Probably because he hasn't been in since Series 3 (2007). The new range really bugs me. The new size means they're out of scale with my other figures, and they haven't released enough figures. We got 6 figures for 15 episodes. They could have given us:

Dalek Puppet
Solomon ?
Brian Williams
The Gunslinger (Who doesn't want a Western Cyborg bounty hunter??)
Cube MiniPack (If they can do it for Cybermats)
Weeping Angels that can pose WEEPING!
Snowmen
Strax, Jenny and Vastra (Not as if they feature at all...)
Great Intelligence
Time Traveller Person (Hide)
Time Radiation Mutants
Warwick Davis!
Whispermen

Considering we got people such as 'Aunty' and 'Uncle' last year it really sucks to see the selection we got this year

I'd love figures of the Gunslinger, snowmen and Whispermen.

A lot of those will probably come sooner or later, this is just wave 1. Bare in mind the year between series is where they churn out most of the toys. Also, human characters such as Brian and Warwick Davies are less likely because of likeness rights and such. There's only now been a Churchill figure this year.

Year between series... No offense, but we had 5 months between the Angels take Manhatten and Bells of St John. It would have made sense to release some figures then. Also, I haven't seen the Churchill figure. Was it the old or new size.

True, but the second half of season 7 was a fresher start than the first. Why bother making new Amy and Rory moulds when you can save money and just jump straight to Clara.

Old size, was a 2-pack with a tea tray Ironside.

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Hmm. I guess. New figures would have been nice for the break, though. They made a Rory figure just before the start of series 7 as well, so they already had the mould. I'm just going to let it go.

Double Post alert!
S1 Ep2: Tooth and Claw- 22/04/06
While aiming for Ian Dury, 10 and Rose end up in Victorian Scotland with Queen Victoria and a werewolf. Ordinary day, then.

Plot
Ten and Rose are in the TARDIS deciding where in all of time and space to go next, and Ten suggests Earth. He likes that planet more than Haruto loves doughnuts. Aiming for an Ian Dury concert in 1979, the TARDIS lands 100 years earlier. In Scotland. (It's like aiming for Croyden and getting Aberdeen). They meet Queen Victoria, where the Doctor introduces himself as Doctor James MacCrimmon and apologises for Rose's 'nakedness'. He Psychic Papers himself into the group, which ends up at Torchwood house. The owner tries to talk them out of staying, but Queen Victoria insists. He reluctantly lets them in.

While Rose tries to win a bet with Ten by making the Queen say "We are not amused", they are shown around the house by the Lord. In one room, a giant telescope exists. But it doesn't work as telescope. Too many prisms. They exchange tales about werewolves, and Rose goes to get changed into something proper. She gets captured by monks impersonating the house staff, and put with the other servants in a basement, in front of a cage. In the cage, there is a boy. Interchanged with this is Ten being told a wolf story, about how a werewolf exists in the moors. Meanwhile, Rose talks to the boy, who says various things, including that he is an alien, that he wants to bite Queen Victoria and turn her into a werewolf to take over the world, and that Rose has something of the wolf about her. As the full moon rises, the boy turns into a werewolf. The servants (plus Rose) escape just as Ten realises that, like every other myth in this universe, it is A) real and B) out to get him. He tells the servants to hide in the kitchen, and attempts to take the men to fight the creature. They shoot it in the face. When one man goes to see if it's dead, he gets eaten. So, not dead?

The werewolf goes to find more food, in the form of the women, but can't go into the kitchen where they hide. Turns out it's scared of Mistletoe (the Monks needed to control it somehow). The Lady of the House decides to stop waiting, and starts mashing up all the remaining bits of Mistletoe. Tens attempts to get Queen Victoria out of the house are thwarted when it's revealed they are locked in, and the windows are guarded. They take refuge in the library, where it's revealed the previous owner of the house coated the room in Mistletoe. They read in a book that he knew about the werewolf, and the Doctor uses his brain finally, and deduces that the 'telescope' is a werewolf killer, powered by moonlight and focused by the Koh-I-Noor diamond, carried everywhere by Queen Victoria. They escape to the room by the help of the women and the sacrifice of the Lord, where they use the 'telescope' to melt the werewolf, but not before it can scratch Queen Victoria. Thank God the royal family has no illnesses or... oh, haemophilia. So the Royal Family are werewolves. Huh.

Queen Victoria makes the group Sir Doctor of TARDIS, and Dame Rose of the Powell Estate Turns out it's a decoy for banishing them; Queen Vic was disgusted by their amusement and admiring of the werewolf, and doesn't want them back. They go back to the TARDIS, not caring. After all, Queen Vic's words in 1879 can't mean anything in the modern day. Queen Victoria decides to set up the Torchwood institute to protect the British Empire, and to make the Doctor fear. This episode has a well-paced plot, with enjoyable moments and a nice solution. 9/10

Characters
While the main characters don't have much development (it can't happen every episode), the secondary characters display emotions and plans of their own. Also, I just want to say, Prince Albert is awesome in this universe! 8/10

Scare Factor
Some genuinely scary moments involving the werewolf, which were necessary because of the Gothic Horror setting, otherwise it wouldn't have felt as good. 7/10

Overall
I really like this episode. It has a strong, enjoyable plot, the historical setting feels accurate and authentic, and the ending sets up future plot points. Not sure what else to say, so cue Next Time Trailer: nothing interesting, just some new aliens we've never met before in a school. Definitely nothing worth watching.

Just as usual, if I've missed anything, post and tell me about it!

So, just putting this out there. What do you hope happens in the 50th anniversary? Just remember, this is what's been confirmed:
The 10th and 11th Doctor, Rose and Clara are to star
Kate Stewart (UNIT< The Power of Three>) is to feature
The Zygons are to be the enemies.

Would you keep these people (and aliens). Would you get in more companions. Would you use old footage of episodes to feature old Doctors (Shada again?)

Finally hit up the Doctor Who Experience today (despite moving to Cardiff nearly a year or go I hadn't visited until now because I went while it was in London). I obviously chose the best time to go, because they have a fair bit of season 7 stuff there now.

(Apologies for the pic spam)

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I hated those Cherub Angels. Angels are bad enough, but making them creepy ass babies is just not playing fair.

Those pictures of the Exhibition are good. Especially the cherubim angels. Those things are so creepy...

Also, a while back I saw this 'personal TARDIS'. It was a wrist-thingy (think Vortex Manipulator) has anyone else heard anything about this?

Damn. I spend a whole hour typing up a review for School Reunion and then I accidentally click on a link, wiping out my whole essay. So yeah. Could be a while till I want to right it all again.

Me and some friends came up with a new theory about what the John Hurt Doctor is: He's not one event, but rather, all the events where the Doctor has gone beyond what he thinks is right: ending the time war, Time Lord Victorious, even attempting to kill the caveman in the First Ever Episode. He never chooses to think what that makes him, and he seals it all away into a separate part of him. The John Hurt Doctor. What do you guys think of this?

what if the next doctor...... was a women?

Discuss!
*Jumps into bunker*

No, no, no, no...

Before we do anything like that, we need an old Doctor again. And yes I know we have Hurt but he's, I'm assuming, only gonna be around the anniversary and then gone again, so he doesn't count.

If i remember correctly from Matt Smith's interview with IGN he said they were still looking for the next doctor whomever he or she is.

Agreed, an old Doctor would be awesome, but I don't think it will happen. Part of me thinks Hurt was cast as a compromise, to at least get an older Doctor once more.

It is kind of sad that Doctor Who is now, seemingly, almost exclusively marketed to teenage girls. The Doctor was always desirable in his own way but never conventionally, it's part of what made him feel alien. Now the Doctor just looks like a Topman model...which I suppose are aliens in their own right as well :lol

I will find you.

I don't think it should be a woman. It seems really sexist, but I don't think it would work as well. I just can't say why.

It won't be. That idea's been floated pretty much every time since Tom Baker left. Nothing's ever come of it.

Prince William and Princess Kate's baby was born beneath a Full Moon.

Whovians, you know what this means.

I guess because changing race or skin color is one thing, but changing gender is a totally different thing entirely. It changes the fundamentals of a character.

Torchwood? :D

I'm hoping the next Doctor will be female. Someone unknown though. Please not Helena Carter, she's in enough.

The only woman I'd want as the Doctor is Ruth Wilson.

I don't want a female doctor due to it the female companions in them that shows the woman side of things and plus we still have clara as the companion it just want feel right so not being sexiest I just want a older DW

Who's Ruth Wilson?

She played Alice in Luther.

Ooh. Then hell yes.

new rumour floated by that a classic who doctor will be in the 50th http://doctorwhotv.co.uk/a-classic-d...-all-51856.htm

According to BBC World HQ in beautiful Downtown London, Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special will be simulcasted across 200 countries at the same time to avoid Social Media spoilers.

I'm both eliated that they're doing this, and saddened they think we're addicted to SM to the point of not being able to turn it off for a few hours so we won't be spoiled.

Given the way British fans are complaining that the 50th trailer debuted in America rather than Britain, this is really the only way the BBC can satisfy fans everywhere.

I blame tumblr.

It also means because it's airing in UK around eight, I believe, that means it's coming on at two in the afternoon here. x . x

It'll probably be around 6 or 7, so yeah about 1-2pm for you

Wait it's airing tonight?!

No :lol Calm, Locke, Calm. It's not airing until November 23rd on the 50th Anniversary of the first episode.

Oh man I crapped myself for a second then, was ready to leap into battle stations! :lol

Finally got around to photoing a recent acquisition of mine...

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Articulation is standard for a Doctor Who figure (ie not very good) but man just look at that sculpting detail.

Something that beautiful doesn't need articulation

I'd agree with you if it was 5" tall. I've already had to sacrifice size I'd rather not anything else too :lol

Its such a shame. I have a brilliant "Cybermen through the ages" display because there's so many variants, but it kinda looks odd with a pint sized new version at the end of it.