Did they honour people who'd paid for subscriptions? I know that they do a lot of the 'build a model' ones, and I was under the impression that while they disappeared from shops after a couple of issues you would still get them if you'd taken out the subscription, but for those ones it's slightly different.
It's annoying, since I'd want the figures but have no interest in the books, but since they're actual books they must be quite expensive.