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The Fourteenth Doctor and the Meep Vortex Edition Figure Set

Available to order from www.character-online.com

Character Options’ latest Exclusive Vortex Set revealed!

The second Doctor Who exclusive figure set of 2025 has been confirmed by Character Options and BBC Studios as a ‘Vortex Edition’ of the Fourteenth Doctor and the Meep. The set will go on sale today, Monday 16th June 2025, solely through www.character-online.com.

This exclusive set is a celebration of the 60th anniversary episode “The Star Beast” and includes the Fourteenth Doctor (as played by David Tennant) figure without his jacket, as well as the sonic screwdriver accessory. In addition, fans will find a stunning Meep figure. As part of the new range of Vortex Edition sets, the figures feature a higher specification decoration applied over base colour plastics for extra detail.

About the Set

This set comprises of two figures. The Fourteenth Doctor is presented without his signature long jacket, but in shirt sleeves and waistcoat. The head which has been recast from the previous release, is decorated in the new ‘Vortex’ Style and in addition, the figure comes with the Sonic Screwdriver accessory.

The second figure is the nefarious Meep. This figure is a first for the Vortex Range with two interchangeable heads, one the ‘placid’ Meep expression and the other the evil maniacal Meep expression. It also has three sets of interchangeable hands: the first set echoes the meek ‘under the chin’ pose; the second is an ‘open handed’ pose; and third one incorporates the Meep’s blaster. It also has waist articulation and ball jointed poseable arms and elbows with internal pins.

Al Dewar Character Options Creative Director added ‘It’s always good to do something new with the range and I think this set is going to genuinely blow folks socks off. We’ve not done a figure with so many accessories and interchangeable parts, but The Meep is the perfect test bed being such a split character behaviour wise.’

About the episode – The Star Beast (2023)

The Fourteenth Doctor lands the TARDIS in London where he encounters his former companion Donna Noble, her daughter Rose and husband Shaun just as a spaceship thunders overhead and crashes nearby. The Doctor makes his way to the site and finds UNIT are on the scene.

The UNIT soldiers’ minds are ‘taken over’ by an unknown entity. Meanwhile Rose encounters a small and seemingly innocent creature called The Meep, who claims to be on the run from ‘Monsters!’ Rose hides the Meep it in her shed, but the Doctor arrives and finds out it is being hunted by Wrarth Warriors.

The Wrarth track The Meep to Donna’s house and attack but are intercepted by the mind-controlled UNIT troops. The Doctor takes the Meep and Donna’s family to safety but notices the Wrarth are not killing anyone. To find out the truth he holds an impromptu trial and it’s soon revealed that the Meep is a vicious tyrant responsible for the deaths of millions of people. The Meep pulls a blaster and guns down the two Wrarth Warriors in cold blood.

The Meep plans to escape Earth, but its spaceship’s dagger drive system will obliterate London in the process. To stop The Meep, The Doctor is forced to unlock Donna’s memories, so she can help him shut the ships drive down. As The Meep is recaptured by the Wrarth, it gives a cryptic warning to the Doctor…

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