Official LEGO Explorer Magazine: Discontinued Games

A short tour and then goes: after four issues, the French version of the official LEGO Explorer magazine launched in May 2021 is already bowing out. The publisher Panini stops the costs, probably because of the too low sales of this unlicensed magazine which wanted to be a product with more elaborate content than the usual magazines which distill comics, games and advertisements for LEGO brand products.

We can therefore conclude that the formula did not appeal to newsstands, despite the presence of a thematic polybag supplied with each of the four issues: a somewhat shapeless time machine (11947), a parrot (11949) rather nice, a mill with a wind turbine (11952) not very inspired and a rather successful gecko (11953). At €5.99 per magazine, readers were perhaps expecting something more extensive editorially. The formula was in my opinion far from being convincing on this last point, even for the youngest, with content that strayed too frankly from the main center of interest and unkept promises, in particular concerning "building advice " which often boiled down to a few vague ideas without interest.