The Giggle

One more special and we could have been weekly!

Still, there’s quite a lot to unpack here.

Bear in mind that this is the casual viewer friendly version of Doctor Who. Doctor Who is a weird show.

(Extra behind the scenes featurette where the end about what come next repeats the Unleashed episode)

The Toymaker!

Creepy puppets!

The Toymaker having a creepy puppet copy of the Doctor, as seen in the first Eighth Doctor comics!

Mel!

The Star Beast

It’s so weird seeing such a close adaptation (in the middle of other fun stuff) if a story I’ve loved since I was six. And yes I want a Meep toy.

(English Civil) War Of The Daleks

A thread on Lead Adventure planning to make fanart floating Dalek miniatures... and set them against each other with Puritan and Royalist factions.

New Paradigm Dalek Miniatures

As painted yonks ago, and reupping for a thread on Lead Adventure.

DIY monsters

The result of a Staying In The TARDIS challenge to create or craft monsters featuring a very nice custom figure of Dogbolter from the DWM comics, a great concept art piece for a regal humanoid mantis, and an inflatable T-Rex suit taking over the TARDIS.

The 13th Doctor figure is out!

Just before Christmas is better than just after, I feel.

A 5.5 inch 13 figure

Coming out in time for, uh, two weeks after Christmas?

The Thirteenth Doctor from Warlord Games

With her TARDIS.

The Thirteenth Doctor toys

Various sites have photos of a variety of inevitable stylised pop culture ornaments, a costume from Her Universe, and a 12” scale figure from Character Options. No sign of anything for their classic 5” scale line, or their Star Wars style 3.75” scale.

Apparently we’re also getting Bill in 5” scale this summer, among various new and variant figures for it. In the UK they’re exclusive to B&M. So I have to find one of those, I guess.

Edit several weeks later: apparently you can get Bill from Amazon. If she’s in stock.

International Women's Day

Among other celebrations of International Women’s Day, Amelia Earhart is now available in Barbie format. Now to run Doctor Who adventures starring others in the range like Frida Kahlo (who has already appeared in DWM), Katherine Johnson (featured in an episode of Timeless), Ava DuVernay (director of A Wrinkle In Time), Olympic boxer Nicola Adams...

More Doctors Heading Into The Vortex

Tim Knight flagged up the following news: Doctor miniatures selling in packs of three, somewhat oddly distributed - 1, 4, 10 and 5, 11, 12. Nice new 12, certainly.

Exterminate! The Wargame

The first Doctor Who boxed miniatures game from Warlord is Exterminate! with a skirmish force of Cybermen versus... you can probably guess...

Also coming soon, Davros, Sea Devils, Vashta Nerada astronauts, and Ogrons at the back.

Miniature gaming thoughts

Starting (link removed three years later) with following posts discussing appropriate off-brand models, plastic Dalek scaling, and how to create a stone circle and paint Gel Guards.

The Size Of The Miniatures

Thanks to vanvlak on Lead Adventure, a size comparison of the Warlord Games aliens with some humanoids from other companies.

Perry, Silence, Infinity, Judoon, Foundry, Zygon, GW

They look a fair size to me. I would like to see how the Doctors and companions match up too...

Dalek miniatures for Time Vortex

The plastic Daleks for Time Vortex, the Miniatures Game, previewed here.

Hm. Well, they look like nice Time War era Daleks. And snap together is handier than needing glue, and the eyestalk attached to the base should be stronger than one attached to the head. But compared to the 80s Citadel four-part versions who had separate heads (and a choice of plunger or claw) making a multi-part figure with no posing options seems like a step back, and the separate eyestalk means moving the head around would involve cutting all three parts.

Totally Not Doctor Who Miniatures

Before Warlord Games produced official Doctor Who miniatures a number of mostly British companies produced various Totally Not Doctor Who miniatures, of various Doctors, companions, enemies and a few monsters. These have mostly gone away in the last couple months, which is a shame as modern-day civilian type miniatures were useful beyond their intended Whovian purposes.

(And they were mostly 28mm scale while the new Warlord figures are 33mm. Which is also a shame, as there are a lot more 28mm lines around including Warlord’s own historical ranges, which would have made it easy to have the TARDIS land in various eras...)

A different Doctor Who miniatures game?

Announced in October, now apparently in pre-orders, Time Of The Daleks from Gale Force Nine (makers of D&D boardgames, Star Trek Ascendancy and Firefly: The Game) “contains highly detailed miniatures representing the Daleks and six of the regenerations of the Doctor and a host of additional miniatures”...

No images of figures or other components yet, or indications of scale.

Which six? I would guess the four modern ones and two more... Eight and War?

Twelfth Doctor and companions miniatures

Like the Clara. Is Strax really that big? Hmm.

Updates on the Doctor Who Miniatures Game

First look at the complete set of Tenth Doctor And Companions in pre-orders, adding Rose and Donna to Martha and Wilf, and the box for Twelve, Clara and the Paternoster Gang. £19.99 per box (£4 per figure, ouch!) for metal.

Confirmation of plastic Dalek, Cybermen and UNIT soldier sets on the way.

The Traveller and Sophie versus the mutants

Stumbled across this quite by accident - paper horror miniatures featuring totally not the War Doctor and Ace battling an outbreak of mutant zombies.