February 4th, 2015
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Its Official! LEGO Doctor Who to Materialise in 2015
LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2015 The LEGO Group.
With Thanks to BBC Worldwide
CONFIRMED: Fan concept for a Doctor Who LEGO® set will enter production in 2015.
The LEGO Group have announced that they will be producing a LEGO Doctor Who set. The concept for a Doctor Who set came from the LEGO® IDEAS website where fans can submit ideas for a set and vote for their favourite idea to be produced.
The Doctor Who concept from fan Andrew Clark received the 10,000 votes requisite for The LEGO Group to consider it for production.
A licensing agreement between BBC Worldwide and The LEGO Group will see the new set available in all of The LEGO Group’s key markets before the end of the year.
Andrew’s winning design featured a range of Doctors, companions and monsters across the show’s history, but fans will have to wait until later this year to discover what will be produced.
Marcus Arthur, MD of BBC Worldwide UK said, “Both Doctor Who and LEGO enjoy a particularly close relationship with their fans and I can’t wait to see what LEGO produce.”
Emma Owen, UK spokesperson for LEGO Ideas commented: “We’re extremely excited to announce that a Doctor Who and a WALL-E set will be released as our next LEGO Ideas fan based sets, congratulations to the designers Andrew Clark and Angus MacLane!
“After receiving over 10,000 votes from the online community and having gone through rigorous toy testing from our expert panel, these awesome sets are on track to be on shelves later this year. The final set designs, pricing and availability are being worked out as we speak, so watch this space for the final details!”
LEGO® Ideas is a crowdsourcing community where LEGO fans can submit their own ideas for new LEGO products, and vote for other members’ ideas. Members collect votes for their ideas online, and ideas that receive 10,000 votes have a chance of being selected to become part of the LEGO Group’s product portfolio.
To date, nine products have been released via the platform and three additional products will launch in 2015.
LEGO, the LEGO logo and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group. ©2015 The LEGO Group.
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Anonymous
February 7th, 2015 - 6:29pmSo is this confirming just one set or a whole new line of sets, because, as far i can see its only revealing a ‘one-of’ set.
We dont even know how well recieved this set will be . Im just saying it seems abit early for everyone to be getting their hopes for the next big thing in DW merchandise
booboo
February 7th, 2015 - 6:33pmwe know its just one set involved in Lego ideas, but like everything else people can wish,
Cant see them going to the trouble of sorting out a licence just for one set with a few figures to be honest,
I think a few people would be rather upset if at the very least all The Doctors weren’t covered at some stage.
Sam Richard Bentley
February 7th, 2015 - 11:45pmI’ll be annoyed if the set(s) only focus around Capaldi, or even worse – Tennant like the original idea creator intended. As long as I got a minifigure of each Doctor, and the TARDIS in the original idea, I’ll be happy really.
76 Totters Lane
February 8th, 2015 - 10:39amAre they going to ask for more people to design them sets like they did with this one or are they going to create a ‘Doctor Who’ theme with a number of sets designed by their own people?
Sam Richard Bentley
February 8th, 2015 - 2:24pmIf there are going to be more DW LEGO sets they will be designed by LEGO themselves. I’m sure people will still be able to upload new designs, but they won’t be made.
There was a Back to the Future set, and Ghostbusters set released last year. People have since put forward other ideas, but none have been picked. I think this would be the same with Who.
anonymous
February 8th, 2015 - 4:31pmyay
The four Doctors
February 7th, 2015 - 6:24pmJust one thing. If they are yellow like the Lego mini figure series, I probably won’t by them.
TheExtremeBlueTARDIS
February 7th, 2015 - 6:29pmYeah, I think it
TheExtremeBlueTARDIS
February 7th, 2015 - 6:30pmSorry, clicked post too early… I agree, just like the Harry potter Lego.
The five doctors
February 7th, 2015 - 6:47pmThey won’t be as I read in a Lego Harry Potter book that licenced lego minifigures are skin tone that’s what sold the idea to me
The five doctors
February 7th, 2015 - 6:48pmAnd obviously I love doctor who
Callum Simmons
February 8th, 2015 - 8:08amLicensed figures are ALWAYS flesh tone, take it from someone who’s been collecting Lego for a long time! Plus lego is collaborative they want you to interact all your licensed stuff together. So with all the licensed figures flesh you could have The doctor team up with the crew of the millennium falcon or join up with the avengers or guardians of the galaxy or crash land in middle earth….the possiblities are endless.
The Living Shadow
February 8th, 2015 - 10:12amThey ditched the yellow skin or licensed themes in 2004 (Apart from The Simpsons, obviously), so don’t worry about that!
Grand Moff Moffat
February 7th, 2015 - 12:20amMore sets:
Revenge of the Cybermen 4th, Sarah Jane, Harry Sullivan , Cybermat , and Cyberman $ 39.99
Dalek battle pack ( Remembrance of the Daleks ) Davros,Imperial weapons Dalek1x,3x Daleks $ 11.99
Silver nemesis 7th, Ace, 3x Cybermen $19.99
Anonymous
February 7th, 2015 - 5:59pmGreat ideas, but I get the feeling, apart from minifigures and Tardis control rooms, LEGO will be trying to keep other playsets in line with the current series
booboo
February 7th, 2015 - 6:04pmI don’t know how Lego work
Do they like sets ready to launch to coincide with release dates of films etc?
we seem to have to wait months for figures from the last series of Doctor Who
Do lego work like that or would they want any future sets on the shelf as soon as the series had aired so to speak?
The Twelfth Doctor
February 7th, 2015 - 6:12pmWell, their Jurassic World range is coming out in May, 1 month before the release date of the film…
booboo
February 7th, 2015 - 6:14pmJust wondering if Lego are the type of company that would want series 9 related product ready and on the shelves as soon as it had aired (and in time for Christmas)
doctorrivertardis
February 7th, 2015 - 6:12pmlego releases have always confused me, because even though avengers 2 doesn’t come out until end of april/start of may, the avengers 2 lego sets come out in march
Anonymous
February 7th, 2015 - 9:56pmLEGO would have it out before it aired given half the chance (the BBC wouldn’t agree of course, but at least the wait wouldn’t be long).
Callum Simmons
February 8th, 2015 - 8:17amLego would have it out in time for the air-date of the new series. They wouldn’t miss that opportunity to raise awareness of the set especially given that they’ve finally secured the license after so much negotiation. Lego’s pipeline usually covers quite a few licenses per year for instance:
This year: January: Lego DC superheroes, Star Wars (mainly animated tv show rebels),
March: Lego Avengers Age Of Ultron,
May: Lego Jurassic World,
June: Lego Marvel (animated stuff), More Lego Star wars (OT), More Dc superheroes, Scooby Doo,
July: Lego Ant Man,
Then in October /November sort of time Star Wars The Force Awakens sets. So inbetween there that leaves August and September which is usually when they release Lego Ideas sets. Thats what happened with Ghostbusters and Back To The Future. I wouldn’t be surprised if we first saw Doctor Who at Comic Con San Diego in July as that was the forum for ghost busters. Big Bang Theory is reckoned to be unveiled at NY Toy Fair as thats been in the planning for a while but i’d say comic con is the best place to reveal Doctor Who and the most likely, then it’ll probably be up for purchase i’d say aug-sept. Probably sept thinking about it, just after the new series has started airing.
booboo
February 8th, 2015 - 9:00amthe problem with that is the set would not be able to include any unseen monsters
Callum Simmons
February 8th, 2015 - 10:22amI wouldn’t imagine it would anyway. For their first set i’d imagine it would be familar monsters if any, like Daleks and Cybermen. I reckon they’ll do this ideas set. Then if that is a success they’ll do waves, first probably a tribute wave to all the doctors, then i’d imagine they’d move to doing a wave every year to coincide with each series is the demand called for it. TBH in the ideas set I don’t really expect more than
12th doctor, Clara, Tardis Exterior and maybe a couple of monsters.
or if they pushed the boat out: all 5 of the revival doctors, the 3 most recent tardis exteriors and 4 companions for each of the four doctors apart from hurt who never had an oscreen one. Maybe each doctor could come with accessories from their era:
War: Moment box, No more wall and Rifle
9: Big Dalek-buster gun, Bomb, Tardis Key
10: Timey Wimey Detector, Hand in jar, Flat hairpiece to change with the spiky one
11: Pandorica, Hairpiece with fez, Blue diary (river song’s)
12: Printed Black Board. Mini brick built tardis (miniturised), Black hand with spoon
Also 9/10’s tardis could maybe have a changeable piece printed with the bad-wolf graffiti.
This could also serve as a fitting tirbute to the 10 years since the show returned. Then if this sold well they could do sets similar for classics or they could do sets with a scenario from each doctor’s era and monsters from it:
E.g: First Doctor’s Tardis exterior, Totters lane junkyard detail, his three first companions, a dalek from his era and maybe one more monster from his era. Following a similar pattern from each era perhaps growing in size and price as they go along.
Sam Richard Bentley
February 8th, 2015 - 11:22amSomeone who works for the BBC, his name is Pete and was talking on a Doctor Who Legacy gaming stream, said the set is coming out at the end of this year, probably in time for Christmas.
So if it were a set, and for now it will only be one set, based around Series 9, chances are everything will be okay.
Sam Richard Bentley
February 8th, 2015 - 11:42amBut I think you’ll find the set should be LEGO’s reworking of the original creator’s set – woth the TARDIS exterior that opens up to be the walls of the interior, probably with Capaldi and Coleman instead of Tennant and Piper.
Callum Simmons
February 8th, 2015 - 1:56pmMost likely, but i was expecting it to be that honestly. I’m good as long as we get a doctor, a companion and tardis. I hope like his concept it comes with a couple of baddies too.
Personally i’d say figure wise it”ll most likely Be:
12th Doctor, Clara, Dalek, Cyberman (newest variation) and a Weeping angel. They could get a good price for that as 5 figures is usually a £30 set, though this might come closer to £25 and it would be affordable to everyone rather than going overboard with all 13 doctors to begin with (as nice as it would be to get all 13). Still Current Doctor, companion, monsters, tardis? Suits me will be nice to have something to interact with all the other themes. I think i’ll put the Tardis next to Bag-End or maybe on the death-star?
Commander Cool
February 6th, 2015 - 7:54pmIt’s about time! I’ve wanted this for years!
Finn Townley
February 6th, 2015 - 5:52pmThe war of doctor who and star wars is coming
yognot
February 6th, 2015 - 5:57pmWe got the Doctors’ awesome acting, the best tv intro theme, brilliant writing, and spectacular special effects on our side. fun fact. Bounty hunter Bossk’s uniform in episode v is a Doctor Who prop!
finn townley
February 6th, 2015 - 6:46pmreally what episode I think the stormtrooper blaster prop was used in remebrance of the daleks
yognot
February 6th, 2015 - 8:32pmIt was a spacesuit worn either by Jamie or Zoe in ‘The Wheel in Space’ speaking of which, I’d like to see a set of that.
Anonymous
February 8th, 2015 - 1:54amI heard the suit was seen in ‘the tenth planet’
A friend
February 6th, 2015 - 5:10pmI swear to god if Lego mess up the cool fan model that the creator posted, I will scream.
yognot
February 6th, 2015 - 5:51pmSame here.
James
February 7th, 2015 - 9:02pmI will too I’m still angry chater building has stop makeing sets
Trenzalore
February 6th, 2015 - 1:40pmNot sure about others but I’ve never really liked Lego, though I’ll be buying nonetheless, Lego always seems to look nothing like who they are representing (my opinion, also not sure whether this in intentional with lego) I will definitely miss CB (can’t see it coming back now)
Drewsko
February 6th, 2015 - 4:52pmLEGO prefers staying stylized in their figure design by keeping it limited to printing a face onto their cylindrical head piece they’ve had since the beginning. Certainly saves them a bit of cash from having to mold special heads for each person, and it makes things a bit more simple and pleasing to look at (compared to some of Character Building’s later figures, for whom the faces may be accurate, started to look a bit creepy to me at such a small scale). If it’s detail you’re looking for, it’s interesting to know that they are upping the amount of facial detail compared to earlier years. Just look up how they’ve updated the faces of Han and Luke for their Star Wars sets for example.
Exterminator
February 6th, 2015 - 1:05pmnow that Lego are getting the rights to Dr Who, this means the Dr and the Tardis could pop up in legoland and in the Lego movie 2!
yognot
February 6th, 2015 - 5:53pmFingers, plungers, tentacles, or whatever you have crossed!
DoctorWhoFan101
February 5th, 2015 - 8:53pmI think I might have just exploded.
Sam Richard Bentley
February 5th, 2015 - 11:29pmYou’re exploded chunks of you body landed nicely on your keyboard to have spelt that put and pressed Post comment too!
Doctor 11
February 6th, 2015 - 2:10amI regenerated. Did you regenerate. No then shush. I can complain now because somehow the default changed and now I’m Scottish
yognot
February 6th, 2015 - 8:37pmGreat… Now we have to fly the Pandorica into the explosion to get everything back the way it was.
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 8:39pmIf it does become a line, I would love to see a set of “The Impossible Planet” with a small section of the base, Toby with a reversible head with symbols, Rose and some Ood, and of course the Doctor and a large scale Beast.
the real doctor
February 5th, 2015 - 7:33pmI hope they do a cheap tardis exterior set as well as the most likely tardis console room which will probably be at least £70 .
they should do 3 waves of minifigures ( like the Simpsons),
wave 1: the 13 doctors
wave 2: companion ( one for each doctor)
wave 3: monsters
TheExtremeBlueTARDIS
February 5th, 2015 - 8:15pmLove those ideas for blind bags! I’d love this for the Companions Wave:
1. Susan
2. Jamie
3. Sarah Jane
4. Leela
5. Tegan
6. Peri
7. Ace
8. Grace
9. Captain Jack
10. Rose
11. Amy
12. Clara
And for the Monsters wave:
1. Bronze Dalek
2. Cyberman
3. Missy
4. Zygon
5. Ice Warrior
6. Sontaran
7. Axon (Humanoid)
8. Classic Silurian
9. Sea Devil
10. Sutekh
11. Earthshock Cyberman
12. Davros
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 8:36pm3 waves isn’t enough. There should be more.
Grand Moff Moffat
February 6th, 2015 - 10:48pmWave 1 Doctors- 4 should come with K-9, minifigures come in waves of 16 so..
14. 4th Season 18
15. 10th in either suit or trench coat
16. Regeneration 5th
Wave 2
13. Jo
14. The Brigadier
15. River Song
16. Romana 2
Wave 3
13. Genesis Dalek
14. Delgado Master
15. Auton
16. New Silurian
Wave 4
1. Ian
2. Barbara
3. Zoe
4. Donna
5. Linx
6. Ood
7. Weeping Angel
8. Silence
9. Regeneration 7th
10. Variant 3rd
11. Tenth Planet Cyberman
12. Ogron
13. Draconian
14. Haemovore
15. Harry
16. Martha
Grand Moff Moffat
February 6th, 2015 - 10:55pmSets:
$11.99
Cyberman Battle Pack- 12th, Missy, 2x Cybermen
UNIT Battle Pack- Benton, 2x UNIT Soldiers, Axon
Daff69
February 5th, 2015 - 6:20pmI much preferred the CB sets to be honest, i mean don’t get me wrong Lego is awesome and I’m sure the sets/minifigs will be just as awesome but its just so over priced! (yes i went their)
Anonymous
February 5th, 2015 - 7:11pmspend £50 on a certain set to get exclusive figure type of stuff
doctor who crazy ross
February 5th, 2015 - 5:36pmI think they should bring out 3 big sets, 2 small sets and 1 extra character sets.
3 big sets being:
The Doctor set (with TARDIS interior and all 13 Doctors)
The Enemies set (with Dalek ship and key figures from the alliance)
The companions set (with Coal Hill School and key companions from 1963-2015)
2 smaller sets:
2010’s exterior (with the 11th Doctor, 12th Doctor, Amy, Rory, River, Clara)
2000’s exterior (with 9th Doctor, 10th Doctor, Rose, Martha, Donna, Jack)
1 characters set:
With like 50 different enemies/ companions/ doctors.
Doctorwhofan561
February 5th, 2015 - 4:58pmBooboo what would the set be
booboo
February 5th, 2015 - 5:02pmBased on the Lego ideas set in the video but we don’t lone exactly which figures it will have yes
I can’t see them going to the trouble of sorting out the leis nice and not make the most of it with hall the doctors etc at some stage
drwhofan4ever
February 5th, 2015 - 4:30pmOMG cannot wait. Obviously going to get it.
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 4:04pmSurprisingly, BBC hasn’t mentioned this on the Doctor Who website… Huh…
booboo
February 5th, 2015 - 4:51pmThey have on the bbc worldwide site
This more commercial and leicensing which is what they deal with
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 5:04pmOh. I didn’t check there.
Ian
February 5th, 2015 - 3:02pmI liked the CB figures but getting hold of Wave 4 has been almost impossible. At least Lego will be easier to find in stores. Could be of publicity for the show as well.
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 5:08pmIf there’s a Barnes and Noble near you, check there.
Renegade86
February 5th, 2015 - 2:28pmI’m so glad about this news. The Character Building figures just never grabbed me. The Lego minifigs have much more character to them and nearly every child will have played with Lego and everyone knows what it is. It’s famous around the world. This could be a great opportunity for Doctor Who. if it’s popular enough then there might even be a Traveller’s Tales video game!
booboo
February 5th, 2015 - 2:58pmMuch prefer the CB figures myself
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 3:31pmI somewhat agree with booboo, CB did have a lot more detail. But since Lego is the largest company on this area there is a very good chance that Lego Doctor Who will skyrocket.
The Twelfth Doctor
February 5th, 2015 - 4:15pmYep, I prefer CB over Lego too.
DannyTheDoctorWhoFan
February 6th, 2015 - 9:17amNah i always found Cb harder to build than lego. I much prefer lego!
booboo
February 6th, 2015 - 9:19amlego sets will be better i’m sure but at a price
i think people are referring to the figures mostly which i much prefer
DannyTheDoctorWhoFan
February 6th, 2015 - 9:24amI prefer lego figures too 😀
Callum Simmons
February 6th, 2015 - 12:06pmI have always preferred lego, costume and facial detail on CB figures has been poor really compared to what Lego do, capaldi has no wrinkles in CB but lego will print the face with an almost uncanny resemblence if they do one. I like the proportions and 3D nature of CB faces but none of the figure faces other than John Hurt’s CB figures look that close to the show, i mean strax’s head is the wrong colour, smith’s coat is too pink, Jenna’s face is too serious and awkward,plus the female figures have big gaps inbetween their neck and head as the hair forces it up. Matt’s tweed never had any tweed printing whereas with lego it would, matt’s face had no resemblence to real life and chris ecclestone’s one looked oriental with those weird slit eyes. The monsters were all pretty good but the Human figures lacked in many departments. Lego’s printing is far superior to CB’s and doesn’t rub off in time, plus the heads can be printed with two expressions allowing a more accurate range of emotions. I mean if you want to see how accurate and detailed lego can go with moulding and printing just look at the Star Lord figure from Guardians of the galaxy. Plus at least the lego will actually stay together. I mean to see lego’s prowess check out some recent examples:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-esn3t92B78Y/U7vrEI0UOQI/AAAAAAAACII/upXW2WUYz9k/s1600/Star-Lord+Minifigure.png
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3859/14145846449_d7182f1ffd.jpg
http://www.supertoys.co.uk/opencart/image/cache/data/75/75082_1to1_MF_TheInquisitor_01-500×500.jpg
http://thebricklife.com/wp-content/uploads/10237_1to1_003_SarumanC.jpg
http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131117093627/lego/images/b/b7/10896526565_801937773a_o.jpg
I mean just those examples are almost 100 percent accurate representations of their moviecounterparts, i mean the facial resemblance alone is impressive and the costume printing is without equal.
Imagine with moulding and printing expretise like that what they could do with the doctors, companions, monsters, not to mention the sets which would be stunning.
booboo
February 6th, 2015 - 12:26pmI still prefer CB figures they had a character all of their own
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 2:12pmI remember checking the Lego Ideas website every day to see it it was approved. I stopped doing it until I read about it last night. Soooo excited!!!!!!!!!!
DannyTheDoctorWhoFan
February 5th, 2015 - 9:17amYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
yognot
February 5th, 2015 - 2:13pmTook the words out of everyone’s mouths.
DannyTheDoctorWhoFan
February 6th, 2015 - 9:17amlol
Daleks 4 Ever
February 5th, 2015 - 7:37amRight, now to add to my king list of lego sets coming that I want….
Star Wars: Final Dual
Batman: Jokerland
Simpsons Figs Series 2, and Kwikimart.
And now Doctor who. So exited 🙂
Daleks 4 Ever
February 5th, 2015 - 7:41amOh yes, and and the Tie advanced and Azure angel.
Finn Townley
February 6th, 2015 - 5:57pmI want the hail fire droid or the geonises troopers
Jake Robertson
February 4th, 2015 - 10:39pmNo thanks 🙂
the doctor
February 4th, 2015 - 10:05pmhow much though the ghost buster one was expensive
Anonymous
February 5th, 2015 - 10:59amminimum £40 starter
the doctor
February 4th, 2015 - 10:02pmyes
Sebatron
February 4th, 2015 - 9:53pmIT’S HAPPENING!!! Can’t wait!!! 😀
DavidH
February 4th, 2015 - 9:48pmIt’ll be interesting to see it they’ll come out with a one-off set, or if they’ll make it a full range
booboo
February 4th, 2015 - 9:52pmI’m sure they will do something involving all the Doctors and key companions and monsters either now or in the future
Blu teen
February 4th, 2015 - 9:21pmI wonder what a dalec or an oad will look like
The Silent Silent
February 4th, 2015 - 9:20pmDoes this push up or decrease the value of the character building super rares or does it not effect it at all ????
Sam Richard Bentley
February 4th, 2015 - 9:38pmNo effect whatsoever. At least I wouldn’t think so. CB was never really in the running as a contender to lego so…
bigfin20
February 4th, 2015 - 9:12pmR.I.P. Character Building, you will be missed sort of. Also it’ll be interesting to see how LEGO make the Daleks.
Sam Richard Bentley
February 4th, 2015 - 9:39pmThey, if even included in the set, won’t look to different from the cb Daleks probably.
T4RD1S
February 4th, 2015 - 8:49pmYay!!!!!!!! 🙂 Cant wait 2 c what they release