Hapori Tohu Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 The LEGO Club website has been overhauled! Among other things, you can now link your existing LEGO ID with your LEGO Club Magazine subscription ID. As Aanchir notes, new content includes "new interface, digital editions of all three magazines (Junior 'green brick' edition, boy-oriented 'red brick' edition, and girl-oriented 'yellow brick' edition), profile page, 'Max's Missions' where you can earn badges for your profile page [and] unlockable site backgrounds". Especially the digital versions of the magazine should be good news for those over 13 years of age who will be excluded of the subscription soon. Check out the new website! View the full article Quote News Forums Q&A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aanchir Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 (edited) I was really impressed with the new site. The interface looks great and makes it fairly easy to find things. Even though "Max's Missions" are fairly simple (and from what I've seen, there's no penalty for wrong answers), they're a nice way to make the LEGO Club website feel more interactive. I wonder how new site backgrounds will be unlocked... maybe there will be club codes for them in upcoming magazines? Speaking of Club Codes, another nice feature is that the site keeps a record of which ones you've entered, so you can revisit the club code rewards without having to look up the codes again in the magazine. I am not sure why the "yellow brick" edition of the magazine is the shortest online edition. I hope the actual magazine is longer than that, because while the quality of the content is good, I know the LEGO Group can do better than eight pages, especially since the LEGO Friends theme alone has its own full magazine in Europe. I also can't help but notice that the "Yellow Brick" edition has an irregular cover — instead of the trademark yellow brick, it has a bubble that says "Special Edition". Perhaps it's just a "preview edition" and the full magazine has more content. I certainly hope that's the case, and that future online issues will be a full version comparable in size to the "Red Brick" edition. Edited October 24, 2014 by Aanchir 1 Quote Latest MOC: PAIGE (Prototype Artificial Intelligence, Gynoid Expression) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa of the Blazing Inferno Posted October 24, 2014 Share Posted October 24, 2014 I'm glad they decided to put the full magazines, complete with club codes, online in pdf format for those of us whose subscriptions will be cancelled next year. that way I can separate out the comics if I want, and I can put any posters in separate pdf files for later printing without having to deal with the creases that posters straight out of the magazines would have. Now to see if any future Bionicle comics, if they're going to happen, will also be released in pdf format so I can keep that collection going as well. Quote My Maj | My MLN page | PDF Bionicle comics | Custom additions to Bionicle figuresGuardians of the Galaxy Teaser Poster in LEGO (originally from the LEGO Magazine July 2014 issue, now without the extra text)The Mata Nui Saga rearranged into chronological order, instead of having flashbacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopekemaster Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I'm still not happy about the no-more-magazines-for-over-thirteen-year-olds thing, but I'm glad that they at least let us still view them online. Quote My Writing Blog (more writing coming soon!) My Bionicle/LEGO Blog (defunct) Hyfudiar on Spotify (noise/drone/experimental music) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeb Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I was really impressed with the new site. The interface looks great and makes it fairly easy to find things. Even though "Max's Missions" are fairly simple (and from what I've seen, there's no penalty for wrong answers), they're a nice way to make the LEGO Club website feel more interactive. I wonder how new site backgrounds will be unlocked... maybe there will be club codes for them in upcoming magazines? Speaking of Club Codes, another nice feature is that the site keeps a record of which ones you've entered, so you can revisit the club code rewards without having to look up the codes again in the magazine. I am not sure why the "yellow brick" edition of the magazine is the shortest online edition. I hope the actual magazine is longer than that, because while the quality of the content is good, I know the LEGO Group can do better than eight pages, especially since the LEGO Friends theme alone has its own full magazine in Europe. I also can't help but notice that the "Yellow Brick" edition has an irregular cover — instead of the trademark yellow brick, it has a bubble that says "Special Edition". Perhaps it's just a "preview edition" and the full magazine has more content. I certainly hope that's the case, and that future online issues will be a full version comparable in size to the "Red Brick" edition.I can answer your question. My sister recieves this as a bonus mini-magazine included with the regular Red Brick one. The physical size of the mini-magazine is about as big as the standard supplementary comics that sometimes come with the magazines, hence the "Special Edition". It's not a full magazine, just a small mini-magazine that is packaged with the Red Brick magazine if you are a girl. And I never knew there were full Lego Friends magazines in Europe. Quote The artist formerly known as ŜﮞρЄЯ־GЄNіﮞŜ־CЯЄ▲Ŧ۞Я BBC#69 Entry: Roodaka - Master of Manipulation BFTGM entries: Zigben · Ventox · Deflecto “Hail Denmark.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa of the Blazing Inferno Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I'm still not happy about the no-more-magazines-for-over-thirteen-year-olds thing, but I'm glad that they at least let us still view them online. There's a link to download it too, if you want. I plan on taking full advantage of that ability. Quote My Maj | My MLN page | PDF Bionicle comics | Custom additions to Bionicle figuresGuardians of the Galaxy Teaser Poster in LEGO (originally from the LEGO Magazine July 2014 issue, now without the extra text)The Mata Nui Saga rearranged into chronological order, instead of having flashbacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aanchir Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I was really impressed with the new site. The interface looks great and makes it fairly easy to find things. Even though "Max's Missions" are fairly simple (and from what I've seen, there's no penalty for wrong answers), they're a nice way to make the LEGO Club website feel more interactive. I wonder how new site backgrounds will be unlocked... maybe there will be club codes for them in upcoming magazines? Speaking of Club Codes, another nice feature is that the site keeps a record of which ones you've entered, so you can revisit the club code rewards without having to look up the codes again in the magazine. I am not sure why the "yellow brick" edition of the magazine is the shortest online edition. I hope the actual magazine is longer than that, because while the quality of the content is good, I know the LEGO Group can do better than eight pages, especially since the LEGO Friends theme alone has its own full magazine in Europe. I also can't help but notice that the "Yellow Brick" edition has an irregular cover — instead of the trademark yellow brick, it has a bubble that says "Special Edition". Perhaps it's just a "preview edition" and the full magazine has more content. I certainly hope that's the case, and that future online issues will be a full version comparable in size to the "Red Brick" edition.I can answer your question. My sister recieves this as a bonus mini-magazine included with the regular Red Brick one. The physical size of the mini-magazine is about as big as the standard supplementary comics that sometimes come with the magazines, hence the "Special Edition". It's not a full magazine, just a small mini-magazine that is packaged with the Red Brick magazine if you are a girl. And I never knew there were full Lego Friends magazines in Europe. Oh, okay. That's an... interesting way of doing things, to be sure. I think for a short time after LEGO Friends was released they had a separate "LEGO Club Magazine for girls" that shared some but not all content with the regular version of the magazine, but perhaps parents of girls weren't too pleased about the magazine itself being gender-specific so they changed it to a supplementary mini-magazine with info on the girl-oriented themes. Europe gets a number of theme-specific magazines for successful in-house LEGO brands. There was a LEGO Ninjago magazine back in 2012, and now there are magazines for Friends and Legends of Chima (though somewhat surprisingly, none for LEGO City, one of the LEGO Group's most reliably successful themes). The Friends and Legends of Chima magazines even each come with a tiny set (smaller than the Brickmaster sets, but still interesting nonetheless). Quote Latest MOC: PAIGE (Prototype Artificial Intelligence, Gynoid Expression) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatanui Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Those magazines you speak of are not distributed by LEGO, though, but by third-party companies. You can get them at kiosks and they have nothing to do with the LEGO Club. -Gata Quote - Gata Please don't use my avatar or signature without permission, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dorek Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Took them long enough. The Club website has been pretty embarrassing for the past few years, especially since they axed the online mag last year. Good to know they weren't just abandoning online entirely. They've been spotty shipping out magazines to over-13 year olds the past few years too, so I'm not surprised to see that being phased out. I will miss it, though. Moving to a digital distribution model is really smart, and hopefully they can actually keep it up. Quote BS01's Ambassador (Like us, Follow us) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopekemaster Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I'm still not happy about the no-more-magazines-for-over-thirteen-year-olds thing, but I'm glad that they at least let us still view them online. There's a link to download it too, if you want. I plan on taking full advantage of that ability. Oh, sweet, I guess I know what my iPad will be doing soon. Quote My Writing Blog (more writing coming soon!) My Bionicle/LEGO Blog (defunct) Hyfudiar on Spotify (noise/drone/experimental music) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toa of the Blazing Inferno Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 A also recently figured out that a few of the club code unlockables are included in the magazine files. The DCSH comic sequels that they mention a club code for are positioned right after the in-magazine comics. I thought that was pretty cool, since it saves having to look up the code. Quote My Maj | My MLN page | PDF Bionicle comics | Custom additions to Bionicle figuresGuardians of the Galaxy Teaser Poster in LEGO (originally from the LEGO Magazine July 2014 issue, now without the extra text)The Mata Nui Saga rearranged into chronological order, instead of having flashbacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayliffe Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Erm, hasn't this been out for a while now? I remember seeing this new site and an interview with one of the TLM designers about a couple of months ago, although I don't know if it was exclusive to the UK at that point... Quote "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams Twitter Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gatanui Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 Erm, hasn't this been out for a while now? I remember seeing this new site and an interview with one of the TLM designers about a couple of months ago, although I don't know if it was exclusive to the UK at that point...I do recall the interview but the site looked different then. -Gata Quote - Gata Please don't use my avatar or signature without permission, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nidhiki of the Shadows Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Very nice revision. Everything looks great! And the Club Magazine going digital is great news. Means I won't miss any Bionicle goodness if it ends up in the magazine. -NotS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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