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Daytrip to HP and Kino
Posted on 2012.02.11 at 14:35Current Mood:
satisfied
On Wednesday (the 8th), a friend and I spent the day up in Sydney to see Harry Potter: The Exhibition and also kill some time at the bookstore I'd been hoping to visit for ages, Kinokuniya.
First off, the exhibition was fabulousssssss and really, the whole day's activities were totally worth the super early start and super draining crash at the end of the day. I won't write about much of what we did specifically, because I wanted to try and create a travel comic for it.
The only downside to the exhibition was that although there was a lot to see, it still seemed too short an experience. We honestly probably spent more time afterwards browsing the gift shop hahaha. Total money vacuum, that place. There was no question of not buying something, because when would we ever see this sort of thing again? But as an example, there was a book there that I'd previously bought (the Film Wizardry one) for something like $30. At Borders (when it still, you know, existed) it was something like $60. At the gift shop? $95. Ouch. And then we checked out the time-turner they had on display. It's this delicate little thing, gold plated apparently, and the rings turn it in different directions. Looked quite cool as a pendant even if you weren't a fan of HP. But we passed because again, too expensive to justify buying.
Not that we didn't use up a chunk of money on other things. The only thing to really pull me in different directions was the Marauder's Map. Fwoarrrrr so amazing... but I couldn't get passed the $50 price tag. /tear
The rest of the museum (Powerhouse) was pretty interesting to explore. I had my first experience of arcade-style Space Invaders too on these random 2-player consoles there.
Kinokuniya was everything I had hoped it would be. It was like a souped-up version of Borders, and with cheaper prices. The manga were still too expensive for me though, so I think I'll just search online for them in future. We spent something like 3 hours in that place though, drifting from the Graphic Design & Illustration sections, to Crafts, to Films, to Manga, and then at one point, we went into the Children's area. There's always fun to be had in the Children's area of a bookstore.
We saw a lot of books and authors from our youth but the highlight was the Pop-up/Flip Book section. We looked through heaps of such books and discovered a new fascination of how they were created. Look out for something of our own in future, because this has become the start of something potentially amazing.
First off, the exhibition was fabulousssssss and really, the whole day's activities were totally worth the super early start and super draining crash at the end of the day. I won't write about much of what we did specifically, because I wanted to try and create a travel comic for it.
The only downside to the exhibition was that although there was a lot to see, it still seemed too short an experience. We honestly probably spent more time afterwards browsing the gift shop hahaha. Total money vacuum, that place. There was no question of not buying something, because when would we ever see this sort of thing again? But as an example, there was a book there that I'd previously bought (the Film Wizardry one) for something like $30. At Borders (when it still, you know, existed) it was something like $60. At the gift shop? $95. Ouch. And then we checked out the time-turner they had on display. It's this delicate little thing, gold plated apparently, and the rings turn it in different directions. Looked quite cool as a pendant even if you weren't a fan of HP. But we passed because again, too expensive to justify buying.
Not that we didn't use up a chunk of money on other things. The only thing to really pull me in different directions was the Marauder's Map. Fwoarrrrr so amazing... but I couldn't get passed the $50 price tag. /tear
The rest of the museum (Powerhouse) was pretty interesting to explore. I had my first experience of arcade-style Space Invaders too on these random 2-player consoles there.
Kinokuniya was everything I had hoped it would be. It was like a souped-up version of Borders, and with cheaper prices. The manga were still too expensive for me though, so I think I'll just search online for them in future. We spent something like 3 hours in that place though, drifting from the Graphic Design & Illustration sections, to Crafts, to Films, to Manga, and then at one point, we went into the Children's area. There's always fun to be had in the Children's area of a bookstore.
We saw a lot of books and authors from our youth but the highlight was the Pop-up/Flip Book section. We looked through heaps of such books and discovered a new fascination of how they were created. Look out for something of our own in future, because this has become the start of something potentially amazing.