The 2025 German Books: Another Carlsen Masterpiece

Thanks for listening to Season 6, Episode 3 of Dialogue Alley! In this episode, Melanie, Carly, and Erik talk about:

News: More HBO updates
Carly took a trip!
New Book pickups

Main Segment: We discuss the 2025 German books from Carlsen. Germany has great books! 

Translation of the Show: Philosopher's Stone German 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Three, up, two across, tap that play button three times,
and walk through the archway into Dialogue ALI. Hello, and
welcome to Dialogue ALI, the Official Potter Collector podcast about

(00:21):
Harry Potter books, book translations, and all other things magical.
I'm Melanie, I'm.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Carly, I'm and I'm Eric and I was Early.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm confused.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I'm Eric and I'm confused.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Oh man, the three of us are Harry Potter book
translation collectors. It's the three of us, the three OG's,
the three of us are all back, it's all of
us together. We started this podcast to talk about Harry
Potter translations, and that's exactly what we're going to talk
about today. It's this season you reade season six, it's

(01:04):
season six.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh wow, already.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
It's season six, episode three of our podcast. It's crazy,
just time, just flies. I feel like COVID made us
go through this like weird time warpy situation and like
that's around when we started this podcast. So that's wild
season six guys.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
We so yeah, Like I said, we talk about Harry
Potter translations. We all three of us collect Harry Potter translations.
I also mentioned in that little intro that I said
that we're the official Potter Collector podcast, which is really cool.
Peter comes on our show like every now and then,

(01:48):
but he's a huge, uh voice behind our podcast. He
supports our podcast, he's our buddy. He's on when he cans.
He's also a busy bee. So, oh he's not here today.
We're gonna track him down and we're gonna get him back.
But he was just like on a really nice vacation.

(02:08):
Carly was just on a really nice vacation, and I
want to hear about some of your vacation in our news.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Yes, And that was a great segue, by the bye.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
So the HBO stills for the Harry Potter Show keep
coming in, and I am so excited. The more I
keep seeing the stills come out, the more I keep
getting more excited for the show. And I don't know
how much more I can keep saying the word more that.
I just saw several today of John Lithgow as Dumbledore.
I am not John let Gow. Yeah, John let Go

(03:06):
dressed as Dumbledore and I thought he looked great. Did
y'all see the stills? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Did? And there's there's also some uh like Dursley footage.
Oh wait, Vernon and Petunia and Dudley and then the
old guy that Dumbledore gets or that dumb Dumbledore that
Vernon Dursley gets the boat from to go to that
little miserable shack. Oh it looks cool. And again, I

(03:38):
don't know how much time we should spend talking about this,
because every week we record this, there's going to be
more and more coming out about it.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
I think it's I think I like to just mentioning
it because it's fun.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
It was fun.

Speaker 4 (03:54):
Excited about it again.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Images of John Letow, like I I've seen like a
lot of like AI images of what they anticee that
he was going to look like. So actually seeing him
like in full makeup and full Dumbledore beard and whatever,
I think he looks great, like I agree, very excited.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I agree. I feel like he looks like Granted I
met I met Dumbledore and all the characters through the
first movie, but I feel like he so I saw
the characters when I read the books from the movies.
I saw them when I read the books, But I
feel like he is a great depiction of Dumbledore from
the books. Like in my opinion, I feel like they

(04:39):
did the character justice. I would like your opinion because
all met the characters were through the books.

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Well, I feel like I feel like what what we
didn't have the opportunity to see originally with Dumbledore in
the movies was like the quirky weirdness of Dumbledore. Like,
sure we see him like eating some jelly, like some

(05:06):
birdybot every flavor beans with Harry like at the end
of the movie, and like those are like the silly,
little quirky things that we know about Dumbledore in the books.
You know, he's the one that wants to like talk
about his birthmark that's the London Underground, and he loves
sweets and loves jam and knitting patterns and stuff like that,

(05:26):
And like I feel like some of that stuff is
translated with Michael Gambon, But I feel like Michael Gammon
almost took it like too far where he was like
too quirky and in your face. And I feel like
Richard Harris was like a bit more subtle about his
dumble Doore. And I feel like I'm excited to see
John Lithgow hopefully like be that in between. I feel

(05:47):
like he's young enough portraying an ancient man that he's
gonna have like that Pep in his step. I am.
What is going to be the selling factor for me
is how they direct the mirror of aersaid scene when
Harry is sitting crisscross on the floor in front of

(06:08):
the mirror of Ira said, and Dumbledore sits crisscross next
to him. That to me is like the epitome of Dumbledore.
And we see that in the Jim k illustrated edition
of the Harry Potter books. But I have yet to
see that in action. And I am a movie yeah,
and I'm I'm hoping that we get that with John Lethgow,

(06:30):
so that'll be the.

Speaker 2 (06:32):
Truth you mentioned me. You mentioned he's younger playing an
ancient man. John let Go still seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
No, he's like he's like hampy, you know, I don't know,
he comes.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Off that way, like I know, you know, I know
he does. But like I keep thinking about that because
what happened with the Richard Harris casting, right, yeah, Like no,
you never know.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Though, like that anything can happen to any of them,
Like I hope everybody's.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Okay, Oh absolutely, And I think because this is a
like greenlit project all the way through. As far as
my understanding is that they can kind of film things
in any order they want, honestly, so who knows what
they'll do. Maybe they'll film a bunch of the Dumbledore

(07:17):
flashback scenes now, you know, and like, you might as
well do everything you can when you can do it
when everyone's there, so and he looks marvelous. See what happened.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
I was hoping while I was in London that I
was going to see, like maybe someone was going to
be filming some things, because I was going to totally
like ah, but I didn't see any of that. Malory
Chamber of Secrets. Malory Book two is coming out November.
I think.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
I know it's this fall.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
I think it is November.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'm really excited. It is much harder to get if
you live in the United States because the bookshops aren't
shipping here into the States right correct. They did when
Malory Book one came out. They're not shipping to the
States anymore that we found, So Malory Book two, if
you live in the States, is going to.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
Be harder to get your hands on.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
So there's possibly some workarounds, but just know that it's
going to be harder to get your hands on if
you live in the United States at this time, but
it is coming out. It is unique cover art, and
it's also a new scene. We've not had this scene
on any of the translations so far, and I'm real
excited about it. Lots of new scenes coming out on

(08:28):
the cover art. But what is the scene, Carly, I
don't know, Eric, it's the dueling like I like do Yeah,
the dueling club with snape in the background and Harry
and Draco are dueling each other.

Speaker 1 (08:47):
Cool. I don't think we have seen that, so that
is very cool.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I was kind of hoping because we have the book one,
which is also unique cover art, but it's kind of
an homage to the Johnny Dot cover art. It looks
very similar to that similar color palette. I was kind
of curious if they would continue that with book two,
and they absolutely did not. I'm very excited though that

(09:13):
it's very different, So I'm quite excited.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Well, you know what this means, Carly, You know what
this means. It's time to make some friends in the
Oceania region. I know that we can get these these books.
I know. Well, yeah, anyone live in Auckland. You want to?
I want to be my friend.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
For a day.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
What about Brody.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, we can. We can find people.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
We gotta touch We got to touch base with Brody
and see get these books. Well.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
But talking of what we were up to, Carly, yeah,
I you were on like a massive European I was.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
I went on a vacation. I went to Paris, Colonne,
Germany and London all amazing. How could it not be?
H and London. I went to the studio tour. I
finally got to do that. And I also saw the
Curse Child play. Everybody was right about telling me that

(10:28):
I needed to see the Curse Child play. That was
really hard to admit, really hard to admit, because I
have very hard feelings.

Speaker 4 (10:37):
Toward the Curse Child play. But it's really really well done.

Speaker 3 (10:42):
Like at least the character playing Scorpio in the London
production is so entertaining and so funny. He was hysterical,
really really delightful. And it was really well produced, really
well told story, even if it is not a well
written story fan fiction. Yeah, not a well written fan

(11:04):
fiction either, but and I'm gonna mean that'll be a
hill I die on, but really really well done, really
well done. I would definitely see it again, honestly.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
And it's coming to Minneapolis this season. I should I
should go. Yeah, I should just go.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
I can't believe I have seen it.

Speaker 1 (11:23):
I haven't seen it at all yet.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Did you know and it'll be yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Now you have to see it.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yeah, you do.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
A believer of like reading it. I was not the
medium that it's meant to be experienced, and you have.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
I was.

Speaker 3 (11:40):
I know, I was shocked.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
There's no excuse. It's twenty five minutes from my house.
There's no excuse for me to not.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
I was shocked at how much how sad I was
when the play was over. Honestly, I enjoyed it that much.
I've recommended people see it, and I've known several friends
that felt very similarly that have seen it several times
now and they really enjoy the play. I'll probably see
it again when I'm able to. I really enjoyed it.

(12:11):
It was just really cute.

Speaker 1 (12:14):
I've seen I think three times, so fun me. I
saw it once. I saw it in preview on Broadway.
Then I saw it with my family, and I saw
it with my one of my very good friends. So

(12:36):
I've seen it three Yeah, I've seen it those three times.
And then I do have tickets to see Tom Felton
as well, and.

Speaker 3 (12:44):
You have to tell me how that is. I'm so
jealous already.

Speaker 1 (12:49):
The second I saw that that was announced, I was like,
I have to see this. I have to.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Yeah, yeah you do.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
I can't not see this. Julie and I like the
whole that the tickets went on sale, were like back
and forth trying to get tickets. I think she and
she got her tickets for like November. I have to
check in with her and see if she's still going,
because that girl is pregnant, so and that's open news.
I'm not like that's no spoilers, because like, okay, gosh,

(13:18):
it's the most amazing thing of all time.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
But I don't know if you'd like us to do
a pregnancy announcement for any of you.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
I don't think she would mind. I don't think she
would mind. Julie's is like very open about it and whatnot.
So but I have to check in with her and
see if she's still planning on coming. So I'd love
to see her even if she's if she's here for
the day, so that's it. Yeah, I okay, how was
how was the studio tour?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
The studio tour was very overwhelming in a very good way. Yeah,
I took so many I took so many pictures. I
haven't even been able to like go through all of
them yet because I took so many pictures. I ate
butter beer ice cream. They have like a little restaurant
in the middle of the tour, and I took butter beer.

(14:08):
I ate butter beer ice cream because.

Speaker 4 (14:10):
Of course you do that.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
I don't know what else you would do. I did
not get anything at the Frog Cafe, and I'd planned
on getting like everything at the Frog Cafe, but I
also wanted to make sure to save room for that
chocolate cake that I set you guys pictures of, and
I wanted to make sure to get that the next day.
So I had to eat desserts sparingly, is what it meant,

(14:36):
so you know, and I wanted to save room for
butter beer ice cream. That had to happen. The menus
were really really cute. They were doing the dark arts
and death theaters thing was the theme, and they matched
the menus at the cafeteria or the eating restaurant place
thing for the theme, which is really cute, Like have

(14:58):
you seen this? Like some of them years were like
have you seen this fish or whatever like something like that.

Speaker 4 (15:04):
It was really cute.

Speaker 2 (15:05):
Elson you guys, have you seen this fountain beverage? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (15:08):
It was. It was stuff like that, Yeah, it was.
It was things like that. And they had the eating
hall done up like the Great Hall with like floating
candles and stuff like that. And my friend that I
was traveling with, yvonnehusband to the studio tour quite a
bit like in the teens now and even she said
it's changed every time she goes in, and that's really

(15:31):
cool like they are. She said, it's never been the
same tour every time she goes through, so that's really
nice that they do change it up that much. There
were it was just so overwhelming. It's like in a
good way, but so overwhelming. I got my picture taken
with a death Eater like a selfie. They were like,

(15:54):
aveda can have bring me like from behind and I
was like, thanks.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
But tell me quick for this picture'at they were like,
what was neat is they had people coming through like
they had the dead theaters coming through and doing like.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Combat type moves and they were explaining that someone on
a mic, explaining why they were why they did it,
like that for the movie. Why they picked that type
of like those stanzas for the combat and stuff like
that for the the fight scenes and whatnot. And I
thought it was really interesting and how is more engaging,

(16:31):
more interesting for the eye, how they incorporated it, what
you know, everything that they did, like how they made
the movies more interesting for people to watch. And I
know we've talked about how we're much more like a
book podcast than we were movie podcast.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
But.

Speaker 3 (16:49):
Going through the studio tour like that just made me
realize completely how much work they actually put into the movies. Eric,
don't put your wind up your nose.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
I'm not a troll, No, I'm that's really cool to
hear that they changed the tours around, because why wouldn't
they They have so much stuff, I know, That's what
I just keep thinking that they have so much stuff,
so many set these worth of stuff.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Like Yvonne said she got to go through like Umbridge's
office was out on tour at one point to go
walk through it wasn't anymore like at all. I got
to see different parts like that, had some parts from
the ministry out that the Aragog.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
Yuck. I would not have enjoyed that.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
No, it was. It was very magnophobic. I did walk
through that that part, but it was my blood pressure
even my my my watch was like your heart rate
is raised, and it's like, I know.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
How many people were in your group?

Speaker 3 (17:59):
We got there for the one o'clock tour, so however
many of that was I don't know. But the night
bus they have these like.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
Ten people are like fifty people like I have no
the sizes of the group.

Speaker 3 (18:11):
I have no idea, like I honestly don't know how
that works. I know that we gave them our ticket
and they said, cool, come on. We filled the theater
like a small little theater. They tell you how the
tour is going to go. Then you step they have
you walk through like the theater thing falls down and

(18:33):
you walk through the screen, and then they have you
in an enclosed room.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
You're not allowed to take pictures of that.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
And then they have people come on and explain how
it's gonna go. And then there we see Peter. He's
one of the characters like as there at the end
of explaining la tour and how it's going to be,
and we you know, hear from JK. Rowling and the
actors and all of that and people from the tour.
Then they have some of the influencers and whatnot. They're

(19:06):
also chiming in and then Peter's in with a group
of people on the top left and it was like, hey,
I can't take a picture, but I know that one.
So that was cool.

Speaker 5 (19:17):
I know.

Speaker 3 (19:18):
I was like, hi, Fran, but I didn't do that.
I remember myself. It was the Grengotts Bank was really incredible,
like really incredible. The Great Hall was done with all
the pumpkins coming down and like raising up. They had
the ghosts costumes they had it was just really cool.

(19:40):
They had the stairs, they had the Chamber of Secrets door,
so many things, so many things that have Hogwarts Bridge.
I mean, I don't know. I just need to send
you guys all my pictures and y'all can just see. Okay,
it's like several hundreds.

Speaker 2 (19:57):
I mean, I'm down.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
What was neat is that when they started, when the
kids were making movie one, they had the trio. They
had them like their handprints and uh plaster, and so
their handprints are there at the tour as well. Yeah,
so I.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Should have made them do it again at the last
movie because they would have had bigger hands. That would
have been kind of fun.

Speaker 3 (20:25):
Actually, yes, so that was. It was just it was
such a magical day. And they have these buses that
pick you up from like this specific site by the
train station because the train like the studios are kind
of in a suburb area of London area. They're not
in downtown London obviously, so they have this one of

(20:48):
their like double decker buses pick you up. And the
one that picked us up was like done up like
the night bus, I know, and it's like, oh, this
couldn't be any better. And then Tom Felton is the
one who was like he made a short video that
played while we were on the way to the studios.
They have a Starbucks that's inside when you go in,

(21:09):
and then they have like the Frog Cafe is further
back when you walk in, which is where I went
because dessert, and yeah, we just waited for it to
get closer too, because we were early. We've got we
waited for it to get closer to our time. And
then once you're there, you just kind of you can

(21:31):
stay as long as you would like. And I took
I was there like I think Yvonne had planned to
be done a little bit earlier, but I hadn't been
there before. I was really wanting to see everything. They
had like hagrids, you know, giant animatronic head which I
was like, oh, Melanie has to see this.

Speaker 4 (21:52):
So I took several photos, thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
And they had Yeah, they had so many, like here's
how we did the beasts, and here's how we did
the bath lisk, and here's how we did this, and
here's how we made it feel like all slimy and
NOOKI and here's how we did this. Here's the wax
figure from hermione and when she was down in the
water and that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
That's so cool.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
It was at some point you can walk through the
privet drive and they had the the scene from like
when Harry blew up at March. It was great.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
Yeah, just sounds great. Well, and I know you picked
up some books too on your trip.

Speaker 3 (22:33):
Which is the understatement of this whole podcast. I had
to get a second back.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
Can just go through all the stuff you picked up, please.

Speaker 3 (22:45):
So part of the trip actually came to be because
of the German Harry Potter books, which if we want
to go into the segment now we can oh, I
got book mail. I want to tell about your book mail.

Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, tell me about the all the other books and
then German books and then we'll talk more about it.

Speaker 3 (23:03):
I got French books in France, which was really fun.
Like we went to the we found this great French bookstore.
It was called Jibert Joseph in Paris, and they had
the new Harry Potter art.

Speaker 4 (23:18):
Who buy Stefan Fair. They had the box set.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
I really wanted to buy the box set that's alib Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Jibert.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
That's probably the same story.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
Same store, same store.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
There were like three of them, and I went to
all three.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
Yes, and they're so good. Their prices are perfect. That's
where I found like the Beatle the Bard, the Hogwarts
school box set.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yeah, they were so good.

Speaker 4 (23:46):
I bought the Hogwarts.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
School box set with the fun cover art, and then
I bought the Hogwart or the beatleed Bard that has
the US cover art because I don't know what my
problem was. It was two euros and I think I
wanted to spend two euros on that book, and then
I bought I had to talk myself out of that

(24:09):
new cover art box set because they had it we
don't get to see those box sets often.

Speaker 4 (24:16):
What else did I buy?

Speaker 3 (24:18):
I bought a Spanish book in London, and I bought
a Danish book in London, the Danish. The Danish book
that I bought in London was the Brian Selznick Danish book.
I tried to buy that off several Danish websites and
had failed because they weren't in stock. And I found

(24:40):
it it foils in London and bought it, and then
I I know. And then I bought a Count of
Money Cristo in French in Paris. I actually didn't. It's
my I love the Count of Money Crysto. It's one
of my favorite books. And I didn't have a French
copy because I had readmine so much. The I guess
it fill apart years ago. So I bought a really

(25:04):
cheap version of that there that weighs like all the pounds.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
What else did I buy?

Speaker 2 (25:12):
And then I'd tell, did you get any half blood
Prince books with the air on the page that's worth?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
I did not priceless?

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Pricelessly, I did not buy.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Any priceless books I bought. No, there were none of
those bought, although a few of those may have been
seen what else. I really had to be very careful
with my book buying because I'd sent Yvonne a whole

(25:47):
bunch of books over the past nine months or so
to her house that she was bringing to us to
meet up with. So I knew I had to get
those back already. And that was already like probably fifteen
books there that I knew I was going to have
to bring back, so and then I knew I was

(26:10):
going to get the new German books, so I already
knew I was going to have a lot of books
to bring home.

Speaker 4 (26:15):
So I was very careful.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
And then I had to buy a new suitcase anyway,
I had to do that.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
When I went to Europe, I did the same thing.
I also bought an extra suitcase and it was literally
like the souvenir suitcase. Because yep, we got so much stuff.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
The amount of talking myself out of stuff was immense,
especially at Foyles the Foils and Charing Cross. The language section,
not the Harry Potter section. The language section is where
they had all of these Harry Potter books that I
had to talk myself out of. They had Italian and
Greek and Korean and Danish and they had I'd sd

(26:55):
put pictures on a ball in all of my stories
because I hadn't seen so many of them in the
wild before. You know, even though I had them, I
wanted to buy them, and you know, it was just fun.
So I had to knock myself out of more books
than I bought. I'm proud of myself for that. But

(27:15):
it was really fun, really fun.

Speaker 2 (27:18):
It's still super difficult to like, see all the books
in the wild that we don't see here. I know
I own this, but I want to buy it again.
And I don't know why that feeling happens.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
If they would have had a Brian Selznick Italian, I
would have bought a Brian Selznick at least book one
Italian because I really love their cover, the way that
they render things, and I would have wanted a Brian
Selznick Italian book. But they only had the Brian or
they only had the Johnny Duddell Italian, and I really

(27:49):
didn't care for that one as much. So I wasn't
super pressed for that one, so I put that one
back like a good girl.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Well, why don't we just talk about the full box
set that you did buy?

Speaker 3 (28:05):
Carly, Well, it's not a box set because it's not out.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
It was Wow, that's true. Yeah, why don't we talk
about the full.

Speaker 3 (28:13):
Set of back Part of my trip was going to Germany.
I went to Cologne, Germany or Kne and I bought
German the German books one through seven from Talia bookstores.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
So and should we discuss those, yes, further, I.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Think we shall.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
Yeah, So that was part of that was actually how
going to Germany came to be is Originally the trip
was going to be I go to I flying to London,
I meet up with Yvonne. We were getting go to
Paris for a few days, go to London for a
few days, and then I was going to fly home.
And then one night Yvonne and I were talking about
the trip and she was like, you know you're going

(28:57):
to be going there, like right around the time the
new German books are out. Shall we just, you know,
spend a few days in Germany and go get them?
And I was like, yeah, why not, I've not got
to do that before. So she looked at the she
found the cheapest tickets on the Eurostar to any German city.

(29:17):
We didn't care what German city from Paris, and that's
how we picked clone. If I figured they're gonna have
diet coke German food in a bookstore, so yetta da,
you know, not super picky, so and they did. If

(29:39):
we got into the we threw our bags in the
hotel around two o'clock. They let us check in early.
We were at the bookstore at like two thirty and
we had our books checked out and back in the
hotel throw it, not throwing the books, but putting the
books very carefully in the room at like maybe four.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
And then you went back to Paris.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
No, nope, but that was like the first thing we did
before we did anything.

Speaker 2 (30:11):
Else at everything we can do here.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
And it was such a precious bookstore. It was big,
and it kind of looked like a Sims building if
you've ever played The Sims because it had this giant
melting ice cream on the top of it. And it
was a bookstore. But it was part of the Neimacht,
so I'm sure there's an ice cream shop somewhere in
the mall there. But the bookstore was like three or

(30:37):
four maybe five levels. It was tall, and Harry Potter
was on the first floor up from the ground level
and they had this whole section that was just Harry Potter.
They had like mannequins and robes, and they had licensed
Doore mats and that's actually what it said for the

(30:59):
sign was licensed or mats. And they had a Harry
Potter waffle maker, and they had pencils and all this merchandise.
They had wands. I'd actually never seen like a lot
of Harry Potter wands sold at a bookstore before, like that,
like a lot.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
And it was You're like, I've never thought of Harry
Potter wand's being sold at a bookstore and you blew
right past the Harry Potter waff lion, like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
No, I thought that was weird too. It was we
have been on. It was really cool to see the
Jim Kay like the illustrated edition there because it's just
differently similar. So I had to take a picture. And
the book displays were so nice. They had, you know,
the old school, the Sabinaville Haam old school, like first

(31:49):
edition saw soft cover. They didn't have the hardcovers of those,
but they had the soft covers. Then they had the
twentieth anniversary Yacopo Bruno books and it was like, oh,
they're and they looked so lovely next to these guys,
and I'm they had the five pound all volume one.
I was like, good, I'm glad that guy's there. And

(32:11):
then they had you know, these guys would.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
Be a hard one for me to like pass on
if I saw it in the wild, even though I
have a copy. I feel like that would be one
that I would be like, oh my god, I have
to get that book in Germany, even though like there
are so many German editions of these books, but that
book is so cool and it's so.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
It is it is, and so you know, I was.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
Travel around with that book, like I thought that'd.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
Be wild, but I would love to pretend that I'm
reading it.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Like on, I know, right, it was so excuse me, sorry,
it was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (32:46):
We happily water, yeah, I'm reading all of Harry Potter
right now.

Speaker 3 (32:53):
And we happily walked up to the counter with our
books like we were so proud of ourselves. You know,
we paid for them. They had a few of like
the Tails of Beatle the Bard and the German Tails
of Beatle the Bard, and they have a quidditch they
have different cover art and they are so cute, so
Yvonne got those.

Speaker 4 (33:13):
I already have the tails of.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
Beatle the Bard with the German cover, so I didn't
have to worry about that. And we were so proud
we had They have these nice canvas tote bags that
they put them in, so we WoT We marched back
prep very proudly to the hotel with two canvas totes,
one on each shoulder, and yeah, it really was. And

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then we had to repack the books later, and our
suitcases weighed so much. One of my wheels was broken,
which is a whole different story, but it made wheeling
it a nightmare. But you know, it was fine, It
was fine. And yeah, and in fact, I made a

(33:57):
video about these books, the new German books that I
put out the other day, and I had to bring
out the all in one because it's just too cool.
Not you can't just leave it out.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
Like.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Carlson the publisher, these books are just one of many
in a long line of phenomenal books like you can't
not they they're just they just always make good books.
And having seen like a German bookstore where they've I've
seen some of their other books like that aren't Harry Potter.
They just make good books, Like they just make good

(34:30):
books full stop.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Why don't we talk about the newest ones that you
specifically went to Germany to get, Like, let's talk about those.
Did you get all seven?

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I got all seven? I got all seven. I couldn't not,
you know, because the shipping was gonna be as much
as my train ticket, so I may as well just go.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
So, if you haven't guessed, our main segment is about
the newest seven Harry Potter books from Germany. And nothing's
different about the translation as far as we know.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
No, it's still the Klaus Fritz translation. It's just in
wonderful cover art, wonderful new cover.

Speaker 2 (35:15):
Art, which new cover art, which this This is kind
of like our main segment and the translation of the show,
because one of the books we're going to talk about,
like our translation of the show is Book one, Philosopher's
Stone in German in this new set of seven. But
so I think we should maybe like do the tots

(35:36):
now and then just kind of talk about tots kind.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Of leads into the rest of the books, like when
I'm because like do it, like Book five, Book five
is such a book. It is the book five has

(36:14):
brand new cover art. There are two new scenes in
these seven books, you guys, Book five and Book two.
Book five has this great moment where the trio are
going down into the Ministry of Magic in the phone box.
The color pellet used is so much fun. And the illustrator,
George Katsutis, he uses these really cool frames and all

(36:35):
seven books where he's always framing out like the main
illustration with usually columns or something going on, and the
title always fits nicely up in the top upper or
the top middle, and he is so brilliant. He draws
your eye very very well to what's going on in
the middle, but going what's going around the middle is
also very very good. We have silhouettes of like ministry

(36:58):
wizards down here going on in nice colors. The red
is so vibrant. We have nice pastels going on and
through here. We have a really nice maroon, and we
have you know, nice lighting here. He does nice things
with light. And then we have the memos going around
because they can't use owls, it got messy, but the
mimos are really nice pops of color that really do

(37:21):
bring out the other colors that are going on here
in this scene, and the publisher is down here in
the fencing, and we have the spine. One of the
things that the illustrator did is he put a character
that was salient in the book on the spine. The
spine character on book five is Umbrage, which makes loads

(37:41):
of sense. And I do we don't see Umbrage a
whole lot because she's terrible, but also she's a great
character to have on the spine here and I really
do like his Umbrage. And we have the publisher at
the bottom, and we have one of the prophecies up
here at the top and it's just of gold foiling
on the back. We have Luna and in the carriage

(38:05):
with Cathstril and she's reading the Quibbler. Like it's just
new moments, man, new moments on the books.

Speaker 6 (38:11):
I'm so excited, I mean, and that's that I think
is what is what's so cool to me is that
we're finally and this just seems like more recently, we're
finally getting these new scenes.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I know from from not just German books, but from
a lot of other books that are being or translated
or just re released in different language, that they're finally
picking a different scene. They're like let's hey, let's do
that Ford Anglia again for Chamber of Secrets. And someone goes,
you know what, you know what, Tim, We're gonna pause
on the car and we're gonna do something else.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
Yeah. Change, We're gonna do the death Day party, which
is exactly what George Katsuitis did. But what else?

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Oh, go ahead, Carly. I finished talking about that, and
then I think I think you should go through. Just
go through for the people that haven't seen them, just
what the main image and who's on the spine of
all seven that these are? Yes, so you finish what
you were saying first, though, I have so.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Much to say about these books, and it's all out
of orders.

Speaker 4 (39:10):
Why I apologize.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
I'm really excited about them because they're so well done,
and I can't say that enough. The books are just
wonderfully buttery soft. But they're not the buttery soft that's
gonna leave smudgies. It's not that kind of buttery soft.
It's just a buttery soft. The texture is delightful.

Speaker 2 (39:38):
I do love good delightful cover.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah, like I spent like I My video for these
books was almost forty minutes long, four zero minutes long
for just these seven books, because there's so many wonderful
things to say. It's the longest review video that I
think I've done for any anything.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
That's amazing well, and we'll definitely link that to this
show because I think for people that want to see
these books, as we're talking.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
There's so many help, so many good things to say.
I can only think of one thing that would have
made it better, and we can get into that later.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
Perfect. Well, let's let's just start with book one picture wise,
so I guess we can talk about the cover art
or interpretation of the cover art that We're going to
go way out of order on this. So we all
have a copy of book one. Carly has all seven,
Melanie I only have book one, but we can talk
about the cover art. So the cover art of book
one is, like Carly mentioned, framed in this beautiful arch

(40:39):
and it's Harry on platform Actually, no, he's on a
platform nine and three quarters. I think he's at the
Hogsmead train station to be honest, because you can see
the castle in the background. But it's Harry in the
train with headwig on his arm. In the background you
can see Hogwarts and it's just spectacular. The back cover
image is the gang getting a fairy to across the

(41:01):
lake and their little boat. So that's Harry, Ron, Rmione
and Neville and their little boat. And then the character
on the spine for book one is Professor McGonagall.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
I love that she's getting some airtime. She's such an
important character to this whole story.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
And I love that.

Speaker 3 (41:21):
And I don't know if this is what train station
this is at, but I love that it looks like
it's fall season because you can see the leaves turning
on the trees.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
I would anticipate it's hogs met Yeah, so I'm if
we're giving this a score, obviously, for me, it's an outstanding.
It's so amazing if we're if we're just talking about
book one, but I'm pretty sure all of these would
be so, yeah, outstanding, I think across the board. So Carly,
what what would the like? What what are what's on

(41:56):
book two? Let's book two?

Speaker 3 (41:59):
Book two? The death day party And that's a unique scene.
We've not had that but any here we go, Melanie,
We've not had this on any.

Speaker 4 (42:09):
Translation to date.

Speaker 1 (42:10):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (42:11):
And what is fun is you know, Book two is
not my favorite book of the series. It's probably my
least favorite, but this is one of my favorite moments
of the whole series because it's so unique and it's
it's such a nice moment and kind of a weird story.
And what I really like is how well it's represented.

(42:33):
You see this weird food going on, like it looks
really terrible, and you see like Hermione is like kind
of interested, Harry is like what you know, looking around interestedly,
and Run's like not happy at all, which I think
kind of fits what went on. You see the ghosties,
you see cobwebs, you see spider webs. You see it

(42:53):
looks like a very haunted place, you know. And it
and again the illustrator has framed it out using this
wonderful arch way, and we have these chains that kind
of outline the title of the book. And we have
great bricks, and we have torches, and we have again
some blues and browns because it's you know, in the castle,

(43:15):
but the colors makes sense. It is Dumbledore fox but
I like the foxes there. Yeah, And we get the
car on the back. We have a Ford Angli on
the back and he's flying over big bed.

Speaker 1 (43:28):
It's still made. It it's still made it it's just
on the back, yep.

Speaker 2 (43:32):
And that was for you, Tim, whoever Tim?

Speaker 7 (43:36):
The and Book three is one of my favorite book
threes of all time from the translations, because of the
color palette, the color palettes.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
It's like this dark, purply pinky green and it looks
so beautiful. And I know, I really like that Trader
doesn't spend a lot of time on faces, but he's
great at at still putting people in moments. I love
how elegant Buckbeak's wing is. It's so pretty. I love

(44:12):
the purply goldish brown of the trees and the light
green and the foresty scene. I love the colors. Used
it is that it doesn't show up as well and
on camera or picture like it really like when you
see it in person, it'll it's it makes you go wow.
And then on this spine.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Trelawney, it's definitely not going to be serious black who
is the prisoner of Azkabhan?

Speaker 3 (44:45):
Like it wouldn't be no way no, But we've got
a patrona's here. And then the illustrator also puts a
little thing up here as well, and it's a it's
the time turner and this thing right here is also
going to be at the spine art and on the
copyright or on the title page. Awesome, And it's different
for each book. Check on the back. It's of course

(45:08):
The Night Boss. I know, so really really fun there.
Book four is very different. I love Book four because
of how different it is. So Book four, I'm a dragon.
But what I love about it is that dragon. I

(45:31):
love that we see this moment on a lot of
different book fours. But what I love is that the
illustrator has used color to reflect how dark the story
is gotten without giving anything away. Like, if you know
the story, you know it's getting darker, and if you
don't know the story, it looks super exciting. We see standards.

(45:52):
He's fighting a dragon. Harry is going, what have I
gotten myself into? There's probably an egg or something glowing
like either way, it's really well done. If you know
what's going on, well done. If you don't, well done,
he's you know, the other books beforehand were really bright
and colorful. This one is not. It's much darker. So

(46:15):
again he's using color to tell the story without giving
anything away, so we know it's getting darker.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
I can the spine, Yes, Moody, Moody perfect.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
And a mermaid.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
It's not Moody, it's it's Barti crouched.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Oh, Barty crouch. Well, I said Moody in the video.
But it's a mermaid on the spine as well.

Speaker 2 (46:43):
Man.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
And it's the goblet of fire cub, which makes sense.
And then what is neat is that on the back
we have the derm string ship and bo Batan's carriage.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Oh. I love that.

Speaker 3 (46:56):
And I love the chocolatey browns.

Speaker 4 (46:58):
The chocolady brown is so pretty.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
Yeah, and it goes so well with the colors used prior,
even though it's like one is a lot more elegant
than the other. We've already talked about book five, so
I don't have to do that much. You really want
me to again? No, no, no, here's books six.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Fine, Okay, that's what I was gonna Saybridge.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Attention.

Speaker 3 (47:28):
Book six is a moment we've seen before and lots
of other ones, but again done very differently. This is
a very like in person. There's a lot of purple, bright,
orange and red. It doesn't like videos and photos don't
do it justice at all at all. And I actually
prefer this to any other Book six with this moment

(47:50):
on it. And one of the things that this illustrator
does so well is like Harry's down here in dark,
Dumbledore is up here in light, and he uses to
offset the dark character. So he uses like light and
dark to offset his characters, very very very well. We
can see how powerful Dumbledore is by how much light

(48:11):
he's producing. The cave is so well lit up, and
you can see those awful things in the cave.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
I'm guessing it's snape.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
On the spine. Oh, I was gonna guess. Don't tell me.

Speaker 3 (48:26):
Yeah, but we have a centinaur as well.

Speaker 2 (48:31):
Don't spoil it for book seven. I want to guess too.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
And then we have.

Speaker 1 (48:35):
It's going to be Voldemort.

Speaker 3 (48:36):
We have the Half Blood Prince book as well as anybody.
So on the back we have the Caboose.

Speaker 2 (48:43):
I love a good caboose. I'm a big band of
the caboose.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
So this is one of my favorite books.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
When he got rid of him, I was all sad.

Speaker 3 (48:54):
This is one of my book It's like, it's all white.
It is all white. It's the White Dragon. And I
love how the illustrator has shown movement here. We have
the column collapsing here, we can see the hairs of
the dragon flowing up really fast, so you can see
there's a lot of quick movement going on in this moment.

(49:15):
There's a lot of golden here. It's not gold foiling,
but there's a lot of gold here going on. Yeah,
it's not gold foiling, but there's a lot. You can
see this as marble. It brings out like the black
behind here brings out the gold of the title here.
And the dragon definitely looks like he's blind because of
the way that I looks the black behind the white

(49:39):
dragon is. It makes the dragon set off so well.
We have Voldi on the spine.

Speaker 1 (49:45):
I knew it.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
We have the Duffy Hallows and the Harry.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Potter himself is not featured on a single spine.

Speaker 3 (49:54):
And that you're gonna love the back image. It's Hagrid
and and and we have Hedwig.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Two Harry's in the sidecar.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
I know, it's.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
Such a great moment.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
A thing. I don't know if I like about that
because Hedwig flying, that's a movie thing that is not
a book things.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Hedwigs not in the in the bike is when you
know Hedwig.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
Hedwig was in cage and at Harry's feet and she
gets struck there like that what happened.

Speaker 3 (50:39):
I liked this moment because I really liked how the
white shone against the gray.

Speaker 1 (50:44):
I like, it's beautiful.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
But that's I can see your thing too. But yeah,
so that's that's it.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
I'm not buying the rest of the books. I still
will too.

Speaker 3 (51:01):
What else is neat is that the end papers are
all this color here. Well, it's it's a really pretty
like nobody's watching it, and what I would kind of
like part of me wishes they were all slightly different colors.

(51:24):
But I also like how the in papers tie everything
together as well, and the d papers go so well
with the gold foiling of the Harry Potter title. I
think it ties everything together very well.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
It's also not a very like yellowy gold. It's like
a copy.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
No, it is a coppery gold. So it goes so
well with it goes so well with that title.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
It goes so well with the.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
D papers, and it it keeps.

Speaker 1 (51:49):
It is that foiling consistent across all the books, Like,
are all of them that same coppery colored foiling? Are they?

Speaker 7 (51:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (51:55):
The more of like a yellow No, it looks to
be the same from what I see.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Cool. That's really cool. I love that, and that's very
unique in itself.

Speaker 3 (52:04):
Yeah, because again it keeps the same thing going throughout,
even though the cover art is so different.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
All right, here's my next question. And you're gonna have
to pick up book one for this.

Speaker 3 (52:38):
Oh no, hold on about.

Speaker 1 (52:42):
Does it smell.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Well?

Speaker 3 (52:45):
I just smell Book seven, but I'll smell Book one.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
I think it smells amazing.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
I like the smell.

Speaker 1 (52:53):
You don't like it? I love it. I mean it's
getting I'm gonna say.

Speaker 3 (53:05):
I'm gonna say, exceeds expectations for.

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Me, thinking exceeds expectations. Hold up, pulled up, pulled up?
I inhaled too, hord.

Speaker 2 (53:19):
See. I'm I'm only going to give it an acceptable
I'm having exceeds, Okay, exceeds expectations. I think acceptable for me.
I think it's a good smell. Though it's not a
bad smell, but I don't think it's so.

Speaker 3 (53:34):
Book five spells slightly different than Book one.

Speaker 4 (53:37):
It's not as strong.

Speaker 1 (53:41):
No, I I like it.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Gotta go shopping.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
I guess all right, size and proportions of this book,
I'm giving it an outstanding. I love that it's like
it's quite large.

Speaker 3 (53:53):
It's the same thing that we get with all the
German books. I love the sides and proportions of Germany.

Speaker 1 (53:57):
Yeah, and I will say, like we'll get into it
when we talk about quality of the book, but yeah,
I'm gonna go outstanding when it comes.

Speaker 2 (54:06):
To size and proportions me too.

Speaker 4 (54:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:10):
Amazing how the book feels in your hands, Like if
there was an outstanding plus, it would get an outstanding plus.

Speaker 3 (54:17):
We can create one right now because.

Speaker 1 (54:19):
It's Yeah, it has a slightly curved spine so that
fits into your hands super well. The texture of the
foiling against the matte finish of like the buttery saut
finish on the front. Like I just want to keep
rubbing my hands over the logo because it sticks just
a little bit and it feels so good and it's

(54:39):
it does. It's just amazing. Honestly, this book feels fantastic
in the hand. Also, Carly was showing before, because of
the curved spine and the way that this book is bound,
it folds completely open flat without putting back in your spine, which.

Speaker 3 (54:57):
And Book five does the same book five days.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
Yeah, So if it can, if it can be consistent
across like that's one of like the best things that
in the hand this book, it's this book is meant
to be read, which is just amazing.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
So multiple times, yeah, like yeah.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
Outstanding plus, it's phenomenal and again quality an outstanding plus.
And this is what I was going to get into
is we have seen this consistently with Carlson across the
board when it comes to the quality of their books,
Like they clearly put attention into their books so well,

(55:42):
I I've never gotten something from Carlson that I didn't
like other than a box. The physical actual box for
their box sets are usually a little bit lacking in
the quality side, but the books themselves are always absolutely unreal.
Corners are crist spine is curved. Did I say?

Speaker 2 (56:05):
What?

Speaker 1 (56:05):
What did I say?

Speaker 2 (56:06):
Did you? Did you see what I wrote in the
notes next to the publisher.

Speaker 1 (56:09):
Of this for the Carson Dash still the best like
on these they really are. And also not for nothing,
Carlson keeps giving the audience what they want, Like all
it would take is Scholastic to be like, hey, let's
give these people new cover art, Let's give him this,

(56:31):
let's give him that, And we would feel the same
way about Scholastic. But they don't. They just keep repeating
the same Merry Ground Prey. And not to say that
I don't love the Merry Grind Prey covers, but we
just keep getting the same cover art with let's put
a little bit of foiling, let's put a sprayed side edge.
I'm gonna tell you something. This book does not have
a sprayed side edge. It doesn't need to be trendsy.
All it needs is to be a good quality book

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with beautiful cover art. And that's what it's going to
take for us to give these books like such high rate.

Speaker 3 (57:00):
This book, I wished it would have had a ribbon
book mark is the one thing like I think if
it had his right sidedge, it would have been too
busy if I'm being honest, Yeah, I agree with that.
But I would have loved like a like a ribbon bookmark.
The color of this red right here, Oh my goodness,
that would have.

Speaker 1 (57:19):
Been Yeah, that would have been really nice. But that
would have been the book.

Speaker 3 (57:25):
No, not at all. I'm not going to take away
points for it. I just would have added points for it.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
Yeah. Cover art interpretation with cover art obviously is an outstanding.

Speaker 3 (57:37):
Well and what I like is that I feel like
I feel like the illustrator actually read the books because
he pulled the death Day party out. He pulled the
scene for like books.

Speaker 1 (57:47):
And I've had like flying next to Hagrid he stop, yeah,
I guess so, and was like, you know what, maybe
watched the movie for the last one the movie. But
I like that.

Speaker 3 (57:59):
I feel like he read the material, even if he
did conflate some some that like that one.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
All right, that's fine. I obviously I am giving in
an outstanding And this is my biggest reason as to
why is I look at all the Carlson books, the
books that stand out the most to me thus far
before these books are obviously those twentieth anniversary books. The

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steampunk vibe with them, the way that they went like supered,
like edgy and industrial, but like every book was so cohesive,
yet each one was different. Those books are one of
the best book sets or just sets in general that
have been translated period. They're one of the best sets

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that we have. This set is not far off from
that in the vibe, the overall vibe that we get.
I love the different character on each fine, I love
the different details like it the okay we have the
Key on this one, but then we have this little
the Mermaid on this one. You know, each one is

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a little bit different, and those are the ones that
like like this book. It it went with the vibe
that we loved so much from those twentieth anniversary editions
and just gave us something a little bit twenty twenty five,
you know, Like, I am so down with these covers

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and so appreciative of Carlson and the attention that they
put into these books that we love, Like, uh, the
interpretation of this cover are again outstanding. Plus, like, thank
you Carlson for giving us like what we want. You
gave us like literally per perfection.

Speaker 3 (59:52):
So yeah, I can't so I can't, Carlson, no notes,
I can't. Yeah, I can't say enough good things about
these books. Honestly, I was shocked at, like I said,
I was shocked at how long my review video was
because I haven't done a review video that long. They're
just so enjoyable to look at. Everything's a treat for

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the eyes. Yea, even the paper, like even if you
feel the paper, the paper itself is good quality paper.

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
Yeah, I will say, Oh, well, after summing up all
the amazing things about this book. The only thing that's
not amazing is not the price, because they're all very
fairly priced in terms of what a book costs, but
it's the shipping them to the United States, which is

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why Carly really benefited from physically being in Germany. But
she'd have to buy a new suitcase, so I don't
know what the same really was. But I will also
add specifically for Americans that buy this on Amazon Germany,
which is how I got mine, probably how Melanie got hurts.
Amazon Germany because of the tariffs, now has an import

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text that you have to pay as an American when
you're buying this Harry Potter book. So says it right
out in the things I think. I mean, it was
only like two fifty two dollars or two euros and
fifty cents. Not a huge deal, but it just adds
to the to the whole thing, to the whole principle.
So book one for me total, I don't remember the

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exact number, it was less than fifty US dollars, I
want to say, but it was close to that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:38):
Which is wild to think, like if you want the
whole set, like this entire set is gonna eventually cost
us a lot. I mean, I like Eric's philosophy of like, oh,
I'll just tell everyone that this is what I want
for the holidays, and like you get me what you
are Book two, this family member get me book three,
and we'll just trickle it that way.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
That's or one person can buy the other six and
then they have six holidays worth of gifts for me.

Speaker 3 (01:02:05):
Yeah, or that that's perfect because I don't see them
becoming scarce anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
No, no, and no, you can just like like you
can still get the twentieth Anniverse or you just mentioned
they had them on display at the store.

Speaker 3 (01:02:17):
They absolutely they did. They had all seven the ones.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
These ones aren't going away anytime soon. The only other
reason that I might hold out getting the others is
if they do have a box set. No, because it's
it's like Carly just said, these books aren't going anywhere.
So I'm fine just having book one for now and
waiting maybe a year even to see if they come
out with any more.

Speaker 1 (01:02:40):
Or maybe like in a set.

Speaker 3 (01:02:42):
I mean, and you travel, Eric, so maybe like you
go to Europe and a yar too, you can get
you can get the rest or get the rest that
you need.

Speaker 2 (01:02:50):
So yeah, exactly, or maybe one of my German friends
will come visit here again soon. I don't know, but yeah,
I'm not in a hurry to get this because I
know that I'll be able to get all of them
and I don't need like a first printing of all
of these.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Yeah, but I think.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I don't really care about that at this point.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
It'll probably be a bit more cost effective to waiting
for a box set, like you won't have to pay
for like right every I don't know. I just think
like all together, it will probably end up and not
for nothing like Parlson. This is what Carlson does, you know,
Like Carlson gets us box sets, Like we have a

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bunch of box sets. They put out the books individually
and then they then there's a box set. So I
wouldn't be surprised if we do end up with that.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
Dose the first edition hard and then have a box set.
I don't think so. I think that's one of the
few sets that doesn't.

Speaker 1 (01:03:44):
Yeah, but if you think about it, like Anniversary Original does.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:03:49):
But what I mean is is like you have the
Rainbow Editions, which is still the same cover art, but
it as the original cover art. But yeah, then we
get the box set.

Speaker 3 (01:03:59):
So yeah, but the twentieth Anniversary box set came a
little bit later after they introduced the twentieth Anniversary books,
so it could be a if they're going to introduce
it could be something like that, just seeing how popular
the books are and then putting out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
A set box set.

Speaker 3 (01:04:18):
So who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
Yeah, I mean it could go. It could go either way.
I'm just saying I'm not in a hurry. I'm fine
sitting on the one I have now and seeing what
happens in a bit.

Speaker 3 (01:04:27):
If they do put out a book to have.

Speaker 2 (01:04:29):
Them all right now. I want them all right now.
I want them to.

Speaker 3 (01:04:33):
Get they are now.

Speaker 1 (01:04:34):
I am not very good with like delayed gratification, Like
if I decided I want something, I want it like yesterday.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
So that's why we have to pursue the Maori book too,
to occupy our collector brain.

Speaker 1 (01:04:47):
You guys already like put in orders.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
For those I'm in the group order with the discord.
No I didn't, you didn't you are I'm in the
group order with the discord.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
I don't. I don't think I did. Did the order
happen yet?

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:05:00):
Not yet.

Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
Just make sure your name's down in the discord for
the group order.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
Okay, I'll go ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Can you guys let me know when stuff like that happens,
because I'm very disconnected from the discord, and I promise
everyone it is not like by choice that I'm disconnected.
It's really just because my day is I wake up
at six am, I have to take care of the puppy,
get both kids, often where they're going one to a sitter,

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one to a different sitter, to school whatever. I'm at
work most days until three thirty some days four, some
days six. Then I have to go home, feed the kids,
bade the kids, put the kids to bed, like by
the time, take care of the puppy. By the time
I'm done doing all those things, it is like eight thirty.

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I could sit down for literally thirty minutes before I
need to put back because I'm too tired. So like,
I absolutely promise, It's not that I want to be
less involved, because I do want to be so involved,
but it's just like I I'm out of spoons, is

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what a good friend of mine would says.

Speaker 3 (01:06:13):
I am just Eric already tagged you in the group order.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
I just saw that, and I also responded that I
would like win in the group.

Speaker 3 (01:06:20):
Melanie, I tagged you in the thank you guys, thank
you welcome.

Speaker 1 (01:06:26):
I appreciate you.

Speaker 3 (01:06:27):
And I tagged Harrison has put himself in charge of
the group order since he's got people in New Zealand
that can help.

Speaker 1 (01:06:34):
Fabulous. Yeah, thank you for listening to my World's Smallest violin.
I appreciate it because.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
We end up buying something. We end up buying something
every time we recorded.

Speaker 1 (01:06:46):
It has to happen.

Speaker 5 (01:06:49):
I'm not all three of us, and honestly, like our

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discord makes it such an easy place.

Speaker 3 (01:07:14):
Have you all seen the new Polish book? Speaking of
buying things, Carly.

Speaker 1 (01:07:18):
I'm trying to end our episode.

Speaker 4 (01:07:21):
It's so pretty, though.

Speaker 2 (01:07:25):
I stressed she was from the tired she's tired with
the kids get up at six am.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
But we were also talking about buying things, and that's
something that she's bought.

Speaker 1 (01:07:38):
It is so late, No, But what I was saying
is like, what is so great about our discord is
like how organized everybody is and how supportive everyone is.
And one thing that you could do is by supporting
us on Patreon, you can have access to our discord,
all of those resources and all sorts of things, which
is really awesome. We actually just got like a new

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Patreon supporter, which is absolutely fabulous. Like we love having
new people like crop up and join in, and it's
it's just it is wonderful when I can engage it too.

Speaker 2 (01:08:15):
Yeah, it's cool to hear, Like I love when new
people appear. It's like a wild Pokemon appeared. People appear
and I love hearing what people's collections are like. And
I'm not the only one when someone new joins our discord,
like everyone's like, hi, hooray, glad you're here. And it's
like hey, like where are you from? And you know
that's usually more of like where are you from? Where

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are you from? Because like it's it's a book thing, right,
Like if you're American, we can use media mail. If
you're Canadian, there's other Canadians in the group. Like so
it's kind of fune to find out where people are from.
And then like all these other people are like, so
what's your collection criteria?

Speaker 3 (01:08:50):
Collect?

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
What are you into? Like that's like the next question
everybody asks, and I've yet to see someone give an
answer and someone be like oh, like everyone's like it's really.

Speaker 1 (01:09:02):
Yeah, yeah, it's awesome. It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
And I've yet someone that's doing the same, like exact thing,
Like everybody is so different.

Speaker 2 (01:09:11):
Yeah, the person that's doing I can't remember who it is.
That's only like primary collection is any language?

Speaker 3 (01:09:19):
Yeah, like are you going to be able to are
they going to be able to get this book? Five?
I'm so excited for them. I thought about that person
actually when I bought it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
It's so awesome. So, like I was saying, you can
absolutely connect with all of us through our discord by
supporting us on patreons, patreon dot com, slash Dialogue Ali.
You could also check us out on Instagram. We have
our various website, all the Pretty Books dot net which
is Carly's website, or Dialogue ali dot com which has

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our interactive what is my book worth in terms of
us books? Whatever you that we have going on our website,
which is really cool. And yeah, that's it for this episode.

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We're so happy to be back. I still can't believe
that we're in season six. It's like it's unbelievable. I'm
so happy that the three of us are finally all here.
We did it yep. Yeah, so or now it is
time to walk back through the archway and into our
daily lives, and we will catch you next time.

Speaker 3 (01:10:32):
Bye bye, see ya.