Picture this

One of the pictures I took last summer while we were in Washington D.C. has been chosen for use in an online map/guide site called Schmap.

Evidently they search around through picture hosting sites like Flickr for photos that fill the need of their guide, and when they needed a picture of the International Spy Museum in D.C. they found one that I took, and asked if I would mind if they used it on their site. I said sure thing. There's no monetary compensation, but it's still kind of cool.

Your plastic pal that's fun to be with

Last week Character Options made an announcement with the details of the upcoming line of classic Doctor Who action figures via the Toys and Merchandise section of the doctorwhoforum.

Over the past few months they had already let us know most of the figures in the set, but we now have more complete details on the first wave of classic figures, including there being a build-a-figure in this set.

The full release follows:

Character set to launch Classic Doctor Who range

Fans of all eras of Doctor Who can look forward to an incredible range of classic Doctor Who figures and monsters being launched by Character Options later this year.

Recreate scenes from the classic series of Doctor Who with the poseable action figures. Each figure pack comes with a different collectable part of the giant K-1 robot from the fourth Doctor’s first story in 1974. When all eight packs are collected, the giant robot will be complete.

Classic figures include Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker. Other figures and monsters include a Sea Devil (1972), Zygon (1975), Magnus Greel & Mr Sin (1977), SV7 and D84 (1977).

Also being launched is a Doctor Who 5 inch Classic Dalek Set – this set of three poseable Classic Daleks includes Daleks from The Dead Planet, (1963), The Planet of the Daleks, (1973) and Genesis of the Daleks (1975).

As master toy licensee Character has enjoyed immense success alongside BBC Worldwide through its Doctor Who range of products and predicts a hugely positive response to the new collection, which is due to launch in August.

Not only did we find out about the previously unknown build-a-figure, but we also learned about the classic Dalek set.

Then, a few minutes later, the pictures started showing up.




WOW! (click on any of the above pics for bigger images in my Flickr account)

Every one of those figures look excellent!

The swappable heads for Tom are just too cool. The detail is just outstanding, I hope the final figures look as good as those prototypes.

I also really hope that they sell as well as I expect they will, so more and more are released.

And if that wasn't exciting enough for fanboys like myself, later that week they let us know what we can expect from the second wave of classic figures through a series of posts with cryptic hints that the forum members had to figure out.

After all the hints were solved The Character (one of the Character Options posters) summed up wave two as such:

Ok people so here we go

Wave II
Morbius Creature
Ice Warrior
10th Planet Cyberman
7th doctor
8th doctor
Mummy service robot

and collect the parts of?.......... now that you have to wait for but ..its original! lol lol lol

They have previously announced that the first three Doctor's figures are waiting until they can clear the likeness rights with the estates of the late actors. Also they say there are currently no plans for companions. Two reasons mentioned are that monsters sell better, and the whole likeness rights thing again. But if the classic range really takes off and makes them big money... *Fingers crossed*

Now I just have to wait until August.

Ugh!

No, I'm not dead

I've just not gotten around to posting anything since November.

It's not that I haven't had a lot of post ideas, just that I haven't been able to pull myself away from whatever else I was doing. I've got a few post ideas lined up and hope to get back to at least a weekly post if not better. Some of the thoughts I want to share are this season of Doctor Who so far, the excellent looking new classic Doctor Who figures coming out, what I think of the Xbox 360 I was lucky enough to get for X-mas, the plethora of summer blockbusters this year, and a bunch of other random thoughts.

So for the 4 people who regularly check for updates;

STAY TUNED.........