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For anyone interested, the contents of Issue 61 (which I got yesterday in the mail).
Page 1/cover - Warpath in robot mode, promoting the NY Toyfair (see page 4).
Page 2/intro & contents - No paragraph by Brian this month. Their membership toy Lio Convoy "introduces himself" instead. "He" also notes that the BotCon brochure should be online shortly after this issue comes out (which was almost two weeks ago for Americans... so not really "shortly"). It also notes that membership cut-off for the toy is March 16th (I already got an email the other day to warn me of the automatic renewal soon). Plus, there is mention of this year's magazine comic (Another Light) will not be featuring the annual membership toy... but Lio Convoy will feature in other stories, including the 26 page Prose story currently on the Club website as a pdf file here (with some illustrations).
Page 3 - Gen1 Japanese "Kabaya Milk Caramel" Decoys (the rainbow of colours and different moulds to the Decoys released by Hasbro and Takara), written by Andrew Hall. This is the first of a series of articles, which may all be on Japanese Oddities, or Oddities in general with Transformers. The photos and information are a pleasant reminder of what this Magazine should include more of.... and less of the full page advertisements of items that the members receiving the magazine already know about. (see page 5)
Page 4 - a full page used up for promoting the NY Toyfair and Legends class Warpath, noting that the Transformers Club would be the first to show off what was revealed at Toyfair. (I looked, and all they had were the press-release images that are available on the Hasbro media website... no images of the Toyfair itself.) The one good thing is that for most Americans, this would have been a first look at Warpath... and for the rest of us non-American members, it is a first look at the backing card art (which has Warpath shooting his arm cannon like a classic Gen1 Megatron art would).
Page 5 - a full page on the Lio Convoy membership toy, saying that you have until March 16th to get it, and it should ship out Late Spring/Early Summer (US seasons - so about May/June... if they aren't delayed).
(page 4 & 5 could have been on the one page... there is so much empty space on both pages, and a larger than necessary image of each, considering Warpath was already filling the full front page, and Lio Convoy will be all over their website and isn't much different to the earlier photos anyway - it just seemed like padding out to fill an extra page)
Page 6 - A recap of the Shattered Glass universe before the second part of this year's comic story on the next page (the first part was the 4-page prologue in the last issue).
Page 7-12 - Comic story "Another Light" part 1. It is the Shattered Glass Universe, but follows on from the Beast Wars story of 2013 (with Ultra Mammoth, Grimlock and Magnaboss trio) arriving on the Mirror-verse Cybertron... so we see the return of a few past characters like the Bard of Darkmount, Cliffjumper and Aquarius the Quintesson. But while Ultra Mammoth are trying to get back to their universe, Mirror-verse Galvatron is preparing to head to his Earth, to play out events of the 1986 Movie (which was already shown in the Prologue... which I guess was actually in the future a little, as that was the scene that has Unicron first meeting the leader of the "evil" Cybertronians, which was Optimus in the Mirror-verse)
Page 13 - a profile page of eight of the creative people that will be doing work for the Magazine this year. Includes Robby Musso, Matt Frank, Jim Sorenson, Dan Khanna, Thomas Deer, Eryck Webb, Evan Gaunt, David Willis.
Page 14 - a single Transformers Profle page this issue, of the Membership toy Lio Convoy that doesn't come out until June... so could have been left until Issue 63, which would arrive in most members homes (in America) at the same time as the toy (start of June). I guess since the Prose story that is currently on the Club website is about Lio Convoy in the Beast Wars Uprising universe, they wanted to properly detail the character first.
Page 15 - Introduction to the Prose story "Broken Windshields", written by Jim Sorenson.
Page 16/back page - some creative "humour" with two new sections.
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