User blog:Drop Zone mk2/Robot Wars Magazines

Last year, I made a brilliant purchase on eBay: all but one of the issues of the original Magazine for just £15!

However, I'm not just writing this blog to tell you of my good fortune. Seeing as I have since tracked down a copy of the first issue of the original magazine, I was considering scanning them all in and writing articles for each one.

Unfortunately, I will need a little help, as I don't own any issues of the second run of the magazine apart from issue 6. Also, all of the pages (apart from issue 1) have two holes in them, having been holepunched to be put in a folder, and there is a lot of writing in the magazines. Some of it is not too bad, or I can cover using Microsoft Paint, but others, such as the Puzzle pages, are covered in pen drawing. If anyone else owns these magazines, can they send me a message, and scan them in?

On top of this, I will need to make a new template for magazines. Basically, just take the one for books and change it to say Magazine.

One more thing, the magazines did not still have the free gifts. Now, most of them I will be able to get pictures of from the "Next issue" section of each magazine, but if there are any I can't find a picture of, I'll need some help.

Below is a draft of what I hope the articles will look like, with some scans from the magazine. I mostly based it on the articles on Doctor Who magazine from the Doctor Who Wiki (you can see an example here: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/DWM_482)

Draft of Robot Wars Magazine (Original Run) Issue #6
Issue #6 of the original Robot Wars Magazine, cover dated October 2000, was released on the 29th September 2000, and contained a preview of Series 4, with a look at the qualifiers, predictions for the robots in the series and a look at the (then) new House Robot, Refbot.

Features

 * Series 4 Preview - The Good, The Mad and The Ugly - A preview of the robots in Series 4, with old favourites, new robots to look out for, improvers as well as unusual and entertaining robots. Predictions were given as to how the magazine thought they would do.
 * Meet the Crew - A 2-page spread of a group photo of the entire Robot Wars crew, with a list of each members name and job.
 * Total Mayhem - Live and Flipping - A look at the Series 4 qualifiers at the Robot Mayhem event, with highlights, pictures, an explanation of the entire event, and a look to future events.
 * Smash Hits - Top of the Bots - A preview of the "Sir Killalot vs Robobabe" single and music video.
 * Robot Chores - Occupation: Robot - A tongue in cheek series of suggestions for what the House Robots could do off-screen between series.

Regulars

 * Birth of the Beast - This issue looks at the features of the latest House Robot, Refbot.
 * Team Profile - Chrome Rangers - Steve Merrill and David Whitehead of The Hub Nuts are interviewed about their cheerleaders, their improved robot and their hopes for Series 4.
 * Brain Scan - Technical expert Derek Foxwell, one of the shows creators, is interviewed.
 * Static - Letters from fans, puzzles and a cartoon.
 * Robot Wars Club News
 * Robot Report
 * Dr Zulu's Robot Hospital
 * Hugh Manoid - One final rant from "the man who hates Robot Wars"

Posters

 * The Series 4 House Robots (2 pages)
 * Dont argue with Refbot (1 page)

Competitions

 * Let the Zaurs Begin! - A competition for the "Dinozaur toys", the question being "How many horns did a Triceratops have?"
 * '''Digi This" - 10 sets of Digimon books and videos were avaliable being "Which one of these is an evil Digimon? A) Nastymon B) Devimon C) Nickmon"