September 17th, 2018
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Doctor Who Magazine Issue 530 Deluxe Edition
The deluxe edition of this issue is also available, exclusive to WHSmith. As well as the regular edition, it includes:
SERIES 11 GUIDE featuring new interviews with Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill
DOCTOR WHO CD from Big Finish
FOUR DOUBLE-SIDED ART CARDS of the Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yasmin
A MASSIVE, DOUBLE-SIDED POSTER featuring scenes from the new series
FOUR DOCTOR WHO DOWNLOADS from Big Finish and BBC Audio
Doctor Who Magazine 530 is on sale 20 September. Regular edition £5.99, deluxe edition £9.99.
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The Contessa
September 23rd, 2018 - 9:38amIs this limited edition? Been to 2 WHSmiths & none left in stock, only the standard edition.
Anonymous
September 24th, 2018 - 7:35pmWent to my WHSmiths on Saturday, and they said they’ll be getting 12 over the next few weeks. Will look tomorrow to see if there are any there.
The Contessa
September 25th, 2018 - 5:48pmThanks Anon! Will keep checking!
Anonymous
September 25th, 2018 - 5:49pmManaged to get the deluxe edition from the WHSmiths in Kingston. (Got The Time Machine with it, which I am very happy to get)
The Contessa
September 27th, 2018 - 10:17pmThanks again Anon! Kept looking & found a new batch in Newcastle. Better than paying £25 on ebay! Keep looking guys!
DalekAgent
September 23rd, 2018 - 8:52amIve noticed people have a different BBC audio download from pictures ive seen so what BBC audio did everyone get, i got the Second Doctor story The Roundheads
Anonymous
September 25th, 2018 - 5:49pmI got Carnival of Monsters.
Anonymous
September 22nd, 2018 - 7:34pmWhat are the list of Big Finish releases available? I heard they have an updated cover, is this true?
Anonymous
September 24th, 2018 - 7:34pmI highly doubt that. The downloads are The Starship of Theseus, Tidal Wave and The Boundless Sea (along with a random BBC audio download). The CD selection is either a companion chronicle or a destiny of the doctor release.
Totalbritish25
September 20th, 2018 - 11:41pmhey booboo stupid question but entered the doctor who cross word puzzle completion for the first time In ages and was wondering do they send a conformation email to let you know that you have entered
DalekAgent
September 21st, 2018 - 12:37pmIm not booboo obviously but to answer your question no you dont but once you enter all your details, the page should just refresh and say thank you for your competition entry
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 8:31pmWhats on the other side of the art cards?
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 10:21pmAnother part of the picture, basically you’d need two sets to make the image
Gareth Pugh
September 20th, 2018 - 11:20pmNo in fact – rather like the Star Wars cards of my long lost youth, the back of the four a5 art cards form one big A3 picture but it’s a different painting altogether from the four individual character portraits on the front (same artist and same style though, it’s a very similar image as was on one side of the poster last issue). But you don’t need two sets to make up that picture.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 7:14pmSo everyone, is the deluxe version worth it?
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 8:03pmDepends, if you like big finish then yes, I pretty much bought it just for that the audios. The CD is random and will either be a companion chronicle or Destiny of the Doctor. The downloads are each worth about £10 each and aren’t available as single purchases. the CD is between £3-8 so it’s good value, all the other stuff is pretty meh.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 5:34pmI just notieced something, it says it comes with 4 doctor who downloads but there is only 3 on the bit of paper
Galactic yo yo
September 20th, 2018 - 6:00pmIf you look, there’s another bit of paper with a BBC audio book.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 6:57pmOh yeah now i see it hahaha thanks
TARDIS_H63
September 20th, 2018 - 4:10pmWhat free Big Finish did everyone get?
TORCHWOODFAN1
September 20th, 2018 - 5:13pmI got the great space elevator
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 6:03pmNelicon Prime
Totalbritish25
September 20th, 2018 - 8:22pmI got the the time museum
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 9:22pmHere There Be Monsters!
TARDIS_H63
September 21st, 2018 - 7:11amI got the Glourious Revolution
Anonymous
September 21st, 2018 - 4:31pmtales from the vault!
Anonymous
September 25th, 2018 - 5:50pmThe Time Machine
Geoff Lake
September 20th, 2018 - 2:44pmI managaged to get the special edition from W.H.Smiths. The free Big Finish in my pack is Trouble in Paradise. A Colin Baker story performed by Nicola Bryant. Pleased as I don’t already have it. It IS in a correct Plastic CD case.
The other gifts are not much use. At 58 I don’t want postcards or art cards. The so called souvenir guide is little more than a few words from each cast member. Hardly interviews. The magazine is pretty poor tbh. Not interested in Cos-Play or cartoon strips. Nice bit on the Tardis control room though.
Tim M
September 20th, 2018 - 12:55pmI managed to get the special release in WHSmith much to my surprise. Well worth the 9.99 price tag. I was really happy with the CD. I got one of the companion chronicles cds. ‘The Sentinels of the new Dawn’ read by the late Caroline John. It’s a perfect CD for me as I’ve been re-watching the brilliant Season 7 recently, and have always greatly enjoyed Jon Pertwee’s 3rd Doctor alongside Caroline John’s Liz Shaw.
Anonymous
September 20th, 2018 - 1:22pmLucky! My local Smiths has sold out.
DalekAgent
September 20th, 2018 - 10:01amJust picked up this edition (i also got the subsriber one) and i got Tales from the Vault which im glad because its one i havent got, what cd did everyone else get?
me
September 20th, 2018 - 12:10pmthe time machihe .part of destiny of the doctor i have got it o naver mind
Kevin225
September 20th, 2018 - 2:47pmHow many pages is the ‘Souveniur Guide’ – is it worth it?
DalekAgent
September 21st, 2018 - 7:29amIt has 14 pages in and it has Moments in Time where it just tells you all the things that happend from the 13th Doctor announcement up until the first episode and it has an interview with Jodie, Bradley, Tosin and Mandip but in my opinion though its not the best thing that the deluxe edition came with
Slitheen97
September 18th, 2018 - 7:38pmOoh, I’m glad I work at WHSmiths, Will be picking this up! 🙂
Demdike@CultLabs
September 18th, 2018 - 12:47pmTo me the £9.99 version isn’t worth it. The poster would get binned, the art cards have that child friendly cartoony look to them, the downloads i wouldn’t bother with and the episode guide will be all over the internet by Thursday afternoon.
I suppose what it inevitably comes down to is the souvenir guide. If that’s like the one with issue 500 then it will be a shame to miss it but if it’s just 16 pages then it matters not.
Anonymous
September 18th, 2018 - 7:28pmPosters, art cards and promotion so CD used to be free gifts. Ah, those were the days…
Anonymous
September 18th, 2018 - 9:41amWhat’s the point in buying this now I like the idea of the deluxe package but I’d rather buy the standard version because it’s cheaper than the deluxe and I don’t have a WHSmiths in my area so that’s the standard is the only option for me
Anonymous
September 18th, 2018 - 7:46amIt says below the CDs on the packaging that the Cds will vary. So it won’t include all three CDS just one of the three.
Anonymous
September 18th, 2018 - 9:25amAnd it presumably could also be a different CD altogether.
whovian
September 17th, 2018 - 9:07pmI haven’t had this magazine for a few years, so to have a choice between paying £5.99 for a magazine with two episode titles/descriptions or paying like £2 or a small bit more for the Radio Times, which usually has the episode guide for a whole series in it, I’ll definitely be choosing the Radio Times over this.
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 8:26pmoh great, i’m a subscriber and will probably get the textless standard edition, oh dear looks like someones going to have to get the deluxe one themselves
Anonymous
September 19th, 2018 - 6:20pmPersonally I’m not a fan of the textless covers as a subscriber should have been given a choice! Won’t be renewing when it ends.
TARDIS_H63
September 17th, 2018 - 7:15pmAnybody else realise that the cover for The Starship Theseus is different?
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 7:31pmYep: it’s the new Big Finish cover style (with the 13th Dr logo on it). The original cover has the old “black stripe” on the left.
TARDIS_H63
September 18th, 2018 - 6:15amYep I know but why have they changed an already existing cover?
Anonymous
September 18th, 2018 - 8:15amBecause Doctor Who Merchandise is being “unified”.
TARDIS_H63
September 17th, 2018 - 4:39pmI know this might sound silly but do people know if the free cd will be in a plastic case or in a card sleeve because I would definitely prefer plastic case!
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 5:07pmIts a download?
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 5:08pmOhhh I’m not sure? I guess just the regular packaging – they just wanna get rid of the cds
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 5:55pmThere are 4 downloads, 3 of which I have identified: The Starship of Theseus (from The Eighth Doctor: The Time War 1), Tidal Wave (from UNIT: Assembled) and The Boundless Sea (from The Diary of River Song Series 1).
The CDs that are in the illustration are: The Time Machine (Destiny of the Doctor no.11), Trouble in Paradise (Destiny of the Doctor no.6), The Invasion of E-Space (a Companion Chronicle), Fear of the Daleks (another Companion Chronicle) and yet another companion chronicle which I am yet to identify.
T Slader
September 17th, 2018 - 6:40pmDoesn’t actually sound that free does it? Says download but you’re paying £4 more for very little.
doctorwhomad
September 17th, 2018 - 6:47pmIt looks like it might be Ferril’s Folly.
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 7:37pm@doctorwhomad: Possibly, or Shadow of the Past.
Eoghan
September 17th, 2018 - 4:22pmI’m Irish any clue how to get my hands on the deluxe, can I order online?
AT
September 17th, 2018 - 3:03pmAs a subscriber I hate this Deluxe Addition idea, I feel subscribers should get more but instead we get less. I didnt want a textless covesr but didn’t get a choice. The Magazines tone is increasingly catering for a certain smug know it all youth audience – yes thats you Time Team!. Ive been buying the magazine since 86 and have always loved it but more and more Im having reasons to fall out of love with it and stop subscribing. To pay and additional £10 for something you already get but just with a couple of extra interviews, posters and an old BF CD is taking the mick!
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 4:32pmI agree
I saw a comment from ages ago (probably on here) saying that if you buy the magazine you’re paying the wages for them so as much as much as there’s stuff I love … I don’t read it all and I don’t have time to nowadays
I think I’ll probably cancel mine
T Slader
September 17th, 2018 - 6:43pmTotally agree. I’ve been getting it since issue one but the smugness you focus on and the dressing up aren’t my thing. Haven’t read the comic strip for ages.., sadly maybe growing out of it. Still new fans are the programmes life blood and if that’s what they want then onwards.
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 7:33pmI’ve emailed DWM, to complain about it. Should be getting a reply soon.
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 7:35pm(About subscribers not getting the deluxe additon, that is)
Gareth Pugh
September 17th, 2018 - 8:07pmI’m not sure I understand the comment about paying their wages if you buy the magazine. As a commercial business, sales of their product would surely be how they pay their staff, office rent, overheads etc?
Kevin225
September 21st, 2018 - 6:41pmThe latest issue is offering an Amazon voucher as a competition prize for feedback on the magazine. I suggest that anyone with comments on the recent run of issues perhaps that forum might be worth pursuing. For those 30/40+’s, there is perhaps little value in complaining about Cosplay and the ‘know-it-all’ Time Team. We were young once! In my opinion it is the lightweight nature of a lot of the content across the board that is a more relevant concern. Gary Gillatt’s editorship produced a largely excellent run of issues with no concurrent TV show. There was plenty of interesting things to say then. What about now with >10 new seasons etc. And who cares about articles about musicians loosely basing their music on the programmer!!
Kevin225
September 21st, 2018 - 6:56pmWhilst it doesn’t appeal to me – the smugness/dumbing down and the Cosplay is kind of understandable. What I have an issue with is the superficial and tangential nature of a lot of the content (e.g articles on musicians who base their work on connections to Doctor Who). Gary Gillatt’s editorship has a lot of interesting things to say when there was no new TV show for pretty much 15 years. The current team should be spoilt for choice!
Nilso
September 17th, 2018 - 1:38pmSubscribers get less at Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Mysterio
September 17th, 2018 - 8:42pmNot sure why, as a subscriber, I can’t just get a magazine and that be it. Why all these variants? I’m only going to buy one…
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 1:06pmDo subscribers get the deluxe with textless cover or ordinary with textless cover? Or don’t we know?
100,000BC
September 17th, 2018 - 1:15pmPrevious DWM said there were three versions – standard version, subscribers version with textless cover and deluxe version with extras. That implied to me that subscribers don’t get deluxe but I could be (and would love to be) wrong.
Gareth Pugh
September 17th, 2018 - 7:59pmIt said in the news section of issue 529: subscribers get a textless cover version of the magazine. But not the deluxe package.
Andrew
September 17th, 2018 - 12:45pmWonder if the deluxe set will make it stateside. We’ve been decent with those, the 500th set made it to Barnes & Noble stores, at least.
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 5:56pmThe deluxe set is a WHSmith exclusive, and a UK exclusive.
booboo
September 17th, 2018 - 6:04pmAnonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 7:39pmBut if subscribers got it, more people would subscribe wouldn’t they? Either way it would be exclusive: subscribers’ exclusive OR WHSmith exclusive.
booboo
September 17th, 2018 - 8:06pmGareth Pugh
September 17th, 2018 - 8:17pmI read a comment from one of the DWM team that WHS are not just offered it by Panini – they are contributing some of the initial production costs (co-investing) so however frustrating it is for some (subscribers who have no option to just top up to get the extras, or regular readers who may not have the extra few quid to spare), you can understand why there’s no incentive for WHS to let Panini also send it to customers Mrs who aren’t contributing to WHS coffers.
Lege
September 17th, 2018 - 10:35amWe know what the CD and downloads are?
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 10:44amFrom the looks of the cover, the downloads are an episode each from The Diary of River Song, The Eighth Doctor: The Time War and UNIT: Assembled (if you look into it you can probably find out the exact episodes from the covers you can see), plus an unknown BBC audiobook.
The CD is random from a 1hr release from the Destiny of the Doctor or Companion Chronicles ranges (the Companion Chronicles visible on the cover are from series 1 and 5 so that’s potentially quite a range of stories, although we don’t actually know how many are included in the possible gifts)
NG
September 17th, 2018 - 10:44amThe downloads looks to be
They look to be 1.3 River Songs dairy
4.3 from the same range
7.1 from Unit
The 4th download will likely be the CD.
And the cd is 1 of multiple either The Companion Chronicles Fear of the Dalek
Comapnion chronicles Romman 2 stroy
Another story
Destiny of the Doctor 11
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 11:10amMe again. Just checked over with the covers online, the downloads are River Song 1.1 The Boundless Sea, Eighth Doctor Time War 1.1 The Starship of Theseus and UNIT 4.2 Tidal Wave. Given that it says ‘from Big Finish and BBC audio’ and all the visible covers are Big Finish covers, I’d guess the fourth was a BBC title.
Lege
September 17th, 2018 - 11:22amThanks guys I’m blind so you have all been a great help.
MJS
September 17th, 2018 - 12:03pmIf I recall right, destiny of the doctor was commissioned by BBC and produced by BF. I’m assuming the 4th download or cd will be one of those.
the ergon
September 17th, 2018 - 10:03amI think i might just have to get this issue for the episode guide and to hear what old bradleys got to say.Can,t believe we are less than three weeks off now.
the ergon
September 17th, 2018 - 2:12pmRadio times will most probably get the full episode titles, its just saying episodes 1 and 2 for the mag.
100,000BC
September 17th, 2018 - 10:03amWould love this but am subbed and don’t want to buy it twice!! Also those look like the covers for ‘Cold Vengeance’ and (at a guess) ‘Zygon Hunt’ in the new logo format on the right hand side – new Vinyl releases??? (Going for the familiar monster factor…)
NG
September 17th, 2018 - 10:46amI’m buying it twice soley for the CD among other things at a great value.
booboo
September 17th, 2018 - 11:01amLooks like it they seem to be using the old series 3 steelbook image to me
Gareth Pugh
September 17th, 2018 - 8:24pmGood spot – I think you must be right, because a close look at the Zygon Hunt cover shows the same design of Orange and white ‘Sainsbury’s exclusive’ sticker that Energy of the Daleks has. And I do know that Sainsbury’s Issue waves of vinyl exclusives in October (as well as the spring). I wonder if one is for Sainsbury’s and the other for HMV, or Amazon perhaps?
The Outcast
September 17th, 2018 - 9:54amI wish I could get this edition, but living in Australia…
*Sighs*
Anonymous
September 17th, 2018 - 9:48amAmazing! My only complaint is the art cards are double sided as usual- how are we meant to display them all together without buying two magazines for £20?!
Gareth Pugh
September 17th, 2018 - 7:56pmIt’s 4 cards. I would assume between them they display the full set of 4 portrait paintings and the backs are something else?
DannyTheNerd
September 17th, 2018 - 9:20amI’d love to get this version, but my WHSmith is in town, and I don’t usually go into town very often.