March 2020

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K-crew Quiz!
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Kz HQ Hey K-zoners!
Race into an eye-popping new issue! It’s our mad science and technology special, and you can discover what happens at the secret K-Zone Lab, try a cool experiment and check out wicked inventions. Find out about Sonic the Hedgehog’s new adventure in o
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Heroes
Name: Alec Heroic feat: His videogame, Super Ear to the Rescue, won the Screen It 2019 Junior Videogame category! K-Z: How did you find out about Screen It? A: I saw Screen It online and decided it would be fun to enter a competition. We were doin
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Now On K-zone.com.au
WHICH JUMANJI AVATAR WOULD YOU PICK? DR. SMOLDER BRAVESTONE 89% FRANKLIN ‘MOUSE’ FINBAR 11% WHICH IS MOST LIKELY TO RUIN YOUR DAY? STEPPING IN DOG POO 78% STUBBING YOUR TOE 11% SCRAPING YOUR KNEE 11% WHICH VEGETABLE IS THE WORST? BRUSSE
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March What’s On
2nd Old Stuff Day 3rd World Wildlife Day 3rd If Pets Had Thumbs Day 6th Dentist’s Day 9th Panic Day 10th Middle Name Pride Day 12th Plant a Flower Day 15th Everything You Think Is Wrong Day 16th Everything You Do Is Right Day 20th Internatio
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Be In Your Space!
Congrats to this month’s rad Your Space artists! You have scored Edie’s Experiments: How To Make Friends! To be in Your Space, send a drawing to: YOUR SPACE K-ZONE LOCKED BAG 5555 ST LEONARDS NSW 1590 Or hit up kzone.com.au and click on ‘Be in K-Zon
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Yo Collecta!
Name: Cameron Collects: AFL trading cards Footy fan: His fave team is the West Coast Eagles, and he has over 100 AFL trading cards in his collection! Cameron will need to make room for a Kennedy Bleacher Creature, S19 Youth Supporter Cap and Sherrin
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News Feed
Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 will be released later this year! Previously known as Xbox Project Scarlett, the new Series X console will be four times as powerful as the Xbox One X. It will have a new controller and be able to play all Xbox game ge
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Ideas Lab
Meet Dr Rebecca Johnson, Chief Scientist of the Australian Museum, Director of the Australian Museum Research Institute, co-chief investigator of the Koala Genome Consortium, co-founder of the Oz Mammals Genome Initiative, and the new Chief Scientist
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Gotta Expand ’em All
The Pokémon Sword Expansion Pass and Pokémon Shield Expansion Pass will bring new downloadable adventures this year. There's The Isle of Armor, which will be released by the end of June, and The Crown Tundra, which will be released between September
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Sonic Talks!
K-Z: Hi Sonic! What were your favourite scenes to film for your brand new movie, Sonic the Hedgehog? S: Anything where I get to run fast. I love to feel the wind through my quills. K-Z: What was your first impression of Tom, AKA Donut Lord? S: T
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Screen Space
This is a level in Geometry Dash that took me three weeks to make. It is really long and has cool effects and music. I made this amazing bridge in Minecraft! It is a replica of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It took me two days. I made this game called
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Spot The Music Fan
Black, grey and all the shades between are the favourites of these guitar-loving rebels. You can always spot a rock fan in a crowd, whether it’s those super wild hairstyles or stacks of spiked accessories. A rock fan usually enjoys hearing their tune
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Mad Magic
Onward takes place in a suburban world where magical creatures like elves, dragons, unicorns, trolls, centaurs, gnomes, sprites, goblins, mermaids and fairies live among grocery stores, lawn mowers and garbage trucks. Despite the magical population,
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Runaway Rebels
Peter Rabbit is a rabbit known for being mischievous and adventurous. Peter has developed a reputation for being a troublemaker. Peter Rabbit, a film released in 2018 and based on the stories written by Beatrix Potter in 1893. Now, Peter and the fam
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Danger
The Robinson family are in for more danger and adventure in the second season of Lost In Space! Their ship is stuck on a mysterious ocean planet and the Robot is missing. Everyone quickly discovers things aren’t what they seem, and threats start emer
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Hero Report
Following the events of Captain America: Civil War (around two years before Avengers: Infinity War), Natasha Romanoff is forced to confront her past and find other Black Widows trained in the Red Room. She must also take on Taskmaster, a mysterious f
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Marvel Madness
K-Z: Hey Sam! How did you become a performer in Marvel Universe LIVE? S: I first heard of Marvel Universe LIVE! when a training buddy landed a role in the early stages of the show. I thought it was incredible that this show existed, and it stayed in
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Mad Science
This experiment shows how limestone caves are formed! Chalk is a type of limestone, and consists of calcium carbonate. Since vinegar is an acid, the two react when mixed together. The acid eats the calcium carbonate and releases carbon dioxide bubble
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Guinness World Records
A Japanese mechanical company called Sakakibara Kikai built this Mononofu (meaning ‘samurai warrior’) over six years. Their incredible build was verified on December 7, 2018, measuring 8.46m high, 4.27m long and 4m wide. Mononofu is reported to weigh
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Escape The K-zone Lab
The K-Zone Lab is a top secret underground research institute below K-Zone HQ. Very few can enter the premises, and even fewer can escape it. The dedicated team of scientists work tirelessly, undertaking unique research or perfecting daring creations
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Wicked Wheels
Meet the M19-D! This is Australia’s first student-built, fully autonomous race car, created by students from Monash University’s Monash Motorsport team. Monash Motorsport first began development on the M19-D in 2016, with over 200 undergraduate stude
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Beyond 2020
Roller shoes are good and all, but what we really want to see in the next few years are feet mattresses that get serious air. Think about this: what if your sole soothers could bounce like a super bounce ball? Not only would your volleyball game up i
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K-zone Gamezone Spectacular Cheats
408+ km/h is the top speed of the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport Vitesse, and it’s one of 12 new rides in the Blazing Shots DLC for The Crew 2! 150 books exist in the epic Beast Quest novel series, but there is only one game – and now it’s hitting
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Pokémon Sword And Shield
There’s only one Master Ball in Pokémon Sword and Shield. You nab it after you beat the game! Following the credits, leave your room and chat to the lady, who gives you a Master Ball. Snag Charmander after the credits. Head outside, then follow the r
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Mining Earth
K-Z : What was the original idea for Minecraft Earth? T: There was this dream of Minecraft in the real world, but an inability to execute on a broad scale. We built a lot of prototypes but it just didn’t feel right. It didn’t feel authentic. K-Z:
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Concrete Genie
There are 126 Sketchbook Pages to be found in Concrete Genie. The Pages aren’t marked on the map. Ouch! This epic count includes 60 Features, 48 Designs and 18 Genies. Check garbage cans and rooftops for a bunch of ‘em. You’ll also need to chase some
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Trio O’ Tips
There’s a tonic stashed away in Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair’s overworld. Head to the lake in the area near Chapters 12 and 13. Find the red fire berry bush. Below it, there’s a wooden fence. Buddy Slam the right fence post to nab the tonic!
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Handy Hints
Wanna zip through one lap races in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled? Hold down the controller bumpers at the main menu and tap this combo. For Switch, use down, up, down, down, right, up, down, right, X and down. For Xbox One, try out down, up, down, d
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Bake ’n Switch
What word means deer, money, a paste that makes bread, a grunt and a musical note? D’ohn’t you know it’s ‘dough’! In Bake ’n Switch, you’re on the money if you guessed the dough we’re dealing with is the bread kind. Bready or not, let’s get cookin’.
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Did You Know?
This is the first game for developer Streamline Games, but the dev team is full of game makin’ veterans. When they aren’t busy cooking up Bake ’n Switch, they’re helping with other games, like SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydra
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Did You Know?
Grounded seems inspired by a classic 1989 movie called Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. In the movie, an inventor accidentally shrinks his kids and tosses them in the bin. Whoops! Grounded takes that miniature idea, then increases the survival stakes and ac
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Ori And The Will Of The Wisps
This forest is out to getcha, which is why we’re thankful Ori is up to the task. There are many more baddies than trees in Ori and the Will of the Wisps! It’s a good thing the devs have made fighting a bigger focus in this sweet sequel. Plus, Ori has
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Prank Star’s Pick
Run an experiment to determine who is easier to train using reward-based learning – the pet or a younger sibling. Start with a handshake or high five and work up to complex tasks, like fetching a K-Zone mag. Success = a treat. Present your findings.
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Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot
What exactly is a Kakarot? Dragon Ball fans speak the lingo, but here is the sitch. ‘Kakarot’ is Goku’s Saiyan name, Goku is the main character in Dragon Ball, and Saiyan is an alien race in this universe. Hmm. This is all getting a bit more confusin
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Gameone Ninja
Hey Game Ninja, Can you give me some tips for playing as Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? He’s my favourite character, but I want to be able to beat my friends, and they are good. MASON, VIA EMAIL Focus on quickly flowing between dishin
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Pranks! Pranks! Pranks!
This works best on a hot day. Leave a glass filled with green cordial on the kitchen bench. Wait for a thirsty family member to drink it, and then walk in holding a test tube. Spot them drinking the green liquid and exclaim, ‘Oh! I was just looking f
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Unlucky!
On holidays with my family, I was told I’d be the next one to sit in the window seat. Unfortunately, on our next flight we didn’t have a window in my row. I was sad for most of the plane ride. Benji, Qld UNLUCKY! We were playing tag on a school
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Grounded
Critters that are stacks smaller than us are supes scary when you’re the same size. In Grounded, you’ll shrink to be even smaller than a toy. We’re talking as tiny as Ant-Man, except you won’t be able to grow back to normal human size! You will quick
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My Findings
Shout out to my friends Henry and Ricky! – Noah ■
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Read! Read!
For Paddy T, being a kid means expecting the unexpected! In this rad read, you’ll find seven stories, including an incred trampoline portal to the future, a magic pencil that writes stories by itself, a trip down a hill that becomes the holiday of a
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K-zone You Later!
DAN AND AARON HAD AN EPIC BATTLE WITH GIANT LIGHTSABERS AT A SPECIAL STAR WARS EVENT! AIDEEN EXPLORED THE WEIRD WORLD OF JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL AT A SPECIAL EVENT! I hope I get in K-Zone! – Kane ■
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Pro Tip!
Keep a close eye on ghost racers in Spirit Trials to shave off seconds.The speed run sprints are great training for the main game. It helps you learn shortcuts and high speed tricks, coz the prerecorded competitors can’t hide their sneaky speed moves
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Drake Hollow
With so many rad games to play, it’s hard to find time to get bored IRL. In Drake Hollow, the main character feels bored until she meets a strange crow with green eyes and a compass around its neck. What? Obviously, she follows the crow when it flies
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Yearbook Mission
Shout out to my friends Sammy and Lilly, and K-Zone of course! – Amber ■
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Super Prize Party
A GRIT ELITE BLACK SCOOTER A 12 OOSHIES PRIZE PACK E-BOY A FISH KID AND HUMANIMAL BOOK PACK ADVENTURES ON TRAINS: THE HIGHLAND FALCON THIEF A NINJA KID BOOK PACK THE GHOST OF HOWLERS BEACH THE CHICKEN’S CURSE A HARRY POTTER BOO
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Goat To Be Kidding
Our backyard cricket match ended quickly. My dog pulled up stumps! Kiera, Qld Q What’s the best Minecraft construction joke? A I’m still working on it! Callum, Vic Q Why couldn’t the pony talk? A Coz it was a little horse! Michael, Vic Q Ho
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Magic Mystery
a. Chocolate Frogs b. Cauldron Cakes c. Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans a. History b. Science c. Sport a. Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them b. Hogwarts, A History c. Quidditch Through The Ages a. Speaking to animals b. Photographi
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Watch!
This spinoff based on The Amazing World of Gumball follows a different character in each episode. As Darwin creates the school yearbook, at the request of Principal Brown, he looks back at some of the best moments from the show. You’ll see more from
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Professor Pair Up
a. Seal b. Elephant c. Owl a. Fire b. Water c. Earth a. Sour sweets b. Fruit slices c. Chocolate a. The mountains b.The country c. The beach a. Phoenix b. Dragon c. Centaur a. Chess b. Parkour c. Escape room Find out what your re

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