Coming soon: Blocks magazine

Seems promising! Especially the title "Build a custom display."

'The magazine for the serious LEGO enthusiast' eh? Pity i'm not at all serious. I'm often really silly ;)

Well, I could certainly get behind this but will it tell me anything different to what my daily trawl of various sites (including this excellent one) does already? I hope so.

I wonder how much it is and no free lego? lol Chima can manage it lol

The key question for non-Brickish-FOLs is whether this will be available outside the UK, in either hard copy or pdf format.

Bruce

It says on the bottom "not an official LEGO product." :-( I'm a bit confused, as I reckon people at my newsagent would like this, but I tried to pre-order some copies off the National Title File, but they don't have anything listed at all. Only thing that showed up was "Blocks". Most magazines are on it 3 months in advance. Is it a WHSmiths company that makes it?

I'm pretty sure WH Smith moved out of publishing when they sold Hodder to Hachette about ten years ago.

Looks like an interesting magazine. All magazines accept foreign subscriptions, they're pricy though because of the postage.

Huw, can I suggest that you ask them to give you a few sample pages in PDF format to share with us? I'm sure that would increase sales assuming the quality is good.

I just realised my previous comment made no sense. I meant to say only ALPHAblocks shows up, not Blocks! XD My mistake.

Was there any indication of the likely price, Huw?

Looks to be an interesting read and i'll certainly be picking up the first issue! Any news on price and issue frequency?

Hi. Just thought I'd give you an update on the forthcoming " Blocks " magazine. Just to let you all know I first came across the flyer / leaflet for the magazine at the National Space Centre where they were holding a Lego exhibition. Once I returned home I posted a picture of the flyer to my fellow Legoholics on a Facebook site where I found out that nobody had even heard a whisper regarding this. I then proceeded in emailing and asking a few questions. They got back to me today with this reply -

Hi Richard

Many thanks for getting in touch and apologies for the delay in replying as we have been in the studio to early hours as very busy ready for the launch as you can imagine.

To answer some of your questions, this is a brand new launch which is being trialled as a one off, but due to the response we are already looking at issue two. Frequency we are still discussing with the publisher, but monthly and bi-monthly are the dates we are looking at. The product content is for ALL lego fans but primarily aimed at the adult enthusiasts and collectors. There will only be LEGO in the magazine, NO mega blocks, CB etc...

The cover price will be £5.99, perfect bound on heavy paper stock. The initial run we are limiting with WH smiths holding the bulk of copies. However the number on the flyer will enable people to order over the phone should they prefer.

I hope that helps, and if you could send me a link of your posts, I will glady join in the discussion should more questions arise.

Once again many thanks for getting in touch and I look forward to hearing again from you.

All the best
Mark

Editor
Blocks

May I suggest availability in PDF versions as well? Some of us on the other side of the planet would love to sign up for a subscription; but without the customary exorbitant mailing fees! Brick Journal does this extremely well and leaves more room in my "Lego Cave" for bricks!

I still really like the idea but it seems expensive for a magazine now I have seen the cost. I am looking forward to seeing if the cost justifies the content or whether I am just reading the same stuff I got from the web a few weeks before the magazine comes out. Will certainly be buying the first issue and wish the guys behind it good luck!

Sounds like a good idea for the magazine and I will certainly be buying. Any ideas of the date it will be hitting the shelves in W H Smith?