Doctor Who construction toy figures

New Playmobil-esque Doctor Who toys will hit stores in a few months from toy company Character Options. From the BB Press Office:

This new brick based collection includes 3D micro-figures that are brought to life with sculpted facial features making the Doctor played by Matt Smith and Amy Pond played by Karen Gillan instantly recognisable.
Matt Smith and Karen Gillan have already had first sight of their new miniature alter egos. Matt Smith said: “It was very surreal and funny coming face to face with a miniature version of myself as the Doctor but I’m glad that the Doctor’s trusty Sonic Screwdriver is in his hand, ready to fend off attacks from monsters!”

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Lula

Seriously cute! Though… Cybermen instead of Rory? Seems a little odd, considering they didn’t even have a full episode :T
- Anonymous
  
  Cybermen instead of Rory? Seems a little odd, considering they didn’t even have a full episode :T
  
  Cybermen have had a few dozen full episodes. They’ve been around since the 1960′s I believe. There’s been at least 3 full episodes about them in the new series. Rory has only been in like 10 episodes, he’s a minor character compared to the cybermen.
  - Lula
    
    Since this set is Series 5 specific, that’s what I was referring to. I know they are a big player in many, many other series/episodes/seasons/Doctors/etc. In terms of series 5, Rory is much more important than the Cybermen, which is why it sticks out so much to me.
deckard68

P.S. I want FRINGE figures!
Karl Elvis

Too bad it’s the lamentable steven moffat doctor who rather than the epic, brilliant Russell T Davies version. Notice how the candy-color Daleks don’t look any different here than they did in the show.
rob_cornelius

I was working for the bbc on the doctor who site this time last year. Our boss had a whole collection of the prototypes of these on her desk back then. Of course we had great fun using them to simulate alien sex positions when she wasnt around… happy days ;-)
MrJM

Ooooh! I hate it when they remind me that the programme is actually for children!
- cinemajay
  
  It is?
  
  Also, MUST have a Cyberman and those Daleks! WANT!
Dave Faris

Hey wait. None of those little toy people look at all like Tom Baker. What the hell is going on here??
Anonymous

Does anyone know who the figure in the blue robe is?
- Anonymous
  
  It’s a Smiler from “The Beast Below.” I thought their robes were black instead of bluish-purple, but I could be wrong.
LogrusZed

Bow-ties are cool.
dr

The Cyberman looks all happy and nice.
thebelgianpanda

Lamentable Steven Moffat? Brilliant Russell Davies? Is it opposite day today? How can you even compare Blink, a wonderfully crafted and superbly told episode to Last of the Time Lords, which I would like to use the Paradox machine to prevent from ever being written.
- Scurra
  
  How can you compare? With ease. They are both great. But they also both have serious structural flaws – and I think that Blink’s are actually more serious than Last of the Time Lords. But it’s really not that important. Doctor Who is a fantasy tv show, not The Wire, after all.
  
  Why are people apparently not allowed to like both recent incarnations of Who, but must adhere to the Us vs Them dichotomy that everything is doomed to become? We should be celebrating a terrific television show that will probably run forever (with the odd couple-of-decade breaks every now and then.)
- mdh
  
  Meh, who cares. Some of this season belong to Neil Gaiman.
Robotgod

These are awesome, except why does the Doctor have eyebrows? Matt Smith does not possess any.
chgoliz

On Monday, we were out for the day with another family and one of my kids asked me to “chan…tho” my conversation for the next hour. Apparently all the kids were engaged in a live-action RPG that borrowed from about a half dozen sci-fi shows/stories, and that particular character was useful to the plot at that point.

There is absolutely no doubt that we will find a way to get this set when they are unveiled in the spring. The shipping from the U.K. can’t be that awful, right? Right?? /optimist mode
MR

Where’s the TARDIS?
kevinsky

I like both Tennant and Smith as the Doctor. I also like Baker and Troughton, but not a fan of Hartnell and not enough experience with Pertwee. The 80s doctors, and Doctor Ears, I just skipped over. Otherwise who really cares? It’s a TV show!

What’s REALLY important is that Romana 1 was superior to Romana 2. Character-wise. If you want to argue about which one was hotter, have at you!
thebelgianpanda

In this case it isn’t an us vs. them, it’s that Moffat is a better writer than Davies. Last of the Time Lords–and most of the season enders for that matter–are bad, approaching terrible. Dr. Who really, really shines during character driven pieces, not end of the world scenarios. And when did fantasy shows become unimportant? :D

Even though I just don’t like Davies writing, I am forever grateful to him for pulling off the show in general. I am also grateful for the excellent casting (sans Catherine Tate). I love the show, I just don’t like his episodes.
- velvet
  
  these figures look very much like the Time Squad line with Tennant’s Doctor.
  
  anyway, yes, DW does shine when it’s character driven and that was RTD’s great strength imo. his writing definitely had faults but he wrote great character moments within the muddled plots as well as character development over the seasons. Moffat’s weak on the character so personally i’m not liking his season as much as the previous ones.
seanpatgallagher

Where’s Roman Rory? I mean, what could be better than a plastic Roman Centurian who’s ACTUALLY made of plastic?

-S
Anonymous

Why am I not at all surprised that something completely unrelated to the writers of the series immediately turns into a whine-fest about said writers of the series? It really is not that big a deal, kids. Moffat and Davies are both fantastic, and if you beg to differ, you’re wrong, and going off-topic anyway. End of discussion.

That said, I’m disappointed they chose to go with a LEGO-ripoff construction toy series rather than the real (not Sylvester) McCoy. This line will likely fail, LEGO Doctor Who could go on for years. For shame.
Yamara

What thebelgianpanda said, plus that Torchwood was way too often torture-and-authority apologetics.

“Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I’ve never met anyone who wasn’t important.” < -- More like this, please.

(And minus abbreviating Doctor Who.)
millionpoems

Re: Moffat vs Davies: Wellll… but didn’t you think even Catherine Tate was *brilliant* when not shouting?
thebelgianpanda

As an aside, I am super stoked that the new season is making tweed cool again. I think I need to go put on my 12 foot long scarf my wife knitted me now :D
mdh

I generally dislike the “muppet baby”-ization of things, but these are quite well done. I’ve never wanted to pinch a cyberman’s cheek before.
cjp

Ugh. PlayMobil Dr. Who merchandise was the predictable next step after replacing the very grown up (and very appealing) David Tennant with the teenage son of Frankenstein.

Thank God for Torchwood.
- Anonymous
  
  I’m in complete agreement. I’ll just watch the 10th Doctor and pretend this never happened.
  - mdh
    
    Are you going to go ahead and pretend the 3rd and 7th didn’t exist either?
Anonymous

Where’s the Face of Boe?!?!
Yamara

Iâ€™m glad that the Doctorâ€™s trusty Sonic Screwdriver is in his hand, ready to fend off attacks from monsters!

Only if you’re a faster draw than the guy with the Tissue Compression Eliminator, apparently.
monopole

Just keep your eye on the weeping angel, don’t even blink! Oh noes, the image of the weeping angel is an angel! And I just thought it was an animated GIF!
Anonymous

Will these hit the states?
deckard68

Doctor Who is a rarity in the toy market these days, as very few tv shows have action figures since the rise in the price of oil and the start of the recession.

The cost of oil (plastic) is so high now that many action figure companies have essentially suspended the production of traditional action figures in favor of ONLY making these little “mini” figures.

Doctor Who is rare in that it has both these “mini” figures and traditional action figures.

…And for what it’s worth, of the 3 Doctors from the new series (yes *3*, does no one remember Christopher Eccleston?) the new 11th Doctor is the best. So there.