The Road to Deathly Hallows - Slight Detour Number 1

I was just thinking - there is really two forms of the 'Road to Deathly Hallows' - one based on time, and one based on reading the books. Well this post is a time based one that I'd like to acknowledge.

After approximately 3 weeks of checking my Hotmail account and the Village website almost daily, Order of the Phoenix tickets were finally released. It was rather odd, actually. Village changed the title of the film on their coming soon page late last week, so I knew it was soon. And, finally, on Tuesday evening, the bit of green text appeared on the page, saying that tickets were available, so I checked, and it was only for Dandenong, Waverley Gardens and Shepparton. So I went down yesterday to Karingal to find out, and after hanging around for a while waiting for them to open, discovered it was today. When I went down today, it turns out they opened slightly earlier, so I had 4 people in front of me (including Karen from work) and with 10 tickets, the privilege of being the biggest order so far. When I mentioned about the website she said that was odd and that they had strict instructions not to sell them until today, so who knows. I also got 3 of those Movie Millions things, from which I know have a $7.50 ticket and two times $2.50 choc tops :)

I'm also trying to track down the Order of the Phoenix video game. As mentioned recently, I just got a Wii, so I really want the Wii version rather than the PS2 one, and had decided I would be happy to pay either $80 for the Wii or $50 for the PS2. You can then imagine my annoyance to see that Target has the Wii version at an introductory price of $85 (plus discount). I then went to Big W today only to find that they are holding it off show for their Toy Sale and even then it will still be $90! So now I'm getting Dana to check Toys R Us and I'll look at Kmart as well, but I really can't believe neither Target or Big W are prepared to offer it at $20 off the RRP.

There's been quite a bit of HP film news on the TV this week, with Sunrise, Today and A Current Affair all having "exclusives". I would like to know how interviewing Dan Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint for a film can be considered exclusive when other media outlets in Australia and the rest of the world also got interviews. They all ask the same questions as well - I can't help but wonder if there was an interviewer who didn't ask Dan about the kiss. Richard Wilkins then proceeeded to talk about the possible spoilers from that supposed hacker (one part of which I accidentally read when stupid me did a Google search for Harry Potter). Luckily it was about the part I had read, but if I had been Emma Watson (who is probably resigned to that sort of stuff happening by now) or hadn't already read that, I would have been mightily unimpressed. I'm assuming he did the interviewing for Today as well, but I missed that, due to the fact that 1. I had put the TV Remote in the wrong spot and 2. as Sunrise had advertised that they had the interviews I was taping them, even though I don't like Sunrise. Looking back, it turns out that I could have actually watched the Sunrise interviews, as it was when I was home and awake, as compared to Today, which was while I was asleep. Anyway, now that problem is unlikely to happen again. I bought a PVR from Aldi today (which was a rather enlightening experience - the line outside the store was longer than the lines I've been in for Harry Potter books (everyone was buying either the PVR or garden pumps for some reason), and they were so used to it and organised they should sell Harry Potter books. I'd hate to work there though - it would be like Toy Sale every week!) which has twin (SD) tuners so I shall be able to tape both.

So that's another of the time-based milestones on the way to the Deathly Hallows release - that's uni, uni exams and ticket preordering down, only stocktake, the film, uni results (which I'm not looking forward to!) and toy sale to go!