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Ah the memories, I started with issue2, and had them all up about issue 125, and now have about 20 left. Great magazine, just too expensive in the end(In NZ we paid around $18-$22 an issue)
 
I'm yet another Starlog long time fan. It is definitely what got me into this hobby. Loved all the behind the scenes stuff. In the little podunk town where I lived there was only one drugstore that got the mag and if they were lucky they only got two copies of an issue. So in 1978, when I was 13, my Mom asked me what I wanted for my birthday and all I wanted was a subscription to Starlog. I ordered all the back issues I missed (only missed a few). I kept that subscription up until about 1990.

All the other mags like Cinefex and Cinemagic, etc I would have to wait until I could get to a sci fi convention, which I would save for all year, and then I would just buy tons of mags. It was like sci fi Christmas!! Ah, those were the days.
 
About 15 years ago, after over two decades of hauling my entire collection of Starlog over several states, different houses, marriages and divorces I finally decided enough was enough. I just didn't have room for them anymore. I went through the entire batch and decided to just keep the ones that had Star Wars articles. Those seemed to be the only ones I ever pulled out and read anymore so the rest, unfortunatley, had to go to the dumpster.:cry

I have enjoyed going to this site to see some of those old articles.
 
I don't even know if I still have my starlogs. I had all of them except for issues 2-5 up until about 1990 I think. They might be in my attic, they might not. But back in the day before the internet they were THE source.
And I subscribed to Cinemagic as well. I'm still looking for Paragon's Paragon, the Star Trek fan film from the seventies featured in one of the issues. :)
 
I was over the moon when my "capsule review" for Scanners made it onto the letters page of Starlog. (Yep, there it is: Issue 46!) After ROTJ came out I wrote a long review extolling Mark Hamill's "bravura performance" but that one didn't make the cut.

I don't think I saved any of the old issues, but I still have some Fantastic Films and Cinefantastique. And, of course, all the CRACKED issues with Star Wars ("A paper bag?") and the SW/Close Encounters crossovers. MAD couldn't hold a candle to CRACKED.
 
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After some digging around about CineMagic, I've discovered that someone is doing a documentary about the magazine series. Here's the Facebook page for it:

http://www.facebook.com/cinemagicdoc

Also, the man making the documentary has a playlist comprised of films made by alumni and friends of the magazine:

Neal Hallford - YouTube

And, a whole lot of PDF copies of CineMagic. I personally prefer to get the actual magazines, but this will do for now.

Index of /magazine/cinemagi
 
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Just read through all these posts seeing people say things like "this was before the Internet" and referring to the 70s and 80s. Um, no, it wasn't. The Internet existed back then. Its the World Wide Web you're really talking about.

Ugh. Sorry. /nerd rant off
 
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