| Mundo Estranho | |
| Company: | Editora Abril |
| Editor: | Fabio Volpe |
| Frequency: | Monthly |
| Circulation: | nearly 130,000 |
| Firstdate: | November 2001 |
| Finaldate: | August 2018 |
| Country: | Brazil |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| Website: | mundoestranho.abril.com.br (last version archived) |
Mundo Estranho (literally "Strange World in Portuguese), first issued November 2001, was a monthly diversities and fun facts magazine, very popular among Brazilian teenagers and one of the country's most popular magazine of its type. It started as a section in the more popular Superinteressante magazine, but was already a separate paperback a few months after its first issue, later converted to a full-fledged separate magazine.
During its first two years, the magazine was a special issue from Superinteressante, an influential scientific magazine in Brazil. Mundo Estranhos content was more scientific. The magazine's team worked together with Superinteressantes team. With Mundo Estranhos popularity rising up, the Superinteressantes chief-editors decided to separate a special team exclusively for it, and publish it as an independent magazine. Some modifications were made with the magazine's structure and its logo.
With a separate team and very popular for its use of informal language and good relationship with the readers, instead of exclusively scientifically-correct articles, Mundo Estranho now featured curiosities about music, video games and movies, and answers reader questions.
On August 6, 2018, Editora Abril announced the discontinuation of the magazine, along with nine more titles.[1] [2]
In October 2022, Editora Abril, in partnership with Disney, launched a special edition of the magazine to promote the animated film Strange World. This limited edition brought information about the characters, production, cast, and plot of the movie and was distributed only in some theaters in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
After its 70th issue (December 2007), Mundo Estranho made small modifications to its structure. The sections are as follows:
ME Hot is a division of Mundo Estranho. It follows the same structure as the main magazine, but with questions and curiosities only about sex. It was created after some criticised articles about sex in Mundo Estranhos articles, so the magazine's team decided to create a separate division for that purpose and exclude all the articles about sex from Mundo Estranho.