Since there are a few here that are interested in these.
And I posted this before the crash, so I'll re-post it ^^


These magazines were published in 1995-1996.

I know for 100 % that they were sold in these country's:
- Belgium / The Netherlands: only 3 issues where ever published in Dutch
- UK: 80 issues (also says Malta on the back of these)
- Australia: ? issues
- France: 104 issues (according to a wiki page I found http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Roi_lion_(magazine) )
- Spain: ? issues
- Ireland: ? issues (TV add http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DibHMY4ptZQ)

With each magazine you would get some free stickers, cardboard displays to make your own Pride Lands, doorhangers, etc etc ...
The French issues mainly also came with a music cassette, I don't know what's on them though.

Each issue has lots of information on Africa, animals that live there, recepies, puzzles, crafts, coloring pictures, and other learning and fun stuff.
They also have stories, which mainly are spread over 3-4 issues for each story.


These are the Dutch issues.


These are the ones I got from the UK.
This picture shows the first 10 issues incl. their free gifts.
(I have all 80 also + the first 40 without the gifts, but no picture of all of them).


These are the French issues.
I also got 80 issues of these, because I found them with their gifts, lol (without the cassettes unfortunetly).


This is a Spanish issue.



Differences (so far the only ones that I know of):
- first issue does not have the same cover in every country
- stickers within the Dutch issue are different from the UK issue ones
- 2nd issue does not have the same free gift in every country
  • Dutch issue got a sticker book
  • UK issue got a book "Simba and Nala help Bomo" from the "Disney's wonderfull world of reading" series



Also, inside almost each issue is a pamflet to order a sweatshirt, a cardboard box-thing to put all the issues in, binder to put all issues in, t-shirt, backpack.
For each country it would be a different gift you could choose from.
The backpack + binder which you could order for the Dutch issues, could not be ordered with the English issues.


Any more information or pictures are most welcome :)