December 20th, 2018
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Character UK 5.5″ 13th Doctor Action Figure
Available to order in the UK from www.amazon.co.uk
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Also available to order from www.character-online.com
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Character Options announces a 5.5” Scale Thirteenth Doctor Figure
The new collectible will be available for pre-sale from 1st December 2018
Character Options has announced details of the next item in its 2018 Doctor Who collection; a 5.5-inch scale figure of the Thirteenth Doctor, played by Jodie Whittaker.
Renowned for its highly detailed 5.5 -inch figures, this latest collectible from Character will delight fans who are celebrating the brand new TV series which launched on BBC One on 7th October.
The figure depicts the newly regenerated Time Lord dressed in her high-waisted culottes, rainbow striped dark blue shirt and coat. Carrying the essential sonic screwdriver, the figure comes with multiple points of articulation.
Mark Hunt from Character Options commented: “From the moment we announced details of the 10” Thirteenth Doctor figure in late August, we have been inundated with questions about a 5.5-inch scale version. We are therefore delighted to be able to reveal details of this latest Doctor Who release.”
The new figure costs £12.99. It will be available from late December, and can be ordered on pre-sale from 1st December 2018
For more information please visit www.character-online.com
Please note we have removed an image that does not represent the final product. The removed image was originally posted on the official BBC studios site.
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Anonymous
November 8th, 2018 - 6:36pmThey now only have 481! Which I think someone said they had 600 odd yesterday? That’s pretty good, right??
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 6:54pmearly days, I could say more but I wont.
Judooning
November 8th, 2018 - 7:12pmWe don’t know how many they’d need to sell to break even. A couple hundered sold in the first few days is good but then I think that’s what happened with the Missy figure…and that’s still on their site now.
Characters website will target a small percent of customers I’d have thought anyway. Although this site probably helped sell a lot.
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 7:25pmMissy was several hundred from our point a view in the first 24 hours but people knew it was an exclusive, this is different, many will have already ordered via the who shop and galaxy 4 and many others will wait for FP.com and Amazon or even Argos and other retailers.
I dont want to add further but i see a lot more than people think “this side of the fence”
Luck4Unow
November 8th, 2018 - 9:18pmBooboo, I’m afraid I don’t follow.
Do you mean sales are better than the numbers indicate due to the different retailers offering preorders? Or that more is being produced after this initial roll-out?
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 9:29pmMissy was a known exclusive so numbers were high in the first 24 hours, this figure is different as galaxy4 and the who shop have had it up for order for weeks, i dont know that quantities they have sold but i bet its far higher than the 120 or so than Character so far.
my guess is they are looking at several thousand from all retailers combined with the main contenders yet to put it up for order
Luck4Unow
November 8th, 2018 - 9:46pmAh, that makes sense. Thank you.
In spirit of supporting the line and encourage interest from retailers, would it be better to order from retailers or CO themselves?
It seems that a few hundred orders on, say Amazon or another retailer may garner more interest than direct purchases from CO. Or I could be completely wrong…
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 9:52pmthink its a combined effort, the more widespread the orders the better, confining Missy to just Character on-line clearly didn’t work
doctor whom
November 8th, 2018 - 4:53pmI hope they do the hole team plus the tardis, well they sort of need to now we have the 13th doctor figure.
I just hope CO can be bothered to!
P. S this needs to be out in time for christmas!!!!!!
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 6:14pmmyself and a few other around forums try to go to great pains to explain that its nothing to do with if character can be bothered to make them but rather if retailers are interested in ordering enough, its that simple really.
Anonymous
November 8th, 2018 - 4:04pmJust pre-ordered! Exciting!
Christopher
November 8th, 2018 - 2:51pmNow waiting for 13s Flight Control TARDIS!
Ben Hill
November 8th, 2018 - 11:45amWill the new doctor figure be released on amazon in the uk.
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 11:57amAssuming so at some stage
Tjmov
November 8th, 2018 - 12:54amI think it’s important not to get your hopes up. From this I would not be surprised if there was no companion figures, I certainly would be surprised if there was monster or villain figures and I certainly don’t think a TARDIS console looks likely at least anytime soon. I think a flight control TARDIS might be viable in the next year if these figures prove successful but Character have had a declining interest in Doctor Who with lower viewership, increasing prices of materials and workmanship and declining interest from consumers. Of late we have had no proper Clara figure, and the Bill figure was mostly recycled parts. Character even experimented with an online exclusive Missy figure that Toys R Us ended up selling quite a lot of at discount price – I personally spent over £25 for the purple variant online and got the black one for £3 in a closing down sale. I think the fact this series there’s three companions will make it a difficult decision for Character to fork out on making figures of them. If they did, it seems likely they would be in the form of a re-tooled or kit-bashed figure much akin to Bill or the 13th Doctor. Re-using pre-sculpted figures is fine so long as it works and saves costs, as with the 13th Doctor this figure seems rushed – especially as the paint application is undesirable at best, with the sloppily painted rainbow ending halfway down the coat and hair roots that looks like a messy blob of paint (when we’ve seen Character can do much better than this) – the concept photo is not completely unrealistic detail wise, the figures could be near identical if the rainbow stripes were printed rather than painted or painted with more precision or if a little more care was given to the hair, butnit seems these have been sacrificed to save money and mass produce. For £13 it seems very poor quality, considering the show is currently in its highest viewership of the new series, more popular than ever, and yet the paint quality of toys from 2006 is far superior. I hope Seven20 have a product that is in any way an improvement to this because Character just do not seem to care enough.
Pjd94
November 8th, 2018 - 8:41amA lot of this could potentially be resolved to an extent if they just invested in a bit more advertising. I mean, banners on the internet will just go unnoticed, but maybe some tv ads on kids channels, itv, amazon prime etc. Surely that would be worth thinking about.
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 10:46amprobably too expensive for just one figure, if we get a wave then that’s possible but the stock would have to be in the shops for any TV adverts to work.
Social media does give a massive about of the “free advertising” as well if done right, the B&M sets prove that, how else would you have known about them? they had no adversing whatsoever yet they sold so well as to justify a second run.
KMCustoms
November 8th, 2018 - 9:31amCouldn’t agree with you more! It feels like they’ve just thrown the figure together, without the dedication and care that they once had. We know the articulation on the prototype could be achieved because Missy had superior articulation. All the recent Doctor figures have had the ball hinged shoulders, even the tuxedo 10th Doctor. And as for the details, like you mentioned, they could be printed on. We haven’t had a 100% newly sculpted figure in years, so it seems difficult to understand why they need to save money.
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 9:47amProbably because they lost one of their biggest customers and the entire USA market when the Leicense was split
Big enough reasons to have to compromise to get stuff on the shelves at a reasonable price one would have thought
If a wave of figures are pitched at the toy fair it will be down to sufficient orders from retailers to ensure their production
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 8th, 2018 - 10:05amThat makes a lot of sense, booboo, and admittedly I hadn’t fully taken that into account, but I can’t help but feel that, if they were always going to be in the position that they had to use pre-existing moulds for some parts of the figure, that there are better ones they could have gone for than the ones they did.
Also, I have no idea of the difference in costs between painting and printing, but I feel that the rainbow piping is almost as essential an aspect of Thirteen’s costume as Twelve’s coloured lining was, and think it deserves to be captured fully. In saying that, Character once gave Twelve orange lining (in a purple coat), and decided to forgo adding it altogether on some figures, so I guess getting half of the piping is a win?
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 10:41amdepends on how the tooling blocks are laid out and compatibility and interchangeability, the “better arms” maybe in a block with lots of other unusable parts that would have to just get binned.
sometimes i wish character would make a video or something of the production and blocks / tooling etc so people would better understand the process and see why something are just not possible.
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 8th, 2018 - 10:50amThat is something I would certainly be interested in, as I admittedly don’t know as much about the process as I’d like to, and am open to learning more about it to gain a better understanding.
Whovastron
November 8th, 2018 - 12:27amSo they said it will go for pre-sale/order on December 1st, but it’s already available on Characteronline and a couple other places? Is there something different happening on Dec 1st, or is this just a weird mess up?
booboo
November 8th, 2018 - 6:50amWas supposed to be the 1st no idea why some stores have been able to put it up early
Whovastron
November 8th, 2018 - 9:39amBut even CO themselves have put it up early
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 10:35pmI’ve only just noticed that the legs look really long on this figure for some reason. I think it’s because of how small the torso is but it’s weird how far down the knee joints are sculpted compared to other figures in this scale.
The Outcast
November 8th, 2018 - 2:05amIt’s probably because the top of the legs are actually re-used Martha Jones legs.
Anonymous
November 8th, 2018 - 7:39amThey look fine to me, The Doctors trousers are very high waisted so it gives that impression. I think they’ve done a great job here, and as usual I’m sure it’ll look even better in hand!
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 8th, 2018 - 9:48amAgain, her loose-fitting, high-waisted culottes would look like they were sitting a lot more naturally had pieces designed to resemble the thigh area of tight-fitting, modern-cut jeans not been used.
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 8th, 2018 - 11:04amI agree, the waist/legs section looked a lot better on the the earlier prototype and it didn’t look as though the figure’s got really long legs.
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 8:29pmPre ordered with character-they have taken the money even though despatch won’t possibly be till Jan??? With p&p nearly £20 mmmm
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 10:29pm£9.99 with £3 p&p via Galaxy Four shop…
Anonymous
November 8th, 2018 - 9:21amAny link for galaxy four as cannot are the figure listed on the site?? Thanks
BrunoB
November 8th, 2018 - 11:08ami’m thinking the £9.99 price may be an error
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 7:06pmhi I think I might just be being a bit dumb but can someone explain what it means by pre-sale? Does it mean we can expect it to be released on the 1st December and it be dispatched or does it mean it goes up for pre-order at other places? sorry for being useless!
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 7:17pmit means its should go up for pre-order on the 1st December for delivery late dec/early Jan
Its clear however that some sites are not being held to the pre-order date.
The price is not making sense to me either to be honest.
Luck4Unow
November 7th, 2018 - 9:18pmIsn’t the price on par with the recent Bill figure on Amazon- 13 quid?
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 9:27pmyes but Who shop / character were all 9.99 until a few hours ago, Galaxy4 still are, also some selling as 5″ not 5.5″ its all over the place to be honest.
Doctor Mysterio
November 7th, 2018 - 6:45pmHave had this on order with Galaxy Four for a while. Looks good, be a shame if it’s not out before Christmas though.
Donovan Allison
November 8th, 2018 - 1:59amHow Much does this cost for American’s?
The Doctor is Me! TADA!
November 8th, 2018 - 1:13pm@ Donovan…. at the moment it’s about 14$ ($13.96) plus shipping. I bought 2 of them and it’s about 28$ including shipping.
• BUT REMEMBER: •
– Seven20 is going to be releasing a 13th Doctor 5.5” Figure ALSO….. That will be for the American market so it will be a couple dollars cheaper…. (Doesn’t matter to me though, because I always buy 2 to 3 of every figure, so I’m getting BOTH the Character Options Figure and the Seven20 13th Doctor Figure…. Just like I did with both 13th Doctors Sonics)
– just so you know, you can Google “Pounds to Dollars” and it will give you a TON of different ways to tell how much Dollars are to pounds! Just letting you know!
Judooning
November 7th, 2018 - 5:16pmGot mine pre-ordered. At the time I ordered mine it said there were 643 left so they’ve got plenty on the way.
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 3:47pmPlease note we have removed an image that does not represent the final product. This image was originally posted on the official BBC studios site.
A full explanation has now been given in the comments below
the ergon
November 7th, 2018 - 3:44pmi don,t know if to preorder this or not from character or wait to see if it hits the shops like FP, first.
Pjd94
November 7th, 2018 - 4:42pmWell, I personally feel that I have waited too long for this to miss the first opportunity to pre-order it, so i’ve gone right ahead.
doctor whom
November 7th, 2018 - 5:34pmI would wait for FP to release it as they will probably get it in for christmas (i hope)
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 3:30pmThis is up for Pre-Order on CO’s website, but it’s saying it won’t be delivered until the week of the 7th January. I’m assuming the date is going to be different for other websites such as FP.
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 3:37pmi think at the moments is an approx possible worst case scenario date.
The Fab 14
November 7th, 2018 - 3:26pmThe image on the left is the production one. The other RHS is a photoshop montage of sculpt and early prototype which always have superior (if un-manufacturable) levels of decoration. The inherent danger in releasing images of prototypes is that it creates an image of something that it is inherently not possible to achieve in mass production ..
The face/head and body are all taken from scans so no sculpting as such is involved other than cleaning up the scan data especially on the head. The hair and clothing is sculpted over the scan body data as a template so saying ”The one on the right is to bulky and face sculpt is dreadful, doesn’t represent Jodie’s physique at all’ is irrelevant as to all extent and purposes they are exactly the same to a large degree.
There is no console room currently in development .. just so you know
WhovianLife
November 7th, 2018 - 3:33pmHey! Do you know if the companions are going to be released? We can’t have a Doctor without her companions! 😉
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 7th, 2018 - 3:44pmThanks for confirming that I’m not going insane in thinking that the model on the right looks stunningly accurate, Fab 14 – a lot of the comments had me worried there! It being from a scan definitely explains that.
Who Knows
November 7th, 2018 - 4:03pmApologies for using the word “dreadful”, that was quite extreme – however there is a clear difference in the representation of faces between the two as shown ( if it’s to do with paint applications . . . ) and I believe the final product on the left is a exquisite bit of work. All the very best.
JA
November 8th, 2018 - 3:14amYeah, CO used to do that when announced new figures back in the RTD era, you could tell because the images of the figures didn’t have any limb joints
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 3:06pmOne of the things I dislike about the figure going from the finalized prototype is that the rainbow stripe pattern on the coat doesn’t stretch as far as it does on the earlier prototype.
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 3:09pmAgreed! I prefer the version on the left, but with the correct coat from the figure on the right.
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 3:13pmIt also looks as if it won’t be present in-hand either going by the image we’ve seen of it in packaging and the prototype image we’ve seen of it next to the revised B&M set variants on GB.
Thomas Chapman
November 7th, 2018 - 2:53pmIs there any mention yet BOOBOO if the Flight Controlled Tardis or Playset is happening?
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 7th, 2018 - 2:44pmI hate to sound argumentative, but I disagree with the bulk of the comments – the one on the right is a one-off concept sculpt with articulation photoshopped on to give an idea of the final look and is, in my opinion, vastly superior to the ‘final’ result.
Anonymous beneath me seems to be bang on the money – even comparing the ‘final’ model to a standard Martha Jones figure, you can see that the arms & top of the legs are identical, which throws the Doctor’s proportions a little off, and more noticeably ruins the flow of her costume. While they could just about get away with the sleeves, the fit of Martha’s tight, boot-cut denims in no way resembles the look of Thirteen’s loose culottes.
I understand that cost-cutting measures need to be put in place, but I feel that the first figure for a new Doctor (especially one that will most likely be going for around £15) deserves much better than this. Even putting the reuse of parts aside, the face sculpt is far closer on the right (again, my opinion), and the rainbow piping runs the full length of her coat.
In spite of all of these gripes, being the idiot that I am, I’ll be forking out that £15 for this once it hits shelves. I can only hope that the one on the left isn’t quite THE ‘final’ version, or that it at least looks better in hand once released.
KMCustoms
November 7th, 2018 - 2:21pmThe Right picture looks fantastic! I would be very upset and confused if we’re getting the Left one! Why would CO go to the lengths of making all the new parts, including double jointed elbows and not use them! The Left image looks very cheap and to me, it appears to be hand painted and kitbashed from the Martha figure, this would make more sense to be the prototype! You can’t cut corners on The Doctor!
Jamie
November 7th, 2018 - 2:30pmThe arms of the figure on the right are photoshopped so don’t get excited. The left is the real figure.
The Outcast
November 7th, 2018 - 2:32pmThey don’t look photoshopped to me.
KMCustoms
November 7th, 2018 - 2:44pmWhy would they bother photoshopping the articulation, If it doesn’t represent the actual product?
TheDarkAndTheLight
November 7th, 2018 - 2:49pmSorry, KMCustoms – your post wasn’t here when I posted mine. I agree with you on the right looking better, but unfortunately I believe it is a photoshopped mock-up of a static concept model, and it looks a lot more likely that the left is closer to what we’ll be getting.
Tyler Prescott
November 7th, 2018 - 2:58pmIt looks photoshopped to me. Also, I doubt they’d be able to paint the details on as accurately as on the right image.
KMCustoms
November 7th, 2018 - 3:27pmEven if it is photoshopped, it’s very frustrating that the final figure doesn’t feature that articulation. I don’t understand why CO need to cut these corners to save money, when they haven’t actually released a completely brand new figure (that doesn’t recycle old parts) for years.
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 3:32pmjust letting you know the right one is the prototype and the left one is the actual figure were getting so start getting upset.
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 1:47pmI saw a picture somewhere of this figure as a prototype and you can see that they used a Martha body for the arms and top part of legs. This is interesting that they are using old figure to save some money. Whatever they need to do to keep making these figures.
Tyler Prescott
November 7th, 2018 - 2:54pmThat’s interesting. Also, if the final figure will use Martha’s upper legs, that would mean we’re getting the one in the left image.
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 4:34pmThay should make a 15 doctors set with 1-8 war- 13
Tyler Prescott
November 7th, 2018 - 5:36pm13 Doctors + War Doctor. How does that come to 15?
Also, we don’t really need another War Doctor figure. He’s already had a variant, and he only appeared once in the series.
Dalek Sec
November 8th, 2018 - 6:37amMaybe the Meta-Crisis Doctor??
Anonymous
November 8th, 2018 - 10:48amFirst regeneration cycle = regenerate x12 times…
Bill Hartnell
Pat Troughton
Jon Pertwee
Tom Baker
Peter Davison
Colin Baker
Sylvester McCoy
Paul McGann
John Hurt
Christopher Eccleston
David Tennant
David Tennant
Matt Smith
David Tennant’s Doctor regenerated into himself…so technically 13 Doctors (played by 12 different actors*)
current regeneration cycle has
Peter Capaldi
Jodie Whittaker
so technically there’s 15 incarnations of the Doctor so far…
(*David Bradley also did an excellent job of portraying the first Doctor, so did Richard Hurndall)
Darren
November 7th, 2018 - 1:47pmWhere will it be available for pre-sale?
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 1:52pmMost places I assume
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 12:55pmSo will it be the same size as all of the other doctor figures? Because Jodie is shorter isn’t she.
Who Knows
November 7th, 2018 - 1:00pmYes, smaller than the other doctors – there’s an image on Facebook of the Jodie figure along side some of new B&M figure variants.
Whovastron
November 7th, 2018 - 1:36pmShe’s not really inscale with the other doctors. She’s waaaayyyy too tall
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 12:51pmJust to clarify the one on the left was the only image sent to us directly so assume it’s the latest image
The one on the right is from the official bbc studios site and assume it’s an earlier prototype
The Outcast
November 7th, 2018 - 12:52pmAhh, thanks for the clarification Booboo!
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 12:53pmI thought so because the image on the left matches the image we’ve seen of the figure in packaging.
Whovastron
November 7th, 2018 - 1:37pmOof, lost superior arm articulation and her legs are out of proportion now. Way to cut corners
Tyler Prescott
November 7th, 2018 - 3:00pmIf cutting corners reduces the price so that we can actually have figures, I imagine most people would be alright sacrificing slight adjustments to articulation.
The Outcast
November 7th, 2018 - 12:29pmWhy does the one on the right look different to the one on the left. I mean, beyond the paint apps, the one on the right has different arms and a different torso.
Who Knows
November 7th, 2018 - 12:34pmIt’s quite odd isn’t it . . . I prefer the version on the left.
Who Knows
November 7th, 2018 - 12:39pmI think the figure on the left is the final version, ( when referring back to the figure in packaging image ) Anyway if it is then it’s incredible and just in time for Christmas
Antonio
November 7th, 2018 - 12:43pmSurely between two it’s the pro and final edition of the figures as shown pictured ?
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 12:44pmI agree because the one on the right has different bicep joints to the one on the left.
The Outcast
November 7th, 2018 - 12:48pmBut the one in the packaging shots looks to be the one on the left. You’re probably right though, the one on the left probably is the final version, as it looks a lot more polished, whilst the other is probably just the prototype which they made using reused parts to test the likeness.
Who Knows
November 7th, 2018 - 12:55pmIn terms of the sculpt yes the promo image here and the packaging version are the same – slight paint application differences here and there are probably throwing you off, the hair most notably. The one on the right is to bulky and face sculpt is dreadful, doesnt represent Jodie’s physique at all.
doctor whom
November 7th, 2018 - 12:14pmHope its out for christmas!
WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?
November 7th, 2018 - 12:13pmThis looks brilliant. Hopefully it’ll look just as good in-hand.
The Outcast
November 7th, 2018 - 12:11pmIs the image on the right the Seven20 version?
booboo
November 7th, 2018 - 12:48pmNo
Anonymous
November 7th, 2018 - 11:58amLooks good! Hope we get the companions too and a Tardis console room! Here’s hoping!
Tyler Prescott
November 7th, 2018 - 3:01pmA TARDIS console room is ambitious, however the new design is significantly smaller than the previous, so it’s more likely than getting a 12’s TARDIS set.
Slitheen97
November 7th, 2018 - 11:53amOh brilliant… 😉