August 30th, 2016
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Toys r us have listed 2 Missy Figures, Purple and Black. They are the same figures as sold by Character On-line. They are available in-store, click and collect or home delivery.
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The Flying Shark
November 2nd, 2017 - 7:19pmGot both of these today for £9.96 each from Toys R Us!
Mr Sandman
September 2nd, 2016 - 4:04pmI think the different retailer exclusive Missy variants helped kill the original figure release off. Character should probably have included two heads in both releases to cover all possible variants if customers decided to buy both.
Purple: hatted neutral and hatted grinning heads
Black: hatless neutral and hatless grinning heads
In the end, one figure which sales should have solely gone to Character Options ended up being spread thinly. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
booboo
September 2nd, 2016 - 6:32pmthink its all pretty much irrelevant, the on-line exclusive clearly didn’t work
looking at some of the stats I have against the perceived promotional value of other sites, this should easily have sold out
Mr Sandman
September 4th, 2016 - 8:37amBut it could have worked and should have sold out if the sales weren’t divided amongst different retailers with their own variants.
Weeping Angel
September 1st, 2016 - 4:49pmhi booboo, I just saw on the toys r us website they have reduced the touch control 11th doctors sonic screwdriver to £8.99 and I don’t think you have mentioned it on this site yet. thx 🙂
Weeping Angel
September 1st, 2016 - 5:01pmalso, on amazon the Smartphone Operated K9 is reduced to £17.20 from £69.99, the Interactive Cyberman Attack down to £12 (with shipping) from £29.99 and £8 off the Doctor Who Monolopy (down to £22.99) – all of these I don’t think have featured on this site yet – hope you find this useful 🙂
booboo
September 1st, 2016 - 5:06pmthey all have been over the last few weeks but i think people who want them would have got them
Weeping Angel
September 1st, 2016 - 5:13pmok 🙂
Daz
August 31st, 2016 - 10:47pmI have a feeling that the line is resting this year like the show. Hard to sell toys for children when the show is not on. Hopefully we will get some new stuff in 2017. If I’d realised the packaging was the only exclusive thing from missys character release i would have waited til now as i open my figures anyway.
booboo
September 1st, 2016 - 7:41amto be honest from a collectors point of view it shouldn’t matter if the show in on or not
B&M sets look to be doing fine as is the 13 Doctors Set in the USA from what i can see, bring out the right stuff and it should still sell fine.
Tom Baker Plush
August 31st, 2016 - 11:00amAnd thus continues the slow and painful death of the 5″ line
Anonymous
August 31st, 2016 - 6:24pmthe 3.75 figures are also dying
booboo
August 31st, 2016 - 8:02pmalready dead i think
GallifreyanKnight
September 2nd, 2016 - 10:11pmHope the 3.75″ line stays dead.
Jordan Scott
August 30th, 2016 - 8:27pmThis is going to wind people up even more… Glad I still haven’t got one!
Lets do knitting
August 30th, 2016 - 8:53pmPretty obvious the on-line exclusive did not work
Net result is that we stand no chance of getting any more classics now and it looks like the line is dead as far as the UK is concerned.
Far to restrictive circulation in the UK (and I’m not talking the big hitters)
Phil
August 30th, 2016 - 10:17pmMissy wasn’t a classic
Omega63
August 31st, 2016 - 8:40amExactly, if a new series figure like Missy didn’t sell well, it pretty much confirms the fates of the Classic line
Jordan Scott
August 31st, 2016 - 12:21pmDoctor Who is just dying, i hate to say it, my room is full of nothing but who merch. But there’s just more bad news after the next, I remember a time when everyone watched Dr Who, there seemed to be figures in every shop and it was one of those essential shows that everybody watched, but now my friends and family have became bored of it and it feels like I’m just clinging on to nothing – the way things are going it wouldn’t surprise me if they cancelled figures all together. There’s a slight glimmer of hope that next year it’ll pick up again, I really hope it does… 🙁
Floppy Who
August 31st, 2016 - 6:23pmJordan…re your comment and concerns over the show “dying”…just keep the faith my friend! It’s possible to survive a hiatus or a dip in popularity…. Take it from someone who lived through a time when the show wasn’t popular and went through the wilderness years before 2005..!
🙂
booboo
August 31st, 2016 - 8:04pmshow is fine
Merchandise isn’t, not as far as the UK is concerned anyway
Jordan Scott
September 1st, 2016 - 11:32amCan’t imagine what that must have been like! Merchandise wise, I really do hope that it’ll pick up again – there’s so many missed opportunities for figures such as 12 in Davros’ chair etc.
booboo
September 1st, 2016 - 11:38amwell we dont know what, if anything is due this year, we will have to see
Anonymous
June 27th, 2016 - 12:57pmOn forbidden planet for £5 cheaper
booboo
June 27th, 2016 - 1:30pmdepends on if you want the exclusive UK packaging or not
prototype dalek
September 2nd, 2016 - 10:34ambooboo what does the exclusive UK packaging look like, I have both but not sure which packaging type they are
booboo
September 2nd, 2016 - 10:47amGrand Moff Moffat
June 24th, 2016 - 4:19pmUS release? Pretty please? Just once?
Jordan Scott
September 3rd, 2016 - 4:36pmThe US has the 13 Doctors Set and we haven’t!
Anonymous
June 24th, 2016 - 12:28pmI emailed them and this is the reply
I refer to your recent e mail regarding information on the Dr Who Missy Figure.
I can confirm, all the Doctor Who Missy figures in our warehouse were delivered to Toys R Us.
The stock at Toys R Us and forbidden planet are the same item.
The RRP is 19.99, it is the stores discretion of what to charge for their products.
I hope this fully answers your query.
Kind Regards
booboo
June 24th, 2016 - 12:34pmso are they are saying toyr r us are using the wrong images?
Tom Baker Plush
June 24th, 2016 - 10:15amDo they have the same packaging as the online exclusives or are they in the standard Collector packaging?
booboo
June 24th, 2016 - 11:00amon-line exclusive packaging
The Living Shadow
June 24th, 2016 - 10:11amNaughty-naughty, Character…
Anonymous
June 24th, 2016 - 1:44pmYes, it does rather blow that Special Limited Edition ‘Online’ exclusive out of the water. If they only made 4,000 of each UK ‘Bespoke’ packaging how many did they off-load on TRUS?
Phil
June 23rd, 2016 - 10:22pmI wouldn’t say it is false advertisement so much as liquidating the backstock on missy figures that didn’t sell. I am sad if this is the Exclusive online going to toys r us but not because I payed more for mine…rather because it makes me fearful of no more new figures aside from the Doctor and companions.
Ian
June 23rd, 2016 - 11:19pmIts still available from Character.
Ian
June 23rd, 2016 - 10:17pmEither way it’s misleading. The black one is the same. So much for limited edition. Which Co ate still saying on their website.
_doctorwho_figures_
June 23rd, 2016 - 9:21pmIf these are the exclusives they are selling then that is false advertising from CO as they were clearly meant to be exclusive. TRU should have received the FP versions and not these. I hope this is an error.
Jamie
June 23rd, 2016 - 9:21pmThis cannot be a good sign…
the doctor
June 23rd, 2016 - 8:37pmIf this is correct, surely this is false advertising/misrepresentation of goods?
The Living Shadow
September 1st, 2016 - 1:27pmI agree.
Merlin
June 23rd, 2016 - 7:42pmWell i did always say that they’d shift better on the shelves as well as online.
Anonymous
June 23rd, 2016 - 7:34pmI’m wondering if Character off-loaded a couple of thousand of their ‘Online’ Exclusive to TRUS?
booboo
June 23rd, 2016 - 8:01pmbit worrying – unless Character are about to move on to the next one
i fully expected toys r us to get the FP version, not the Character exclusive
the doctor 19
June 23rd, 2016 - 7:32pmnot available though
booboo
June 23rd, 2016 - 8:08pmsays in-store, so far
Omega63
June 23rd, 2016 - 7:05pmIf they have the same ‘Unique and so much better’ packaging then it deems the Character listing as false advertising
Shame no series 9 Missy is there
Anonymous
June 25th, 2016 - 8:12pmtotally agree character said the black one would be sold nowhere else as limited edition FALSE ADVERTISING… why dont they finish off doing companions for the classic dr’s