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Post by Pinwig on Jul 20, 2021 17:53:14 GMT
Ordered!
Double the price of the usual B&M repaint sets, yes, but this is a lights and sounds TARDIS with a Troughton figure that features a lot of new moulding. It's a lot better value for money than the thirty quid they charged last year for two identical Daleks that only had new ears.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 20, 2021 21:20:00 GMT
Interesting, Al Dewar has made a post on one of the forums to say the Troughton figure in this set is a proper exclusive and won't appear anywhere else. So it isn't one of the figures in the forthcoming B&M Five Doctors set after all...
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 20, 2021 21:25:18 GMT
Who cares about Five Doctors. If the Marinus set does not have Yartek I will destroy both this world and the world to come.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 20, 2021 21:52:34 GMT
Well as we know the Sensorites set has the First Elder in it, it would be a little remiss not to have Yartek in the Marinus one.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2021 21:54:32 GMT
May have red hazed during pre-interview stress when I realised the outfit means it can double as a 5Docs Pat. This will be my 4th TARDIS... -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 22, 2021 22:00:20 GMT
Mine's in the post :)
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2021 22:17:54 GMT
The must-haves for me would be if they did a TV Movie McGann with TARDIS and a Time War McGann with TARDIS.
The ultimate pack would be a Valeyard and TARDIS.
-Ralph
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Post by Llama God on Jul 24, 2021 7:40:53 GMT
Give it another thirty years or so...
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 26, 2021 15:54:32 GMT
Mine's in the post  Oh, it does look nice. -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 26, 2021 16:43:06 GMT
Mine is STILL in the post. Sigh.
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Post by Llama God on Jul 27, 2021 7:05:27 GMT
Where was it being posted from..?
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 27, 2021 8:00:07 GMT
Their address is Oldham so I suppose anyone round Manchester would get a quick delivery. Second class for me at the mo usually takes a week so I'm not panicking yet. It was sent recorded so it should be okay.
Gone out of stock now on the CO website. Online basket fiddlers reckon they had about 4000. Seems a low run to me.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 27, 2021 12:11:21 GMT
Furry Trout arrival!
Thankfully with a decent paint job. What a set. Lovely!
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 14:37:39 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 15:38:28 GMT
WHERE THE FUCK IS YARTEK, LEADER OF THE ALIEN VOORD??!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 15:56:56 GMT
I wonder if they could knock one up using the Master from the Daemons set.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 16:54:38 GMT
The amount of new moulding in these sets is slowly starting to grow, but it's worth pointing out that Ian is just John Simm's Master with a new head. And iirc the torso piece for that came from Ben Millar's Primeval figure, and the legs are off the original Season 12 Tom Baker figure!  |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 18:25:46 GMT
My sister in law's hubby sometimes does IT work for Character. He has strict orders to blag freebie DW stuff if he is needed back there. When he sorted out a sausage factory's systems they gave him loads of free sausages.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 18:26:42 GMT
I wonder if they could knock one up using the Master from the Daemons set. WHAT KIND OF COMPANY WOULD MAKE A MARINUS SET BUT NOT INCLUDE FUCKING YARTEK, LEADER OF THE ALIEN VOORD???!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 2, 2021 18:49:53 GMT
The sort of company that had been tipped off by your brother in law that it would boil your p!$$?
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 20:16:19 GMT
Hmmm.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 20:51:52 GMT
A new mould for his robe would probably break the bank. This wave is surprising in that the reuse of figures that was spread over two waves last year is now inside one wave.
If you take out Hartnell as a straight repaint you've got two reused bodies but then two pairs of new feet, four new heads including both Voords, the Sensorite tool, Voord dagger, the Elder's sash and the Voord's strap/belt. That's a lot of new parts for figures that ultimately look very similar.
Of course in the next wave we can look forward to a Sensorite with a moustache.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 21:38:46 GMT
You have to wonder... Well you don't really but I do, what this means for the next two waves. Will they reuse figures from this wave or will wave 2 contain its own reused figures?
We're looking at an Earthshock set and a Five Doctors set.
I reckon there's a strong chance the Voord body will get reused as an Earthshock android with a new head, which will then get repainted as a Raston robot in the Five Doctors set (there's also a Raston on the backdrop in the Furry Trout set). People seem to think the Hartnell doc body will get a new Hurndall head which does make sense, but new tooling would mean the head would need at least one reuse and I can't see how you could do more than one Hurndall figure. The Cybermen are in both stories so there's probably one of those in one or both sets. Going by how these things seem to work there has to be a standout figure somewhere in there and the current trend is for companions, so Tegan seems to make sense if they can find the right body parts. Tegan also spent time with Hurdall's doc. But frustratingly not the Raston warrior robot.
Somewhere in there are the next two sets coming in the next couple of months. I'll go for:
Earthshock:
Android
Tegan
Cyberman repaint variant
Five Doctors:
Raston robot
Tegan variant or Sarah Jane variant
Hurndall or Third Doctor repaint
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 21:43:33 GMT
There's also a first doctor and TARDIS set on the cards from the rumours. If that's a doctor and TARDIS like usual it could be a Hurndall reuse, but there have been TARDIS and three figure sets before now, which would be an amazing way to do Barbara with a first doc repaint and an Ian variant. That would be mind blowing.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 21:48:55 GMT
To do the Raston Warrior properly there would just be a blank space in the box as it moves so fast it cannot be seen until it strikes.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 2, 2021 21:52:26 GMT
That would be even cheaper!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 2, 2021 21:56:23 GMT
If Hurndull gets done, he must come with a sandwich accessory.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 3, 2021 7:00:59 GMT
The sculpt for Ian looks a bit better than the finished figure, just like the Zygons Tom last year. |
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2021 8:46:54 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 25, 2021 21:31:14 GMT
I felt sure the Sensorites would drop while I was on holiday just to annoy me, but it seems B&M customer services have said they're due into their central warehouse on Monday and will begin distribution from then. So end next week at the earliest.
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