Happy New Year!  Welcome to the January newsletter from the DragonsCavern website.

This month we have news on;

Tudor Mint News,
DragonsClan News,
Vote results and a new vote,
Requests.


Tudor Mint News:
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It's a brand new year, and time for a new club year to begin. You won't have received your letters from Xystos yet, but they've been in touch with us and you can renew as normal via Cheryl. The letters will be going out soon. Xystos also inform us that this years club piece - "The Stone of Wisdom" - are being brought in early so that there is no repeat of members renewing and not receiving their  studies.

Finally, a word from Craig (at Xystos) is that he is putting together a dedicated team of workers just for the M&M club. This should hopefully make things more organised.

The Torquay Trade Fair is being held in mid-January, and we are hoping that following this we'll get to see images of new pieces. Fingers crossed!

DragonsClan News:
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Subscribers may already be aware of the latest developments regarding the new trilogy. The pieces have been cast in metal - and the sample approved. We have images of the metal pieces in the forum, but for those who do not visit the forum we will be putting the image into the blog during the month.

The pieces have also been named. Xystos asked - as we had developed the idea - whether we  could come up with the names for all three pieces. We did, and Xystos liked the choices  and went with them. The names are as follows;

The Signifer - holding the flag
The Maurader - holding the mace
The Warrior - holding the axe

The whole clan are to be known as "The Valiant Clan". Jessica, the designer, came up with this excellent description.

DragonsCavern News:
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No updates on the site this month, but the forum is experiencing lag times at the moment. This is something that the forum hosts are aware of. We're hoping that they add more server capacity soon to speed up the forum, and also remove the error messages sometimes being seen.

For access your exclusive subscriber section of the website, use your username and password.

Voting:
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Last time on DragonsCavern.co.uk we asked you; Is the credit crunch affecting your collecting?
The results are;

Yes it has - 55.55%
No, not at all - 22.22%
Not made any difference - 22.22%

For January we are asking;

2009 is the 20th Anniversary of M&M. Would you like to see a special study released?

Take part in the vote using the buttons on the main page, or in the contact or vote sections. Results will be announced in the February newsletter.

Requests:
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If you have a prototype study, or a rare version of any item please send it to us for inclusion on the prototypes/rare pages. Use the submit form on the contact page of the website. In addition to this, the 'wanted' page of the website lists studies that we are looking for images for. If you are able to help with those, please contact us.

That's all for this month. If you have any news, websites, announcements or comments that you would like to see in the next newsletter, or if you are a trader / collector who would like to be featured in an article in a future newsletter, please contact the webmanager.

Sincerely ,
Webmanager
DragonsCavern.co.uk - the unofficial Myth and Magic collection histories chart.