New on newsstands: first issue of the LEGO Explorer magazine

This new magazine was already available under the same title in other countries, it is now arriving in France: the first issue of the LEGO Explorer magazine is currently available on newsstands and I bought a copy out of curiosity.

The publisher Panini announces the color from the cover, the 34-page magazine sold for 5.99 € allows you to obtain an official LEGO polybag with a construction of a few pieces which is in theory in the theme of the content developed inside. With this first number, we obtain the bag bearing the reference 11947 whose inventory of 39 parts to assemble what is in principle a time machine with Steampunk accents.

Assembly instructions are not in the bag, they are on a double-sided printed page to cut out of the magazine, fold and store with your parts in the bag. I scanned the instructions for you, you will find them in the gallery below.

If the bimonthly French version of the magazine follows the same logic as the other editions, some of which are monthly, the polybags provided with the next issues should make it possible to obtain a carnivorous plant (11948), a parrot (11949), a racing car ( 11950), a monkey (11951), a mill with a wind turbine (11952), a lizard (11953), an alien ship (11954) or even a lion (11955). We know that the number 2 of the French version will give the polybag 11949.

It is not known for the moment whether the publisher of the French version of the magazine will catch up with the delay accumulated on other editions and will one day provide the previous polybags containing a robot (11938), an octopus (11939), a medieval castle. (11940), a frog (11941), a lunar module (11942), an ant (11943), a skull (11944), a steam locomotive (11945) and a penguin (11946). If you plan to collect all of these different sachets, the task will therefore seem complicated.

For the rest, the content of the magazine is a little more elaborate than for other media of the same type under Star Wars or Marvel license, there are no comics inside and there are some sections on animals or notion of time that have nothing to do with the LEGO universe, it is the vaguely educational guarantee of the support.

There are also some building tips, several small games without any real challenge for a child and a central poster. We are very far from a Science and Life Junior LEGO, that is clearly not the point.
I scanned four pages of the magazine for you (see gallery below), it's up to you to see if this type of content can appeal to your children, if you have any.