March 31st, 2011
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Monster Invasion launches May 2011
Doctor Who Monster Invasion
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Doctor Who Monster Partwork to launch May 2011
A Doctor Who partwork will launch this spring, BBC Magazines announced today, 31st March. The team behind the market-leading Top Gear Turbo Challenge partwork has produced Doctor Who: Monster Invasion, a new fortnightly partwork comprising a magazine with collectable cards aimed at an 8-12 year old audience. It will launch across the UK in early May 2011, to coincide with the return of the BBC TV series.
The launch follows a successful test in the West Country in 2010. It will be supported by a national TV advertising, print and online marketing campaign, an interactive website with games and point of sale promotions in 3,000 independent retailers.
Some of the covers from the test issues…
Part one of Doctor Who: Monster Invasion will retail at a promotional price of £1.50 (normal retail price is £2.60) and will contain: a magazine featuring an episode guide; an A-Z of monsters; an alien slamdown fold-out poster; two packs of cards; and the first section of a three-part giant poster. Parts two and three each come with one pack of cards; the first and second part of a collectable TARDIS storage box; and the remaining sections of the giant poster.
Packs of the collectable ‘monster’ cards can also be purchased separately, priced £1.50.
The type of pages to expect form the test issues…
BBC Magazines’ Head of Partworks, Ceri Murray, said: “There is a huge appetite among the pre-teen audience for the Doctor Who brand, as demonstrated by the success of our weekly Doctor Who Adventures magazine. Building on the success of Top Gear Turbo Challenge – our first ever partwork – Doctor Who: Monster Invasion gives fans the chance to learn more about the monsters from their favourite show through ‘collectables’, which are hugely popular with this age group.”
The test magazines featured “top tens” on various subjects…
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion is being distributed by Seymour and will available from all good retailers.
Sign-up Here for news and notification about the launch and to receive a regular Doctor Who Monster Invasion newsletter.
Start collecting the awesome NEW Doctor Who Monster Invasion and build up a mega-monster magazine and cool trading card collection. Every issue comes with a pack of nine trading cards and is bursting with gross alien facts, monster slamdowns and puzzles! Learn how to play brilliant games with your cards and how to use them on the Doctor Who Monster Invasion website, to bring your 3-D cards to life and unlock brilliant game bonuses! This new partwork will be launched soon, so pre-order now and be one of the first to receive it!
As with doctor Who adventures we will keep you up to date each fortnight on the latest magazine.
The cover of issue one…
Will you be buying Monster Invasion Magazine?…
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booboo
June 8th, 2010 - 4:29pmNot many places at the moment, mainly southwest. its still on test
Anonymous
June 8th, 2010 - 4:27pmwhere do you buy it
booboo
June 8th, 2010 - 3:17pmAccording to the info i have here you should get the sound lid with part 3 even in the shops ?
Morrell
June 8th, 2010 - 2:13pmIt is not clear that you do not get the same gifts you dont subscribe although paying same price. Dont get flashing sound lid or sonic screwdiriver try explaining why to children when they had tardis the same in week before? Customer services kept me on hold over 3 mins though I was no 1 in queque and had no interest in my complaint, very disappointed as otherwise is a good magazine.
Mat
June 5th, 2010 - 10:49amYou can subscribe evenif your out the area
booboo
June 4th, 2010 - 12:23pmWe are on the list for information as to its general release so as soon as its a “go” we will announce it.
Dave Harrington
June 4th, 2010 - 12:20pmI emailed then and they said that there has been no confimation of the general release date. However when I asked then if they will be doing more than 90 cards for the general release they didnt answer
hello
June 3rd, 2010 - 8:37amme collect this 🙂
Xenia
August 13th, 2011 - 2:34pmi collect these cards to
Sontar 7
May 30th, 2010 - 2:39pmIs it just the same as ‘Battles in Time’?
Xenia
August 13th, 2011 - 2:35pmyes it is
Anonymous
August 13th, 2011 - 2:48pmNot quite, it’s the same idea as Battles in Time but very different cards.
Lazlo
May 30th, 2010 - 12:59pmAny sign of this going national yet?
booboo
May 23rd, 2010 - 10:34pmThey are still being tested, its usually 3 month so maybe another month or so to go. 🙂
Callum Metcalfe
May 23rd, 2010 - 9:49pmWhen are they released everywhere?
Callum Metcalfe
May 23rd, 2010 - 9:49pmWhen are they released everywhere?
alex
May 18th, 2010 - 6:55pmon a poster of all the cards on free with issue 2 the telos cyberman
[earthshock cyberman] said it was from revange of the cybermen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chris97
May 11th, 2010 - 5:15pmIssue 2 is released.
I have both issues and they’re basically the same as BIT; Same info, same card layout etc. 🙁
Finley Goddard
May 16th, 2011 - 7:01pmWhen is issue two out and where can I buy it?
the 11th doctor – used to be DRWHO?
May 6th, 2010 - 5:44pm@ mazd
issue 2 is out either on 5th may or 6th may
booboo
May 1st, 2010 - 10:59amNewsagents in the test area should sell it but perhaps only the larger ones
madz
May 1st, 2010 - 7:48amwhen is it possible 2 get issue 2?
Jamie Gratton
April 27th, 2010 - 5:02amissues of the new magazine available online from 28th April (issue 1).
Go to doctorwhomi.com
or order hotline is 0871 277 0190
jy97doctorwhomad
April 18th, 2010 - 8:34ami will not be getting this to expensive liked the alien armies and still collect them worth the money 50p each
beth x
April 17th, 2010 - 4:01pmim gonna subscribe and see what happens….
Jan
April 17th, 2010 - 10:49amit will out at the end of the matt smith series officially (around july/august time). currently you can subscribe to recieve the test issues and test card set of which there are 90 cards to collect. you also get five free gifts including four extra card packs (one gift), boxfile & swaps box, rucksack, squirty sonic screwdriver and LED tardis with flashing light lid.
DalekBlade
April 16th, 2010 - 5:55pmI do not if it really in the south west cause I have not been to the shops in days
Daniel
April 16th, 2010 - 5:41pmI never got chance to collect battles in time so will be glad if some to my area
simon
April 16th, 2010 - 4:05pmI’v just picked up the first issue looks good a little like battles in time and a little like alien armies but i’ll cellect it
booboo
April 16th, 2010 - 11:18amIt looks quite good from what i have seen, there is probably a whole new set of fans that didn’t collect battles in time so this seems a good time to do this.
Kane
April 16th, 2010 - 11:12amits basically the same as Battles in Time 🙂
Kane
April 16th, 2010 - 11:12amIve already got it i live in the South West of England
booboo
April 16th, 2010 - 8:18amIts only availabe in a test area ( southwestish i think ). it will probably be several weeks before it goes national sale
docandk9
April 16th, 2010 - 8:10amWhen is this out officially in the UK?