July 6th, 2012
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Character Building Silent Time Machine
Whispers heard through a wall… The creaking in the house… The breathing under your bed… Beware The Silence!
Materialising their creepy and very advanced time machines in the most secret of places, they infiltrate worlds without anyone ever knowing it – standing in the shadows or hanging clustered from the ceiling like sleeping bats.
If you ever see one, don’t look away – they’ll edit themselves out of your memory so that you never remember them! All they want is to control your planet for their own villainous ends.
Silence will fall! Highly detailed and functional construction playset of the Silent Time Machine as seen in Doctor Who Series 6 Episode 1: The Impossible Astronaut.
Includes control room with control panels, control interface chair with connector cables & two Silent micro-figures. For ages 6 years and over.
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Tony
April 21st, 2021 - 7:09pmAnyone know where to get an instruction booklet for this set? I got one second hand with no box nor manual. Pdf will do 🙂
The genius
September 15th, 2013 - 9:16amAwesome
Steampunk Doctor
January 11th, 2013 - 7:43pmGot this today !! Its really cool , took a while to build though
MadGuyInATARDIS
August 8th, 2012 - 12:21amGot this set. Saw outside packaging. Always saw two silents one normal other opened mouthed. All over the box. Both were normal. I was quite upset about this to be honest!
MadGuyInATARDIS
August 13th, 2012 - 9:49pmDid anyone get one with an open mouth? As I felt really let down!
MadGuyInATARDIS
August 14th, 2012 - 2:15pmBooboo please can you answer as if it was meant to come with the open mouth varient… I’m going to email Character
booboo
August 14th, 2012 - 2:20pmall sets come with 2 closed mouth silents although an open mouth is shown on the box – apart form the girl who waited none of the new sets actually come with what’s shown on the box
MadGuyInATARDIS
August 14th, 2012 - 2:26pmThats false advertising isn’t it? I mean I really wanted the varient as it looked cool! And yeah I heard you get series 1 Amy with thise sets… Someone should say something don’t you think?
I might e-mail character and say something like ‘On the box of the Character Building Silent Time Machine it always depicts two silents. One closed mouth the other a varient with an open mouth. I got two closed mouth silents is this incorrect?’ and see what they sya in return.
booboo
August 14th, 2012 - 3:01pmworth asking but the open mouth was exclusive to Argos in their 5 pack so not sure what they can do
MadGuyInATARDIS
August 14th, 2012 - 4:13pmI ask anyway… worth a try! I dont know if they will send me one but just so they have been notified about these mistakes its all good!
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:46pmThis is a con when it comes to the minifigures. The playsets are great and everything but they could at least have a small print saying open mouth silent not included.
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:49pmWhat about getting the Argos pack?
dr tyler
August 7th, 2012 - 11:01pmbut it said it comes with river not two silents
Boodleoo
August 7th, 2012 - 11:42pmPrototypes.
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:47pmWhere was this?
booboo
August 19th, 2012 - 12:48pmthis was at the toy fair in January but that was all preview and mock samples, not the final products
T4RD1S
July 29th, 2012 - 9:43pmi thought there was a river song figure aswell look link: http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/character-building-2012-pictures-information/
dr tyler
August 7th, 2012 - 11:05pmyou have a good point
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:43pmThey were just promotional pictures. You can’t always believe what they say at the toy fair because you can’t guarantee that all the merchandise shown there will actually be released.
xylok emperor
July 29th, 2012 - 2:32amthey should make a junk tardis set with the doctor with a phycic cube, idris and nephew ood. it would have features like the play set and cost around £20.
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:52pmYeah but it might not be popular. I think this because it was designed by some one else , so it would be like owning some else’s work.
RandomBananaGuy
July 20th, 2012 - 6:35pmWhy is this no longer on forbiddenplanet.com
LegoAvon
July 16th, 2012 - 12:22amGot my Silent Time machine set on Sat from Forbidden Planet £19.99, they had some of the older CB sets on special, so if you are hunting for a cheaper one or two CB sets, have a look in a forbidden planet store near you.
Hoping the new Argos catalogue out this weekend coming will have more than the 2 new Drwho CB sets
Also I hope the rumours are true about LEGO taking the licence over ( we live in hope )
Cathal
July 21st, 2012 - 4:49pmI hope LEGO doesn’t get the licence. Character building has better detail on the minifigures.
The Driver
August 19th, 2012 - 12:48pmYep! Certainly right in saying that.
characterbuildingisepic
July 14th, 2012 - 7:56pmjust been building this. if i had a pound for every time this broke whilst i was building it, i would be about £50 richer. that would get me the dalek set AND 2 of the future mini sets. it says 6+ but that is the general character building rating. i would rate it 13+. has anyone else found this hard.
thehostproductions
July 15th, 2012 - 10:29amwhen i first built it then did the review of it for youtube after filming i was having a look at it and then it just all callapsed!
Doctor forever
July 15th, 2012 - 2:23pmI bought it yesterday and got so frustrated with it breaking I nearly smashed it.
Boodleoo
August 7th, 2012 - 11:45pmWell thehostproductions “silence will fall.” sorry couldn’t resist. 🙂
thehostproductions
July 14th, 2012 - 5:30pmi have just review this will be up in a bit.
thehostproductions
July 15th, 2012 - 10:32amhere is the review: http://www.youtube.com/user/thehostproductions/featured
the doctor 1055
July 14th, 2012 - 11:42amcan you get this at argos
booboo
July 14th, 2012 - 11:45amyes after next weekend
the doctor 1055
July 14th, 2012 - 11:50amthanks
Wouldyoulikeajellybaby?
July 11th, 2012 - 5:09pmThey have this on Character Options Website but no Dalek Spaceship
booboo
July 11th, 2012 - 5:11pmIts been announced so it will be coming
Daff
July 10th, 2012 - 11:56amjust had an email from character building apparently wave 3 isn’t out till next year
dr tyler
July 9th, 2012 - 4:25pmthis is really
cool
BOOBOO JR
July 7th, 2012 - 6:21pmJust in case people don’t know, some TESCO stores are now stocking the Character Building HM Armed Forces Micro-Figures Series 3, and the Topps FA Mini-Figures and sets.
DWDVD
July 8th, 2012 - 12:25pmAlso, new sets on Character’s website
http://www.character-online.com/products/Character-Building/HM-Armed-Forces/Character-Building-HMAF-Army-Infantry-Artillery/
and the predator drone set, but it doesn’t yet have a page, only a picture here – http://www.character-online.com/products/Character-Building/HM-Armed-Forces/
booboo
July 8th, 2012 - 12:54pmhow odd all this stuff turning up with no announcement
DWDVD
July 8th, 2012 - 12:27pmAh, links don’t work then… Just go to the HMAF CB page, and they’re there…
the 133 doctor
July 9th, 2012 - 5:51pmactualy they dont have it
Bigger on the Inside
July 7th, 2012 - 4:22pmHope the mini sets are out soon, booboo you should do a pic of this set with Amy in the chair thing with the wires, is the chair on that meant to be the chair I’m thinks of or a different one?
Bigger on the Inside
July 8th, 2012 - 5:04pmThe mini sets could be out any day now, the rest of the new stuff is already out!
I think the ‘the girl who waited’ set should contain old Amy or Amy in the costume from that episode!
Anonymous
July 8th, 2012 - 7:09pmIt’s a different one, it is the one that had the burst open Astronaut suit on it.
Bigger on the Inside
July 8th, 2012 - 7:53pmOh, that wasnt in the spaceship though was it?
Bigger on the Inside
July 8th, 2012 - 7:54pmOh i see he grid leads to the ship like on the ep, clever!
the 133 doctor
July 7th, 2012 - 11:06amthis looks realy good. now i have a use for the 300 silence i found on swapitz.co.uk.
Liason Ice
July 7th, 2012 - 7:05amI am definitely getting this, even though there are some problems with the CB sets they are still awesome
BOOBOO JR
July 6th, 2012 - 7:16pmIs this set strong or flimsy, and what are the rough dimensions of it?
Bigger on the Inside
July 6th, 2012 - 7:28pmDoes it fall apart like the tardis did?
booboo
July 6th, 2012 - 7:32pmit seems ok to me
Give me a Dalek any day
July 6th, 2012 - 7:30pmIf it’s anything like the TARDIS interior, I won’t get it. I hope it’s not. I like the look of this set! 😀
harraseda
July 7th, 2012 - 2:59pmAnd the Dalek set wasn’t great either