The mag used to be run by the fan club, and that was it rocked between 1995 and 2000. The columns were in-depth and informative, and they were intelligent and entertaining. Back then, without the internet, it was also a good source of news and its jawa trader catalog always made me drool, and of course with the exclusive prequel production reports were great, and then there was stuff like Anthony Daniels' Wonder Column. Its now become basically a big Lucasfilm advertisement magazine, which is a worst case scenario--being a mag financed by the very product it is promoting, it somehow rose above the whole promotional trap for all those years but lately its only been consisting of video game previews, a few cool pictures, advertisements and little blurbs taken from the official site. It could improve i suppose, sometimes publishers need an issue or two to find their groove, but personally it would take a lot to sway me back, and they can only re-interview the same cast and crew members so many times.
The mag used to be run by the fan club, and that was it rocked between 1995 and 2000. The columns were in-depth and informative, and they were intelligent and entertaining. Back then, without the internet, it was also a good source of news and its jawa trader catalog always made me drool, and of course with the exclusive prequel production reports were great, and then there was stuff like Anthony Daniels' Wonder Column. Its now become basically a big Lucasfilm advertisement magazine, which is a worst case scenario--being a mag financed by the very product it is promoting, it somehow rose above the whole promotional trap for all those years but lately its only been consisting of video game previews, a few cool pictures, advertisements and little blurbs taken from the official site. It could improve i suppose, sometimes publishers need an issue or two to find their groove, but personally it would take a lot to sway me back, and they can only re-interview the same cast and crew members so many times.