U.K. Toymaker Hears a Who (Fan’s Lament)
Character Options, although they have a terribly bland company name, has been making swell Doctor Who figures for a couple years based on the last few cult-favorite and well-received Who series. So what about fans of the old, classic Whos? They’ve been ignored, as is just and right. However, Character Options is more kind and benevolent than I am, because they’ll be releasing a new toyline of classic Doctor Who characters with modern sculpting and painting techniques, all the better to point out that early Doctor Who villains looked really fucking goofy. The wave includes:
? The fourth Doctor
? The fifth Doctor
? The sixth Doctor
? The SV7 Robot
? D84
? Zygon
? Magnus Creel and Mr. Sin
? The Sea Devil (he’s the one that looks like a Admiral Ackbar in a mesh hospital gown)
If you collect all of them, you can build the extremely goofy looking D1 Robot. They’ll be out in the U.K. this month, but I’m sure Diamond will be importing them soon enough. Thanks to Kevin for the tip.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.