h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Must admit, it was the £7 that stood out for me too.

And another thing: I doubt the del Prado figs are even 25mm... thus negating the possibility of their use against 75% of opponents if the magazine DID get you into wargaming.

While I'm at it: the advert that really gets me at the moment is that mobile phone one (I forget which make)... y'know the one with the people who are all dressed in the same colours (even their hair) and the mobile phones are on coat hangers or serving platters. Seems that they've finally abandoned the idea of marketing the mobile as a communication tool and gone exclusively for the fashion accessory idea.

Those DelPrado and Deaggostini partworks are a shocking rip off - they should be required to disply the total cost of making/building whatever it is on each advert.

The remote controlled car one really got to me, get the first bit of the model for only 1.99 (in tiny print - normal price 3.99) and you can build your own remote controlled car (controller sold separately) in 50 easy steps, so that is two hundred quid for something that would cost no more than 40 (with controller) from a normal shop

Those partworks are evil I tells ya!

I'm interested in the period. Don't do wargaming though, and I have enough crap laying around the house to start collecting minitures anyway, apart from any expense.

I'd like to know how many people get the first for the introductory offer price, and then feel "well I might as well complete the collection". They do this with every publication - how successful is it?

The one for the spitfire is even worse: part 1 £1.99, normal price £5.99 in v. small print. Also in v. small print: 60 issues. £360 pounds in total!

RF

I think the Napoleonic one is 125 parts in total... £875!!!!

That spitfire is bloomin' huge! You could kill someone with that!

What it doesn't mention is that 99% of those wretched things cease publication after about 10 issues, because not enough people buy them. End result- half a Spitfire you can never complete.

Actually, that's what worries me most about those partwork magazines. The spitfire, I'll admit, does look fab, but having once collected a gazillion sewing magazines (admittedly, the finished four folders are an excellent sewing book) I would be severely hacked off if they stopped part way in.

oh and...

Peanut Butter???

1812 Overture (I think) was the theme of Sun-Pat adds years ago. A little bit obscure perhaps!

I think there used to be a peanut butter advert with the 1812 Overture on it.

Anyway, it obviously should have been the Abba song!

Does that mean the Egyptian Gods one should have a certain song by the Bangles on the advert?

Wot, Dancing Queen?

Actually, Money Money Money would be more appropriate!

RF

Naw, the Bangles are being saved for the jewellery making series!

What I'd like to see is a part work for building your own working nuclear submarine... Only 14343 parts at £3,000 each, special introductory price of 50p on issue one!

Aye.

There's a slogan I really hate at the moment (for a bookmaker):

'It matters more when there's money on it'

Ugh.

Crazy frog now has a black censor box over his genitalia I guess somebody complained about it officially rather than just whinging about it here...