November 24th, 2010
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The Doctor Who Site special Feature – Paradigm Daleks
There can be no doubt that when the Paradigm Daleks first burst onto our screen during series 5 that probably the most controversial change in Doctor Who’s history had taken place – a total redesign of The Daleks. Fans were divided from those who loved them to out right hatred of the new look – and things certainly got very vocal.
Today most people cant wait to buy them, our poles consistently show they are the most popular figure with over 1,460 people voting the Drone as the figure they were most looking forward to in wave one. The Drone is still top even after all the latest releases in our currant poll beating all other available figures – even www.character-online.com sold out of the Supreme Dalek the same day it was first put up for sale and specialist retailers best sellers lists are full of Daleks.
Anyone who attended The Proms or Doctor Who live will have been left in little doubt as to their popularity amongst younger fans.
This feature looks at what’s available to buy and includes a very special new experimental feature to the site – a 360 view of the Drone Dalek 6″ Figure. We hope to do much more like this in the future.
Click the image below to take you to the special page (please note this may take a while to load)
Many years ago, the Daleks sent out thousands of egg-shaped Progenitors containing the genetic coding of the race, so that new Daleks could be created whenever necessary. One of these Progenitors was found in war-torn England during the Second World War and transported to a Dalek ship. However, because the Daleks that found it had been genetically modified by their creator Davros, using his own DNA, the Progenitor did not acknowledge them as pure Daleks, until the Doctor identified them as such and the Progenitor created a new race of powerful Daleks as a result. These Daleks were led by the white-cased Supreme, and include the enigmatically titled yellow-cased Eternal, blue-cased Strategists, orange-cased Scientists and the red-cased Drones.
The latest wave from Character -the full set of Paradigm Daleks. Only the Drone and Strategist had been included in previous assortments with the Yellow Eternal confined to Hastings in America and a 6 figure set which first appeared in Australia (but which is now readily available at Toys R Us in the UK). The Orange Scientist was released with the 11th Doctor Jacket-less figure as part of the SDCC 2010 collection but was then made available via Forbidden planet in the UK.
The only currant exclusive figure is therefore the “underhenge” Dalek in the Toys R us 6 figure stone set.
The Toys r Us exclusive set featuring the stone Dalek ( labelled as exclusive to this set ) and includes Roman Auton, Stone Roman Auton, Amy Pond, Sontaran and a Drone Dalek.
The stone Dalek along with other recently released “underhenge” figures
The second six figure set – some of these boxes are labelled that the Eternal Dalek is exclusive to the set but we now know that isn’t the case. Contains Yellow Eternal Dalek, Silurian warrior with removable mask, Smiler, Dalek Ironside , Weeping angel (regenerating) and The 11th Doctor.
Both The Red Drone and Blue Strategist are available in Remote control versions.
Currently there are two 13″ remote control Paradigm Daleks available, the Red Drone which has been widely available for some time and the Yellow Eternal which appears to be exclusive to Toys r us. The pictures below show them together with the 6″ figures.
Merchandise doesn’t stop at figures and remote control units. Below on the left is the Wesco coin bank and on the right the bubble bath with the WoW stuff desktop patrol Dalek in the centre.
If you are interested in Daleks the we have an extensive special section on the site Here
The Site also has two very popular Dalek Colour changers where you can make your Dalek any colour you want. You can find the standard version Here and the HTML5 version Here
In addition we have several multiple level games featuring the Daleks all of which can be found on our features page Here
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38 Responses to Special Feature – Paradigm Daleks
Posted by: disgruntled Kaled of Skaro March 2nd, 2011
All this time on and I still absolutely HATE these abominations, without doubt the worst redesign ever. Get rid NOW
Posted by: Who’sThatDalek December 18th, 2010
Could you make a 360 Strategist, Eternal Scientist or Supreme? Would be great!
Posted by: Dalek Sec December 5th, 2010
Not a very good image, but it will be cool if this was a figure!
Posted by: the Strategist December 4th, 2010
this might work better: http://flic.kr/p/8Yn2vC
Posted by: THE DOCTOR December 4th, 2010
aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh i can’t believe they brought out the stone dalek and the eternal.
Posted by: the Strategist December 2nd, 2010
Hi I know its a long shot but does anyone know how to make a Dalek on Autodesk Maya 2010/11? Booboo?
Posted by: forever dalek 1323 November 27th, 2010
i love the idea that they brought out a stone dalek . but i realised that the stone cyberman is a better quality version that the century cyberman (who got duffed up by the celts).
Posted by: superdalek November 24th, 2010
those figure sets look brill but I think they skoud make the remote control daleks smaller or the figure daleks bigger. :3)
Posted by: Anonymous November 24th, 2010
Booboo, please could we have the basic javascript for the 360 Dalek?
Posted by: The Pandorica November 23rd, 2010
The 6” Daleks look tiny compared to their 13” counterparts!
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Posted by: Davros lives! November 21st, 2010
The 360 Dalek is awesome please do more like this
Posted by: who’s your nan! November 21st, 2010
how long does it normally take for an order to be delivered on forbiddenplanet.com?
Posted by: king gerbil November 21st, 2010
this is great how did u do it love it.
Posted by: Luke November 21st, 2010
@Intergalactic yes you are right
Thank you for the comments
Posted by: Intergalactic November 21st, 2010
so bascically, im right?
Posted by: Daleks are cool November 21st, 2010
Booboo, could you do a front page banner of the daleks, that would be awesome!
Posted by: pupbenny November 21st, 2010
Booboo I think the special feature is great!
You should try and do one that can look above the dalek and underneath it aswell mabe! 
Posted by: who crazy! November 21st, 2010
I thought that myself!
But we will leave the question to booboo shall we?
Posted by: Intergalactic November 21st, 2010
im not booboo, but ive got an idea of how he did it. he took pictures of his drone dalek from all sides, and made the illusion of it moving, by stop motion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_motion
Posted by: booboo November 21st, 2010
Its done with 66 images with java script bring them all together, it takes along time to do each image has to be lined up as best it can be, large companies probably have very sophisticated set ups to things like this as its very difficult to get the thing 100% centred and even lighting and exposure for every frame
Posted by: who crazy! November 21st, 2010
How did you make the 360% dalek?
Posted by: pupbenny November 21st, 2010
Nice!
Posted by: The Doctor November 21st, 2010
The Eternal pack with silurian is in cardiff!!!It is avadible in toys r us and online!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: dr who fan November 21st, 2010
i saw the two 6 figure packs today in the ABC SHOP!!!!
Posted by: who crazy! November 21st, 2010
That is 100% TRUE!
The amazing things like the quizzes, the competitions, this! All of it amazing! But dont forget luke as well because he did make the site. But booboo puts all of this fantastic stuff on so we can look at it and think “a lot of hard work has been put into this” And you even let us put comments so we can spread our thoughts all over the internet and booboo reads and thinks “ive done a good job” and luke reads it and says “wow! i never thought we would be so popular” So boobo and lukes site get a 
from me!
Posted by: booboo November 21st, 2010
Yes Luke does all the complicated stuff like the 360 Dalek, we hope to more like this but it takes ages but its worth it
Posted by: Dalek Sec November 21st, 2010
Booboo you’ve went into this website with a lot of hard work, sweat and blood. Thank you for being up-to-date with the merchandise!
Posted by: DR WHO FREAK November 20th, 2010
OMG! OMG! IN DR WHO A CHRISTMAS CAROL TRAILER YOU SEE A FIN GOING ACROSS THE SCREEN AND A SHARKS HEAD WAS REPORTED BEING SEEN SMASHED THROW A DOOR AND IS IT ME OR WAS AMY POND A POLICEWOMEN AGIN
Posted by: who crazy! November 20th, 2010
Really cool feature!
Posted by: DoctorWhoDW November 20th, 2010
Will you be doing the other 4 daleks for the new 360 feature????? please!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: booboo November 20th, 2010
we are going to try and do more, they take a very long time to put together and it needs refining a bit, i think we are going to try the Tardis console next
Posted by: dalekdrone November 20th, 2010
you know theres the bid cap under the 360 dalek are you going to but the rest of the new dalek under it as well you could have (order whys drone strategist scientist eternal supreme all together) how does that sound
Posted by: Alex November 20th, 2010
i didn’t know there was so much
Posted by: who’s your nan! November 20th, 2010
cool.they have made loads of dalek toys and figures
Posted by: Anonymous November 20th, 2010
and shouldent the yellow dalek have black orbes ???
and o yes second comment aswell
Posted by: booboo November 20th, 2010
the one in the box set does, the other Character image is photoshoped. we will have the actual figure from them on Tuesday
Posted by: Anonymous November 20th, 2010
im getting most of this first comment yes