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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2019 9:33:59 GMT
The cover of the next DWM is up and I don't recognise that picture of Pat at all! Have they found some new pictures?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 5, 2019 14:08:29 GMT
The DWM Special out on August 8th is about the Target books!!!! Very excited by this.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 5, 2019 14:14:18 GMT
I noticed that. I'm looking forward to that too, although the Target Book pretty much covered it all.
I've also noticed the silver edged essential guides seem to have stopped. I'm wondering if the return of the companion volumes has put that series on hold.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2019 20:06:21 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2019 20:09:56 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2019 20:11:52 GMT
Very exciting! One to read instead of just adding to the pile.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 6, 2019 20:15:35 GMT
Indeed. I have The Target Book but am still looking forward to this.
Potential DW publication of the year.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 6, 2019 20:26:21 GMT
I have the first edition of The Target Book and never got round to the updated version so this should hit the spot.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2019 20:42:11 GMT
Snap!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 29, 2019 20:21:33 GMT
I wish I could let go my DWMs and recycle them. I'd save a lot of space. I used to have 30+ year continuous run but eventually ran out of space. Most went to Oxfam, now I recycle recent ones. It was hard to part with them but just no room to keep them all. Kept a few ones as examples of eras. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Sept 27, 2019 19:27:16 GMT
I'm a month behind on DWM so I've just finished reading the previous ish. The themed articles that make up the bulk of the issue are annoying me now. I love writing and reading about writers, but all that evaluation stuff felt like it was taking up too much of the issue. What was great was the bit on Holmes' original Mysterious Planet, and the last Saward interview. The rest felt like fanzine filler.
I also have a problem with the subscriber covers. When magazines do this, they generally put a different cover image on that uses the space better - SFX do some lovely arty sub covers. Because DWM use the same one without the text they just look plain. I don't think they quite understand the point of that idea. The recent 'Doctor with still from title sequence' covers have been really poor, they look like bland and dull fan montages. I also have no idea why the Cybermen were on the cover of the last issue as there was nothing in it about them. Had the straplines still been there I might have some idea what that was related to. That was a great opportunity for a Trial related cover wasted. Great shame.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 11, 2019 9:35:32 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 11, 2019 15:24:16 GMT
A constant throughout my life! I've long since shed the full set of them due to space considerations (alas) and it's going through a purple patch but I always read every issue. I would be sad if it went away.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 11, 2019 16:27:17 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 11, 2019 21:13:17 GMT
The important one for me is issue ten. I still have a complete collection but it does take up a lot of space. The specials alone now are a big collection in their own right.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 11, 2019 21:37:05 GMT
I did not want to part with them but ran out of room for them all. Once that seal was broken it became easier to recycle most new issues after I have read them.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 14, 2019 9:58:31 GMT
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Post by blueshift on Oct 14, 2019 10:24:08 GMT
Do we know what the DVD is and what the Big Finish downloads will be?
I hope they won't do the 'you get loads of stories but they're actually all part 1s' thing they like doing
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2019 10:30:06 GMT
Not a clue. Subscribers haven't got it yet. Given how many BF downloads I have I will probably have them all!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 14, 2019 20:31:30 GMT
Is that £9.99 with all those extras because it's a Smith's exclusive again? Or is that the standard issue we're all getting?
Oddly what would make me buy the £9.99 one, if that isn't the standard one, is the index. A proper index for DWM would be great.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2019 16:06:11 GMT
Is that £9.99 with all those extras because it's a Smith's exclusive again? Or is that the standard issue we're all getting? Oddly what would make me buy the £9.99 one, if that isn't the standard one, is the index. A proper index for DWM would be great. £9.99 for it anywhere. I did think of you when I saw it came with an index!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 15, 2019 19:29:22 GMT
That's good. So does that mean subbers get the full package at no extra cost? Nice! Index me up, baby!
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2019 19:54:53 GMT
We should. I'll be hacked off I don't. The previous NEXT ISSUE bit in the last edition noted this issue would be £9.99.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Oct 16, 2019 15:19:21 GMT
My subs copy is here, with all the extras
DVD is bits off the blu rays to tempt you. Some s26 stuff, not yet released, and something left off the s18 set.
Big Finish freebie is Destiny of the Doctors.
There's also a free audiobook of Invisible Enemy which I registered for and then discovered you need to use their app or listen online
Paul Cornell's Uncle Tewwance piece is FAB, some more stuff on the great man within including an article on some of his best books and the outline for the first EDA the Eight Doctors.
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Post by blueshift on Oct 16, 2019 15:21:20 GMT
Big Finish freebie is Destiny of the Doctors. Oh There's also a free audiobook of Invisible Enemy which I registered for and then discovered you need to use their app or listen online Oh |
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 16, 2019 18:55:04 GMT
Glad I am a subber and so didn't have to pay £10 for this issue. A dvd of clips from Blu-Rays? Blu rays that are mostly out of print so if you are tempted by this clips to buy them...YOU CAN'T. An audio set that BF has already had in umpteen sales? An audiobook you can't directly download outside an app?
What on Earth were they thinking??
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 16, 2019 19:28:37 GMT
Agreed. It's pretty disappointing that they've almost doubled the cover price for stuff that is effectively marketing materials. My thought process was exactly like Ralph's. The only thing I would say is that the BF stuff is at least a complete series, and quite a large one, rather than individual parts of multi-part stories. It seems the days of BF providing original content for DWM covermounts are long gone.
However, the index will be really useful. Not sure how many people for though.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 16, 2019 19:52:29 GMT
Also as I already have an Audiobook account from the last freebie offer I am unable to get this one for Invisible Enemy. It either says my email is already in the system or tries to charge me £5.83 or prompts me to sign up for a monthly charge of £7.99. Er no. Eff off.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 16, 2019 19:55:16 GMT
The last time there was a £10 issue of DWM it was:
A: An optional edition. There was still a standard £6 version.
B: The vinyl it came with was genuinely unique and the DWM audio freebie download was newish and hadn't been on sale before.
C: You got 2 bookmarks.
D: The audiobook download was actually redeemable.
E: Andrew Pixley s11 guide was all new.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Oct 16, 2019 20:51:48 GMT
The S12 stuff on the DVD is really annoying. Admittedly there are a couple of unique items on the disc, but putting stuff on there from a release they know full well no one can buy is just rubbish.
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