RIP Starlog

[palitoy]

Scoop - Where the Magic of Collecting Comes Alive! - Starlog.com Relaunches Site, Ceases Print

Looks like Starlog is no longer a magazine, even though I stopped buying issues in the late 1980s, there was a point where I couldn't wait until the next issue.

Starlog was the first place I bought mail order vintage toys (Palitoy Talkign Dalek and a Mego Frankenstein) and it was kind of my window into sci fi geekery. I grew up kind of rural so Starlog was a big deal.

The new site will allow downloads of it's past issues, which is pretty sweet.

[toys2cool]

all good things must come to an end,it's pretty cool that it lasted as long as it did

[EMCE Hammer]

I feel old. One less thing to pass on to my kid:-( I guess it's irrelevant with the rise of the interweb.

[Mikey]

Starlog was great back in the late 70's early 80's.
I was first introduced to it in highschool back in 79-ish
I had a subscription from around late '79 to '84-ish.
After 84-ish, they seemed to stop focussing on classic sci-fi and went in more for the new current movies (which I didn't care for).
The last issue I ever bought off the newstand featured Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face... It was this kind of content which turned me off to it for good.

RIP, SL
You were good from the start

[Gorn Captain]

I stopped reading about eight years ago.
The articles just didn't seem to be so good anymore, and imported mags like this usually set you back $10-15 here.
I still a ton of them stored away, as I started reading them from issue 15.

[palitoy]

I think the thing that turned me off more than the focus to everything that's new was the "trek focus" of the interviews. It got to be where they'd interview some veteran actor who had appeared in over say 50-70 movies and hundreds of TV shows and their questions would be "What was William Shatner like?"

I found that kind of dull and narrow minded, the people they were interviewing wouldn't have any insight or annecdotes either because it was one week in their lives 25 years previous.

[samurainoir]

LOVED Starlog as a kid. Oddly enough, I discovered it because my school library had one copy. I signed it out constantly and read it and looked at the pictures every day. All the stuff I loved in one magazine... Star Wars, Buck Rogers, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Superman, Lost in Space and lots of other scifi stuff.

Stopped reading Starlog when I discovered horror movies and Fangoria.

Flipping through my box of old magazines, I'd say Cinemafantastique was my favourite since it seemed to tread the middle ground between the two, and went into much more depth than either one.

[Mikey]

Stranglely, I was never a fan of Cinemafantastique.

They had GREAT covers but were overpriced considering how many pages they had.

[Captain]

I used to live for Starlog. Up into the late eighties....then the cost of the book and lack of decent material (ie coverage of crappy movies of the period) caused me to pretty much stop. With the internet spreading rumors, news and information faster than it even actually happens, the need for a mag like Starlog just died. I hope their web-site works out for them.
The only sci-fi magazine I really miss was the old Star Trek Magazine. Yes, it was pricey, but I loved the cutaways, and other general Treknology articles. They should have dumped the interviews and just focused on the tech end of things in my opinion...maybe printing a line of resource books or something?......OOps...sorry, I'm wandering off topic again...wheres my ritolin!

[Nostalgiabuff]

guess that explains why they suddenly ended their relationship with Diamond and took down the store

[david_b]

Starlog was great back in the late 70's early 80's.
I was first introduced to it in highschool back in 79-ish
I had a subscription from around late '79 to '84-ish.
After 84-ish, they seemed to stop focussing on classic sci-fi and went in more for the new current movies (which I didn't care for).

I was excited to purchase Issue #1 when it first hit the stands.. Back in the day (as most of you should remember..), there wasn't any intelligent magazines out on the stands except for 'Hollywood Monsters' and stuff like that for any good pics or interesting stories.

That ALL changed with Starlog #1.. It paved the way for everything, a few years before Star Wars came on the scene.

An actual Star Trek episode guide.., high quality color paper, insightful articles, current news, letters to the editor.. It was about time..!

I stopped when I started attending college, much about the time like Type1 said, they stopped focusing on older fare.., besides there wasn't much good sci-fi to come out of the '80s at that point, other than Trek and SW.., so I stopped collecting as well.

I remember my heart stopping when iss 6 announced the cancellation of Space:1999.

david_b

[Mikey]

Anybody ever buy the Starlog Photoguides ?
At one time, I owned them all.

Also, I had the Robby the Robot send-away poster and Space 1999 Tech Manual notebook.

[palitoy]

there wasn't any intelligent magazines out on the stands except for 'Hollywood Monsters' and stuff like that for any good pics or interesting stories.

Heh, I discovered "Famous Monsters" long after I had Starlog and I remember thinking "Who writes this stuff?". I had been spoiled.

[Mikey]

once in a great while i'd treat myself to a Starburst, but it was nowhere near the quality of Starlog.

Also, it was too expensive because you had to get it in specialty shops.

[palitoy]

once in a great while i'd treat myself to a Starburst, but it was nowhere near the quality of Starlog.

Also, it was too expensive because you had to get it in specialty shops.

I remember buying one of those crappy imitators that came after Star Wars broke out, I think it was called "Laser Blast" or something awful like that. It made "Cracked" look like "National Lampoon"...