Brick Kicks magazine scans

[PxChris]

This is a long shot, but do any members here have scans of the Brick Kicks magazine from the 1980s and 90s? Or physical copies that they are willing to scan? I've scoured the internet for them to no avail.

Specifically I'm looking for scans of the Spring 1992 issue. Other issues would just be of general interest.

BrickTsar has videos showing the contents of a number of them, which is great, but scans is really what I'm after. I am also aware of the scans available at miniland.nl however those are all incomplete.

Thanks!

Edited January 21, 2022 by PxChris

[TalonCard]

I think I have this one at home; I should be able to scan it in the next week or so.

In the meantime, I did scan all of the Brick Buildmore comics from the Brick Kicks I do have here a long time ago, if you're interested.

Edited January 22, 2022 by TalonCard

[Aanchir]

3 hours ago, TalonCard said:

I think I have this one at home; I should be able to scan it in the next week or so.

In the meantime, I did scan all of the Brick Buildmore comics from the Brick Kicks I do have here a long time ago, if you're interested.

Love this sort of stuff! It's always neat to see primary sources like this that illustrate how LEGO was marketing their sets and themes in different places and times back in the pre-Internet days, even if it's often hard to come by. Thank you for putting in this effort!

[PxChris]

On 1/22/2022 at 6:49 AM, TalonCard said:

I think I have this one at home; I should be able to scan it in the next week or so.

In the meantime, I did scan all of the Brick Buildmore comics from the Brick Kicks I do have here a long time ago, if you're interested.

Those comic scans are fantastic @TalonCard! Thanks for those.

Please let me know if you're able to locate the magazine and scan it in full. I've reached out in a number of different areas for it and have gotten a couple of replies that they thought they had the issue, but as of yet no one has actually gotten it done.

It is much appreciated!

[TalonCard]

Here you go! I've been wanting to make that parrot for 30 years now; maybe one day I'll get around to it.  The parrot instructions were featured in ads for the LEGO club, but I didn't see the full page instructions until I finally got a copy of the magazine off of eBay eight or so years ago.

Edited January 25, 2022 by TalonCard

[PxChris]

Thanks so much @TalonCard this is truly fantastic!

I definitely want to give it a go at building the parrot as well. The instructions are a little vague in a couple places, but it should be simple enough to work out I think.

The other thing I really was looking for in this issue was that article blurb about the Pirateland addition to LEGOLand Billund. You can see how clearly it's based off of Eldorado Fortress. I've been collecting other information and photos that I could find about it as well. 

This video gives a great view of the ride (along with some photos).

[TalonCard]

Pirateland in Billund is definitely an amazing place for classic pirate fans! I finally got to go in 2019, if you'd like to see the pictures we took I've uploaded them here too.

Overall I was very impressed with how good it looks considering how old the ride is. There are a few elements that I'm sad to have missed--judging from older photos, they used to have full sized versions of the Sea Hawk and Dark Shark used as seating for the restaurants. There was even an animatronic Redbeard; there's a very good video here.

They did manage to salvage most of the elements as wrecked ships, you can see them here and here.

I'm not sure how long the Governor Broadside and Lieutenant De Martinent models have been there (a version of them was used in the 1993 Pirate touring show featured here), but they're still there too, now in the very modern Pirate Splash Battle ride. Great to see the classic characters still in the park!

And for some vintage footage of the land and ride, check this video out (Pirateland footage from 15:43.) It would be great to get the ride dialogue translated one day.

 

 

Edited January 26, 2022 by TalonCard

[PxChris]

Thanks for all those links @TalonCard I've just started looking through them. I'll spend some time browsing everything this weekend probably. Some really great models there!