Roadster Magazine

27/12/2024

Roadster - Issue 7 Tour

Today we focus on our car features.

Back in the Autumn Prodrive held a birthday party throughout Banbury town centre, celebrating 40 Years of Prodrive. Roadster! was invited along, and the kids were lucky to see a lot of their legendary machines up close and personal. We try to capture the highlights of 40 years of over six pages!

2024 also marked 30 years of the Aston Martin . The marque is dear to Roadster, and we have a particular attachment to the DB7. We wanted to tell its story and share why we think it is such an important car. We were fortunate to make contact with DB7 Vantage owner, Mark Rolfe from the Aston Martin Owners Club at the NEC Classic Motor Show. Mark kindly allowed Sam to spend some time exploring his glorious machine! We are indebted to Mark for allowing us to feature his car in Roadster Magazine.

We were also glad to feature Sam’s friend Jack, in the latest issue. Jack is a Land Rover nut, having had family work at the JLR plant. The Land Rover Series One Club were in attendance at the Classic Car Show and kindly let Jack (and the other kids) explore a fine example - we HAD to get it in the magazine!

Finally, back in the summer, Sam was extremely privileged to get up close and personal with Richard Perry’s legendary . Sam immediately recognised it from the “Cars” movies, and we came up with the idea for “Stars of Cars” - an occassional series looking at the real cars behind the film.

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26/12/2024

Roadster - Issue 7 Tour
Our traditional tour of our latest issue starts with our festive section. Our very first issue was released on Christmas Day 2022, and our Issue 4 came out during the Christmas period last year, but neither included anything particular festive. We were very keen to change this, and include some fun Christmassy content in this issue.

We’ve already talked about the sleigh and festive traffic signs features in previous posts. We wanted the sleigh to be as realistic as we possibly could make it. We wanted the traffic signs to be visibly different from highway signs, but identifable as “potential” UK traffic signs. The DfT offer online templates of many roadsigns, and when we found we could edit these our minds started running eith ideas! We would love these both to be foundation pieces, that we revisit and enhance every year - adding more “rules” to our festive code book, and including sleigh designs from other children.

We also wanted to enhance our games and puzzles secion but didn’t know how. The discovery of editable vector game board templates has opened up new ideas for future magazine content.

Our gift list feature is a follow up of a piece we ran last year. The recommendations are all our own choices,but we’d love to work with companies properly on this on the future.

Finally, we feature a turning point in the storyline in our Eddy comic, an Eddy cut out Christmas card, and our tradtional joke page given a festive makeover.

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23/12/2024

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We are keen to know whether our festive special has indeed, been received by our readers before Christmas! Let us know in the comments!

21/12/2024

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20/12/2024

Has Santa been yet?

He has most certainly visited Roadster Magazine, delivering the latest issue of our fantastic magazine for . Don't forget, Roadster! is for kids... by kids!

We will be putting issues in the post first thing tomorrow for all of our subscribers and pre-orders. We really hope this means they will arrive with you by Christmas Eve!

We have only ordered just enough to go around of this one, so we will be raising a second batch after Christmas.

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16/12/2024

A preview of a feature in the forthcoming Issue 7 of Roadster! It will be ready in time for the school holidays!

We thought there needed to be a festive Highway Code!

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14/12/2024

It was most exciting to have the Banbury Christmas Tractor Run, literally pass by the front door to Roadster Magazine HQ.

So many colourful and creative decorations, and some great tractor horns, all raising money for The Katherine House Hospice Adderbury.

Great to see Kaleb Cooper Contracting LTD from Jeremy Clarkson's farm, pass by in his tractor.

It was a great evening. We are all feeling very festive!

07/12/2024

We may be tiny, but that doesn't mean we aren't keen to support others.

Avocet Theatre Company (ATC) is a local theatre charity specialising in creating innovative and evolving theatre, providing a unique and ground-breaking theatre and entertainment experience for anyone aged between 8 and 108.

Roadster! was pleased to take out a small ad in the programme for their latest production, Nativity. Our ad features a link to a fun "Driving Home For Christmas" musical game.

We went to see the production of Nativity! this evening and in our view Avocet has put on the best production of it we have ever seen! It had everything and was even funnier than the film! Avocet continually push themselves and raise the bar, proving there is nothing amateur about amateur theatre! Congratulations to all of the cast and crew. An absolutely magnificent production... you all worked so hard!

(P.S. If theatre goers are looking for our latest issue, we are sorry, but we are slightly behind schedule. The issue can be pre ordered and will be released very soon).

01/12/2024

PRESS RELEASE:
Roadster!, the motoring magazine for kids, by kids has designed Santa’s Sleigh for 2024 using AI Technology.
Designed by 10 year old Sam, the Roadster! Sleigh takes into account in known facts and figures about the Sleigh’s annual Christmas Eve mission, and couples this with imaginations about Santa’s team and evolutions in design.
Roadster!’ full sleigh feature will be included in the forthcoming winter issue of Roadster! Magazine.
Roadster! has put together a digital advance copy of the feature, together with an A3 image pack, available for a small donation to Roadster’s local branch of the “Home-Start” Children’s Charity.

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23/11/2024

WE NEED SUBMISSIONS!
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PRE- ORDER NOW! Issue 7 (Winter 2024)
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20/11/2024

The Roadster! 2024 Festive Gift List! Is here!

Each year we put together a list of automotive products suitable for kids who love the road.

This year’s list features Carrera, , , by Wilton Bradley, by Mattel, Heel Tread by , , and, of course, Roadster Magazine!

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14/11/2024

DID YOU KNOW?
All of our back issues are available to read for FREE on our website!

Our "Back Issues" page contains compressed .PDF files of each issue!

Follow the Roadster Magazine story and see how our child-led magazine has evolved over the past two years.

We are

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13/11/2024

The “Best Of” features our favourite bits from the past six issues!

We have revisited earlier features, and re-edited them to squeeze as much into 36 pages as we could!

It’s a great introduction to our motoring magazine project for kids!

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