Star Wars Adventures Magazine Breakdown! Issue 24th May - 20th June 2017!

 

 

 

Star Wars Adventures! - EXCLUSIVE TO THE UK!

OK, so there's only a few things which are exclusive to the UK and this is one of them! 

This magazine is aimed at older kids, probably around early teens and has some really cool freebies! 

First the magazine though! Here's the full breakdown of what you'll find in this months issue:

Pages 2 - 3 (Page 1 is the cover!): A nice spread of the newest Star Wars Pop! Vinyls from FUNKO!

Pages 4 - 7: The Galaxies Toughest Warriors! All the faves are here, From the Light side of the Force aswell as the Dark!

Pages 8 - 9: A puzzle page which pays Homage to the Vintage Figures!!

Page 10: An advert for the New Star Wars "Book of the Film" Junior Novel Collection from Egmont!

Page 11: An Exert from the new Star Wars Doodles Strike Back book from Egmont!

Pages 12 - 15: Part one of this months awesome comic from the Legends Library! "Nameless" from Star Wars Tales 10 (Currently only £1.49 on Kindle!!) tells the tale of Maul naming his double bladed lightsaber!

Pages 16 - 17: Spot the difference and Kylo Ren Puzzles!

Page 18 - 19: A massive quad page poster the original 3 heroes. Plus a double page spread of Rey and BB8.

Page 21: WIN! Cool FUNKO Wobblers! These are cuter than the standard POP! Vinyls, very nice!!

Pages 22 - 23: A double page poster/fact-file of the Bounty Hunters we saw in The Empire Strikes Back!

Pages 24 - 25: The Story of Anakins/Lukes Lightsaber! Follow the steps which led it to Rey's hands in The Force Awakens!

Pages 26 - 29: Part two of the "Nameless" Legends comic!

Pages 30 - 31: A factfile on the galaxy's favourite Droid! R2-D2!!

Pages 32 - 33: Rogue One Puzzles! "Codecracker" using Aurabesh! Love those ones!!

Pages 34 - 35: Join the dots puzzles to create The Falcon & A Stormtrooper, and a tease to the next issue which includes Rebel Gliders PLUS a Boba Fett Stampeez!


THE FREEBIES!!

A cool wrist disc shooter! This thing is pretty lethal in the hands of an 8 year old! Force Attax Cards..

..and an R2-D2 Stampeez! Very cool!

Lastly there's also quite a few stickers inside the mag too, mostly brilliant art featuring Rogue One and The Force Awakens Heroes.

The Star Wars Adventures Magazine is available now, until 20th June and is priced at £4.99!

The Official LEGO Star Wars Magazine Available 3rd May - 6th June!

 

What is this? 

This is the newest Issue of LEGO Star Wars Magazine!

It's out NOW in all awesome bookstores, for £3.99 and for that you get a great mag which I'll breakdown for you, aswell as an awesome Lego Mini Model OR Lego MINIFIGURE! It's worth getting JUST for the freebie if you ask me! 

The Mag!

Lets Go Under the Covers! 

So, I'll give you a page by page breakdown but I'm not going to give you absolutely everything so go and buy it after reading this review! 

Pages 3 (Page 1 is the cover) - An intro to the mag which a nice big picture of Director Krennic's Shuttle as in Rogue One!

Page 4 - A breakdown specification of this issue's freebie, The Vulture Droid!!

Pages 5 - 8 - The first part of the AWESOME 2 comics in every Issue! "Escape Through The Snow!" Han and Chewie have been sent on a mission to recover a mysterious Red box, there's always trouble lurking around the corner, and this trouble is in a suit of SILVER ARMOUR!! 

Page 9 - A questionaire puzzle!!  

Pages 10 - 13 - Part 2 of "Escape Through The Snow!" Comic! Find out if Han and Chewie escape with the loot! Featured in this are the First Order Tie Fighter and First Order Snow Speeder LEGO sets!

Page 14 -15 - A few more cool puzzles.

Page 16 - A file on one of the heroes from The Freemaker Adventures! Naare! Who looks a little like Kylo Ren!

Pages 17 - 20 - This is the middle page which has instructions to build the freebie Vulture Droid model. This is also a double page poster of Kylo Ren!

Page 21 - A Death Star Puzzle!

Pages 22 - 29 - The second Comic for the Issue "A Dangerous Delivery", While at the Freemaker base, the team are given a mission, to repair and deliver a VULTURE DROID which will steal intel from the Empire. Find out how they get on!!  

Pages 30 - 31 - A look at the new amazing LEGO Tie Striker!!  

Page 32 - Looks at the New Star Wars Books from Egmont including the awesome Star Wars Galactic Atlas!

Page 33 - WIN The NEW set of Star Wars Microfighters! Get the Issue to find out how to win!!

Page 34 - Teases the next issue which includes the Mini A-Wing fighter!!

The back page is a cut out and keep of The LEGO Millenium Falcon Poster or LEGO Kylo Ren's Shuttle!! 

The Freebie!! 

 

The ship of the Separatist Droid Army!

This little ship is only around 3 inches long but is a great representation of the original! It won't take long for you or your little one to put together, it took me about 5 minutes! 

The LEGO Star Wars magazine is available between 3rd May - 6th June and is priced at £3.99!

DeAgostini Star Wars Helmet Collection Issues 32 & 33

More helmets from DeAgostini this month!! 

 

Issue 32 - Hoth Rebel Soldier

So this is one of the kind of easily overlooked helmets, I probably would have preferred the Luke Skywalker variant of this, with the wrapping around the helmet, and it's another where we scream WHAT ABOUT THE SOFT GOODS?! It's also a little different from the props used too, the goggles in the movie had a green tint to them, which clearly, this doesn't have. Sad, but this is probably my least favourite helmet of the collection.

The magazine starts off with the Database from KEL - KI, which includes Legendary Jedi Master Kenobi, an AWESOME two pages on info about him, spanning all the films and Animated series! 

The Kel-Dor Master Plo Koon and also Master Ki-Adi Mundi are included in this issue's Databank. 

Next is a History of the Hoth Rebel Soldiers, how they were put together and the mostly forgotten struggle and ultimate sacrifice they faced on Hoth as they were overwhelmed by forces of the Galactic Empire, led by Darth Vader. In the middle pages are also cross sections of the helmet itself and it's various parts, from the communications gear to the protective visor. 

A little about the weapons and gear of these brave soldiers is explained aswell as the next few pages which talk more about Echo Base and the various leaders who helped in the escape of the bombardment and clutches of the Imperials.

Lastly for the Highlight of the Saga is a little about the scene where Luke Skywalker is hunted by the Wampa and has to escape from the Ice Cave. Possibly one of the most amazing scenes in the original trilogy is where Luke's saber is pulled from the snow with The Force, which I may add is mirrored and again quite emotional in The Force Awakens!

The back page teases Commander Neyo's helmet, another of the Clones!

Issue 33 - Commander Neyo

COME ON DeAGOSTINI!!

You may or may not be able to see from the above picture, AGAIN how this helmet has been put together.. something like 4 pieces now. I so WISH I knew the process of putting together a model like this as it just feels they could have just a little better.. Being made up of the front mask, left and right sides, plus the top of the helmet, so many parts, it must be difficult to get them all to fit together. 

Unfortunately the helmet I have hasn't been put together that great and you can see the skewing where the pieces aren't quite next to each other properly. A real shame. The design is nice and simple and it's a great looking helmet as a whole, being slightly different from the regular clone helmets. 

In this issue's magazine, the Databank covers KIL - KAT, which includes the fan favourite Kitwarr, the Wookiee child who was saved by the Rebels in the very first series!! (If you've not seen Rebels you need to catch up!!)

We also see a Character who was played by one of my Facebook friends!! Corey Dee Williams! YES Lando's SON!! 

Nikto!

More of the Jedi Masters of the council are also included, Eeth Koth and Agen Kolar, as well as Jabba's Fool, Salacious Crumb. 

The middle pages as ever confirm the History of Commander Neyo, apparently among the first 100 Clones created. There's a cross section of his helmet and as such it's confirmed as to why it's slightly different from the other Clones helmets, Neyo was a Speeder Bike rider as part of the 91st Recon Corps. This part of the mag also confirms how Neyo betrayed and killed General/Jedi Master Adi Gallia, when Order 66 was issued.

Further details of Neyo's weapons confirm he was assigned to the Venator Class Star Destroyer, and for those who like details of the Republic Fleet, there's info on an array of ships. 

The Highlight of the Saga in this issue tells the story of "D Squad", one of the Pit Droids of the squad was assigned as Neyo's Pilot.   

Issue 34 promises a look at the guys who got to hit the big red button which destroyed Alderaan! 

THE DEATH STAR TROOPER! 

They were just doing their job right? We'll find out I guess!

Get onto DeAgostini's website to start your subscription!! It's from £20 per month and for this you get two Helmets and Magazines! 

Star Wars Adventures Magazine Breakdown! Issue 26th Apr - 23rd May

Star Wars Adventures! - EXCLUSIVE TO THE UK!

 

OK, so there's only a few things which are exclusive to the UK and this is one of them! 

This magazine is aimed at older kids, probably around early teens and has some really cool freebies! 

First the magazine though! Here's the full breakdown of what you'll find in this months issue:

Pages 4 - 7 (1-3 are the Front cover and contents of this month): Rogue One Best Bits! That's it really, without spoiling the feature, it's the best bits of the new Smash Hit - ROGUE ONE! (NOW ON DVD!!) 

Pages 8 - 9: Which Hero Are You? Quiz, one of those, answer yes/no quizzes which leads you to either Luke Skywalker, Poe Dameron or Jyn Erso..

I GOT LUKE SKYWALKER! BOOM! Knew it..

Page 10: An advert for the New "Quest For The Kyber Saber" book from Egmont!

Page 11: A competition to WIN the NEW Star Wars Adventures In Wild Space-  THE COLD (As per my review!)

Pages 12 - 13: Death Star Puzzles! Follow the trail, work out who's on the screen, Death star Double, and Spot the droid puzzles! 

Pages 14 - 15: The Story Of The Jedi: A neat little peak into the timeline of the Jedi as we know it from the Films. Only a few snippets, pretty cool though. 

Page 16: Spot the Difference, a really nice landscape of Tie Strikers here!

Page 17: A chance to WIN the new "The Amazing Book of LEGO Star Wars"!! 

Page 18 - 19: A double page poster of Poe's Black X-Wing from The Force Awakens.

Page 20: A chance to trace Baze Malbas and then be able to colour him in. 

Page 21: A Maze Puzzle featuring the Falcon!

Pages 22 - 23: A double page poster/fact-file of C3-PO

Pages 24 - 29: One of the main reasons to get this Mag is for the Comics from the LEGENDS library! It's no longer Canon, but VERY awesome to read! This months issue is "Captain Threepio" which first made it's appearance in Star Wars Tales 8! It's all about Threepio needing to step up and take charge for once! He does pretty well.. 

Pages 30 - 31: How To Make a Lightsaber!! Apparently.. it's really just a few facts about this ancient.. civilized weapon.. Here's a few ways to make a lightsaber!! Or you can buy yourself one HERE!

Pages 32 - 33: A double page spread of puzzles here!! 

Page 34 & 35: Join the dots puzzle to create BB-8, a tease to the next issue which includes a Rebel Disc Shooter PLUS an R2-D2 Stampeez!

Back Page: A great Propaganda poster from Sienar Fleet Systems (who build the Tie Fighters).

THE FREEBIES!!

A cool hand firing rocket, which goes pretty far.. 

..and a C3-P0 Stampeez! This is pretty cool, it's a little bust/statue type thing, made of a sturdy rubber and you can ink up the bottom to get a cool stamped image.. I think the one I got was either a bit of a dud or I didn't use enough ink.. I just used a pen, pretty cool though! Can't wait for R2's one next issue!! 

Lastly a GREAT nod to the Vintage Toy's of old!! STICKERS!!!

 

The Star Wars Adventures Magazine is available now, until 23rd May and is priced at £3.99!

 

The Official LEGO Star Wars Magazine Available 5th April - 2nd May!

 

What is this? 

This is the newest Issue of LEGO Star Wars Magazine!

It's out NOW in all awesome bookstores, for £3.99 and for that you get a great mag which I'll breakdown for you, aswell as an awesome Lego Mini Model OR Lego MINIFIGURE! It's worth getting JUST for the freebie if you ask me! 

The Mag!

Lets Go Under the Covers! 

So, I'll give you a page by page breakdown but I'm not going to give you absolutely everything so go and buy it after reading this review! 

Pages 3 (Page 1 is the cover) - An intro to the mag which a nice big picture of Yoda's Jedi Starfighter!

Page 4 - A breakdown specification of this issue's freebie, Darth Vader's Tie Advanced!!

Pages 5 - 8 - The first part of the AWESOME 2 comics in every Issue! "Catch The Traitor!" Darth Vader has build a new Carbonite Freezing Chamber on Coruscant and there's a spy in the Rebel's ranks; It's up to Luke Skywalker to find out who it is! 

Page 9 - An i-spy puzzle!!  

Pages 10 - 13 - Part 2 of "Catch The Traitor!" Comic! Find out if Luke tracks down the Spy and if Darth Vader get his comeuppance!

Page 14 -15 - A few more identifying puzzles.

Page 16 - A file on one of the heroes from The Freemaker Adventures! ROWAN! (A fellow Scavenger!)

Pages 17 - 20 - This is the middle page which has instructions to build the freebie Tie Advanced Model. This is also a double page poster for The Freemaker Adventures!

 

Page 21 - A Scavenger Puzzle!

Pages 22 - 29 - The second Comic for the Issue "Revenge of the STARSCAVENGER!", On Thalser, the Freemaker team are building a new ship and need one more part, all of a sudden, thieves steal the Starscavenger, Rowan and Roger are still inside and show the Theives whoose boss! 

Pages 30 - 31 - An awesome look at the new LEGO Death Star!!  

Page 32 - Looks at the New Star Wars Book Quest for the Kyber Saber! From Egmont!! 

Page 33 - WIN A set of Star Wars Microfighters! Get the Issue to find out how to win!!

Page 34 - Teases the next issue which includes the Mini Vulture Droid Ship! Also two more great comics from Martin Fisher! 

The back page is a cut out and keep of Light Side (LEGO Xwing) Poster or Darkside (Imperial Tie Fighter)!! 

The Freebie!! 

 

The ship of the Iconic Darth Vader!

This little ship is only around 3 inches wide but is a great representation of the original! It won't take long for you or your little one to put together, it took me about 5 minutes! 

The LEGO Star Wars magazine is available between 5th April - 2nd May and is priced at £3.99!

DeAgostini Star Wars Helmet Collection! Issues 30 & 31!

More great helmets from DeAgostini this month!! 

Issue 30 - Senate Guard

Firstly, the Senate Guard is a great helmet, it hearkens back to the original trilogy, but obviously found in the Prequel Trilogy, it shows a possible evolution of the Imperial Guard helmets.

Like the Imperial Helmet, it's a sleek beautiful design, and the brushes on the top give a more regal feel.. This Helmet is a really nice representation of the actual prob from the films.

The magazine starts off with the Database from KAA - KAM, including information on the Gungan battle mounts! the Kaadu, General Grevious' Kaleesh, AND *SPOILER ALERT* the now Imperial turned Rebel, Agent Kallus!

Next with a History of the Senate Guard, this paragraph goes into a little information about them and how they went about their duties. There we go, the inside pages now talk about the ranking of the Guards, as well as information about the changes from the Senate Guard to the Imperial Guard.

Middle pages go into the cross sections of the helmet itself. More than just for show (although this is definitely talked about) interestingly enough the Plume on the top hides away a communications antennae.. there's more about the general design, weapons and equipment for these guards.

Further pages explain about the other form of the Senate Guard, the Senate Commando's and goes into a little backstory of Captain Faro Argyus (From the Clone Wars Animated Series). Ultimately he was a traitor to the republic but as Karma had it, he met his end at the hand of Asajj Ventress.

The back page teases Poe Dameron's more modern looking helmet!!

Issue 31 - Poe Dameron

Check. Out. This. HELMET!! It still has the worn feel of the old original xwing helmets, but this thing definately LOOKS more modern, a little more stylish and a little less bulky. This miniature helmet is a great representation of the actual prop, no moving parts, but all the scratches and details are on there. I cannot WAIT to sort out my man cave and get these helmets on show!!

We're now getting along with the Databank and this issue covers KAM to KAT, including the mysterious Kaminoans (answers on a postcard to confirm how to say that masterpiece of a word!), of course Kanjiclub get a mention, is this an actual saying now? "I swear Mum I didn't do it!" "Tell that to Kanjiclub!!"

The Wookiee world of Kashyyyk gets a mention in the Databank too and confirms WHERE it actually resides on the universe map of the new Canon!

Next up for the middle pages sets up the history of the wearer of this issues helmet, Poe Dameron. Taking this info from the Marvel Comics Mini-series Star Wars: Shattered Empire this outlined Poe's roots regarding his parents piloting background.

Info about Poe's personal fighter ship is also teased here aswell as a piece on Poe's intro in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (That's that film that did rather well in ratings.. )

The cross sections detail more about the helmet and what's weird is that there's some Aurabesh on the side of the helmet.. which reads ROAEHAL in English.. what does this mean!?! I've tweeted the Holocron, so hopefully I'll get a reply back soon! STAY TUNED FOR UPDATES!!

There's also details about Poe's sidearm and other equipment and also a little bio. 

Whats next in the mag is a few pages on the Resistance as a whole, their History, uniforms, certain members, even the new style of Rankings on their uniforms. My favorite part of this mag is next detailing the pilots of this new era, sadly most of them bite the dust on Starkiller base.. which leads quite nicely into the last segment of this issue, the Assault On Starkiller Base. 

Issue 32 boasts the helmet of the Hoth Rebel Soldiers, should be good as I don't know alot about them, we see little of them in "Empire" too.. 

Get onto DeAgostini's website to start your subscription!! It's from £20 per month and for this you get two Helmets and Magazines!

The Official LEGO Star Wars Magazine Available 8th Feb - 7th March!

What is this? 

This is the newest Issue of LEGO Star Wars Magazine!

It's out NOW in all awesome bookstores, for £3.99 and for that you get a great mag which I'll breakdown for you, aswell as an awesome Lego Mini Model OR Lego MINIFIGURE! It's worth getting JUST for the freebie if you ask me! 

The Mag!

 

Lets Go Under the Covers! 

So, I'll give you a page bu page breakdown but I'm not going to give you absolutely everything so go and buy it after reading this review! 

Pages 3 & 4 (Page 1 is the cover) - A really nice look at the BIG version of the Ghost and also a good breakdown of stats and confirmation of it's crew.

Pages 5 - 8 - The first part of the AWESOME 2 comics in every Issue! "Save the Millennium Falcon!" This comic see's Jabba being crafty as ever, hiring BOSSK and BOBA FETT to steal the Falcon to lure Han Solo into a trap!

Page 9 - A cool deciphering puzzle using Aurabesh!!  

Pages 10 - 13 - Part 2 of "Save the Millennium Falcon!" Comic! Leia is Han's "Only Hope" and tries to get back the Falcon. A fight breaks out and Chewie and Han zoom onto the scene on Wheel Bikes just like General Grevious' from Revenge of the Sith. Get the issue to see what happens!

Page 14 - Another puzzle to figure out what extra parts have been added to the Falcon (from Rex's AT-TE)

Page 15 - This is a dot-to-dot, to find out What Ship is shown, I used to LOVE dot to dots.. 

Page 16 - An Imperial Fact File on Hera Syndulla.

Pages 17 - 20 - This is the middle page which has instructions to build the freebie Ghost model. This is also a double page poster of Kanan, Zeb and Ezra!

Page 21 - Rebels without a name, basically complete the names for each Rebel.

Pages 22 - 29 - The second Comic for the Issue "A Time To Shine", On Seelos, the remainder of the 501st clones, run into some trouble with their AT-TE when an Acklay attacks them, it's then "Crazy Gregor's" time to shine to get the AT-TE back up and running! Get this issue to see how it pan's out! 

Pages 30 - 31 - An awesome look at the LEGO sets Encounter on Jakku and Battle on Takodana!!  

Page 32 - Looks at the New Official LEGO Star Wars Annual for 2017 from Egmont!! 

Page 33 - WIN The NEW Lego Tie Striker and Krennic's Imperial Shuttle! Get the Issue to find out how to win!!

Page 34 - Teases the next issue which includes the LEGO MINIFIGURE Imperial Combat Driver! Also two more great comics from Martin Fisher! 

The back page is a cut out and keep of Fact File "cards" for Captain Phasma, Poe Dameron, Chewbacca and Ahsoka Tano! Lots of cool info on these!! 

The Freebie!! 

Look! It's the Ghost!! The now iconic ship featured heavily in The Star Wars Rebels series aswell as very breif moments of the Box Office Smash hit Rogue One! 

This little ship is only around 3 inches long but is a great representation of the original! It won't take long for you or your little one to put together, I think my son put it together in about 10minutes, good fun though and he was soon zooming it across the table! 

The LEGO Star Wars magazine is available between 8th Feb - 7th March and is priced at £3.99!

Thanks so much to Egmont for providing this review copy!