Comments on: Time Inc. – Mine Magazine – first issue – review

By: Nina

Nina — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:55:52 +0000

Clooney is goooooood! I can’t remember the actors name but he played Luka in ER……OMG that man is hot!!!
He has to go on that list. I loved Noah Whiley who played one of the other Docs but Luka made my knees a bit weak….

By: Jen.S

Jen.S — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:45:17 +0000

LOL…Dan…Good

I think I’ll add Clooney to the mix too and although Tom Selleck has aged and rather well I might add, don’t see much of him anymore but He’s a classic none the less.

Come on ladies, you got any favorites to spice this mag. up?

By: retroDan

retroDan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:10:38 +0000

OK, Jen – since you keep on mentioning Hugh Jackman in your comments, I’ll take a moment to list a couple of my own celeb crushes. uummm, you know, just in case the editors of Mine Magazine want to improve their content.

Scarlett Johansson, Naomi Watts, Kate Beckinsale and Jennifer Connelly.

:inlove:

By: Jen.S

Jen.S — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:50:25 +0000

LOL Nina, yep throw in a few nicely toned guys into the mix and could be interesting for me too…they can start with Hugh…yummmmm!

By: Jen.S

Jen.S — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:48:12 +0000

oh ok, thanks Dan. So Lexus pitched the idea, gotcha.

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:19:23 +0000

At least it’s a free Lexus pictorial commercial…lol

By: retroDan

retroDan — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:15:37 +0000

currently the mag is just an “experiment” with a run of five or six issues. and the issues are free to subscribers of the trial. I don’t know what will happen after the first six issues. My guess is that it’ll be discontinued.

oh and Jen, what Mag Man was referring to was the fact that Lexus pitched the idea for the magazine to Time Inc, and they agreed to the concept.

By: Nina

Nina — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:02:05 +0000

What a waste, a Lexus, commercial you have to pay for…Deep sigh…..Rolling eyes……Shaking head. The car industry is in rough shape right now but this probably will not do much to correct things.
Swimsuits would have moved it up a notch for the guys. If they threw a few hot fellas in there I might have even minused a head shake or an eye roll…

By: Jen.S

Jen.S — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:38:06 +0000

Yep, I like the idea of a sub heading with Kate quoted as saying, “MINE, ALL MINE! AS FAR AS I CAN SEE…” MINE, MINE, MINE! Hilarious!

Kate’s ever famous quote…haha…and exactly what a child who doesn’t want to share would say. bleh!

By: Jen.S

Jen.S — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:31:36 +0000

I’m not sure why they felt the need for this change. I get the concept they are passing off by personalizing it and naming it “mine” but if as you said it is mostly personalized ads, doesn’t sound very interesting. Mad libs, whoo hooo, how exciting…lol …you can be the star of the ad or in your own mind…heh

Maybe I’m old fashioned but sometimes I just think original is best to stick with and maybe just spice it up and give more options and modernize it up a bit to gain new subscribers or maybe I don’t have a clue… yep, probably the latter.
Are they replacing Time magazine with this or is this something different? Like some sort of extension?

Dan said: “But my main complaint is *content*. If there aren’t any interesting articles in the magazine, there really isn’t a need for me to read it, is there? OK, OK, if Time Inc. included the SI swimsuit pictorial in my issue I probably wouldn’t be complaining so much BUT they didn’t.”

Aha…swimsuit pictorial would have sold ya, they could have skipped the rest, huh?… See, they need to stick with the original and just give more interesting options for people to choose from. imo. Sounds like someone didn’t do their research.

Mag Man, Just curious as to how they got roped into this?