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Any particular reason why?
While I think Figuarts-level Doctor Who figures would be incredible, I just don't trust Bluefin or Bandai with the brand at all at the moment. For a start their presence in Europe is extremely poor, so unless they literally offer the BBC a ton of money or sort themselves out the UK isn't going to see much benefit of it. Yes that's a bit of a personal issue, but I don't see them handling a UK-based property if they can't handle it in the UK well. On top of that I think Doctor Who is still very much a cult thing in Japan (it certainly isn't the level of popularity it has in the West), so while Bluefin still have to go through Bandai of Japan I doubt the higher ups are going to see it as having much profit for them.
On the production side of things, this isn't like an anime franchise - it's live action and they've never really handled this before. It won't be a case of just buying some rights, they have to buy actor likeness rights and get the sculpts looking good as well. If they were to do it I can totally only see them doing the new series Doctors (and even then I think they'd skip Eccleston because GOTTA HOOK THE TENNANT FANS) and then lazily call it a day.
Then we have the monsters, in which again I'd fully expect Bluefin to only really cover the modern series because they'll believe that's the only thing that'll sell. And to be honest, the new series doesn't have that many iconic monsters that would be worth making articulated figures of. Cybermen, Silurians and Sontarans are about it, and they're all new iterations of classic monsters. When you get to Daleks and Weeping Angels they're pretty much going to be Figuarts ZEROS, and some fans are stupid enough to not buy them simply because of that.
If I've learnt anything from NYCC its Bluefin are only interested in what's hot. So if they were to get Doctor Who I'd expect them to put about 2-3 figures at the most and then move onto something else. And that isn't really the right attitude to have when at the very least fans are going to demand 12/13 figures from them to begin with.
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