Table of contents for October 2019 in K-Zone

WELCOME TO THE HIDDEN SIDE LEGO Hidden Side is an awesome new range of ‘haunted’ building sets that come to life with augmented reality (AR). Download the LEGO Hidden Side app and enter a world filled with spooky mysteries and chilling challenges to solve. LEGO LOOT Three winners will score an awesome LEGO Hidden Side prize pack; the Paranormal Intercept Bus 3000 and Newbury Haunted High School sets! HOW TO ENTER 1. In 25 words or less, tell us the best way to catch a ghost! 2. There are 8 ghosts hidden in this issue. Each ghost shown on this page appears twice. Find them all to enter! 3. Head to www.kzone.com.au, click on ‘COMPETITIONS’, find the LEGO Hidden Side competition and fill in the form for your chance to…

NAME: Nico LOCATION: Otago, NZ WHAT DID YOU READ? The Pirate Angel, The Talking Tree and Captain Rabbit by Steve Behling. It’s an Avengers: Endgame book! WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE PART? When Rocket met Dey from Nova Corps and has to ask the criminals about the location of the secret weapon stash. FAVOURITE CHARACTER? Thor, because he’s funny and doesn’t listen to Rocket’s rules. WOULD YOU CHANGE ANYTHING? More action and fewer journal entries. WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK? Marvel fans and my friends. Watch Thor or The Guardians of the Galaxy first! RATING: 5 OUT OF 5 STORMBREAKERS…

JASON SUDEIKIS VOICES RED, THE ANGRIEST BIRD AND HERO! K-Z: Hi Jason! How did you get into character? J: I just took the anger I feel inside me, pulsing through my body at any given time, and channeled that into the microphone. They animate it and that’s it. K-Z: Have you ever played the game? J: I’ve played Angry Birds maybe 10 times because I love games. I love gaming, but I don’t use my phone much to play games. K-Z: Is Red calmer in this movie? J: He’s less angry at the beginning but when the Pigs and the Birds sign a treaty, he doesn’t quite understand his purpose and role and he’s very scared because if there isn’t a war going on, then who is he? It kicks…

IF I OWNED ROBIN’S GAUNTLET FOR A DAY… I’d try and figure out how to turn off social media! MY FAVE EPISODE SO FAR IS DEFINITELY… The first one, for personal reasons. It was when we were all figuring out who Robin was and what this new world could be. I remember the excitement and fun we had exploring possibilities together. IF I COMPARE MYSELF TO ROBIN… I found so much of myself in her! I remember having fun with her parting phrase, ‘See ya’, every time I delivered it, because it was usually said when she had the upper hand and she loves everyone knowing it. I found her attitude to challenges easy to connect to; the belief that she can do anything she puts her mind to is…

K-Z : Real talk. Is this the old LEGO Star Wars games with some shiny new pieces? J: Nope. That’s not our style! The game is expanding, like the universe. It’s just getting bigger. It’s basically our love letter to Star Wars. K-Z : How big is that LEGO Super Star Destroyer? J: The Super Star Destroyer is 100 metres long. It’s over a million bricks. You can actually pilot the Millennium Falcon and dock into it, so you fly in and all the interiors are made of LEGO as well. K-Z : Did you build the Super Star Destroyer IRL? J: I don’t know if anyone built it in the real world. That’s a million bricks. That’s a lot of the budget on LEGO! We have software, and we…

1 SKETCHY SOLDIERS Start by lightly sketching the outline of a stormtrooper with your pencil. The head is pear shaped, with a crosshair to mark the centre of the face, and the eyeline. To create the body section, draw the short hot dog shape. Draw cylinders for the arms and legs, then two cylinders on top of each other for the shape of the blaster. 2 HEY THERE, BUCKETHEAD Draw a pair of triangular shaped eyes and a curved line above the eyes. Add a frowny ‘mouth’ below the eyes, ear pieces on both sides of the face, and then the dome-shaped top. For the rest of the helmet, draw the two round holes and centre details below the mouth, and then the wide cheek area and side details. 3…

I heard the person in the next toilet stall eating chips. Gross! It totally distracted me from my bolognaise! Drew, Vic Q Why did the footballer’s room need to be cleaned? A It was Messi! Andrea, WA A chicken interrupted a basketball game. The whole game was stopped due to a fowl on court. Justin, NSW So, everyone in my house got a stomach bug last week. Runs in the family. Kyah, NSW Q What do you call an Autobot that can transform into a watch? AOptimus Time! Anders, Qld Q What game is the best to play after eating beans? A First-person tooter! Caleb, SA Q How many eggs does it take to bake a cake? A None. Eggs can’t cook! Jordan, Tas I really can’t wait for a…

GET INTO 4th World Smile Day 5th Do Something Nice Day 5th World Teacher Day 6th Mad Hatter Day 9th Curious Events Day 11th It’s My Party Day 16th Dictionary Day 25th Frankenstein Friday 26th Make A Difference Day 31st Halloween SPORT 6th NRL Grand Final 18th 2019 Rugby League World Cup Nines 27th 2019 Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix HAPPY BIRTHDAY 1st Brie Larson, AKA Captain Marvel 3rd Tessa Thompson, AKA Valkyrie and Agent M 7th Kira Kosarin 9th Jacob Batalon, AKA Ned Leeds 8th R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps 29th K-Zoner Denzel 19th Jon Favreau, AKA Happy Hogan 25th Squidward SCHOOL 7th Back to school in Vic 8th Back to school in Qld 14th Back to school in ACT, NSW, NT, SA, Tas and WA OH AND... 14th November…

SPORTS STAR Name: Chloe Heroic feat: She was accepted into the QBE Sydney Swans Academy, and recently received a cricket award, presented by Aussie cricketer, Alyssa Healy! FAST FIVE WITH CHLOE K-Z: Hi Chloe! How did you find out about the QBE Sydney Swans Academy? C: My club, Pittwater Tigers, sent an email asking my team to trial! I asked my parents, who helped me apply. When I was accepted, I was very happy and grateful, as many other girls didn’t make it! K-Z: When did you join the Academy, and how long had you played AFL beforehand? C: I joined last year and it’s been an amazing journey. I've been playing AFL for three years and getting into the Academy was awesome – I knew all the hard work…

FOR THE COMPETITIVE REBEL! STAR WARS PINBALL Did you know pinball was banned in big US cities, like New York City and Chicago, from the early 1940s to the mid 1970s? Fiorello LaGuardia, New York City mayor until 1945, even ordered that all pinball machines should be smashed and dumped into the Hudson River. The New York City pinball ban ended in 1976, but if it was happening in our town right now, we would totally rebel and play Star Wars Pinball! In this game, 3D characters and vehicles from Star Wars Episodes IV to VIII, as well as Rogue One, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Clone Wars come to life as you try to score points. Hitting flippers to move metallic balls…

Meet Mark Gasson, Director of Research and Innovation for Wow! Stuff. Wow! Stuff invents toys based on movies and TV, like the Harry Potter Invisibility Cloak! Mark finds ways to use tech so the team can turn ideas into amazing items! K-Z : Hi Mark! What experience did you have before becoming Director? M: I studied control engineering at university and graduated with a Ph.D. in neuroscience and engineering. I continued as a research fellow at university, developing ways to connect robotic hands to nerves in the human arm, and using electrodes implanted in the brain to help people with Parkinson’s disease. As a side project, we started a company to develop robotic toys and made an animated monkey called ‘Dave’ that sits on your shoulder and talks! You may…

I STARTED PLAYING BASKETBALL... When I was four and my mum picked me up from kindergarten on a Friday afternoon to go to skills training. I always loved basketball – it was my number one sport! It was always my dream, for as long as I can remember, to represent Australia at an Olympic Games and play in the NBA. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER THAN... Pulling on the green and gold, for me! That has always been a dream of mine and I have never taken the opportunity to play for the Boomers for granted. I’VE BEEN PART OF BIG WINS, LIKE... The NBA championship, Olympic Games and Vic Country National title in Under 16s – but one of the most memorable wins was in Under 12s, winning a Division…

K-Z : What’s the skinny on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order? S: This is a game about a Jedi, or somebody who aspires to be a Jedi, or may potentially become a Jedi. K-Z : Sounds mysterious. How did you decide what to show off first in a Star Wars game? S: We make sure we have enough stuff that gives us a moment with Star Wars spectacle, but also core gameplay like lightsaber combat. K-Z : What makes for great Star Wars spectacle? S: An AT-AT sequence! You see the inside of an AT-AT for the first time. We worked with the crew at Lucasfilm to come up with the design – something faithful to what we expect would be in there. K-Z : Are there rules for playing…

THE UNLISTED DAILY AT 5:30PM FROM SEPTEMBER 15 ON ABC ME Dru and Kal Sharma are identical twins, who discover that a dangerous group is slowly taking control of the world’s youth. Using electronic implants and posing as a charity, the Infinity Group plans to create an army of mind-controlled children. Dru accidentally avoided being implanted at all, while Kal ended up with two mysterious electronic devices. With the help of other vigilante kids, called ‘The Unlisted’, the twins will try to save everyone. WATCH OUT FOR: DADI! INFINITY TRAIN STREAMING NOW ON STAN Join Tulip as she finds herself trapped on an endless train, where each carriage door opens into a pocket dimension. She’ll need to use her wits to uncover the train’s secrets, and hopefully find a way…

WE ASKED: WHICH STAR WARS RELEASE ARE YOU THE MOST HYPED TO SEE? YOU SAID: LEGO STAR WARS: THE SKYWALKER SAGA 50% STAR WARS: THE RISE OF SKYWALKER 17% STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER 33% WE ASKED: DO YOU LOVE THE HARRY POTTER BOOKS? YOU SAID: YES! 82% THE WHAT? 18% WE ASKED: WHAT ARE YOU MOST EXCITED TO WATCH? YOU SAID: AFL GRAND FINAL 36% NRL GRAND FINAL 29% WWE LIVE AUSTRALIA 29% AUSTRALIAN MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX 6% WE ASKED: WHAT IS MORE ANNOYING? YOU SAID: NEVER ENDING HICCUPS 75% NEVER ENDING SNEEZING 25%…

LEGO STAR WARS NEWS During the 2019 Star Wars Celebration in Chicago on April 11, an epic mosaic recreation of the Star Wars: A New Hope poster was displayed. The creation even included Luke Skywalker popping out of the wall with his blaster. Made using 84,345 LEGO elements, this reimagined masterpiece took 297 hours to design and construct, weighed over 83kg, and was over 2m tall and 1.8m wide. EDUCATION NEWS In February 2019, 94-year-old David Bottomley became Australia’s oldest PhD graduate when he received his doctor of philosophy from WA’s Curtin University. In July, Lorna Prendergast graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Master of Ageing, at 90 years old. Lorna believes you’re never too old to dream! ANIMAL NEWS On August 8, a giant panda named Hao…

LARGEST DISPLAY OF LEGO STAR WARS MINIFIGURES Look closely and you’ll see that this massive stormtrooper helmet is actually made with LEGO Star Wars stormtrooper minifigs from the Imperial Dropship – 20th Anniversary Edition set. There were 36,400 minifigs included in the helmet, which was 6.93m wide and 6.88m long. LEGO created the artwork for the 2019 Star Wars Celebration on April 11 in Chicago, USA. It took 16 hours for a team of 12 people to build the minifigs, and another 22 hours to assemble the full display! Want more amazing records and insane facts? Check out Guinness World Records 2020 and Guinness World Records 2020: Gamer’s Edition, out now! Thanks for the mags K-Zone and keep making them! – William…

NO WAY-NE If Bruce Wayne was real, he would be worth $7 billion. BILL’S WILL Batman writer Bill Finger came up with ‘Gotham City’ by opening the phone book and randomly pointing to ‘Gotham Jewelers’. 80TH ANNIVERSARY Batman made his very first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939! HISTORIC MOMENT Batman’s comic book series hits a monumental milestone in 2019, with the 1000th issue! NAME GAME Batman’s identity, Bruce Wayne, was named after two IRL heroes; Robert the Bruce, a Scottish national hero, and Mad Anthony Wayne, an American Revolutionary War hero. OH BOY Robin the Boy Wonder was first introduced in Detective Comics #38 in April 1940. KANE YOU BELIEVE IT Bob Kane is credited with the creation of Batman, and his collaborator, Bill Finger, was responsible…

TOP THREE TIPS FOR KICKING GOALS “Find a kicking routine. Keep your head down and kick through the target. Practise, practise and more practise.” OTHER TALENT “Magic tricks!” DISAPPOINTING GAMES “I used the disappointment to motivate me to train harder, play smarter and be better.” PRO ADVICE FOR K-ZONERS “Train harder than the rest, stay positive and believe in yourself. Always put as much effort into your education – everybody should have›a back up plan.” PICK FIVE PLAYERS FOR YOUR TEAM “I would choose Cameron Smith, Mal Meninga, Arthur Beetson, Darren Lockyer and Allan Langer for my team!” INSPIRATIONS “My daughters. They inspire me to be the best father and role model I can be, so that they can grow up to be the best versions of themselves.” JT: The…

GAMES BY THE NUMBERS 276 grams is how much the light new Nintendo Switch Lite weighs. It still manages to pack built-in controllers and a dedicated handheld mode, plus all Switch games are obvs fully playable. 3 revamped remasters are playable in Spyro Reignited Trilogy, now on Switch and PC. It’s the first Spyro game on a Nintendo console in over a decade, and the first to land on PC. 7 speedy challenges are waiting to be conquered in the Forza Horizon 4 Top Gear DLC. Host Chris Harris narrates. Unlock Stig swag. Score three new rides.…

1 If I was an animal, I would be… a. A bull. b. A leopard. c. A python. 2 My dream job is… a. A chef. b. A scientist. c. A mayor. 3 After winning a videogame, how would you celebrate? a. Yell ‘I’m the best!’ and rub my victory in everyone’s face. b. Shake hands with opponents and start thinking about how you can improve next time. c. Sit back and look smug. 4 I would like a holiday… a. In the countryside. b. In a big city. c. On a tropical island. 5 What’s most important? a. Myself. b. Intelligence. c. Power. 6 If you lost in any competition, what would you do? a. Throw a tantrum. b. That’s impossible… but I’d immediately train harder. c. Plot revenge.…

THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH MAX BRALLIER ILLUSTRATED BY DOUGLAS HOLGATE Jack was living an ordinary life as a foster kid in another new town, until total monster zombie chaos hit. Now, he’s trying to survive by living in a treehouse with his best friend, a surprising new buddy and an unlikely pet. Treating this life like a videogame has worked so far, but can he stage a daring rescue and defeat the big boss? READ IT... IN A TREEHOUSE! JT: THE MAKING OF A TOTAL LEGEND JOHNATHAN THURSTON WITH JAMES PHELPS As a kid in Brisbane in the ‘80s, Johnathan was considered too slow and skinny to play rugby league. Well, he defied the odds and became one of the best! Follow his journey from picking up a football…