,
(11:44):
we would have all agreed that it's great, just maybe
you wish it would have been hardcover. Yeah, but I
wouldn't have even been that disappointed with it if that's
what it was from the get go, right, the fact
that it was just this like tumble steps to get
into finally this full set coming out, like yeah, there's I.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Don't know, you guys know I have wait, yeah, I
have way too many gripes about the whole thing. So yeah,
I got that book, and then I went I have
there are some really cool like antique stores on the
island that like I go to with my parents all
the time, and I'm always looking for Harry Potter books.
Obviously anywhere I go they had. My mom was like,
(12:22):
there's Harry Potter books over here. Like my mom and
dad are very good like that. But my mom called
me over and she was like, look, there's a bunch
of Harry Potter boks. I bet you have them all,
ha ha. And I looked and they had some like
interesting ones that I was like, oh, this is like interesting,
I'm gonna buy these, because like, I just don't it's
not a book that I would see every day. So
(12:42):
one of them I got was this, which is hardcover
Goblet of Fire, no jacket, but it's a large print edition,
which I thought was like just so fun.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I love the large print.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The image is just printed, yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Images on the boards, which I thought was just so fun.
I don't know, and I just like I really like
the like like I.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Do like the tots in my head like when I
buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I was like, oh, I really like how this
feels in my hand, like it has like a really
good texture to it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
So I was like, huh, all.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, you're coming home with me. So I got this book.
And then the other one that they had that was
interesting was a book club edition of Order of the Phoenix,
which typically it is blackboards.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I have one too, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Typically for book club editions, I would only get Sorcerer's Stone,
but just like, I don't know, just seeing it, I
was like, I can't leave that behind. That's like kind
of cool for ten bucks, Like I'll just get it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, not super valuable. The book clubs of like books
four and five, I think are fun to find. Because
you don't find them commonly, you're a lot more prone. Yeah,
the first editions of any print than a book club
of those. So I enjoy finding them in the wild.
And I've bought.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I think it's so fun.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Bought the few that I've found.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, finding books in the wild is just way different. Yeah,
I break my own collecting criteria just because I'm like, hey,
I'm here. That's cool. Like I don't know, like when
I was in the Netherlands this summer, like I bought
a book there because like, why not, I'm here, Like
I'll buy something.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, it's just exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It's exciting to see something like a little bit different,
like out and about like the fact that you know,
I just saw like a book club edition. I'm like,
I the only other time I've seen this book was
my best friend. Her whole set I think is book
club editions because I think her mom was part of
a book club, so her original Harry Potter book set
(14:48):
is all book club editions, which I thought was so cool.
So yeah, I've never seen an order of the Phoenix,
let alone seeing a book club out in the wild,
and I just I don't know, I this the tots
of this book just kind of had me. I thought
it was really cool. So I love the large print books.
I think they're super fun. So I'm glad you snagged
(15:09):
that one, and no, means of two through seven are
a little bit harder to find unless you're ordering them
from publisher. Yeah, I had book one as a large print,
but yeah, this I thought was just I just thought
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So it's also it's also nice when they're priced correctly
and I feel good about it versus like, how many
times have any of us been at a store and
they're like, oh, we have some used Terry Potter books
and I always look at them like you do too,
and you're like thirty dollars for this random My favorite
was this same sasoner of Azkaban fourteenth printed.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, this same store that I went to the first
time I went to the store had a bot like
a cardboard box with first edition set and it was
like three hundred dollars price firm something like that, And
just looking at the spines, I was like, oh, well,
(16:05):
your SORCER's stone says you're one on it, so I
just know just from looking at the spine that it's
a later printing and all of them had that on it,
and I was like, this set is not worth that,
and I just giggled, and that's.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
A that's a fifty to seventy dollars full set used
all day long on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, I know crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have gotten into the habit of a lot like
Facebook Marketplace now, like we'll advertise like Harry Potter books
like that people are selling in my area. And I've
gotten into the habit of just messaging people like anytime
they have a book that's like listed five hundred dollars,
seven hundred dollars and I'm like, your book is worth nothing, essentially, like.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I just message them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And I had one person that replied that was like, oh,
I had no idea, I'll change the listing. And then
another person was trying to sell an Askaban twenty seventh
printing something like that, and I was like, this book
is worth like ten dollars, like and she just said, oh,
I didn't know. Are you still interested? And I'm like, no,
(17:11):
I don't want. I don't want your your ten dollars book,
like please please just give it away.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I know. That's it, Like any anytime anyone in one
of the group's posts that they get a book at
like a I don't know, like a used bookstore and
it's like a order the Phoenix with no dust jacket copy,
and they're like, I scored this for twenty dollars. I'm like,
that's like a free book man, right right, that's that's
(17:41):
like nothing. And I'm excited that you're excited, but also
like I'm like, what what is the store thinking, like
racing stuff like that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I know, Well, it's frustrating. Is there's still enough misinformation
in the marketplace that people don't know, and so they're
they're buying things, you know, maybe not necessarily thinking you're
getting a deal, but not realizing that they're overpaying either.
And that's what is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
If someone's excited about something they buy like I'm never negative.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I'm excited, Well.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You paid twenty dollars too much for this book if
they whatever, but just.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Ask me have value. I had one recently where they
were like, you know, I just got this really cool book.
It's not a book club edition, it's you know, a
first edition, first print, which it was you know, what's
the value, and it was they took it much better
than I thought they would because it was just a
(18:38):
you know, seventy five dollars book. It was a chamber
of secrets, and it was just one of those that
I was worried that I was going to like dampen
his excitement, if that makes sense. But I didn't. He
got a good deal on it even at the bookstore,
and he enjoyed the whole thing, So I felt good
(19:00):
about it. But it wasn't until after I told him
and we talked about it that it was like, oh, good.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I mean, obviously, I like, I just bought these books
because I was like so excited to see something. But
my biggest problem right now, well, the problem that I'm
having right now is obviously, like when I have like
a big change in my life, like that becomes like
my hyperfixation. So obviously my newborn son is like my hyperfixation. However,
(19:30):
the fact that there have been so many books that
I feel like that have come out within the last
like however many months, like I feel so behind that
that was something like I was like, I just want
to do like a catch up episode to also catch
up on like all of the things that have come
out recently. Because I'm so behind in them. So what
(19:55):
I'm gonna do is go into we actually have like
a new release tap on our discord. I'm gonna like
click into that because I feel like there are so
many that I'm like, I didn't know that this book existed,
so great, I have so many books I feel like
I need to buy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Before we dive into that. Should we pause for an
ad break because this is an a normal segmented episode.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
And we're back. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The first set that's on here is this the new
French cover art, which I still don't have any of those.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I know that they can also.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The Greek one or the French one.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
The French.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I want the French because it's that was how where
it originally came out, right, is French?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, that's that's all though, Melan, that's.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But this is the.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Body sets I can.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Do.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You want me to help you get the French or
not French, the Greek, the new Greek ones. I can
not just get them off.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No publisher, No, I don't want the Greek ones. I
don't need the it's the cover art. It's just the
cover art, right, I don't need the Greek, Greek.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
The Greek have sprayed edges. Oh for you know what
I just and the and they're all different colored sprayed edges.
They're glorious.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Which one's cheaper.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Carly the French, but the Greek I think are better.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I agree if they have sprayed edges that they're better.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But like, and they're all different colored sprayed edges. They
are solid colors. But like the book one is like
of a reddish pink spright edge, and booked.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Two is green. And notebook all this down because I
feel like I've got all The.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Book three is purple, so you know it's just so
well done.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
If you don't have a notebook, we're making a whole episode.
It's recorded.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Listen. I will be doing that. Also, I need to
write things down, all right. Hold on, Also need a pen.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh that's not a pen I was about to offer
you by win. I need to go to bed.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Wait, hold on, did you see this.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Quill pens? One of the times I was in London,
I bought the biggest quill pen. It was like it
was wonderful. It did not but you know, oh it
was great.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
This is this is literally like a big pen. But
my mom like made it into a quill. These were
used at my wedding to like or like.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Dust the tables before people arrive.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
No, because my wedding was half magical feather because it's
it's a Nostrich feather, you know. All right, So either
the French, French or Greek.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I may get the fringe box set just because the
only French box that I have is the Room of
Requirements one and the three.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They're just not super I think I would just want
French over Greek, just because the French ones came out first,
Like the box set, I don't know that if.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I had to pick, if I had to pick one,
that's what I would pick too, for that exact reason.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, all right, a new Thaie anniversary set or anniversary
book that I'm going to pass on because it's Mary
and Price.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But fine, yeah, beautiful, but beautiful, But no, I'm okay.
Ali mos finish books same as the Swedish covers.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Pass but are they going to be in Are they
going to be in hardcover?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Though?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Because the Swedish ones are in the flex cover and
they rub terribly like mine has stains on the front
of the covers from the price tags from the other stickers,
and I would love to get a set of just
plain flat hardcover of those, but I can't justify having both.
That's where we are. I may just get book one
(24:40):
of the finish just to say that I have a copy.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, I got that, I got that.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I just can't justify the full set.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Next is the stenciled set that we were just talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Honestly, yeah, I need to get that.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's but wait second, on this picture, it shows that
there's like a little icon on the stenciling on the
side that's different from this individual book.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So does that mean the individual ones that are for
sale won't have so they'll be like, you could buy
all of them without that little thing, and then the
box with the.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Little I wouldn't put it beyond them to do.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Of course I wouldn't either. That. It's that's a set
I want to get. I think the stenciled edge box said.
I'm not paying full price for that, I will tell
you right now. So whether I get it right away
on a sale or I wait a bit and get
it on a sale, I am not getting.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It for but I'm getting it on a sale yep, yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And if I don't get it, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Cry September twenty five, I can wait all right. Next
is these we have to started the countdown the the
European Portuguese. Yeah books, Oh my god, are those gorgeous.
I obviously need all of those.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, I think I need them all too, even though
I only had one and that's like I got one?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Where did you get it from?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Carl?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
And I talked about them the publisher. The downside is
the shipping is expensive. They were quite high. I want
to say, almost two hundred dollars shipped for the set.
They're on sale a little bit off at the publisher.
I've not seen them for sale at like Amazon or
(26:44):
anything like that. I've looked at different Amazons and I
just haven't seen them yet.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Wow, they're so nice.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We can talk about combo shipping.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's stand tank.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Can we see if they have a beatle of the
bard at the publisher? If it's all are going to
do that? Can we see if there's a beatle. I
don't collect them, but if there is one, it may
as well bide one.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, that'd be really cool. Those are.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They're just gorgeous. Those are so cool, all right, Bosque
Order the Phoenix. I mean, obviously that's awesome that that
came out, not in my criterions but not going to
get that, but amazing Italian Mina Lima box set.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That's well and super cool.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I should mention Brock was just like out and about
in like I saw a bunch of Basque books in
the wild, which was really Yeah, that's awesome, Like that's
really cool.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and I love like, I love seeing or like
seeing other people post pictures or or just recount experiences
of seeing like especially like Bosque, which is not a
popular language, but it's like a display in the store,
like hey, look we got these and people are excited
about it. Like that's the whole point of publishing, Harry
(28:01):
Potter in that language is to like get people excited
about exactly about reading it and staying literate in Bosque.
So that's that's just so cool. I love I love,
love love seeing that. And we'll talk about another one
that just got announced probably at the end of this list.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, this Mina Lima box set. Did they come out
with a Mina Lima box set in the US or
it's just this Italian one.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
There are box sets. I don't know if they're just
in Italy. I don't know. I haven't looked on it, and.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I feel like I would. I would love that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Also, I have heavy, heavy, heavy regrets of not getting
Prisoner of Azkaban signed, like a signed copy, because I
have the first two books, and then I just fell
off the wagon and didn't get it for Azkaban and
now I'm so mad at myself.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
That I didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Had had I known that it was only going to
book three, I would have bought two and three signed
and I only got one. And I don't need one
two and three sign for me personally, but if there
were only three, I would have made the extra to
get all three, which.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Was That's like one of the greatest disappointments of my
collecting so far as just not seeing the finishing of those.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, I know, we I mean, we could do a
whole episode about how we feel about that, and in fact,
Carly and I did do a whole episode about that,
but it got corrupted or something and.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
We never That was when I had to update my
my audacity because it was apparently out of date and
it was acting out terribly.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, so it's okay, it is what it is, all right.
This next set, obviously I feel like I need because
it's the new Slovak books with the side edge, and
I obviously feel like I.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Need those like it was it was made for you, really,
I think.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Because that's one set that I feel like I could
easily justify getting for myself because the Slovak twenty fifth
Anniversary box set is my absolute favorite set of books
on my shelves, and now we have a sprayed side edge,
which is like my favorite detail of all time.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like, come on, I'm writing, is it gonna get overused? Though?
That's what I worry about now.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, everyone's doing a.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Side edge, which I don't dislike. I think they're all
really cool as long as they're all different. I love it.
But I hope it doesn't get to a point where
that's just like a lazy fad that like we're gonna
have a blue side edge.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Well, and I think I figured out that we'll buy them.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, yeah, you know, and also I know I know,
but like it's not like they're doing something that like, hey,
I have a great idea that no one's doing. We
could do a side edge that's blue, Like, no, we've
already had that idea, Like all these people have done
that are well because green.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This time, It's not like it can't be that expensive
to just do like a base sixtensiled sideedge or basic
sideedge like this, which I feel like they probably realize that.
I feel like if it was like a gilded side edge,
that would be like a different story. But I feel
like they're and this could be like a really good
episode that we could talk about next time. Are like,
what are fads that we want to happen in like
(31:17):
the book publishing world, like a gilded side edge, or
I would love to see the fad catch on in
the Harry Potter community of seven books in one volume, Like.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
We only have the one?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Where where are the other books? It's been done, we
know it can be done. Now, where where are the
other ones? Where are the other seven books in one volume?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah? Come on, come on, Japanese, let's go, Oh my god,
can you imagine it.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Would be like my whole bookshelf the Japanese like a
coffee table size, Yeah, that would be I would it
comes like a roller bag like a roller airport bag.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I would be disappointed if Bengali tried to do that,
because I don't think i'd buy I had that point, Yeah, no, no,
no I would.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It would come it would combust as.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Soon as you open the but literally, like us, come on, like,
what are we doing? Why don't we Why isn't why
isn't this the thing? All right, there's a few other
ones I'm gonna like skip over that have come out
because I'm just like not the biggest into these, and
then I feel like I'm caught up the new Spanish
covers obviously, like I still have not gotten those, and
(32:27):
they're just amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Do you know does Barnes and Noble sell those yet?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
If you want the hardcovers, you have to get them
from Amazon Spain. You can get soft covers from Amazon US,
but they're a different text bollock block, and they're soft
covers of the hardcovers, different text block. Yes, the span
the Spanish books are so complicated, so much more complicated
than we thought. But all right, so wait anyway, if
(32:55):
you want the hardcovers Amazon Spain.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So what would you recommend? You would recommend the hardcover
and then what text block is that.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
The most recent I think it's the Spanish, like still.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Spect Spanish Spanish text So then what.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Text block did they use for the paperbacks?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Latin American, I believe.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Latin American, most updated Latin American text block, which I believe,
And don't quote me on this because I'm in the
midst of finding out what I have and what I
still need for those Spanish books. Oh but the most
recent Spanish book I have with the Latin American text
block has Johnny Devil cover art.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And there's a new Spanish twenty fifth Anniversary that was
just released. Potter Glut picked it up. It's thinner. It
looks just like the twenty fifth Anniversary, but it's thinner,
and it's the Latin American text block. The one that
we got that's big and thick is the Castiliano I believe. Interesting.
(33:55):
So there's a picture that you posted. It's either on
Instagram or in the discord, but it'll show the two
and I really want both of those because the twenty
fifth Anniversary books are stellar.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh all right, we need to just have him on
the show again to go yes, yeah, because that's that's
a big enough announcement. We've talked about his new article
and just how much work goes into that and like
that needs to be discussed because it is just such
a bigger deal than any of us thought it would be.
(34:31):
And really it makes you think about like your collecting
criteria too, Like what do I actually collect now that
there's so many different variations?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah, I know, And and there's a lot of Spanish knockoffs.
That's also something that has been made more prevalent.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean going along with that, Like, I don't know,
this is like and I guess another fad thing. It's
not going off exactly what you guys were said. Sorry,
my brain like works in like three different directions at once.
But the like the Brazilian Portuguese ones, how it's the
same as the Croatian covers, but it has like the spines.
(35:13):
Those are cool. I probably won't get those. Those are Croatian, Yeah,
but they're really cool.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm I'm gonna be ordering the Brazilian box set shortly.
I found a set for I found a seller who
will sell them for not a whole lot of money.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
So if you want one, let me know how much
a whole not a whole lot of money is and
we'll chat. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
There's two more that I want to talk about and
then and then I will feel up to date. One
is the fact that they did come out with an
English mean A Lima box set, which I probably will
get that.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I feel like I owe it to menal Lima, you know,
and it looks so cool cool. Yeah, I probably will
buy that box set. That's really cool. And that's something
I feel like I might end up seeing it like
Target or something, So.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
If I do, if it does, we'll probably have a moment.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like if that that ends up coming out,
like I will absolutely get that.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
And then the last one that I want to talk
about is another book that I got that I forgot
to talk about, so it brings it all full circle
is the Yiddish Chamber of Secrets because I got that
book from Eric.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
As a surprise. That was a nice surprise book. Oh yeah, Eric,
you could say what I got for you as a surprise.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That was I I could. I think I said it already,
But I'd had that Yiddish book like sitting in my
house for months and I'm like, I'm always mail it
to Melanie and I'm like, no, I'm not going to
mail it to Melanie. But then there was this whole
conundrum of like do I check a bag going to
New York or just.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Bring my well, because it was up in the eras
to whether or not I was going to be able
to make it out there, because not for nothing, I
had just like delivered a baby like two weeks prior
and was like, I.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Was like, oh, I don't know if I could leave
him yet, but I ended up leaving him, right.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But like I had this book for you, and then
we had a whole bunch of baby stuff for you,
and then we had stuff for your other kid, and
so like I had all this stuff, and I'm like, okay, well,
if if you go, I have to bring all this,
which I can't fit in my backpack with all my clothes,
like I'm going because I was only in New York
for two nights, I didn't need a huge suitcase. So yeah,
(37:32):
so Melanie's like, okay, well I think we're gonna go,
all right, So now I got to get a suitcase
so I gotta see this. But that actually turned out
to be smart because then I could bring the butter
beer bottles back see on the airplane. So I put
my like eighty BT teeny roly bag in like the
checked checks out. Everyone's big bags are clunking down on
the carousel in Minneapolis. Here comes in my like this
(37:52):
like little bag come to shoot down there is but
no so yeah. I had Chamber of Secrets in Yiddish
for Melanie and then Melanie hands me this this Sorcerer's
Stone softcover and I'm like, oh, that's cool, but cool
right away, Mela right away, right away, She's like, I'll
open it up. And it was a signed Mary grand
(38:15):
Praise book plate, which is just stellar. And I can't
decide where I want to display it yet it's still
in the book on the shelf. I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I don't know if I what's so cool about those
book plates and what is such a missed opportunity about
those book plates?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Is I got a few of those.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
For like I had gone to a book event where
Mary grand Prey was there and it was Mary grim
Pray and Brian Selznik were doing like a Q and
A like coolest thing ever. Went into the city with
my mom for it, and like at the last minute,
Mary grand Pray canceled, but brian Selzinc was still there,
which again I'm like the biggest like Brian Selznik fan,
so I was like fangirling about it. But they said,
(38:58):
we're so sorry that Mary Grand Praise not going to
be here, so we're gonna mail you a book plate
whatever for your books that you would have gotten signed
by her. And I'm like, that's so cool. How many
can I get? And they were like, get however many
you want. I could have gotten so many of them.
I think I got four, and I think I could
(39:20):
have gotten like ten if I wanted to. That's very
responsible of you, though I know I know, but like,
come on, I could have gotten so many, but no,
or they're all they're all like accounted for now at
this point though they all are in theirs.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I am so grateful. That's something that like would never
even be on my radar, that like that would.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Have been a special you know, isn't that like a
special cool thing?
Speaker 2 (39:48):
So I'm trying to figure out how I want to
frame it or like what I want to put it
next to, because I want to put it next to
like a Mary Grand pray thing I have on the wall.
And the only one I have is that big like
stretched canvas of the cover, but I don't know if
I want to put it by that, So I might
just frame it by itself, but maybe try to like
mad it on something image. I don't know, so I
(40:09):
have some ideas because I want to put it next
to the signed askaband page that I got from Carly.
Oh that's cool because that would be because that's cool
because that's Mary Pray art on that. So like if
I could somehow get them like near each other, I
don't know, I have to maybe.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
You've gotten signed things from both of us.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
It is cute. You're You're next.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I feel like my favorite like signed things that I have, honestly,
I mean I have. I have a bunch of signed
books at this point, like.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
So cool. I am, like my heart feels complete with
the books that I have signed.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But my favorite signed things are probably the fact that
like I invited Mary grim Pray and Brian Sells next
to my wedding and they r s VP back and
I have like, oh, that's so cool, Like I think
Brian well, Marion grand Prey was like she wrote like
declines with regret, but was like but thank you so
much for the invitation, like she wrote something really sweet
(41:15):
and then Brian Selznick like his he drew a little
doodle on the rs VP back and then also sent
me like, you know the poster that has all of
the images whatever, yea, so he said yeah, when he
put all the books together, so he sent me that
with like a personalized thing to like me and my husband,
(41:36):
which that I still haven't gotten that framed, but like it.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
It's just like that. I have like the perfect spot
for it too. So I don't know sign like that.
I know, I know because it's such a cool thing
to have. I know I have a few things that
I have to get signed. I still have. I still
have the artists who did the Slovak books, like my favorite.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Books ever did Adrian Macho.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Adrian Macho, thank you again.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I have like I have mom brain now, like I
went from pregnancy brain to mom brain and it's the
same kind of brain.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
He did.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
A like I have the original art of like Hagrid
holding Harry, which is the image on the back of.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
The book one.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
It's like my favorite, it's my favorite actual artwork that
he's done, and I want to frame that and put
that in my nursery because even though my nursery is
like Lord of the Rings themed, I still want to
put it in there. I feel like it would just
fit so nicely. Okay, this is a good way to
like wrap wrap this whole thing up.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Well, can I mention one more book?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
That mention one more book and then and then I'm
going to go back to that perfect.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Okay, because bell Russian Goblet of Fires going to.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Be and I want to do I want to order
that one, so if anyone wants to.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
But the really cool fun fact some people on our
discord did some digging and because those books being published,
it's not allowed anymore in Belarus. So they're actually publishing
them in Poland with Poland Polish ISBNs, and somehow they'll
have to get them back into Belarus, which I think
you can do pretty easily. I mean, they border each other,
(43:26):
so not gonna be too hard. But yeah, so they're
still publishing, which is so cool because that even though
they announced they weren't going to continue them in Belarussian,
which I mean my friend and colleague is from Belarus
and she speaks Russian ninety nine point nine percent of
the time and never Belarussian anymore and still is like
(43:47):
why are people wanting these? But there really is this
like cool like language identity, Like it's it's a different
place with a unique language, and we want to preserve that.
And the only way to do that is to keep
publishing things that people are in just it in much
like they're doing with Maori or that we're just talking
earlier about the Boss books, Like that's just so cool
(44:08):
that people are aware that we need to preserve these languages.
And what better way to do that than a book
that lots of people love to read.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
So m h yeah, okay, so I would love to order.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Way to Step Way to Step Up Poland yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
That's what all I have.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
My final thought thing kind of wraps up into your
everything that you just said as well, and it relates
back to the slow Bok books.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
This is it's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
How I want to end this episode is just by
thanking our listeners, but specifically wanting to thank our discord
members because one of the most like treasured things that
I received was a book that everyone contributed to that
has everyone's like Favoriterry Potter quotes in it and it
(45:01):
has a bunch of Harry Potter art and everyone like
kind of customized this book for me. They put that
Slovak artwork on the front of it of Hagrid holding Harry, which,
like I think everyone knows, is my favorite piece of
artwork on my shelves, so like that was the at
the front of everything. But also what was so cool
(45:24):
about it was Irone translated the quotes into Yiddish for me,
which was mind blowing and just so cool. Like I know,
I as I was going through it, I saw everything
like in Hebrew like on the bottom of him, like
that's really cool and thoughtful. And then to see that
Iron was the one that like translated everything, I was
just like so touched and taken aback by that, And
(45:47):
it was just the most wonderful it wonderful like preservation
of language, but preservation of my culture.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
That just was so so touching.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
That is going to be such a book for me
to like show my children. And I just wanted to
say thank you to our beautiful Discord members and to
you guys for that.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
It was just an absolutely stunning gift that I received,
So I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yay yay.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Well that was to you too. Also, I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Also, oh yay, right, we do have we do have
an awesome community. And I released a little you know,
snippet for the New Year just and I'll probably actually
take down somebody just say it again, Like, it's just
such a cool thing to have other people like what
you like and talk about it with other people like
(46:43):
that that that's just so fun. We all felt so
kind of isolated in doing this very hobby, very niche hobby,
and it's it's just really really special to like see
people not only in the but in Canada and you know,
all over Europe now, just these other people that have
(47:05):
these same collections and same you know, desire, and people know.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
About certain books like I've I've loved learning about the
like the Spanish books. I've just learned so much, right.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Well, and like the fact that people in our discord
did some digging to find out more about the new
book from Bell like that, Yeah, that's such cool information.
And I wouldn't have even thought to look it up, really,
but someone did, and because they did, we all have
this really great piece of information. So yeah, it's just
such a great community. And I just got to thank
(47:40):
everyone so much. It's just awesome. And we do this
because we love it, but we also know that other
people love it too, and that's just really awesome.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
So that's gonna wrap up season five, which this is
the first time I'm saying season five out loud. That's crazy.
Season five, Episode six of our podcast. I'm not gonna
say the whole spiel that we usually say at the end.
You guys know, you can message us. We're in a
ton of places.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
You know where they are. Just look up Dialogue Alley
and you'll find us. And that's it. That's all you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
But with all of that being said, it's now time
to walk back through the archway and into your daily
lives and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Bye bye see yah
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue Alley. Hello everyone,
(00:23):
and welcome to Dialogue Alley, the Official Potter Collector podcast,
where we talk about Harry Potter books, book translations, and
all other things magical. I'm back and I'm Melanie, I'm Kylie.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
I'm Eric, and I'm still here.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
I'm gonna say I'm still here.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Good job, aw e cute, still me, still them.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Oh well, if you're new to our podcast, I've been
gone for a little while because I've been on like
a maternity leap hiatus. But I'm officially back to record
because I've missed everybody so much, and we're Harry Potter
people like we collect Harry Potter books, all different kinds
of Harry Potter books from all over the world, different translations,
(01:09):
different covers.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
And today we're having a wingot episode, if you will,
because we've got a lot of catching up to do.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
That's true, and there's just so much that we that
Carly and I recorded, and Melanie was texting us and
was like, oh, I want to talk about that. I
want to talk about that. Oh I want to talk
about that, And it's like well, let's just do an
episode or all we do is talk about everything that
you missed you were going to talk about, and then
we can get back on track, because really we do
(01:38):
want to hear what you had to say about some
of the things we talked about, and obviously there are
things that happened that I want to talk to you
about too, Like when I saw you a couple months Yeah,
that was going to be.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Where I started. That was going to be where I started.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Uh Yeah, Eric and I finally met in person for
the first time, which was crazy, and it was so fun.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
It was so fun. And the funny thing is today's Thursday,
tomorrow's Friday. My uncle and his partner are flying to
New York tomorrow to go to like a few shows,
and they're going to Woa Hops, which is that reality
and I went to so oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
If you like Chinese food and you're in New York
City and you go to Chinatown in New York City,
there's a restaurant called Woe Hop. It is a hole
in the wall place you have to wait in line,
you have to eat in the basement, that's the secret,
and the food comes out fast. It is so good.
And that's where we all eat together.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
You need cash money, you need cash money.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
You have to have cash money.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
And you could also buy a T shirt if you want,
with the pans of bear on it.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
My dad bought a T shirt.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
First impression, Eric is a lot taller than I anticipated.
He's like, you're very tall. How can I already see
you sitting down in video chats?
Speaker 2 (02:56):
That's true, Well, it'd be weird if you only saw
me standing would be weird. No, I'm like six feet
with shoes, so I don't think I'm that tall, but
I guess I'm tall.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Taller than your picture on your image.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Yeah, it was. It was hard to I don't know.
I just I don't know. You're just tall. That was
literally the first thing I said. I was like, oh
my god, it's so nice to finally meet you in person.
You're so tall.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
I should have said yourself short. I would have been.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
No, but it was.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
It was just like awesome, and it just made me
like want to have all of us together, to be together.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
We need to do that. It was funny to go do.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
That well, and it was like Peter was on when
we talked about or I talked about my impressions of
the Harry Potter Store, and I mean, I don't have
to like say it all again, but like I thought
it was okay, like it was cool, but I wish
there was like something more. And I think that's something
more was the VR stuff that they took out, And
(04:06):
so that's that's just kind of where I was like
a little bit let down.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I can understand that. I can understand that completely.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I mean, I think the differences for me were one,
I was there opening day, so that kind of like
sticks out very like I don't know, like has a
lot of uh like sentimentality to it, I guess because
I was their opening day. And then I also spent
like the first year that the store opened, I went
(04:33):
there probably like once a month, and it was always
so exciting when they had new merch come out and
they redesigned, Like there's one area that they update like
very often with new merchandise and stuff like that. So
like that stuff is really cool. But I will say
what kept me going back as often as I was
was the VR because I would experience it once I
would be like, that was so cool. I have to
(04:53):
do that with this friend I have to do that
with this friend. Now I have to do it with
my husband. Then Peter was in town, I had to
do the VR with him, which that was probably my
favorite one out of all of them.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
So yeah, I think hoping.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm hoping that the space they have for the VR,
which one of the spaces is now that photo up
which I told Peter was very underwhelming to me, like
did you do it? I was no. There was one
person getting their picture taken and no line. It just
seemed like everyone else also thought it was just maybe
(05:31):
not the most amazing thing. But I'm I'm hoping that
they like cycle through things that are in that space
and the other VR.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Space well, yeah, they have the whole upstairs space, so
that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
I'm hoping that this photo op thing isn't permanent, that maybe,
like I don't know, in a year or six months
or whatever, they change it to something else, Like it
would be really cool if they kept refreshing things, or
at least kept the one the photo op downstairs photo ops,
and then the upstairs space could like be updated every
so often. Yeah, to be a new experience or something
(06:08):
to give people a reason to go back, especially in
a city like New York, where people like there's so
many tourists go there from all over the world.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
So that's a great location too, Like it's in a
really nice.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Spot, but it's not like a tourist destination that people
go to just one and done. Like the people go
there like once a year even, yeah, like once every
few months or so. It would be nice to have
something that continuously updated a little bit to give people
a reason to go back, versus like when I go
to the Nintendo store now in New York, it's like
(06:41):
I go and I see what new shirts they have,
and then I'm like, all right, that was it, and
then I leave, like, yeah, they don't really have anything
like brand new, like a big exhibition or something until obviously,
like Switch two comes out and then they'll be like
a bunch of Switch to stuff. So it's like you
got to go there, But like my last few times
to the Nintendo Store, it's just kind of been the
same old, same old, Like, yeah, I can spend ten
(07:03):
minutes in there and I'm good, and that's that's kind
of how I feel what the Harry Potter Store like
if nothing major changes, like I don't know if I
need to hang out there for hours. It's just kind
of I mean, okay, well what's new. That's it? All right? Well,
that's cool. Off I go.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I mean, the butter beer is really good.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
It is really good.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I do go there for that the butter beer, and
then I drink mine.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I drank mine on the subway.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
Yeah, I mean it's good because we were running late.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We always get like they have like butter beer bottles
that you can get, so we usually I'll stock up
on those, Like I like Fizzing Whisby's a lot, so
I'll stock up on those as well anytime we go.
But yeah, you're right, Like, other than that, I feel
like there hasn't been like a big enough draw.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
It very much reminded me of like a World of
Disney store or yeah yeah, yeah when those existed. And
obviously that that is perfect. It does exactly what it
needs to do. I think just because the VR thing
was so popular, I had to like impression in my
head that it was just going to be way more
of an experience than just going to US store.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
You would have loved the VR.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
The VR was just felt more like a store. Yeah, no,
it it felt like a very cool store. Yeah, which
I like.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
All right.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I did like going to the book airy in the
basement and I was like, that's all the books. Yeah,
come over to my You should come over to my
house and see what I get.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
All right.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Speaking of books, I got like three. I think I
got like three new books since like we chatted, which
for me is a lot. But again they're like they're
silly books, Like these are silly books. One of them
I got was the twenty fifth anniversary with the sprayed
side Edge.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Which I feel like, I love that one.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
I feel like we have to talk about because of
the fact of how much of a fit I threw
over the fact that.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Why didn't we just do this from the beginning.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Like this is all I asked for was a sprayed
side edge, and they finally did it, but they had
to mess us around first and give us the ones
without it.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Why why Well, Carly.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
And I talked about that in our like little Midia
episode about the Stencil Book, and it was like it
was exactly that this anniversary it is It's like this
this one was an apology, like, oh, I guess we
should have done something better, And so then they just
came out with just this one, which when Curly and
(09:31):
I talked about just this book, they hadn't announced to
the rest of the set yet, so we're like, how
dumb is this? It still has the spine right that
makes the whole picture, but they only have Book one
with the stencil, and like, why didn't they just do
them all? And then like literally a day after we
dropped the episode, they're like, oh, we're announcing the whole
(09:52):
sets coming out. Were like, of course they didn't.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Well, honestly, that makes me very happy that I didn't
buy the whole set of the original because I only
bought one of the original because I was like, I
hate these and just out of protest, I'll just get
Book one and go from there.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
But I might buy them all, but on sale. I
bought them all on sale. I will, but I do
plan on buying the box set with the sprayed edges,
because every sprayed every book looks to have a different
sprayed edge, Like, I think they're going to do it
as big.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
I feel like they were.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Using this one to test the waters to see how
is this gonna float? Because the other I think they
figured out. We were kind of upset out. Maybe someone
who has.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
The podcast though still because people that are going to
buy the box set of the sprain edge are probably
the ones that already bought Book one, also the ones
that bought Book one without the spray.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
How are people going to know if they're buying the
box set whether or not it has a sprayed side edge,
because it's going to be like in the box They're
going to have to like advertise on the box like, yeah, featured, they.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Show sidedge, they do.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
They show the illustration with the whatever has a right now,
it's a cartoon with all seven books showing the sprayed edges,
like a mockup of the sprayed edges, so we can
kind of see that it is this and then it
has the box cover art from the twenty fifth anniversary.
So again, minimal creativity, minimal effort was done, but I
(11:17):
did we're on the right track now, Scholastic, why not hardcover?
I'm just gonna throw that out there.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
But that's not the.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Way Charlie and I concluded. If the only gripe that
we had, like let's say this box set was released
for the twenty fifth anniversary with the sprayed side edge,
and that was it, but it was still soft cover.
Our only gripe would be like, well, I just wish
it was hardcover, but this is pretty great. Yeah, like that,
(11:44):
we would have all agreed that it's great, just maybe
you wish it would have been hardcover. Yeah, but I
wouldn't have even been that disappointed with it if that's
what it was from the get go, right, the fact
that it was just this like tumble steps to get
into finally this full set coming out, like yeah, there's I.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Don't know, you guys know I have wait, yeah, I
have way too many gripes about the whole thing. So yeah,
I got that book, and then I went I have
there are some really cool like antique stores on the
island that like I go to with my parents all
the time, and I'm always looking for Harry Potter books.
Obviously anywhere I go they had. My mom was like,
(12:22):
there's Harry Potter books over here. Like my mom and
dad are very good like that. But my mom called
me over and she was like, look, there's a bunch
of Harry Potter boks. I bet you have them all,
ha ha. And I looked and they had some like
interesting ones that I was like, oh, this is like interesting,
I'm gonna buy these, because like, I just don't it's
not a book that I would see every day. So
(12:42):
one of them I got was this, which is hardcover
Goblet of Fire, no jacket, but it's a large print edition,
which I thought was like just so fun.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
I love the large print.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
The image is just printed, yeah, the.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Images on the boards, which I thought was just so fun.
I don't know, and I just like I really like
the like like I.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
Do like the tots in my head like when I
buy it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I was like, oh, I really like how this
feels in my hand, like it has like a really
good texture to it.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
So I was like, huh, all.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
Right, you're coming home with me. So I got this book.
And then the other one that they had that was
interesting was a book club edition of Order of the Phoenix,
which typically it is blackboards.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
I have one too, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Typically for book club editions, I would only get Sorcerer's Stone,
but just like, I don't know, just seeing it, I
was like, I can't leave that behind. That's like kind
of cool for ten bucks, Like I'll just get it.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Well, not super valuable. The book clubs of like books
four and five, I think are fun to find. Because
you don't find them commonly, you're a lot more prone. Yeah,
the first editions of any print than a book club
of those. So I enjoy finding them in the wild.
And I've bought.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I think it's so fun.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Bought the few that I've found.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, finding books in the wild is just way different. Yeah,
I break my own collecting criteria just because I'm like, hey,
I'm here. That's cool. Like I don't know, like when
I was in the Netherlands this summer, like I bought
a book there because like, why not, I'm here, Like
I'll buy something.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Yeah, it's just exciting.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
It's exciting to see something like a little bit different,
like out and about like the fact that you know,
I just saw like a book club edition. I'm like,
I the only other time I've seen this book was
my best friend. Her whole set I think is book
club editions because I think her mom was part of
a book club, so her original Harry Potter book set
(14:48):
is all book club editions, which I thought was so cool.
So yeah, I've never seen an order of the Phoenix,
let alone seeing a book club out in the wild,
and I just I don't know, I this the tots
of this book just kind of had me. I thought
it was really cool. So I love the large print books.
I think they're super fun. So I'm glad you snagged
(15:09):
that one, and no, means of two through seven are
a little bit harder to find unless you're ordering them
from publisher. Yeah, I had book one as a large print,
but yeah, this I thought was just I just thought
it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
So it's also it's also nice when they're priced correctly
and I feel good about it versus like, how many
times have any of us been at a store and
they're like, oh, we have some used Terry Potter books
and I always look at them like you do too,
and you're like thirty dollars for this random My favorite
was this same sasoner of Azkaban fourteenth printed.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, this same store that I went to the first
time I went to the store had a bot like
a cardboard box with first edition set and it was
like three hundred dollars price firm something like that, And
just looking at the spines, I was like, oh, well,
(16:05):
your SORCER's stone says you're one on it, so I
just know just from looking at the spine that it's
a later printing and all of them had that on it,
and I was like, this set is not worth that,
and I just giggled, and that's.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
A that's a fifty to seventy dollars full set used
all day long on Facebook.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Yeah, I know crazy.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
I have gotten into the habit of a lot like
Facebook Marketplace now, like we'll advertise like Harry Potter books
like that people are selling in my area. And I've
gotten into the habit of just messaging people like anytime
they have a book that's like listed five hundred dollars,
seven hundred dollars and I'm like, your book is worth nothing, essentially, like.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I just message them.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
And I had one person that replied that was like, oh,
I had no idea, I'll change the listing. And then
another person was trying to sell an Askaban twenty seventh
printing something like that, and I was like, this book
is worth like ten dollars, like and she just said, oh,
I didn't know. Are you still interested? And I'm like, no,
(17:11):
I don't want. I don't want your your ten dollars book,
like please please just give it away.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
I know. That's it, Like any anytime anyone in one
of the group's posts that they get a book at
like a I don't know, like a used bookstore and
it's like a order the Phoenix with no dust jacket copy,
and they're like, I scored this for twenty dollars. I'm like,
that's like a free book man, right right, that's that's
(17:41):
like nothing. And I'm excited that you're excited, but also
like I'm like, what what is the store thinking, like
racing stuff like that? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
I know, Well, it's frustrating. Is there's still enough misinformation
in the marketplace that people don't know, and so they're
they're buying things, you know, maybe not necessarily thinking you're
getting a deal, but not realizing that they're overpaying either.
And that's what is.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
If someone's excited about something they buy like I'm never negative.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Yeah, I'm excited, Well.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
You paid twenty dollars too much for this book if
they whatever, but just.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Ask me have value. I had one recently where they
were like, you know, I just got this really cool book.
It's not a book club edition, it's you know, a
first edition, first print, which it was you know, what's
the value, and it was they took it much better
than I thought they would because it was just a
(18:38):
you know, seventy five dollars book. It was a chamber
of secrets, and it was just one of those that
I was worried that I was going to like dampen
his excitement, if that makes sense. But I didn't. He
got a good deal on it even at the bookstore,
and he enjoyed the whole thing, So I felt good
(19:00):
about it. But it wasn't until after I told him
and we talked about it that it was like, oh, good.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
I mean, obviously, I like, I just bought these books
because I was like so excited to see something. But
my biggest problem right now, well, the problem that I'm
having right now is obviously, like when I have like
a big change in my life, like that becomes like
my hyperfixation. So obviously my newborn son is like my hyperfixation. However,
(19:30):
the fact that there have been so many books that
I feel like that have come out within the last
like however many months, like I feel so behind that
that was something like I was like, I just want
to do like a catch up episode to also catch
up on like all of the things that have come
out recently. Because I'm so behind in them. So what
(19:55):
I'm gonna do is go into we actually have like
a new release tap on our discord. I'm gonna like
click into that because I feel like there are so
many that I'm like, I didn't know that this book existed,
so great, I have so many books I feel like
I need to buy.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
Before we dive into that. Should we pause for an
ad break because this is an a normal segmented episode.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
And we're back. So yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
The first set that's on here is this the new
French cover art, which I still don't have any of those.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I know that they can also.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
The Greek one or the French one.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
The French.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I want the French because it's that was how where
it originally came out, right, is French?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Yeah, that's that's all though, Melan, that's.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
But this is the.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Body sets I can.
Speaker 4 (21:18):
Do.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
You want me to help you get the French or
not French, the Greek, the new Greek ones. I can
not just get them off.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
No publisher, No, I don't want the Greek ones. I
don't need the it's the cover art. It's just the
cover art, right, I don't need the Greek, Greek.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
The Greek have sprayed edges. Oh for you know what
I just and the and they're all different colored sprayed edges.
They're glorious.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Which one's cheaper.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Carly the French, but the Greek I think are better.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I agree if they have sprayed edges that they're better.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
But like, and they're all different colored sprayed edges. They
are solid colors. But like the book one is like
of a reddish pink spright edge, and booked.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Two is green. And notebook all this down because I
feel like I've got all The.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Book three is purple, so you know it's just so
well done.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
If you don't have a notebook, we're making a whole episode.
It's recorded.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
I know that.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Listen. I will be doing that. Also, I need to
write things down, all right. Hold on, Also need a pen.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Oh that's not a pen I was about to offer
you by win. I need to go to bed.
Speaker 4 (22:33):
Wait, hold on, did you see this.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Quill pens? One of the times I was in London,
I bought the biggest quill pen. It was like it
was wonderful. It did not but you know, oh it
was great.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
This is this is literally like a big pen. But
my mom like made it into a quill. These were
used at my wedding to like or like.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Dust the tables before people arrive.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
No, because my wedding was half magical feather because it's
it's a Nostrich feather, you know. All right, So either
the French, French or Greek.
Speaker 3 (23:23):
I may get the fringe box set just because the
only French box that I have is the Room of
Requirements one and the three.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
They're just not super I think I would just want
French over Greek, just because the French ones came out first,
Like the box set, I don't know that if.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I had to pick, if I had to pick one,
that's what I would pick too, for that exact reason.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Yeah, all right, a new Thaie anniversary set or anniversary
book that I'm going to pass on because it's Mary
and Price.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
I don't need that.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
But fine, yeah, beautiful, but beautiful, But no, I'm okay.
Ali mos finish books same as the Swedish covers.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
Pass but are they going to be in Are they
going to be in hardcover?
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Though?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Because the Swedish ones are in the flex cover and
they rub terribly like mine has stains on the front
of the covers from the price tags from the other stickers,
and I would love to get a set of just
plain flat hardcover of those, but I can't justify having both.
That's where we are. I may just get book one
(24:40):
of the finish just to say that I have a copy.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, I got that, I got that.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I just can't justify the full set.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
Oh all right.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Next is the stenciled set that we were just talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Honestly, yeah, I need to get that.
Speaker 1 (24:58):
It's but wait second, on this picture, it shows that
there's like a little icon on the stenciling on the
side that's different from this individual book.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
So does that mean the individual ones that are for
sale won't have so they'll be like, you could buy
all of them without that little thing, and then the
box with the.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Little I wouldn't put it beyond them to do.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Of course I wouldn't either. That. It's that's a set
I want to get. I think the stenciled edge box said.
I'm not paying full price for that, I will tell
you right now. So whether I get it right away
on a sale or I wait a bit and get
it on a sale, I am not getting.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
It for but I'm getting it on a sale yep, yeah,
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
And if I don't get it, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Cry September twenty five, I can wait all right. Next
is these we have to started the countdown the the
European Portuguese. Yeah books, Oh my god, are those gorgeous.
I obviously need all of those.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Yes, I think I need them all too, even though
I only had one and that's like I got one?
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Where did you get it from?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Carl?
Speaker 3 (26:24):
And I talked about them the publisher. The downside is
the shipping is expensive. They were quite high. I want
to say, almost two hundred dollars shipped for the set.
They're on sale a little bit off at the publisher.
I've not seen them for sale at like Amazon or
(26:44):
anything like that. I've looked at different Amazons and I
just haven't seen them yet.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Wow, they're so nice.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We can talk about combo shipping.
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's stand tank.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Can we see if they have a beatle of the
bard at the publisher? If it's all are going to
do that? Can we see if there's a beatle. I
don't collect them, but if there is one, it may
as well bide one.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Yeah, that'd be really cool. Those are.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
They're just gorgeous. Those are so cool, all right, Bosque
Order the Phoenix. I mean, obviously that's awesome that that
came out, not in my criterions but not going to
get that, but amazing Italian Mina Lima box set.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
That's well and super cool.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I should mention Brock was just like out and about
in like I saw a bunch of Basque books in
the wild, which was really Yeah, that's awesome, Like that's
really cool.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
I love hearing that.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Well, and I love like, I love seeing or like
seeing other people post pictures or or just recount experiences
of seeing like especially like Bosque, which is not a
popular language, but it's like a display in the store,
like hey, look we got these and people are excited
about it. Like that's the whole point of publishing, Harry
(28:01):
Potter in that language is to like get people excited
about exactly about reading it and staying literate in Bosque.
So that's that's just so cool. I love I love,
love love seeing that. And we'll talk about another one
that just got announced probably at the end of this list.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Okay, this Mina Lima box set. Did they come out
with a Mina Lima box set in the US or
it's just this Italian one.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
There are box sets. I don't know if they're just
in Italy. I don't know. I haven't looked on it, and.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I feel like I would. I would love that.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Also, I have heavy, heavy, heavy regrets of not getting
Prisoner of Azkaban signed, like a signed copy, because I
have the first two books, and then I just fell
off the wagon and didn't get it for Azkaban and
now I'm so mad at myself.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
That I didn't.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Had had I known that it was only going to
book three, I would have bought two and three signed
and I only got one. And I don't need one
two and three sign for me personally, but if there
were only three, I would have made the extra to
get all three, which.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
Was That's like one of the greatest disappointments of my
collecting so far as just not seeing the finishing of those.
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Yeah, I know, we I mean, we could do a
whole episode about how we feel about that, and in fact,
Carly and I did do a whole episode about that,
but it got corrupted or something and.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
We never That was when I had to update my
my audacity because it was apparently out of date and
it was acting out terribly.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
Yeah, so it's okay, it is what it is, all right.
This next set, obviously I feel like I need because
it's the new Slovak books with the side edge, and
I obviously feel like I.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Need those like it was it was made for you, really,
I think.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Because that's one set that I feel like I could
easily justify getting for myself because the Slovak twenty fifth
Anniversary box set is my absolute favorite set of books
on my shelves, and now we have a sprayed side edge,
which is like my favorite detail of all time.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
Like, come on, I'm writing, is it gonna get overused? Though?
That's what I worry about now.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Well, everyone's doing a.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Side edge, which I don't dislike. I think they're all
really cool as long as they're all different. I love it.
But I hope it doesn't get to a point where
that's just like a lazy fad that like we're gonna
have a blue side edge.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Well, and I think I figured out that we'll buy them.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
I mean, yeah, you know, and also I know I know,
but like it's not like they're doing something that like, hey,
I have a great idea that no one's doing. We
could do a side edge that's blue, Like, no, we've
already had that idea, Like all these people have done
that are well because green.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
This time, It's not like it can't be that expensive
to just do like a base sixtensiled sideedge or basic
sideedge like this, which I feel like they probably realize that.
I feel like if it was like a gilded side edge,
that would be like a different story. But I feel
like they're and this could be like a really good
episode that we could talk about next time. Are like,
what are fads that we want to happen in like
(31:17):
the book publishing world, like a gilded side edge, or
I would love to see the fad catch on in
the Harry Potter community of seven books in one volume, Like.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
We only have the one?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Where where are the other books? It's been done, we
know it can be done. Now, where where are the
other ones? Where are the other seven books in one volume?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Yeah? Come on, come on, Japanese, let's go, Oh my god,
can you imagine it.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Would be like my whole bookshelf the Japanese like a
coffee table size, Yeah, that would be I would it
comes like a roller bag like a roller airport bag.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
I would be disappointed if Bengali tried to do that,
because I don't think i'd buy I had that point, Yeah, no, no,
no I would.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
It would come it would combust as.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Soon as you open the but literally, like us, come on, like,
what are we doing? Why don't we Why isn't why
isn't this the thing? All right, there's a few other
ones I'm gonna like skip over that have come out
because I'm just like not the biggest into these, and
then I feel like I'm caught up the new Spanish
covers obviously, like I still have not gotten those, and
(32:27):
they're just amazing.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Do you know does Barnes and Noble sell those yet?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
No?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
If you want the hardcovers, you have to get them
from Amazon Spain. You can get soft covers from Amazon US,
but they're a different text bollock block, and they're soft
covers of the hardcovers, different text block. Yes, the span
the Spanish books are so complicated, so much more complicated
than we thought. But all right, so wait anyway, if
(32:55):
you want the hardcovers Amazon Spain.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So what would you recommend? You would recommend the hardcover
and then what text block is that.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
The most recent I think it's the Spanish, like still.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Spect Spanish Spanish text So then what.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Text block did they use for the paperbacks?
Speaker 3 (33:14):
Latin American, I believe.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Latin American, most updated Latin American text block, which I believe,
And don't quote me on this because I'm in the
midst of finding out what I have and what I
still need for those Spanish books. Oh but the most
recent Spanish book I have with the Latin American text
block has Johnny Devil cover art.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
And there's a new Spanish twenty fifth Anniversary that was
just released. Potter Glut picked it up. It's thinner. It
looks just like the twenty fifth Anniversary, but it's thinner,
and it's the Latin American text block. The one that
we got that's big and thick is the Castiliano I believe. Interesting.
(33:55):
So there's a picture that you posted. It's either on
Instagram or in the discord, but it'll show the two
and I really want both of those because the twenty
fifth Anniversary books are stellar.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Oh all right, we need to just have him on
the show again to go yes, yeah, because that's that's
a big enough announcement. We've talked about his new article
and just how much work goes into that and like
that needs to be discussed because it is just such
a bigger deal than any of us thought it would be.
(34:31):
And really it makes you think about like your collecting
criteria too, Like what do I actually collect now that
there's so many different variations?
Speaker 4 (34:38):
All right?
Speaker 3 (34:39):
Yeah, I know, And and there's a lot of Spanish knockoffs.
That's also something that has been made more prevalent.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean going along with that, Like, I don't know,
this is like and I guess another fad thing. It's
not going off exactly what you guys were said. Sorry,
my brain like works in like three different directions at once.
But the like the Brazilian Portuguese ones, how it's the
same as the Croatian covers, but it has like the spines.
(35:13):
Those are cool. I probably won't get those. Those are Croatian, Yeah,
but they're really cool.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
I'm I'm gonna be ordering the Brazilian box set shortly.
I found a set for I found a seller who
will sell them for not a whole lot of money.
Speaker 4 (35:25):
So if you want one, let me know how much
a whole not a whole lot of money is and
we'll chat. All right.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
There's two more that I want to talk about and
then and then I will feel up to date. One
is the fact that they did come out with an
English mean A Lima box set, which I probably will
get that.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
I just feel like.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
I feel like I owe it to menal Lima, you know,
and it looks so cool cool. Yeah, I probably will
buy that box set. That's really cool. And that's something
I feel like I might end up seeing it like
Target or something, So.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
If I do, if it does, we'll probably have a moment.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
Yeah yeah, yeah, like if that that ends up coming out,
like I will absolutely get that.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
That's really cool.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
And then the last one that I want to talk
about is another book that I got that I forgot
to talk about, so it brings it all full circle
is the Yiddish Chamber of Secrets because I got that
book from Eric.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
As a surprise. That was a nice surprise book. Oh yeah, Eric,
you could say what I got for you as a surprise.
Speaker 2 (36:38):
That was I I could. I think I said it already,
But I'd had that Yiddish book like sitting in my
house for months and I'm like, I'm always mail it
to Melanie and I'm like, no, I'm not going to
mail it to Melanie. But then there was this whole
conundrum of like do I check a bag going to
New York or just.
Speaker 1 (36:56):
Bring my well, because it was up in the eras
to whether or not I was going to be able
to make it out there, because not for nothing, I
had just like delivered a baby like two weeks prior
and was like, I.
Speaker 4 (37:07):
Was like, oh, I don't know if I could leave
him yet, but I ended up leaving him, right.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
But like I had this book for you, and then
we had a whole bunch of baby stuff for you,
and then we had stuff for your other kid, and
so like I had all this stuff, and I'm like, okay, well,
if if you go, I have to bring all this,
which I can't fit in my backpack with all my clothes,
like I'm going because I was only in New York
for two nights, I didn't need a huge suitcase. So yeah,
(37:32):
so Melanie's like, okay, well I think we're gonna go,
all right, So now I got to get a suitcase
so I gotta see this. But that actually turned out
to be smart because then I could bring the butter
beer bottles back see on the airplane. So I put
my like eighty BT teeny roly bag in like the
checked checks out. Everyone's big bags are clunking down on
the carousel in Minneapolis. Here comes in my like this
(37:52):
like little bag come to shoot down there is but
no so yeah. I had Chamber of Secrets in Yiddish
for Melanie and then Melanie hands me this this Sorcerer's
Stone softcover and I'm like, oh, that's cool, but cool
right away, Mela right away, right away, She's like, I'll
open it up. And it was a signed Mary grand
(38:15):
Praise book plate, which is just stellar. And I can't
decide where I want to display it yet it's still
in the book on the shelf. I feel like it.
Speaker 1 (38:23):
I don't know if I what's so cool about those
book plates and what is such a missed opportunity about
those book plates?
Speaker 4 (38:29):
Is I got a few of those.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
For like I had gone to a book event where
Mary grand Prey was there and it was Mary grim
Pray and Brian Selznik were doing like a Q and
A like coolest thing ever. Went into the city with
my mom for it, and like at the last minute,
Mary grand Pray canceled, but brian Selzinc was still there,
which again I'm like the biggest like Brian Selznik fan,
so I was like fangirling about it. But they said,
(38:58):
we're so sorry that Mary Grand Praise not going to
be here, so we're gonna mail you a book plate
whatever for your books that you would have gotten signed
by her. And I'm like, that's so cool. How many
can I get? And they were like, get however many
you want. I could have gotten so many of them.
I think I got four, and I think I could
(39:20):
have gotten like ten if I wanted to. That's very
responsible of you, though I know I know, but like,
come on, I could have gotten so many, but no,
or they're all they're all like accounted for now at
this point though they all are in theirs.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I am so grateful. That's something that like would never
even be on my radar, that like that would.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Have been a special you know, isn't that like a
special cool thing?
Speaker 2 (39:48):
So I'm trying to figure out how I want to
frame it or like what I want to put it
next to, because I want to put it next to
like a Mary Grand pray thing I have on the wall.
And the only one I have is that big like
stretched canvas of the cover, but I don't know if
I want to put it by that, So I might
just frame it by itself, but maybe try to like
mad it on something image. I don't know, so I
(40:09):
have some ideas because I want to put it next
to the signed askaband page that I got from Carly.
Oh that's cool because that would be because that's cool
because that's Mary Pray art on that. So like if
I could somehow get them like near each other, I
don't know, I have to maybe.
Speaker 3 (40:27):
You've gotten signed things from both of us.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
It is cute. You're You're next.
Speaker 1 (40:38):
I feel like my favorite like signed things that I have, honestly,
I mean I have. I have a bunch of signed
books at this point, like.
Speaker 4 (40:47):
So cool. I am, like my heart feels complete with
the books that I have signed.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
But my favorite signed things are probably the fact that
like I invited Mary grim Pray and Brian Sells next
to my wedding and they r s VP back and
I have like, oh, that's so cool, Like I think
Brian well, Marion grand Prey was like she wrote like
declines with regret, but was like but thank you so
much for the invitation, like she wrote something really sweet
(41:15):
and then Brian Selznick like his he drew a little
doodle on the rs VP back and then also sent
me like, you know the poster that has all of
the images whatever, yea, so he said yeah, when he
put all the books together, so he sent me that
with like a personalized thing to like me and my husband,
(41:36):
which that I still haven't gotten that framed, but like it.
Speaker 4 (41:40):
It's just like that. I have like the perfect spot
for it too. So I don't know sign like that.
I know, I know because it's such a cool thing
to have. I know I have a few things that
I have to get signed. I still have. I still
have the artists who did the Slovak books, like my favorite.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
Books ever did Adrian Macho.
Speaker 4 (42:04):
Adrian Macho, thank you again.
Speaker 1 (42:08):
I have like I have mom brain now, like I
went from pregnancy brain to mom brain and it's the
same kind of brain.
Speaker 4 (42:15):
He did.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
A like I have the original art of like Hagrid
holding Harry, which is the image on the back of.
Speaker 4 (42:27):
The book one.
Speaker 1 (42:28):
It's like my favorite, it's my favorite actual artwork that
he's done, and I want to frame that and put
that in my nursery because even though my nursery is
like Lord of the Rings themed, I still want to
put it in there. I feel like it would just
fit so nicely. Okay, this is a good way to
like wrap wrap this whole thing up.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Well, can I mention one more book?
Speaker 4 (42:49):
That mention one more book and then and then I'm
going to go back to that perfect.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Okay, because bell Russian Goblet of Fires going to.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Be and I want to do I want to order
that one, so if anyone wants to.
Speaker 2 (43:04):
But the really cool fun fact some people on our
discord did some digging and because those books being published,
it's not allowed anymore in Belarus. So they're actually publishing
them in Poland with Poland Polish ISBNs, and somehow they'll
have to get them back into Belarus, which I think
you can do pretty easily. I mean, they border each other,
(43:26):
so not gonna be too hard. But yeah, so they're
still publishing, which is so cool because that even though
they announced they weren't going to continue them in Belarussian,
which I mean my friend and colleague is from Belarus
and she speaks Russian ninety nine point nine percent of
the time and never Belarussian anymore and still is like
(43:47):
why are people wanting these? But there really is this
like cool like language identity, Like it's it's a different
place with a unique language, and we want to preserve that.
And the only way to do that is to keep
publishing things that people are in just it in much
like they're doing with Maori or that we're just talking
earlier about the Boss books, Like that's just so cool
(44:08):
that people are aware that we need to preserve these languages.
And what better way to do that than a book
that lots of people love to read.
Speaker 4 (44:19):
So m h yeah, okay, so I would love to order.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Way to Step Way to Step Up Poland yeah.
Speaker 4 (44:26):
That's awesome.
Speaker 2 (44:26):
That's what all I have.
Speaker 4 (44:27):
All Right.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
My final thought thing kind of wraps up into your
everything that you just said as well, and it relates
back to the slow Bok books.
Speaker 4 (44:36):
This is it's just amazing.
Speaker 1 (44:39):
How I want to end this episode is just by
thanking our listeners, but specifically wanting to thank our discord
members because one of the most like treasured things that
I received was a book that everyone contributed to that
has everyone's like Favoriterry Potter quotes in it and it
(45:01):
has a bunch of Harry Potter art and everyone like
kind of customized this book for me. They put that
Slovak artwork on the front of it of Hagrid holding Harry, which,
like I think everyone knows, is my favorite piece of
artwork on my shelves, so like that was the at
the front of everything. But also what was so cool
(45:24):
about it was Irone translated the quotes into Yiddish for me,
which was mind blowing and just so cool. Like I know,
I as I was going through it, I saw everything
like in Hebrew like on the bottom of him, like
that's really cool and thoughtful. And then to see that
Iron was the one that like translated everything, I was
just like so touched and taken aback by that, And
(45:47):
it was just the most wonderful it wonderful like preservation
of language, but preservation of my culture.
Speaker 4 (45:56):
That just was so so touching.
Speaker 1 (45:58):
That is going to be such a book for me
to like show my children. And I just wanted to
say thank you to our beautiful Discord members and to
you guys for that.
Speaker 4 (46:09):
It was just an absolutely stunning gift that I received,
So I love you guys.
Speaker 3 (46:15):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (46:17):
Yay yay.
Speaker 4 (46:19):
Well that was to you too. Also, I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
Also, oh yay, right, we do have we do have
an awesome community. And I released a little you know,
snippet for the New Year just and I'll probably actually
take down somebody just say it again, Like, it's just
such a cool thing to have other people like what
you like and talk about it with other people like
(46:43):
that that that's just so fun. We all felt so
kind of isolated in doing this very hobby, very niche hobby,
and it's it's just really really special to like see
people not only in the but in Canada and you know,
all over Europe now, just these other people that have
(47:05):
these same collections and same you know, desire, and people know.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
About certain books like I've I've loved learning about the
like the Spanish books. I've just learned so much, right.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
Well, and like the fact that people in our discord
did some digging to find out more about the new
book from Bell like that, Yeah, that's such cool information.
And I wouldn't have even thought to look it up, really,
but someone did, and because they did, we all have
this really great piece of information. So yeah, it's just
such a great community. And I just got to thank
(47:40):
everyone so much. It's just awesome. And we do this
because we love it, but we also know that other
people love it too, and that's just really awesome.
Speaker 4 (47:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (47:52):
So that's gonna wrap up season five, which this is
the first time I'm saying season five out loud. That's crazy.
Season five, Episode six of our podcast. I'm not gonna
say the whole spiel that we usually say at the end.
You guys know, you can message us. We're in a
ton of places.
Speaker 4 (48:12):
You know where they are. Just look up Dialogue Alley
and you'll find us. And that's it. That's all you
need to know.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
But with all of that being said, it's now time
to walk back through the archway and into your daily
lives and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Bye bye see yah
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