Research Realm:Scans/LEGO Mania Magazine
LEGO Mania Magazine is an English-language magazine first published in the United States by LEGO Systems, Inc. Its first issue released in Winter 1994, replacing Brick Kicks. Its second issue released in January 1995, and from that point forward it was published six times a year, every two months. It had a Canadian English/French version published by LEGO Canada, which replaces Innovations in January 1995. Its final issue was in March 2002: in May 2002 it merged with LEGO World Club to form LEGO Magazine. For a long time it seemed to be the only Lego magazine people online cared about; even to this day it's one of the few to be almost entirely scanned, and the versions of stories and characters presented in it are treated as the "true" ones.
Two major scans exist of the US version, by Miniland Online and BioMedia Project/Mask of Destiny. The BMP/MoD scans are higher-quality, though Miniland has a few pages and issues missing from earlier years.
List of issues
United States (1994–2002)
Canada (1995–2002)
The Canadian version is unfortunately largely missing, even Bricklink doesn't list any issues of it. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be much interest in archiving it since it's seen as mostly just the US version with some English text replaced with French. This isn't entirely true though; the January 95 issue for instance has some different text for the Aquazone lore despite being half the length, in particular it calls the crystals they collect Hydrolator crystals while the American version doesn't. I have a few unscanned issues but I have no idea how many there were in total. It probably has the same number of issues as US, minus Winter 1994.
| No. | Issue | Scans |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | January/Janvier 1995 | VezokofZakaz on Brickshelf |
| 2 | March-April/Mars-Avril 1995 | VezokofZakaz on Brickshelf |
| ??? | ||
