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Wizard Magazine Coming Back?

Started by SoS, Jul 27 2017 11:43 PM

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#1 SoS

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Posted 27 July 2017 - 11:43 PM

So rumors that Wizard Magazine is coming back. Are you glad it's returning or do you think with the age of the thriving internet it is best to just leave it resting? What do you guys think? Share your thoughts here.

--SoS

Edited by SoS, 27 July 2017 - 11:44 PM.

#2 Maruten

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 12:09 AM

Wow. Well, I mean, it was a toxic mess by the end, right? But man, I have a lot of fond memories of reading Wizard in the 90s.

What would it need to look like in order to survive in 2017? I'm not sure, but I'll be watching this story with interest.

#3 tec

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 12:39 AM

Bout dam time I prefer mags over Internet gaming a comic websites are disjointed cluttered messes

Wizard

Toy Fair

and Play all need to comeback

and if I can dream again Newtype USA

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#4 Daith

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 02:56 AM

All I want back would be Twisted ToyFare Theatre and the misadventures of Mego Spidey.

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#5 ZacWilliam1

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 05:19 AM

There are Magazines I dearly miss in physical form. Dungeon and Dragon magazines before everything else. Breaks my heart not to be able to buy those two and read them at leisure.

Wizard isn't quite that good but was fun in it's hay day. I would definitely check it out if it came back.
As long as it's more features, analysis, profiles, and fun stuff and less an attempt to have news it needent fear the Internet much.

-ZacWilliam, waiting for the announcement that it's just a dumb Ap or Website.

Edited by ZacWilliam1, 28 July 2017 - 05:20 AM.

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#6 AgentOrange

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 10:22 AM

The Shamus family are gigantic pieces of shit and if they have anything to do with the magazine it will follow

#7 Internet Jesus

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 06:19 PM

I still own a lot of my Wizards from the late 90's early aughts.

It was a great magazine for its time but I don't see it surviving all that well in this era of Clickbait. I HOPE it succeeds but I also hope it doesn't devolve into needless editorializing and clickbaitiness that Bleeding Cool and its ilk find themselves in.

But in the current, digitized world, trivial information is accumulating every second, preserved in all its triteness. Never fading, always accessible. Rumors about petty issues, misinterpretations, slander... All this junk data preserved in an unfiltered state, growing at an alarming rate. It will only slow down social progress, reduce the rate of evolution. You seem to think that our plan is one of censorship. What we propose to do is not to control content, but to create context.

#8 Telly

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Posted 28 July 2017 - 11:29 PM

i had a custom grifter figure featured in an issue

well, i say featured. more like it was just one of many others that month

Edited by Telly, 28 July 2017 - 11:29 PM.

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#9 lastmaximal

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Posted 31 July 2017 - 10:20 AM

Wow. Well, I mean, it was a toxic mess by the end, right? But man, I have a lot of fond memories of reading Wizard in the 90s.

What would it need to look like in order to survive in 2017? I'm not sure, but I'll be watching this story with interest.

Fond memories here too. Wizard came along at the right time in my life, and at the right time in history.

The former is of course impossible to replicate (but anyone with a time machine, just PM me, yeah?) and the current state of the industry is already fairly well covered from many angles. But this should be interesting, if nothing else.