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SDCC 2016 New 13 Doctors Figure Set on Show

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Its that time of year again with SDCC 2016 about to start

Wednesday saw previews night between 6-9 pm, that’s 2-5am in the morning for people in the UK.

From what we can see nothing new was on show.

It starts on Thursday at 9.30am which is 5.30pm in the UK so no late night waiting for any information.

If anything is on show it should soon become clear.

The only Doctor Who items we know of so far are the 2 Titans, Ghost 12th Doctor and Glitter Tardis, Titan Comics, an electronic 20 questions Tardis, 5.5 “x 7” giant mug and Rory’s Story Cubes.

This year we have noticed the “exclusive” title has been dropped in many cases and replaced with “first to market” which means it is only sold there first.

I suspect all eyes (where Doctor Who is concerned) will be on the Underground Toys Stand where, assuming its on show, something “big” is coming (and no its not the mug)…


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1,422 comments

  • Cyberdoctor42

    July 22nd, 2016 - 1:50am

    Seems as though this set is sdcc exclusive. I’m probably wrong but that’s what it looks like to me.

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    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 7:05am

      its possible that only UT may be selling them in the USA and gut feeling its toys r us exclusive in the UK

    • Cyberdoctor42

      July 22nd, 2016 - 1:21pm

      Yeah, probably.

  • Mad Psientist

    July 22nd, 2016 - 1:36am

    Aaand I’ll almost certainly buy it if only for red jacket Pertwee.

    Actually, though, I’m quite hyped for some of the other figures as well. Sepia 1st, grey haired 2nd and shades of blue 6th are all ringing my bell. And I’ve been wanting a navy or purple jumper 9 for years now. I don’t understand the other colour changes if it means the figures aren’t screen accurate, mind. Still, red jacket Pertwee. With frogging. Huzzah!

    Why the secrecy, though? This is EXACTLY what Underground/Character should have been promoting in the run – up to SDCC – a definitive, updated Doctor figure set. If I manage to get hold of this, I might consider selling my orher Doctor figures. Well, with the exception of standard release NOTD 8th. I prefer the clean, unbloodied version.

    I just hope the humungousness of the packaging doesn’t put FP/TRU off from carrying it.

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    • CG

      July 22nd, 2016 - 2:44am

      I agree! I would personally buy this set for Pertwee – what a costume, have wanted that figure for ages.

      I love 1, 2, 3, 6 and 8 as 1-3 are great costume varients and missed out on the original Real Time 6th and the 8th Doctor never made it to Australia.

      Great set and I hope if this sells well it may see the future re-releases of classic figures hopefully!

  • Anonymous

    July 22nd, 2016 - 1:02am

    The reason they used the old series five Matt smith head is because the figure is from series five, that’s hair he hard. The newer head is from series 6 and onwards. Though, I don’t see why they didn’t just repaint the series 6 11th doctor, give him the red bow tie and blue shirt, that would be simple.

    Reply
    • Jordan Scott

      July 22nd, 2016 - 8:48am

      Yeah that’s what I thought, It’s not as if Matt’s face IRL actually looked different in S5 to how it looked in S6, it was just an improvement of his likeness which I think they got spot on!

  • Kal1221

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:45am

    This. Looks. AWESOME!!! So many cool variants!

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  • Jordan Scott

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:41am

    Did they use the old Matt Smith sculpt for cost saving reasons or just because? The paint job is improved, just seems like a step back considering he’s been released with the new head multiple times now, so I don’t see why it isn’t in here!

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    • Luke – Explosive Cookie

      July 22nd, 2016 - 1:22am

      It’s Series 5 Matt, the other sculpts are S6 and S7 hair styles.

  • Doctor_Number 10

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:33am

    Booboo, Will it be for sale at retailers in the U.S. or is it a SDCC Exclusive? Do you know how much it cost? Lastly is there a release date?
    Thanks Booboo.

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    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 7:07am

      they have tagged it as exclusive but i doubt it will remain so, will try to fin out some more today

  • luke kelly

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:22am

    I can’t understand the complaints and dissappointment, this set looks brilliant!! There is no question in me getting it, we’ve got variants in it that people have wanted for quite some time, and some rarer versions ect, from specific episodes… I think this is one of the best things released in the past couple years

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  • Trenzalore

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:08am

    They should have released this before they released a 12th doctor figure on its own, a lot of people seem ok with buying lots of extra stuff just to get something new.

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    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:10am

      but that’s the only thing that makes sets like this viable

  • Jamie

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:07am

    Looks brilliant!

    Reply
  • Anonymous

    July 22nd, 2016 - 12:05am

    Any idea when these come out?

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    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:07am

      no always a problem when things show up like this with no real info

      will try to find out tomorrow

  • Slitheen97

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:51pm

    I really don’t see why people are complaining, we’ve Got a new multi doctors set witch people have been asking for for years with 90% being new/improved variants. Seeming as the show isn’t even on the air this year, were quote lucky

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    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:54pm

      People always complain, its the nature of this game, far to many people getting the wrong end of the stick as well

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:57pm

      I’ve almost given up….they complain no matter what we get, this is better than nothing.

    • DannyTheNerd

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:28am

      I must admit I do complain a lot on this site about figures, it just dispoints me that we don’t get new figures anymore. They are all re releases and repaints

    • Anonymous

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:34am

      @ DannyTheNerd
      My thoughts exactly, it irks me as well that we only get 5-6 new items a year, tops. Even worse is that more than half of that equation consists of repaints and re-releases.

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:43pm

    Has anyone else noticed the 7th Doctor comes with an umbrella AND a sonic screwdriver?

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    • WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:44pm

      Yes and his trousers are painted to be based of the ones he wore in the TV Movie.

    • Luke – Explosive Cookie

      July 22nd, 2016 - 1:23am

      The box says Ghost Light for 7 – not TVM.

    • CO enthusiast

      July 22nd, 2016 - 2:28am

      the scarf is different also

      shame its not the TV Movie version or at least straight faced with a hat (swappable head)

    • CG

      July 22nd, 2016 - 2:45am

      I wouldn’t have minded a TV Movie 7th Doctor

    • WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?

      July 22nd, 2016 - 8:21am

      Luke then again the Third Doctor is wearing a bow tie with his his outfit and is supposed to be based off the costume he wore in The Three Doctors yet on the box it says he’s from The Time Monster and the picture they’ve used is from Day of The Daleks. The Sonic Screwdriver accesory included with Seven is also evident it is partially based on his appearance from the TV Movie even though it isn’t 100% accurate.

    • CO enthusiast

      July 22nd, 2016 - 9:52am

      Yes, there are clear gestures towards the TV movie.

      Feels like a missed opportunity as we may not see such released unless there is a new on screen appearance by the seventh doctor akin to NOTD which feels unlikely.

      A tv movie doctor possibly with straight face and hat (as a swappable head) would have also liberated current figure owners in one go.

      There are many positives about the set but also missed opportunities, of those this is a sad one as it depicts his final on screen appearance.

    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 9:57am

      does anyone know if the TV movie is covered by the licence, i thought there were issues at one time

    • CO enthusiast

      July 22nd, 2016 - 10:07am

      I heard similar things, although have never been sure.

      One version was that rights were only secured on ‘the doctor’ hence Paul McGann and his screwdriver which prohibited use of Sylvester McCoys image…
      However, as he is also the Doctor, a doctor this seems odd unless it is based on how characters were referred to explicitly in the script.

      I can’t add anything useful on this one as there has been much rumour and speculation.

      However, the TV Movie did celebrate its 20th anniversary (sort of) this year, a nice route in perhaps. Something for the 7th Doctor Era would have been really nice.

    • 100,000BC

      July 22nd, 2016 - 11:28am

      I would imagine that the BBC managed to hold on to the rights for the eighth Doctor himself and the costume (considering Big Finish covers have used it and they don’t have a TV movie licence) – in which case they have also used the TV movie 7th Doctor as well so who knows?

    • 100,000BC

      July 22nd, 2016 - 11:32am

      The main problem with a TVM 7th figure I imagine is the need for a new head and costume sculpt – given that we already have 7th Doctor figures and the movie isn’t massively popular and the costume isn’t exactly used a lot, perhaps they just don’t want to take the risk.

    • CO enthusiast

      July 22nd, 2016 - 7:35pm

      A straight faced doctor with hat would be a quick effective compromise.

      Not entirely screen accurate as slightly young perhaps based on current sculpts, then again as seen on the b&m eleventh doctor paint apps can be highly effective over entirely new sculpts.

      Creates options for other figures with a choice of head.
      Closure for the fans perhaps

      And yes if big finish have used tv movie seventh doctor images then why not.
      I can see making other characters more challenging regarding rights.

      I see the point about demand, but surely this sort of set creates those sorts of opportunities; to create useful variants perhaps.

      The gestures already made kind of suggests people are aware of this gap in the collection.

      Failing that, make one with a jacket where the outer colour peels off, revealing the proper paint job…. Or not 🙂

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:42pm

    People seem to be complaining about this, but I personally think this is great, this is exactly what we’ve been asking for! Yes, I know, there’s no new sculpt, which sucks, but at Least most of these characters have been given a new paint job, (Which looks great.) But we were never going to get new sculpted figures with a box set like this. I don’t know, I just feel we should be grateful for what we get, given that we’ve hardly had anything this year.

    But anyway, any idea when this comes out?

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  • Mr J

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:32pm

    Okay, lets all just calm down for a minute!

    Yes, we were expecting something more worthwhile (new sculpts/figures) BUT who knows? If this sells well we might get a couple more figures when they release the next wave? This isn’t a bad thing, not even close. We could have had nothing at all! Yeah, they could have given us completely new figures with better likeness and articulation but at least this means we might get to see an Osgood or a new 12th doctor in red or with the Hoodie or a better Clara…? This is thirteen figures! we could see this generate enough income for the company to create a new wave of fully original figures! People really need to start seeing things in a more beneficial light! not only that, it’s also a great opportunity for those who might have missed out on the original release. So lets praise UT for actually giving us this and think about what this could mean in the future!

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    • Jordan Scott

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:38pm

      Well said, I hope you’re right! ☺

    • Game Over Man

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:46pm

      I still won’t be buying this, but a very good point, we should really all calm down.

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:51pm

      there is nothing to clam down over, we get the same thing over and over when anything is announced

      happens all the time

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:13pm

    Who else has given up collecting figures in 2016

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    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:15pm

      up until a week ago there weren’t any to collect this year

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:15pm

      Well there was Missy….but point still stands….

    • Game Over Man

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:33pm

      Pretty close to it.
      🙁
      Outside of filling the gaps, (which grows harder and harder), I’ve given up on this line. Besides, it’s close to death anyway.

    • Antonio Zambonini

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:13am

      I gave up last year only when the new ones where realsed and ever since not missed on buying any sets now

  • TravellingTimeLord

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:09pm

    A new photo has emerged of the set, a detailed close up one for that matter; https://twitter.com/Pertweesmith11/status/756248798708596738

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  • booboo

    July 21st, 2016 - 11:01pm

    something new!

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    • TheTorchwoodTowers

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:04pm

      Looks cool 🙂

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:06pm

      With this turning up, is there chance of anything else?..of course not…but one can dream…

    • Anonymous

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:17pm

      Hologram? Yeah

  • Doctor Who Crazy Ross

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:53pm

    Well seeing as Ive always wanted that 6th Doctor, and haven’t got those 8th, War or 12th Doctors, and that 2nd doctor is new, ill have to get it

    Reply
  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:44pm

    If this is available now at SDCC does that mean it should be up for order fairly soon?

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    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:53pm

      gut feeling this may be toys r us only, will try to find out tomorrow

    • Anonymous

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:01pm

      Thanks booboo 🙂

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:41pm

    is that it? Character Options are really lazy with the Doctor Who line now. 🙁

    Reply
    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:46pm

      We’ll see more, just not at SDCC and they aren’t really lazy (though some choices are a tad silly) they could have just called quits on the line because to be completely frank with you, no one buys them anymore, except a select amount of collectors really and they are doing what they can with what they can afford. People have actually asked for ages for many of these variants.

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:49pm

      pretty irrelevant statement being as this is from an Underground Toys sales stand at SDCC

      they are clearly not displaying any future products from any franchise there

    • Game Over Man

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:37pm

      Thank you Booboo, for that optimistic and hopeful statement about the future of this toyline (sheds silent tear).

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:46pm

      you miss understand, they are only showing items you can buy from them right now, they are not displaying any item you will be able to buy in the future that amy not be ready for market yet (as in the collectors series last year)

      its a sales stand not a preview stand

      It looks a different set up.

  • The real master

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:33pm

    This should be £50, no more, they are having a laugh if they think this is worth 150, that means for a couple of repaints and two extra figures, we have to pay £100 more, these figures are not worth £15 each, the sooner character learns, over pricing and creating a limited number of a product is a bad way to make money

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    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:34pm

      It’ll be $150 but around £50-60 we reckon due to the price differences with the B&M set.

    • The real master

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:35pm

      The better

    • The real master

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:36pm

      Thank goodness for that, I really want this set

    • Jordan Scott

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:36pm

      “No more” lol.

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:38pm

      I think that they should bite the bullet with a companions set, half of them could easily be straight rereleases and the whining about classic companions could easily be stopped, most people just want at least one companion per Doctor (and a Sarah Jane)

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:39pm

      why is everyone saying 150, do you no know the difference between a dollar and pound sign

      the last one was £50 with only 11 figures and made in much bigger quantities

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:41pm

      I honestly think that we are just milking it, I knew it would be less in the UK but I think 100 is still pretty bad, though it will likely work out the way the B&M sets are. I just don’t trust it because the Lego dimensions packs for example, a standard fun pack costs 11.99 in the US which is about £9 here, yet we pay £14.99

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:46pm

      US dont pay 20% Vat ro start with, and it makes a big difference where stuff is imported to / from / how and where the company is based

      look back at any past tos r us exclusive product and then look how much its cost in the USA

    • Bruno B

      July 22nd, 2016 - 4:50am

      I’m expecting the price to be more like £70-£80.

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    July 21st, 2016 - 10:26pm

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    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:29pm

      Oh great….I don’t want a dirty 8th Doctor…

    • Jordan Scott

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:31pm

      It’s nice to know that not one of them is a re-release and they’re all different!

    • toths06

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:41pm

      I just wish we got a properly articulated 10… Still hoping we will one day 🙂

    • Anonymous

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:48pm

      Thanks for posting this – thats just what I was after. Straight from the horses mouth.

    • Anonymous

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:51am

      Thanks its great to get the descriptions

  • Ryan

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:22pm

    I am of two minds about this set, there are some lovely reprints in there, I just hope each figure is tweaked in some way that we can’t see because of the image quality. I hope the Fifth Dr is the muddied version because it’s hard to tell from the image, and the same goes for 9’s navy jumper: I just hope there’s some form of repaint on 11 because the original series 5 version has been re-packaged and re-released to death.

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    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:23pm

      Apparently every figure is a variant as they all have an altered Art Deco, I can spot this for all of them but 12 though, it might just be different colour in though.

  • booboo

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:19pm

    take a look at the UT stand, it looks a bit sparse BUT, unlike last year, it looks like everything there you can actually buy.

    there are no future products form any franchise on show

    On that basis i dont think we can say “that’s it”

    Reply
    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:22pm

      Do you think there’s a chance of anything showing over the next few days or do you think anything new will simply be something that is announced later in the year?

    • booboo

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:24pm

      I think that will be it, looks more like a sales stand than a showcase stand

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:27pm

      I guess we’ll get more when Doctor Who is back on, I think it’s safe to say that they should have no excuse for not having a Bill figure there for SDCC 2017

    • Anonymous

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:40pm

      This was on the Outpost Who forum from one of the guys behind the Doctor Who line (he’s a sculptor for Design Work’s Windsor)

      “So I just had confirmation that some production samples of something pretty awesome are in the post, so I expect you’ll all get an announcement pretty soon…. #stillmakingdoctorwhotoys”

      This 13 Doctors set is clearly not a production sample if there are sets there available to buy, so something else will be revealed soon (not at Comic Con though).

    • Game Over Man

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:43pm

      This is saddening in someways, completely expected in others. I can’t decide if I want to cry from how pathetic this is, or laugh my behind off at the absurdity of this whole situation.

    • Bruno B

      July 22nd, 2016 - 8:17am

      “Anonymous”…. he was talking about the 13 Doctors set.

    • Anonymous

      July 22nd, 2016 - 3:42pm

      ‘”Bruno B”, the 13 Doctors set isn’t a production sample…

    • booboo

      July 22nd, 2016 - 3:47pm

      production samples are items of the production line, the end result as it were

      the 1st few are are usually sent out to the manufactures and other people involved and the rest to the retailer

      this is the big item that had been referred to

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 10:05pm

    Well…if this comes in at about £70…Ill get it. There are 4 or 5 decent repaints and 2 or 3 re releases that are almost impossible to get now.

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  • Omega63

    July 21st, 2016 - 9:58pm

    https://twitter.com/utusatoys?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
    The set was here 22 hours ago and no one spotted the distinct Collector Series colours!
    If only I’d seen this image!

    Reply
    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:02pm

      I can’t believe it, I still wish we could have something more, I’m hoping that CO are doing another one of their exclusives, a Osgood would be lovely.

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 9:57pm

    War doctor looks almost blue to me

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  • DoctorSong2016

    July 21st, 2016 - 9:44pm

    So it seems to be :

    1st Doctor – The Web Planet
    2nd Doctor – The Two Doctors
    3rd Doctor – The Three Doctors
    4th Doctor – Logopolis
    5th Doctor – The Five Doctors
    6th Doctor – Spaceport Fear
    7th Doctor – Ghostlight
    8th Doctor – Night Of The Doctor
    War Doctor – Day Of The Doctor
    9th Doctor – Empty Child? I have no idea which episode the blue jumper is from…
    10th Doctor – The Shakespeare Code
    11th Doctor – The Beast Below
    12th Doctor – Time Heist

    Reply
    • drwhosnippets

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:07pm

      I believe 9 is from Parting of The Ways and 12 (according to the box) is Deep Breath, despite having a blackish shirt.

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:09pm

      12 definitely isn’t from Deep Breath no matter what the box says and I thought Nine wore the black jumper in Parting of the Ways?

    • TheDarkAndTheLight

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:55pm

      Eccleston did wear the black jumper in Bad Wolf & The Parting of the Ways – in fact, that was the only story he ever wore it in. If the figure is indeed a navy variant, it’s from The Unquiet Dead, Aliens of London & World War Three.

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 11:58pm

      According to the description from the creator, his jumper is dark purple and comes from parting of the ways, which is obviously inaccurate

    • TheDarkAndTheLight

      July 22nd, 2016 - 12:20am

      The only story the purple jumper was worn for was The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances.

    • Savethecoffeeboysavetheworld

      July 22nd, 2016 - 10:20am

      3 is from day of the daleks

    • TheDarkAndTheLight

      July 23rd, 2016 - 10:32am

      Three wore his rolled collar maroon jacket (which he never wore a bow tie with in any of its appearances) in Day of the Daleks.
      He wore a bow tie with his similar, but different, notched collar rust red jacket twice – once briefly in Planet of the Spiders, as well as for the entirety of The Three Doctors.

  • Anonymous

    July 21st, 2016 - 9:44pm

    Is the third doctor the only new variant?

    Reply
    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 9:46pm

      They are all new in some way apart from 12, the most obvious variants are 3 (red jacket), 2 (grey hair), 6 (audio costume) and 1 (brown waistcoat)

    • Anonymous

      July 21st, 2016 - 9:56pm

      Ah yeah, now I have had a closer look also 9 seems to have a blue jumper. Mind you, 6 is a re-release but a welcome one (as is 4).

    • DoctorSong2016

      July 21st, 2016 - 9:58pm

      Six isn’t rerelease. The first blue six was based on real time and he coat was one complete colour of blue whereas this one is based on an audio costume and has different shades of blue

  • TheAgeOfUltron

    July 21st, 2016 - 9:44pm

    Well….. I am no longer collecting doctor who figures.

    Reply
    • 7thwhovlogs

      July 21st, 2016 - 10:52pm

      It’s not THAT bad, at least we are getting something

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