Hello all,
Today I picked up the two new White Dwarf Magazines. White Dwarf Weekly and Visions. After giving them the once over here are my impressions.
The New White Dwarf Magazines
What was promised?
Two new magazines
·
Visions-
o all
sorts of cool pictures of GW miniatures
o For
the Hobbyist
o 228
pages
o Only
12.00 per issue
·
White Dwarf Weekly-
o For
the Gamer
o Game
articles
o Painting
articles
o Previews
for new stuff
o Weekly
o Only
4.00
What was delivered?
Two new ads and a higher price
·
Visions
o Good
pictures but similar pictures can be found on the internet for free.
o It
is for the Hobbyist but only if all you like to do is look at pictures of
finished models
o 228
pages but the book is a smaller paper size (Bumper sized) so it may not be that
much more for the cost
o For
12.00 not such a great cost point.
·
White Dwarf Weekly-
o For
the Gamer- sure why not.
o There
are 7 articles (Painting and hobby) in the 32 page book. Thumbs up!
o Previews.
Well You have to go to page 14 before you find an article
o Weekly
is ok but that means 8-10 dollars a month
Overview-
The weekly magazine is ok and maybe worth getting on an
issue by issue basis. There are too many previews for such a small publication
but the price is ok if that particular issue has what you want in it.
“Visions” is rubbish plain and simple. Here is what you
get for your 12.00:
·
An even smaller book (Bumper size)
·
53 pages of Tyranid pictures
·
119 pages of various pictures
o Hobbit
o Armies
on parade
o Blanchitsu
o A
poorly put together battle report that was just a picture show.
o Evey
Metal pictures
·
Finally 41 more pages of Nids
o With
a short paint splatter section on … you guessed it Nids
Two other things are also different
1.
The store no longer has a “Store copy” for
customer’s to looks at before shelling out the $$$. I guess they know what they
are shoveling.
2.
The
weekly is currently the only version available for digital. “Visions” in paper
only this may change but who knows.
Thanks for reading we now return you to our normal happy
blog. :)
RGH
I did warn you about Visions...
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ReplyDeleteBut really, it happened years ago. I remember when they published monster profiles for AD&D. Plans to scratch build a baneblade-- which I did :) ah, the good old days. For once, they were
Your response is the exact opposite of mine: White Dwarf is okay but almost certainly not something I'm going to buy regularly (weekly = too much of hassle, ultimately more expensive, focused on stuff I'm less and less interested in) while Visions is going to be an every month miniporn purchase for me.
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