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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)

LEGO Mania Magazine (US, 1994–2002, 45 issues)
No. Issue Scans
1 Winter 1994 Zendani on Imgur (mirror) (front and back covers have large tears)
2 January-February 1995 Miniland Online
Zendani on Imgur (mirror)
3 March-April 1995 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
4 May-June 1995 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
5 July-August 1995 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
6 September-October 1995 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
7 November-December 1995 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
8 January-February 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny (missing pages 7–10)
Miniland Online
9 March-April 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
10 May-June 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
11 July-August 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny (missing part of pages 15–16)
Miniland Online
12 September-October 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
13 November-December 1996 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
14 January-February 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny (missing pages 14–15 and part of pages 17–18)
Miniland Online
15 March-April 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
16 May-June 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
17 July-August 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
18 September-October 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
19 November-December 1997 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
20 January-February 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny (part of back advert missing)
Miniland Online
21 March-April 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
22 May-June 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
23 July-August 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online (part of pages 17–18 missing)
24 September-October 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny (slightly crooked?)
Miniland Online
25 November-December 1998 Emily at Mask of Destiny (blurry Holiday Wish Book)
Miniland Online
26 January-February 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
27 March-April 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
28 May-June 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
29 July-August 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
30 September-October 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
31 November-December 1999 Emily at Mask of Destiny (missing pages 13–16 poster and pages 22–23, page 26 corrupted)
Miniland Online (missing pages 13–16 poster, has alternate page 24)
32 January-February 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
33 March-April 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
34 May-June 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
35 July-August 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
36 September-October 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
37 November-December 2000 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
38 January-February 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
39 March-April 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
40 May-June 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
41 July-August 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
42 September-October 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
43 November-December 2001 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
44 January-February 2002 Emily at Mask of Destiny
Miniland Online
45 March-April 2002 Emily at Mask of Destiny

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.

LEGO Mania Magazine (Canada, 1995–2002, ? issues)
No. Issue Scans
1 January/Janvier 1995 VezokofZakaz on Brickshelf
2 March-April/Mars-Avril 1995 VezokofZakaz on Brickshelf
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