Hear ye hear ye,

I'm betting some of you enjoy retro LEGO magazines, I have gone on a quest to find and scan the Dragon Masters themed Summer 1993 issue of the UK LEGO Club Magazine Bricks n Pieces. I haven't seen this in full elsewhere online, but if it's already up somewhere, let me know. 

I'm looking to track down any of the remaining LEGO magazines from around the world that haven't already been archived in full somewhere online, and would like to encourage others to share theirs too to preserve a little bit of LEGO history! Let me know if you have a lead. A dragon sized thank you to anyone who's taken the time to do this over the years.

Cool scans!

1993 was a great Lego year in my favourite themes. They released the Dragon Knights with a wizard and a dragon, adding fantasy elements to Castle. The other factions (Black Knights and wolfpack) were also cool. 1997 Fright Knights were also cool, but they were a newer version of Dragon Knights.

About Space, Ice Planet 2002 was also a cool faction. In your scans we can see 2 Blacktron frozen minifigs. This is the first time I see that because in normal catalogues only one frozen Blacktron appeared.

Thanks for sharing!!

1993 was the year I became an AFOL in large part due to the fantasy-themed direction Castle was taking.

@TalonCard, Thank you for sharing the scans. You might get in trouble with the mods though for posting the same thing in more than one EB fora. They don’t like that 

6 hours ago, AmperZand said:

1993 was the year I became an AFOL in large part due to the fantasy-themed direction Castle was taking.

@TalonCard, Thank you for sharing the scans. You might get in trouble with the mods though for posting the same thing in more than one EB fora. They don’t like that 

Ah, thank you for the heads up. I did post about two separate magazines from 1993, Space in the Sci-Fi forum and the Castle magazine here, so similar posts but not exactly the same thing. (Though there is Ice Planet stuff in both, I think.) Do you think that might still be an issue?

12 hours ago, Captain Roger said:

Cool scans!

1993 was a great Lego year in my favourite themes. They released the Dragon Knights with a wizard and a dragon, adding fantasy elements to Castle. The other factions (Black Knights and wolfpack) were also cool. 1997 Fright Knights were also cool, but they were a newer version of Dragon Knights.

About Space, Ice Planet 2002 was also a cool faction. In your scans we can see 2 Blacktron frozen minifigs. This is the first time I see that because in normal catalogues only one frozen Blacktron appeared.

Thanks for sharing!!

You're welcome! 1993 was a cool year. You might also want to check out this Dragon Masters promotional comic.

@TalonCard, I’m not sure whether the shared Ice Planet content is sufficient to be considered ‘double posting’. That would be a question for the mods, and I’m not one.

There is a rules/admin forum here on EB, so maybe if you asked the mods there with a link to each thread, you can get a definitive answer. 

Personally, I don’t mind ‘double posting’ when a topic genuinely straddles two subjects or themes and the discussions don’t wind up covering the same ground. But I know that the mods don’t see it that way.

I'd imagine the moderators would have said something by now if posting about a magazine with a Space themed cover story in the sci-fi forum and an entirely separate magazine with a Castle magazine cover story in the Historic Themes forum was an issue, but I appreciate your concern anyway.

Edited February 9, 20223 yr by TalonCard

Thank you for sharing the comic! I have just looked it now and is nice, even I miss other factions. Best regards!!

On 2/7/2022 at 8:12 PM, TalonCard said:

Hear ye hear ye,

I'm betting some of you enjoy retro LEGO magazines, I have gone on a quest to find and scan the Dragon Masters themed Summer 1993 issue of the UK LEGO Club Magazine Bricks n Pieces. I haven't seen this in full elsewhere online, but if it's already up somewhere, let me know. 

I'm looking to track down any of the remaining LEGO magazines from around the world that haven't already been archived in full somewhere online, and would like to encourage others to share theirs too to preserve a little bit of LEGO history! Let me know if you have a lead. A dragon sized thank you to anyone who's taken the time to do this over the years.

Fantastic! Thank you so much for the work you're doing. I always love getting these glimpses of past themes as they were marketed at the time in different parts of the world — and Dragon Masters is of particular interest to me since it was my own first Castle theme (just as Ice Planet 2002 was my first Space theme)!

There's not too much exciting new story info here like faction, character, or place names (the names "Dragon Knights", "Merlin", and "Ogwen" were already pretty well known from British catalogs), but it's interesting that the writers of this issue decided that Ogwen is capable of speech.

It definitely does fit with the sort of European literary and folkloric traditions that inspired this subtheme — many mythological dragons like Fafnir were traditionally portrayed as capable of speech, which in turn inspired the portrayal of dragons like Smaug in more modern works of fiction. But it's an interesting distinction from a lot of other countries' marketing materials in which the wizard's dragon is rarely even named, let alone "anthropomorphized" to this extent.

I think your decision to post these in separate threads seems sound. A unified topic for these scans could potentially be useful, but not strictly necessary unless a mod says otherwise (especially if you include links to your previous magazine scan topics in future threads).

On another note, I appreciate you uploading these images to Flickr as it makes it easier to browse the various publications you've uploaded and follow along with future scans you upload compared to sites like Imgur.

Edited February 9, 20223 yr by Aanchir