Lego Magazines

[Lenny7092]

Hi, guys. Have you guys collected Lego Magazines? Well, BioSector01 has a list of Lego Magazines that have Bionicle in it. HeroSector01 also has a list of ones that have Hero Factory in it, too. However, they don't have everything in a way, as they need better images of the magazine covers (BS01 is missing a regular version of the September-October 2006 issue of the magazine somehow). 

I wonder if Lego had archived all of the magazines. I hope that is true and Lego will show us all of the magazines. You can't just pretend that the past had never happened. Many of us know it happened, but we need pictures as proof that it's real. I tried asking Lego Customer Service to give me scans of the magazines, but they acted like they refused. One guy from there suggested using Bricklink, but Bricklink doesn't have everything (still no regular version of the September-October 2006 issue).

[Master Inika]

I have a pretty sizeable collection, starting with LEGO Mania Magazine in 1999. I started collecting when I got my first Bionicle set in 2003. I keep them in a huge stack in my office and it's fun to just flip through them. It's not the same looking at LEGO ads on Instagram and the website. I feel like I personally lived through the transition from LEGO's primary means of communication with fans going from print to digital media. It makes me a little sad, thinking about I don't even know if the experience I had of waiting for the new LEGO Magazine every two months to see the new sets is even still a thing anymore. I once had the 3D glasses that came with the magazine promoting Atlantis, plus the weird LEGO Universe comic that came instead of a BIONICLE comic after the last issue, both in 2010.

I'm getting a weird vibe from how you claim LEGO Customer Service "acted like they refused" to provide you with the info you're looking for. Either a) they do not possess the info, or B) they do, but for whatever legal reason it's not a public record. Either way, you're not going to do the fanbase and preservation efforts any favors by needlessly antagonizing whoever picks up the phone. It's not a decision they're personally making. I can assure you they're not just secretly hoarding the records to spite us.

[Bambi]

I was actually thinking about my collection a few days ago. I think I have every Bionicle comic from mid 2004 to 2010. Should have most of the magazines from that time, too. I'll try and look at those later today.

[TERIDAX941]

I have a decent collection, but unfortunately have lost (or accidentally destroyed) various ones which saddens me (especially the Brickmaster editions).

Fortunately almost all (if not all) of these have been scanned onto the Internet Archive, which is what I've been using to look up ones I don't physically have. 

https://archive.org/search?query=lego+magazine

[That Matoran with a Vahi]

...I cut all of my childhood ones up to use the pictures for other projects, BIG WHOOPS on my part... 😅

Especially since I had literally the whole run of the UK Lego Adventures magazine (April 1999 - Jan 2002), of which scans exist online for only a handful of issues, and as well as several UK Lego World Club / Lego Club Magazine issues which sometimes had different content from their US equivalents (and naturally only the US ones are online). No good crying over cut up comics, I suppose, but I do wish I'd had a bit more of a mind for preservation back in the day... I know the fandom would have learned about the existence of Adventures' Legend of Lewa / Trouble for Tahu comics waaaaaay sooner if I'd still had those issues intact when I joined BZP in 2004...!

I've been able to get most of my favourites of the early issues of Adventures back via eBay, at least; but the later issues particularly are incredibly ellusive now. Honestly I'm amazed that the Trouble for Tahu scans eventually surfaced at all, all these years later, since they were from the very last two issues of the run... I'm glad they did, even despite their... minimal story value... but I still wonder how that even happened that they turned up when they did.

[kawaii kitty]

most of digital history is lost. not surprised that a few lego magazines are also lost.

[DaRkDroid13]

i had a subscription to lego club magazine back in the day and had a decent collection but lost literally all of it when i moved across the country. That was one of my biggest childhood joys was getting it in the mail and showing it off at school to other kids. I especially loved the comics. I wish i had saved the very last Bionicle comic, reading it back then made me so sad. 

Some of the issues are archived on Internet Archive