News Announcement From Character Options

The set is now available to order while stocks last from www.character-online.com

NOTE: This item will be dispatched no later than 2nd August 2021.

This Character Online exclusive set celebrates one of the most iconic, and now sadly lost adventures of Patrick Troughton’s tenure as the Second Doctor – The Abominable Snowmen.

This exclusive collector set includes an electronic classic TARDIS with & light and sound FX, plus highly detailed Second Doctor Figure, as depicted in the classic 1967 episode.

The TARDIS Type 40 TT Capsule model has different take-off and landing sounds. The TARDIS also features the more heavily weathered exterior and new colour, plus unique reversed front doors, and a square topped Fresnel lamp.

The Second Doctor articulated figure presents the Doctor as featured in the abominable Snowmen episode, echoing the look of the TARDIS with a scruffier that usual appearance and wearing his iconic huge shaggy coat held together by twine.

Perfect for all Doctor Who fans and collectors, the set comes beautifully presented in special presentation pack with diorama insert and Doctor Who heritage packaging.

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132 comments

pupbenny
July 20th, 2021 - 10:10am
CO ebsite taking so long to load pages lmao, it must be getting overflooded. The Troughton set is available for pre-order though, I saw it!
Scott
July 20th, 2021 - 9:33am
Some of the comments on here are so ignorant. The Troughton is effectively a brand new figure! That coat required a whole new body sculpt and production mould. The true fans and collectors of this range who started collecting back in 2008 have wanted this figure for a long time. We’re very lucky the range is still going and that we’ve had so many new head sculpts in the past 2 years. Compare now to 6 years ago when it was random B and M sets with just re-releases. Things may get even better too, it will probably never reach the peak of 2008-2013 but the range never really got going as a wholesale product anyway. They had three general release waves:1,2 and the age of steel wave and that was it! We didn’t know if they would even manage to release all the classic Doctors. After three waves it went to FP exclusives and the failing popularity of the new series coupled with production costs in China near enough killed it. The longevity of it has always been in flux and we just don’t know what is going to happen next but the collectors seem to be supporting the range well and in turn Al and CO continue to push the boat out every year.
mondas.creations
July 20th, 2021 - 1:18am
so will the TARDIS set only be online or in shops as well?
- booboo
  July 20th, 2021 - 4:27am
  online
Anonymous
July 19th, 2021 - 6:28pm
Are they just announcing the set? Or should we be expecting other products?
- booboo
  July 19th, 2021 - 6:33pm
  job to know, they make it sound like an overall announcement. As far as i know Tardis set will be up for order straight away
the ergon
July 19th, 2021 - 5:33pm
The on/off waiting game is killing me. Do we have a time approximation for tomorrow?
- booboo
  July 19th, 2021 - 5:37pm
  10am, although sadly we might not be around to post it
- The ergon
  July 19th, 2021 - 6:22pm
  Thanks booboo. Straight to character options site in the morning then.
- Anonymous
  July 20th, 2021 - 3:22am
  Which makes it – taking off shoes and socks – about 10 o’clock Tuesday night for us lot then.
- d33j r093r5
  July 20th, 2021 - 9:39am
  5pm for us :))
Slitheen71
July 19th, 2021 - 7:42am
I think Character are doing a tremendous job keeping classic who alive at a price point in the figure market which is unheard of. Bigger toy companies are producing figures in waves distributing worldwide. They are reusing parts and releasing old figures with new deco along with new sculpts to cut costs for the wave, but selling individual figures between £15 – £25 each.
New figures with whole new sculpts would be nice but without alot of UK major retailers stocking them and collectors willing to pay £20 a figure its not going to happen. Unfortunately the last major release of figures distributed at major retailers was last year’s Thirteenth doctors wave which ended up being discounted everywhere. The new dalek sculpt was brilliant and I paid full price for it, then got 2 more when Amazon took them down to £4.50 five months later.
Character are not making the money from Dr who and it will never be their bread and butter again like it was in 2006 – 2010 so the fact they give it so much love and attention needs applauding. look at their other toy lines, they are toys not collectables, other company’s would have let the licence go by now.
I’m going to get a Troughton in his fur coat, thank you Character.
- Steve
  July 19th, 2021 - 12:11pm
  This is not a comment I knew I needed to read until I read it.
  Thanks 🙂
  
  Just a day to go now! My mind is going to what the price will be rather than the set itself lol. If I see £34.99 on the website then I will think “fair enough, what I expected”. If I see £29.99 I will think “bargain!”. I am slightly fearful I will see £39.99 though, in which case I will worry they are pricing it too high to hold the attention of people who are on the fence about buying it.
- Demdike@CultLabs
  July 19th, 2021 - 3:22pm
  I suppose it depends if the TARDIS has the full range of sounds like the Tennant one i bought back in the day.
  
  The take off and landing sounds and the hum of the ship when you open the doors, plus the light of course.
- Sofia Fox
  July 20th, 2021 - 1:30am
  I imagine it’ll use the sound chip the old classic TARDISes had, which were only 3 select ones from the old Tennant & Smith TARDIS sound-banks
Dalekz
July 18th, 2021 - 12:50pm
I’ve seen what this is and I don’t want it, It’s nothing really that new just a bit of rejigging of something else to make a “new” thing to sell.
They are now just customising their own existing products like fans do.
If you want this then that’s great go get it and enjoy, I’m not excited at all.
- Mrs Croot
  July 18th, 2021 - 1:20pm
  I think for most it’s the figure that sells it for them, the TARDIS is just a nice bonus for me
- daz
  July 18th, 2021 - 2:45pm
  I thought they would have done something completely new with an older figure upgrade. Like say the 60’s emporer.
  
  Or the Cybermen figures we never got.
  
  The Doctor with an Electronic Tardis could be the future of the exclusive sets for a while.
  
  I do like the set but they should have included a new smiling 2nd Doctor head sculpt.
- Coleman
  July 18th, 2021 - 5:05pm
  I’m very happy their making a fur coated Patrick, as it’s a brand new figure that COs never made before. Not just a repaint or a new head on old tooling like all the B&M sets are.
- Dalekz
  July 18th, 2021 - 7:09pm
  A brand new figure would be Nyssa, Adric, Tegan, Zoe, Jamie, or Victoria something we haven’t had before, adding a coat is a new sculpt yes but he’s still a character we already have.
  I could understand if he came with a big Yeti, Jamie and Victoria but as a figure I guess this is fine if you like variations of the same Doctor and every Tardis change/mistake ever made it’s just not what I was hoping for really.
- booboo
  July 18th, 2021 - 7:16pm
  In the current climate I’m glad for whatever they can do, especially as this figure has been at the top of mine and many others lists for the last 10 years, adding to that the newer collector who never had a chance of a SFX classic Tardis at a decent price..
- Doctor Stu
  July 18th, 2021 - 8:31pm
  I might get this at some point when it’s cheap on Amazon somewhere purely for the fur coated second Doctor. But I sort of get what you mean. The ‘new’ part of these sets always seems to be a stretch as it’s always the same Doctors, or the TARDIS, or Daleks. It’s never really anything brand new and exciting. Even the Ryan and Yaz set came with a Judoon. I get they can only work with what they’ve already got and have to try to keep the new sculpts down to a minimum. It’s just a shame
- booboo
  July 18th, 2021 - 8:57pm
  It won’t ever be on Amazon, At least not at its RRP, this is not a B&M or general release set, if you want to risk paying 2-3 times the price if it sells out at CO like the Jungle Dalek set then that’s up to you.
- Prototype dalek
  July 19th, 2021 - 8:56am
  Quite looking forward to this one, quite an iconic doctor outfit as well. In the end they have to think of people who missed out first time round, as a lot did, and those who are long term collectors. At least this set touches on the best of both worlds with a revisit back on the electric tardis set’s and an all new figure.
- The Outcast
  July 19th, 2021 - 9:48am
  I’ll certainly be picking up this set. I get that it’s a variant of the 2nd Doctor, but it’s a major variant people have wanted for ages. And the TARDIS is a decent variant, it’s got new door tooling and SFX.
  
  Certainly, more new characters would be nice, but this certainly doesn’t go amiss, especially these days where if not for online exclusives and B&M, the range would be dead. Certainly hoping this set does well so we can get more new character variants and possibly even new figures in future!
- philip shaw
  July 19th, 2021 - 10:37am
  I’m glad there is another figure of my fave Dr. I’m still hoping for a Hartnell TARDIS set in the regular B&M range. There was a rumour that Character and B&M were totally against 60’s Who, well the History of the Dalek sets, the up and coming rumoured Marinus and Sensorites, now this 2nd Dr set proves this is indeed not the case.
- Prototype dalek
  July 19th, 2021 - 11:03am
  Sensorites is certainly not rumoured anymore, got the same treatment as this set did.
- Gareth Pugh
  July 19th, 2021 - 1:11pm
  I seem to recall reading a few years back that the total cost for developing a completely new action figure for CO (and maybe similar for the Hasbros of this world, too) is between £25,000 and £40,000. You need to be confident of shifting very big volumes to invest that much upfront (in the time and material cost of design, image research, sculpting and back-and-forth on that, tooling (creating the steel blocks that act as moulds for the various parts), raw materials, packaging design, paint mask development etc. etc. and sales and distribution costs. I’m sure CO explained this somewhere two or three years back, that today (unlike say New Who’s peak of brand scale in c the late 2000s and early 2010s), the likely sales and numbers don’t reach that and as such – coupled with (rumour has it) very tight budgets and margins agreed with B&M for their sets, they have to box very clever indeed with a mix of variants-of-existing characters by repaints, smart re-use of parts old Primeval figures (which is how we got the Romanas last year, for example) and doing that gives enough R&D budget to do a couple of new headsculpts – like Harry and Styre a couple of years back and younger Sarah Jane and the Romanas last year). Unless they can adapt in order to make ‘new’ characters that have never appeared in the range so far, and I’m sure they have some mileage left for that (the new Sensorite figure seems to use either the old Sharaz Jek or Axon humanoid body, etc.), you are not likely to suddenly see a set of Adric/Nyssa/Tegan all of a sudden. That’s also why I think speculation that we’ll see one figure painted black for the Earthshock set and then silver for the Five Doctors set, and that we may see Fur Coat Troughton in a different (not two-tone) paint mask for the Five Doctors set, may well be right… I’m impressed with what CO have managed to do these past few years, and look forward to tracking them down soon…
Bigman46
July 18th, 2021 - 12:38pm
Let’s all hope that the new B&M sets are distributed better this time round. Still no sets near me from last year and sales of those same ones are going for just a £1…surely they realise that was an utter cockup
- booboo
  July 18th, 2021 - 1:01pm
  yes well documented now, companies become so big they would rather sell stuff off than redistribute something than half of their stores never got.
  
  Not new though, Tesco used to do it with their 3 figure sets
- Gold
  July 18th, 2021 - 2:31pm
  Shame they are killing their own golden goose
- John
  July 19th, 2021 - 9:37am
  They aren’t killing a golden goose. They don’t need to sell Who figures like they need to sell loo roll!
- philip shaw
  July 19th, 2021 - 10:39am
  About time they set up an online shop to buy off, it’s usually a pain tracking the B&M figures down when they are not in my local 2 branches.
Kev Simmonds
July 18th, 2021 - 12:18pm
Can someone please tell me how and where can we get the interior of the TARDIS’s maybe it’s the 60s or 70s or 80s interior ?? It said on here you can print them off!Where where do I find them.I got 5 TARDIS’s empty or with out nice interior please help a devoted fan from Oxford UK.
- booboo
  July 18th, 2021 - 1:14pm
  there was a site somewhere who did them will see if i can find it
- Anonymous
  July 19th, 2021 - 9:32am
  I’m pretty sure you never saw the tardis room from outside so a backdrop card doesn’t really make much sense
- booboo
  July 19th, 2021 - 9:46am
  that’s quite right and one of the arguments, they are all screen accurate! and of course we know that unlike the 9th.10th,11th and 12th Doctor Tardis the classic Tardis was never deigned to take one. some have asked as one to printed as part of the packaging so people can cut out insert their own if they want but even that has issues.
Kev Simmonds
July 18th, 2021 - 11:52am
What’s Queen greatest hits got to do with Dr Who
- Dalekz
  July 18th, 2021 - 12:56pm
  They rereleased a Queen album from 30 years ago and treated it as something new, just like this new set…it’s nothing really that new.
- Coleman
  July 18th, 2021 - 5:09pm
  The Patrick figure in fur coat his totally brand new, COs never released it before?
- Dalekz
  July 18th, 2021 - 7:14pm
  They have added a coat to a figure we already have, if some people see that as something new that’s fine, I only want figures of characters we haven’t had yet like some of the missing Cybermen, Zoe, Jamie ect. I’m happy with one 2nd Doctor, it’s like all the variants of the 10th Doctor they did it got silly.
The ergon
July 18th, 2021 - 1:35am
I wish they would have included a tardis interior insert like they did with 9,10 and 11th doctors. That would make it that more special.
- David
  July 18th, 2021 - 10:04am
  Sadly it’s left me as flat as a pancake, just as the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-release of Queen’s Greatest hits (in their 50th Anniversary year!) has.
  If they can mold that ****, why not take it a tad further and produce a new figure instead?
  Anyone reading this will know what I mean when they see what it is!
- Dalekz
  July 18th, 2021 - 12:53pm
  I know what you mean I saw the advert for the Queen album on TV the other night, it’s the album I bought back in 1991, it’s the same thing!
  All I could say is why are they treating this as something new? you could find this on CD in a charity shop it’s been out for 30 years!

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