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Big Finish is reprinting the classic Radio Times Doctor Who Anniversary Specials in new hardback editions

 

Doctor Who fans may well know Big Finish best for their long running series of audio dramas. But this November they’ll be adding to their line of occasional book releases with two special hardback volumes. These books will reprint the classic Radio Times Doctor Who 10th Anniversary and 20th Anniversary Specials. Both are newly restorations that better than ever before.

The specials are packed with features, including interviews with Doctor Who actors and creatives, as well as original fiction by Daleks creator Terry Nation and series script editor Eric Saward.  There are also episode guides (including some charmingly inaccurate details based on the best research at the time.) Plus, you’ll find profiles of the Doctors, companions, and behind the scenes crew. The new editions promise to be a perfect slice of nostalgia for classic fans. They’ll also provide an eye opening look into the past for newer ones.

 

“These two books will become essential works in any Doctor Who library”

Big Finish senior producer John Ainsworth said: “The 10th anniversary and 20th anniversary Radio Times specials were unique publications, marking Doctor Who‘s first two significant anniversaries. Both offered insights into the series and its history, and became treasured, well-thumbed reference works by all who bought them.

“The original publications are now rare to find, and,due to their magazine format, even rarer to find in good condition. So, it’s particularly exciting that Big Finish now has the opportunity to publish, for the first time, exact replicas of both these specials, in hardback volumes.  

“Painstaking work has been carried out to restore photographs, and to make these specials accurate in every detail, replicating the original publications. These two books will become essential works in any Doctor Who library.” 

The Radio Times Doctor Who 10th and 20th Anniversary Specials are now available to pre-order for £25 each, or £45 for a multi-buy bundle of the two books, exclusively here. 

You can purchase the 10th Anniversary Special here, and the 20th Anniversary Special here.

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Spend A Day at Devil’s End with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in 2027

In May 2027, Doctor Who fans will once again have the opportunity to visit one of the show’s most iconic locations in the company of some of its most iconic stars. The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is giving fans the opportunity to spend A Day at Devil’s End. They’ll be hosting the day at the beautiful village of Aldbourne. The Wiltshire community provided the atmospheric location for The Dæmons, even today one of the most popular stories of the 1970s. The five episode serial brought the Third Doctor and Jo to the seemingly sleepy village of Devil’s End. But they quickly discover old enemy the Master is manipulating the locals into helping him raise the Dæmon Azal.

The new event builds on the legacy of those held by Who’s at the Playhouse in Aldbourne, who commented ‘“Reassuring to know that the future of Devil’s End is in safe hands,” to misquote the First Doctor!’

 

Doctors Paul McGann and Sylvester McCoy head up the guest list so far

The event takes place in Aldbourne Memorial Hall, just a short walk from many sights familiar from The Dæmons. There will be interviews, panels, signing sessions, and photo opportunities. But most of all it’s a chance for a day out with fellow fans in charming surroundings. Confirmed guests so far as Sylvester McCoy (The Seventh Doctor), Paul McGann (The Eighth Doctor), and Daphne Ashbrook (Grace). This movie reunion makes the day a must not just for fans of 1971’s The Dæmons, but of the 1996 TV Movie.

DWAS will be announcing other guests between now and the Day at Devil’s End on the 8th of May, 2027.

Due to the special nature of the setting for this event, spaces are limited. Don’t miss your chance to return to Devil’s End and be part of a truly special celebration of Doctor Who’s past, present and future.

You can buy your tickets for this unique one day convention now via Eventbrite. Tickets cost £73.30, inluding booking fee.

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Panini will have an exclusive alternate cover for next month’s comic strip trade paperback, Corruption of the Daleks

 

The Fifteenth Doctor’s adventures continue in Corruption of the Daleks, a new trade paperback out next month from the makers of Doctor Who Magazine. The mass market edition of the new collection features a cover by John Ross. That will be available wherever you buy your books or comics from the 20th of October. However, Panini, publishers of DWM, will also have an alternative cover available exclusively through their online shop. David Roach and Emily Roach’s art pays homage to the title story’s setting in 1920s Paris, and the art style of the period’s iconic posters advertising the night life of the French capital.

This second volume of comic strip adventures for Ncuti Gatwa’s incarnation of the Time Lord reprints the strips from DWM issues 613 to 631. It includes the stories:

• Run
• Dance Till You Drop
• No Signs of Life
• His Mad Pranks
• Field Trip
• A Ghost Story for Christmas
• Corruption of the Daleks

Along the way, the Doctor’s joined by his television companions Belinda Chandra and Mel Bush. He also reunites with classic DWM comic strip companion Fey Truscott-Sade!

You an get your copy of this exclusive edition of Corruption of the Daleks here on the Panini store.

 

Doctor Who: Corruption of the Daleks. Panini exclusive cover by David Roach and Emily Roach (c) Panini Doctor Who: Corruption of the Daleks

From the pages of Doctor Who Magazine, join the Fifteenth Doctor as he hurtles through time and space in this action-packed collection of comic strip adventures!

From a deadly game of ‘It’ on the planet Grey Grieving to battling a skeletal Ossurian at the Museum of Natural History, the Doctor faces thrills, chills and unexpected dangers at every turn! Impish enemies, disco delinquents and spine-chilling spooks are bad enough, but there’s even worse on the horizon for the Doctor when he encounters his deadliest foes, the Daleks, in 1920s Paris – and discovers they may have struck a deal with the devil!

Also includes a full behind-the-scenes commentary section on the making of these incredible stories.

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The Tenth Doctor reunites with a familiar face as his new companion as David Tennant returns to Big Finish for more adventures

 

In the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, David Tennant discusses his extraordinary career. He also reveals details of The Tenth Doctor and Rani from Big Finish, a new series of audio adventures co-starring Anjli Mohindra as Rani from The Sarah Jane Adventures.

 

Also this issue

• Tom Baker – The Fourth Doctor meets his fans in Rye.
• Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill – Fourteen years after playing Amy and Rory, the stars reunite to talk about those times on their new podcast: the Pondcast.
• Tom Chadon – A tribute to the City of Death and Trial of a Time Lord actor.
• The New Sonic Srewdriver – prop maker James Sutton reveals the story behind the creation of the Fugitive Doctor’s new sonic screwdriver.
• The Forgotten Romanas – Lee Richards speaks for the first time about her fleeting appearance alongside Tom Baker in 1979’s Destiny of the Daleks.
• As Time Goes By… – the connections of this classic Casablanca song to the history of Doctor Who…
• The Fact of Fiction – The Sontarans make their move in The Poison Sky
• This Month in 1984 – were the Tripods a credible rival for the Daleks?
• The Zygons – Are the shape-shifters the unbeatable force they claim to be?
• The Tudors – The Tenth Doctor and Amy married them… but what place do the Tudors have in Doctor Who?
• Brief Encounters – Original short story by Nicola Bryant that sees the Sixth Doctor’s companion Peri with a new friend…
• The Daleks’ Master Plan: Interlude Part Two – The concluding part of the comic strip set during the events of the classic William Hartnell serial
• Gallifrey Guardian – The monthly news round-up. Plus Doctor Who brand manager JAMES PAGE explains how the TARDIS ended up at the Commonwealth Games…
• Reviews – This month’s audio dramas from Big Finish and the new Fifteenth Doctor action figure release.
• Other Worlds – The essential guide to new stories in Doctor Who’s expanded universe.
• Competitions – Prizes to be won include the new series of Twelfth Doctor audio adventures.

 

Doctor Who Magazine 633 (c) Panini Doctor Who Magazine 633

DWM Issue 633 is on sale Thursday the 20th of August from the online Panini store, TG Jones and other retailers priced £8.99 (UK). Also available as a digital edition from Pocketmags for £7.99. You can also save with a subscription, as well as receiving exclusive, text-free covers.

 

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Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2 doesn’t reach the idea’s full potential, but is another chapter of strong emotional growth for the Fugitive

 

There’s a recurring problem for viewers and readers of pretty much everything. Among other things, it effects detective novels, big screen movie series, and, yes, Doctor Who. It’s where, amid all the anticipation as the plot unfolds, sometimes even just from a trailer, they begin to predict how it will all play out. Only to express disappointment when, at least to them, the reality isn’t as good as the version in their heads. Usually, that’s a failure to embrace a piece of art for what it is, rather than it’s not. However, in the case of Dawn of the Daleks from Titan Comics, in refusing to follow the obvious path laid out by Circuit Breaker so far, it risks not making sense at all.

To recap this year’s multimedia epic so far, various objects connected to the Doctor have been materialised in modern London. UNIT’s Osgood has realized that not only does their strange energy pose a threat to reality, but their removal from where their proper place has corrupted, perhaps even erased, the Doctors’ very existence. Only a Doctor from before the earliest timeline meddling can intervene to put things back where they belong. Enter Jo Martin’s Fugitive, on a reluctant mission to save both 21st century Earth and her own future selves.

 

The Daleks, Kaleds, and ancient Skaro of Dawn of the Daleks is scarcely recognizable as the versions from Genesis

Within those parameters, her latest mission, to return a Time Ring to its proper place on ancient Skaro, promises to be compelling. After all, this must surely be the one the Fourth Doctor depended upon to escape in Genesis of the Daleks. Where the small acts of its theft would have had a massive impact on the entire future history of the universe. Instead, writer Dan Watters goes in a completely different direction. That wouldn’t be a problem, though, if his alternative was more satisfying.

The Time Ring is treated as a simple McGuffin. How and why it wound up on Skaro isn’t important, nor are the consequences of it being there, or not. Moreover, this ancient Skaro is barely recognizable as the one we saw before. Our setting is within a generation of the genesis of the Daleks, since many of the characters still remember it, yet Daleks are everywhere rather than entombed for a thousand years. Those characters are Kaleds living in a high tech utopian bunker beyond Davros’ wildest dreams. They’re also remarkably lovely people, the script forgetting that even the pre-Dalek Kaleds were a deeply racist, fascist society.

 

The Fugitive’s reverse scavenger hunt is increasingly incidental to Circuit Breaker, as it continues the awakening of the Fugitive’s compassion

These changes are all in service of Dawn of the Daleks’ real focus. Even though the Doctor completes her actual mission early on, she finds she can’t simply leave the Kaleds to die. Instead, she does everything possible to save them, and begins to earn her own personal reasons for hating the Daleks. If Circuit Breaker generally hasn’t done as much with the reverse scavenger hunt aspect as it might have, it’s the Fugitive Doctor’s personal evolution that has been this series’ greatest success.

As brusque as the Fugitive can be, she always finds some excuse to help others. She simply makes increasingly unconvincing claims that it’s just part of her self-serving agenda. But here, particularly after her experience in The Deadliest Weapon, she’s beginning to set aside that pretence and admit that she just thinks it’s the right thing to do. It’s her first time even admitting that to herself, perhaps.

This more sensitive side is supported by Sami Kivelä’s art, which is the best he’s done for the Doctor Who titles so far. It’s as vibrant and energetic as ever, but swaggers with added confidence. He beautifully captures Jo Martin’s likeness too, complete with the subtle contradictions in this incarnation. A woman who, like in the early days of Peter Capaldi’s run, perhaps tries not to care because once she starts, she’ll care so much it will devastate her.

Relatively speaking, Dawn of the Daleks is the weakest entry in Circuit Breaker so far. It’s also the weakest book among recent Titan Comics. But so long as you’re prepared to not worry too much about missed opportunities, it’s still a worthwhile, imaginative step along the Fugitive’s difficult road to becoming the Doctor we know.

 

Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2. Cover by Nipuni (c) Titan Comics Doctor Who: Circuit Breaker #2

The Doctor Travels To The War-Ravaged World Of Skaro As She Battles The Daleks With The Fate Of Their Kaled Forebears At Stake!

You can find links for buying in the US, or from Forbidden Planet in the UK here.

 

Circuit Breaker continues with Don’t Blink, free to read on the UNIT website from the 17th of August

 

 

 

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Dominic Minns of Mojo Swoptops and Supertato will lead the new Doctor Who spin-off for CBeebies

 

Blue Zoo Animation Studio have announced the Series Director for their new Doctor Who animated spin-off currently in development. Dominic Minns will direct all 52 episodes of the new CBeebies show, across two seasons. He will also be Blue Zoo’s new Creative Director. This effectively makes Minns the showrunner for the new series.

Dominic Minns will be a new name to most Doctor Who fans. However, those with children of a certain age will likely be familiar with his work. He directed the first season of Mojo Swoptops and was Series Director for Supertato, and also created Tee and Mo.

Mojo Swoptops and Supertato have been among CBeebies highest rated shows of recent years, while Tee and Mo won a BAFTA, making it no surprise Minns is taking charge of such a high profile project as Who. Other notable series Minns has led include Get Well Soon Hospital and Big and Small.

 

Minns aims to make the new series has “the epic scale and wonder” of Doctor Who

Blue Zoo’s co-founder, Adam Shaw explained the reasoning further. “Dominic has a brilliant instinct for what makes children’s content resonate with audiences,” he says. “His track record of blending heart with high-energy storytelling is second to none. We are hugely proud to have his creative vision at Blue Zoo, and specifically on our exciting next project, an animated Doctor Who for CBeebies. We can’t wait to see how he breathes life into this show.”

For his part, Minns says “I’m thrilled to be working on the CBeebies Doctor Who animation. My goal is to fully utilize the full talents of both Blue and Brighton Zoo to capture the epic scale and wonder of the series, while making it delightful, funny, and relatable for preschoolers. It’s an honor to be here.”

The series, currently in production, still has no official title but the BBC plans to begin screening it next year. With Doctor Who itself currently preparing for a tender process similar to the one the resulted in Blue Zoo’s winning bid for the spin-off, this means our next journey into the Whoniverse will be animated.

 

 

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Rutans vs Sontarans finishes on both a high and a low, with an unambitious finale that nevertheless packs emotional punch in its final scenes

 

Big Finish’s Rutans vs Sontarans comes to a close with Doctor Who: Peace at Last. Though the three previous episodes have focused on the Fugitive, the Second and the Sixth Doctors, the Eighth has lingered on the edges throughout. Now he takes centre stage as the series, which began with the very origins of the vendetta between Sontarans and Rutans, concludes with what may be its final days.

Theirs is a conflict which has raged across tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years. Now, at long last, it seems there might be – now, must be – peace between the Sontaran Empire and the Rutan Host. And, obviously, the Doctor (Paul McGann), and his companions Charley (India Fisher) and C’rizz (Conrad Westmaas), will do whatever they can to help bring the bloodshed to an end.

 

After tens of thousands of years of fighting, and trillions dead, the mutually genocidal vendetta climaxes with a handful of characters bickering about trade deals

An exploration of what an end to the Sontaran/Rutan War might look like is perhaps long overdue. After all, Robert Holmes originally created them to satirize the proxy wars fought between the United States and the USSR. Gung ho, single-minded militarists on the one side, sponsoring coups on ‘primitive’ worlds around the galaxy for their ‘own good.’ On the other the insidious green menace they imagined hiding under every bed on every planet, insidiously corrupting their societies from within. So, forty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Peace at Last explores space glasnost.

It’s this aspect of Peace at Last that’s most disappointing. The scope of this war is so vast it almost defies human understanding. On such a scale that even wiping out all life on Earth in The Sontaran Stratagem is simply a matter of supply chain logistics for the actual fight. Peace at Last, however, makes it all feel rather small. Recent devastating losses on both sides have brought Sontarans and Rutans to the negotiating table. But while it may sound stone-hearted, those casualties: 35 million Sontarans and twenty thousand Rutans, would surely be just a drop in the ocean of blood spilled so far.

The negotiations themselves seem similarly twee. There’s a small space station in the middle of nowhere and only a couple of representatives on each side. The very fact C’rizz and Charley are able to wrangle jobs as aides also feeds the small stakes feel. By the time the Rutan Ambassador is wittering about trade routes, it all starts to feel more like an argument about the parish cricket green. Even the script describes the setting as like “a bad school disco.”

 

Peace at Last waits far too long before introducing Rutans vs Sontarans’ recurring Rutan anti-villain Monmoth, whose by far its most compelling character

 

The audio drama has two additional problems, though. Inevitably, factions who see peace as weakness seek to sabotage negotiations from within. While that takes up a significant amount of the run time, the identity of the traitor is obvious long before anything even happens.

Peace at Last’s other issue is that this is final part of the four episode Rutans vs Sontarans series. Yet it’s only towards the end that it acknowledges that ongoing plotline of Monmoth, the ancient Rutan who was there at the start of war, torn away from the communal mind of the Host ever since, and desperate to return.

It’s a shame, as when Monmoth finally does reveal themselves, it makes from the most compelling scenes not just of Peace at Last, but the whole Rutans vs Sontarans series. Their pain, loneliness and rage are beautifully portrayed. In addition the Eighth Doctor’s popping up in previous episodes to steer events gets a clever payoff as the Doctor and Monmoth engage in a timey wimey chess match of post hoc rationalizations. Exactly what the Time Lord was up in those scenes is decided by the two theorizing and arguing about it, including some very dark options indeed. It’s a satisfying novel way to bring those strands together and wrap them up.

 

The climax deals with the temporal puzzle of the Eighth Doctor’s earlier appearances in a novel and fun way, before a devastating reminder of his own role in the war

The final scenes also circle back around to Betrayal at the House of Sontar’s most devastating revelation – that it was Jo Martin’s Doctor who triggered the war in the first place. It places McGann’s incarnation in a position of well-meaning, but witless, hypocrisy as he tsks and tuts about the two other species’ war-mongering ways, completely ignorant that all that blood is also on his hands. The fact that Monmoth, his equally amnesiac former partner at Division, is the only living being who could possibly identify him for his war crimes, adds to the edge of danger and tragedy.

So Rutans vs Sontarans ultimately ends on both a low and a high. Overall, Peace at Last is the weakest of the four. But those final few scenes where it re-engages with the arc plot are the most emotionally powerful and most cleverly structured in the whole run.

 

Doctor Who: Peace at Last. Cover by Sean Longmore (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Peace at Last

On the precipice of peace it stands…

After the destruction of a major stronghold, the Sontarans propose something extraordinary. More extraordinary still, the Rutans say yes. The Doctor, Charley and C’rizz are on hand to watch history being made.

Yet history has other ideas. A plan that has taken centuries is about to come to fruition. The Melmoth is returning.

 

Doctor Who – Rutans vs Sontarans: Peace at Last is now available to purchase for just £9.99 (as a digital download to own) or £14.99 (download + collector’s edition CD), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed. 

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Christopher Eccleston and Rose Tyler are joined by BAFTA winner Doon Mackichan in a classic ghost spaceship mystery

 

The latest in the Big Finish series of Ninth Doctor Adventures is out now! In Doctor Who: Dark Tides, the Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) takes Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) into deep space, where they find the long-lost mapping ship the Vesterbold. Its crew are all gone, except for one…

The time travellers also encounter the Knights of Atlas, a spacefaring gang of warriors who have their own sights set on the Vesterbold. Ben Arogundade plays the knights’ leader Sir Cal, Sam Stafford is his squire Mervyn. Meanwhile, David Shaw-Parker voices the wise man Holbrook.

Meanwhile, BAFTA winning Doon Mackichan voices Dr Vivian Rest, the Vesterbold’s mysterious sold survivor. The star of shows such as Smack the Pony, Good Omens, and Toast of London makes her Big Finish debut in Dark Tides. However, she’s already entered the Whoniverse with roles in The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Nightmare Man and as the older, 21st century, Madame Vastra in the BBC’s Doctor Who: Redacted audio drama.

The story is also a reunion with Christopher Eccleston, whom she starred alongside in the 1999 film With or Without You.

 

“Charismatic, amusing, and completely merciless”

Mackichan said: “It was fantastic working with Chris, and I love working in the audio medium. This story’s definitely got a claustrophobic feel, where everyone’s trapped and can’t get off, and the dark forces are at play.”

Christopher Eccleston said: “I like the idea here, with old-fashioned knights on a Holy Grail-like quest. And then we have Doon Mackichan, who I first worked with in 1998, in a fantastic part – very charismatic, amusing and oddly endearing, even though she’s completely merciless. There’s a bit of flirting too, which my Doctor is always very keen to do!”

Billie Piper added: “This feels like very familiar Doctor Who 2005 territory to me. It reminded me of episodes like The Girl in the Fireplace, with the clockwork men. I absolutely love the character of Vivian – it’s really fun to have a sassy female character, she reminds me of Cassandra from The End of the World.”

 

Doctor Who: Dark Tides. Cover by Soundsmyth Creative (c) Big Finish Doctor Who: Dark Tides

A long-lost ship, the Vesterbold, has returned to normal space. And the Knights of Atlas seek her treasure. But two strangers have joined their expedition – the Doctor and Rose, who warn of danger.

For the Vesterbold has drifted free of the Dark Tides at the edge of the universe. And she may have brought something back with her.

Not even the bravest knights are ready for the evil which lies inside…

Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Dark Tides is now available to purchase for just £9.99 (download to own) or £11.99 (download to own + collector’s edition CD), exclusively here. Please note: the collector’s edition CD is strictly limited to 1,500 copies and will not be re-pressed. 

 

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Peter Capaldi joins David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker in the cast of Only Murders in the Building as the popular show heads to the UK

 

Season Six of hit detective comedy Only Murders in the Building is heading to London. And the latest case for crime podcast trio Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short) and Mabel (Selena Gomez) features not one, not two, but three former Doctor Who stars. Blogtor Who reported yesterday that both David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker will feature in the new ten part murder mystery. The murder of a fellow podcaster prompts our heroes’ move to London from the show’s usual New York home. However, with the skewed irony of an Alanis Morissette lyric, just hours later the Only Murders team announced Peter Capaldi was joining them.

Nothing is officially known about the former Doctors’ roles. However, location filming suggests that Whittaker plays a Barrister, and that Tennant appears in flashbacks. Whether the two are suspects, or allies, or both remains to be seen.

Also among the cast of the new season are Derek Jacobi (Utopia), Nicola Coughlan (Joy to the World), Jim Broadbent (The Curse of Fatal Death), and Adrian Lukis (The War Between the Land and the Sea.)

The new season began filming in the UK this summer, and will most likely arrive on Hulu in the US, and on Disney+ in the UK, next year.

 

Both Doctor Who stars have more projects lined up to follow Only Murders

Jodie Whittaker will then be staying in the world of American crime shows with Chicks. Whittaker plays Doreen, one of a pair of con artist sisters trying to build a partnership following their father’s death. She stars alongside Ellen Pompeo (Grey’s Anatomy) as older sister Chickie. Together the set on a series of ever more ambitious cons, while finally bonding as sisters.

Next up for David Tennant meanwhile, is new movie The Joy of Sex, which is currently filming. The film explores the writing of the legendary 1970s book of the same name, and the romantic throuple that inspired it. The film also stars Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Laura Linney, as well as Jason Watkins.

Finally, Peter Capaldi will be starring in the third and final season of his time travel thriller series The Devil’s Hour, as Capaldi’s Gideon attempts to resolve the destructive time loop once and for all.

 

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Three classic sonic screwdrivers receive an upgrade this year with Character Options’ new versions, available for pre-order now

The Doctor’s sonic screwdriver is getting yet another makeover this year. This time, though, it’s the toy versions from Character Options that are getting revamped with the latest techniques. The sonic screwdrivers used by Peter Davison and Paul McGann, as well as the laser screwdriver used by John Simm’s Master, are all getting re-releases. The new versions bring the toys into line with more recent toys. They use the same electroplated finish as the Fourteenth’s and Fifteenth’s for a more metallic look. They’ll also now feature multiple sound effects, each with its own distinct activation sequence.

The Fifth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver is out on the 12th of August and you can pre-order now from both The Who Shop or Forbidden Planet. The Who Shop also has the Eighth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver up for pre-order for when it arrives in September. Finally for right now, the Master’s Laser Screwdriver will be out in late October and, again, can be pre-ordered from the Who Shop.

There’s no official word yet on whether these upgrades will roll out across the rest of the line, but it seems incredibly likely. Considering the current timetable of releases, though, if you want Tom Baker’s, for instance,  it probably won’t be until next year that you’ll be able to lay your hands on one.

 

The Fifth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver (c) Character Options Fifth Doctor Sonic Screwdriver

This limited-edition role play toy release features an electroplated steel-like finish with an added white band on the handle. It includes 4 unique sound effects, each with its own trigger sequence.

This set is a real opportunity to add something truly special to your Doctor Who Collection. It will surprise and delight fans and collectors alike with its detail and uniqueness.

 

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