February 28th, 2013
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The Ice Warriors to be Animated for DVD
The Ice Warriors animated for DVD – exclusive first look
From the official site www.doctorwho.tv
Lost episodes of Second Doctor adventure The Ice Warriors are being animated for DVD release, doctorwho.tv can exclusively announce. Animation studio Qurios have been commissioned to recreate the missing episodes two and three, which see Ice Warrior leader Varga revive, kidnap Victoria and defrost his glacier-bound army.
“We’ve been discussing the various ways Qurios could reconstruct these episodes for over three years” said Dan Hall, Managing Director of Pup Ltd Media Consultancy, producer of the DVD. “So it’s really, really satisfying to finally see them animated. Qurios have a great track record in excellent and innovative animations”.
See an exclusive “work in progress” clip, below, where the Doctor tries to convince Leader Clent that temperamental humans – even the recently fired scientist Penley – are still far better than machines:
It was recently announced that the Ice Warriors would be returning to Doctor Who for the first time since 1974, in a Mark Gatiss-penned adventure aboard a submarine. Find out more about the return of the Martian monsters at the BBC’s Doctor Who website.
When asked about using a different animation studio to previous releases, Hall replied, “Doctor Who has had many different visual styles thanks to changing directors, designers and production methods. We wanted to mirror this in our choice of animation partners”.
Qurios Entertainment’s previous work includes visual effects for sci-fi sitcom Hyperdrive, puppet comedy Mongrels and titles for Doctor Who DVD extra series Who Peter. Veteran producer of the classic Who range, Chris Chapman has overseen the animation, Niel Bushnell is the producer for Qurios and the animation director is Chris Chatterton.
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eddy
March 1st, 2013 - 7:13pmhi
just found out not only are the ice warriors being animated on dvd, they are going to appear in the new series of doctor who which starts on the 30th (as you know)
found this out on the BBC website, so look forward to them !!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/The-Ice-Warriors-are-Back
Some bloke
March 2nd, 2013 - 9:51ami think EVERYONE knew they were returning for months now
eddy
March 2nd, 2013 - 1:55pmoh, sorry, just foud out! 😯
Doctor Bob
March 1st, 2013 - 11:18amcool 2013 is a very big year for the ice warriors as they are in the new series and this is oging to be realesed. Might buy it depends on the price
AlzieWhozie
March 1st, 2013 - 9:01amI’m so happy to be proved wrong in thinking that they would not animate these two episodes. I’m eating humble pie with pleasure.
Lachlan
March 1st, 2013 - 7:13amSo there budget right now on Animation is 2 episodes only i get that, but what’s to say that in the future it could be stepped up to 3 or even 4 although that would be much later, it does ask questions like whether The Celestial Toymaker and Galaxy 4 could be done >_<
gordon
March 1st, 2013 - 8:15amIt could all depend on how affordable it is come about 12 to18 months time (once moonbase underwater menace and crusade are animated and that is if they get done). I can see the possibility of the range stopping after next year. They are pretty much out of revisits where there is visual improvment possible (which is the main reason for them) and once the limit regarding animation is reached I can see it being done then possibly be boxsets to completely finish it off.
Lachlan
March 1st, 2013 - 9:24amyeah that would make sense, things that could get released could be: The TV Movie on Blu-Ray although probably out of their budget, More Special Editions however at the moment as you say there’s no real need and l’m sure alot of collectors like myself think the same way, l the limit on Animation could go to 3 Episodes for sure but 4 and definitely 5 is pretty unlikely also on the animation releases there has to be at least some material i don’t think Mission to the Unknown would be possible if not as an extra.
Lachlan
March 1st, 2013 - 9:34amAlso Boxsets would be awesome to see, i could easily see Doctor Who DVD Boxsets coming out by Doctor such as the Fourth Doctor being something like Robot, Genesis of the Daleks and the Talons of Weng-Chiang for example i think that would sell really well. Its sad to see the DVD Range come to its inevitable close l’ve only been collecting since 2012 once Revisitations 3 came out and l’m still hooked l’m sure some of you on this site have been collecting since the Five Doctors came out 😀
Vortexsurfer
March 1st, 2013 - 10:15amWell to me the obvious option for future animated releases is to broadcast them on BBC television as well, thus splitting the budget between two departments. I’m quite sure that if all six episodes of Power of the Daleks were transmitted on BBC1 the viewing figures would be pretty solid and that in turn would boost the DVD sales.
gordon
March 1st, 2013 - 10:38am1 problem. None of the BBC broadcasters in the uk are interested in showing classic who animated or existing. Even BBC america that are showing classic who are not using the far superior quality restored versions that BBC worldwide own the copyright of those versions. The animations are BBC ww copyright so I think its unlikely
Mumble5557 Productions
March 1st, 2013 - 7:01amDefinitely get this on DVD when it comes out
Liason Ice
March 1st, 2013 - 4:53amIt doesn’t look as good as Reign of Terror but still looks good
KORSAIR
March 1st, 2013 - 12:47amHope it’s all done right though.
doctor who 19
February 28th, 2013 - 9:18pmno i need a link
for the first comment
DavidH
February 28th, 2013 - 9:18pmI love the Ice Warriors as an enemy, I can’t wait for their return to the series. News of this release is icing on the cake
classic who is cool
February 28th, 2013 - 9:16pmThis looks good 🙂
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 8:54pmI think that thebbc should focus on animateing missing episodes. There are lots of great fan animations out there so why don’t thet hire them. Plus I would love to see evil of the daleks animated I love that dalek story 🙂
gordon
March 1st, 2013 - 12:15amSurely reign 10th planet and ice warriors animations confirmed would confirm they are focusing on animated episodes. As for evil of the daleks its too expensive on a DVD budget
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 8:49pmIt’s a very different style to reign of terror. Not saying its better or worse just different.
Connor
February 28th, 2013 - 8:24pmYes we are going to get animation for the ice warriors! Ive been waiting for the ice warriors dvd release since the start of the range! Its not better then the Seeds of death but its a story with the ice warriors which are one of my favorite monsters ever! And we get to see there missing episodes of this story animated! Since the ice warriors are returning to new who ii wonder if they changed the costumes? Hopes theres lot of special features! I will get this story on release date!
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 7:56pmdoes BBC shop charge for 1st class postage on DVDS?
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 8:06pmfor example, if i wanted to get inferno SE from BBC shop say a couple of days early (most people who pre order from there say there’s turn up a couple of days early)what delivery option do i choose? what are the delivery options? (i cant seem to find the info on there website)
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 8:17pmno, postage is free of charge
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 8:40pmThat’s cool. I will get it from there then.
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 8:45pmPlus BBC shop have monthly discount codes that give you 10 percent off
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 8:51pmi like the sound of that! Plus it is the same price as amazon so i may as well get it from the BBC! Also, i i were to order it now, would i probably get it a couple of days early?
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 9:18pmyes, i get my doctor who dvds from bbc, and the usually come on the saturday before the monday its released!
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 9:20pmi have heard that from everywhere! I usually get them from amazon but i think i might try a test and get inferno and visitation SE’s at BBC shop!
pathdw98
February 28th, 2013 - 11:04pmdrjakeyoung if its true about the dvd deliveries from bbc shop arriving 2 days before its supposed to, try series 7 part 2 if the same happens there youll see the last episode before its broadcast. if you’re lucky.
Some bloke
March 1st, 2013 - 9:47amthats what i thougt, if the part dvd arrive by post in the morning, you’ll be able to see the last episode of the series before it’s broadcast that evening!!!
drjakeyoung
March 1st, 2013 - 11:18amlol, do you think the BBC would kill me if i leaked it online!
MJanus
February 28th, 2013 - 7:53pmHaving seen some of the recreations for the forthcoming ‘adventures in time and space’ I think it would entirely be beyond possibility to see episodes like Marco Polo and The Masterplan remade….and I dont mean animated….
MJanus
February 28th, 2013 - 8:06pmOf course I missed the word ‘dont’ out there….
MasterKasterborous
February 28th, 2013 - 8:50pmJust to clarify it’s ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ rather than anything else! 😛
Personally I wouldn’t really like this especially with The Daleks’ Master Plan where it would have to fit around the existing episodes with different actors. Plus it would be such a challenge to get people looking like the originals, I just don’t think it would work. I’m more for animated episodes myself!
doctor who 19
February 28th, 2013 - 9:14pmlink
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 9:17pmyou don’t just type link. You have to copy and past the URL into the comment box 🙂
doctor who 19
February 28th, 2013 - 9:20pmno i need a link for the first comment
MJanus
March 2nd, 2013 - 8:50pmI can almost see Mark Gatiiss saying .. ‘I wonder who we could get to play Marco Polo..would Mark Eden do a bit and who could play Kublain Khan’… and ‘maybe we could remake Mission to the Unknown as well as the Masterplan….who can play Chen …and the Monk’
Chris
February 28th, 2013 - 7:50pmLooks a lot more 3D
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 7:54pmi think it’s a cross between crosgrove hall and thetamation style animation
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 7:48pmIf it is the posters, I get the feeling we’ll either get just the first one or just the first seven. They are keeping completely quiet about the final episode, so it wouldn’t suprise me if they keep that one a secret for a while yet.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 7:38pmi know, i hope it’s a trailer or a load of movie style posters.
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 5:43pmIt wont, probably wont be released until next year
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 5:44pmThe August release date suggests otherwise.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 6:00pmalong with the moonbase, crusade and possibly mission to the unknown.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 6:00pmi think he means the underwater menace
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 6:07pmsorry my comment was meant to be a reply to someone down below about underwater menace being released in 2013. I think it wont be released until next year
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 6:57pmBBC Worldwide won’t let them animate Mission to the Unknown, the conditions are it can’t be any more than two episodes and the whole thing can’t just be animation.
That leaves The Crusade, The Underwater Menace and The Moonbase as possible releases (although as the conditions are set to releases rather than stories they could get away with splitting The Wheel in Space in half and having two seperate releases to get around it if they get desperate).
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 7:00pmbut mission to the unknown is only 1 25 minute episode!
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 7:11pmGiven the nature of the story (no existing footage, no Doctor, prequel to a story they couldn’t possibly fund the restoration of) I can’t blame them for avoiding it.
Altough if the number of episodes per release goes up to three, and they can get away with a split up release like I suggested for The Wheel in Space above, then they would be able to release The Daleks’ Master Plan which may in turn make Mission to the Unknown do better in terms of sales.
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 7:18pmwhat do you mean ‘split up release’. They’re not going to split a story in two and then release those halves on separate discs, if thats what your meaning.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 7:36pmwait a minute, you know the trial of a time lord, or the key to time box sets, the individual DVDS, did they get a budget assigned to them or did they give the budget to the box set as a whole?
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 7:42pmThat is exactly what I mean, and they have already done it, three times in fact. The only difference is splitting it across seperate releases.
Given that the main range released The Trial of a Time Lord in four seperate boxes, and the DVD Files have started breaking them up as well it wouldn’t be too far a stretch of the imagination, especially as they will be getting desperate for new releases in the coming years.
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 7:44pmI’d presume it was just a budget for the whole box set, but determined from each individual disc within it.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 7:52pmi get what you mean!just like trial of a time lord but instead of 4 cases, just have 2! the 1st one could be mission to the unknown with the master plan episodes 1-5 (plus bonus features)and everything else on the other disk! That would work in my opinion!
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 8:15pmThe Daleks’ Master Plan would need at least two discs, with another one for special features.
So if they divided it over three discs (episodes 1-4, 5-8 and 9-12) then you have three manageable chunks, each with an existing episode and three needing animating. That way all you’d need to do is wait until the budget could accomodate three episodes instead of just one. Once that has been handled Mission to the Unknown can be released, and that sets the precedent for releases with no existing footage and then everything can be animated in theory.
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 8:16pmAlthough I will point out, the splitting would only work if the DVDs were released completely seperately at the moment, however box sets may work in future.
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 8:20pmi dont understand why you would split wheel in space though, just sounds stupid. Trial of a timelord had 14 parts, of course that was going to be split, but also because it had three seperate stories within one, if they were to animate daleks master plan, i reckon they would do the same as what they did with the war games.
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 9:01pmIt’s not that the BBC won’t let them they don’t have the budget for 9 episode stories. a box set for masterplan wouldn’t work as the budget for a boxset is higher but when split over 2/3/4 stories it works out less per disc overall.
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 10:05pmThey don’t have the budget because the BBC won’t let them do it.
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 11:23pmThat’s because 9 episodes of animation is too expensive on a DVD budget. If the DVDs sold enough copies that the budget can afford 9 episodes they would. They don’t sell anywhere near enough copies to warrent 9 animated episodes they wont. BBC world wide (the department that release the DVDs) the commercial arm of the BBC and their aim is to make money. They are not going to commission something they are going to lose money
gordon
March 1st, 2013 - 12:29amI would like to point out that Ian Levine’s version of mission to the unknown was concidered for release but was turned down primary as there was no place for it and there was not enough footage to warrent it for its own release.
pathdw98
March 1st, 2013 - 1:41amisnt galaxy 4 only a 4 part story? then air lock with recon of eps 1 2 & 4 on aztecs special edition proves that 3 animated eps is too expensive for them.
Anonymous
March 1st, 2013 - 6:47pmI don’t think you are getting what I am trying to say here, I am talking about breaking up the stories into smaller manageable chunks that are far more affordable to animate. For many stories this wouldn’t make the slightest bit of difference, but it could help certain stories given the right cicumstances (which at the moment is only one story).
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 5:14pmOH MY GOD. this is amazing. the clip proves to be the best animation out of theta sigma and cosgrove, in my opinion. I wish they had used these guys for reign of terror and tenth planet. Would have been so much better. Shame really 🙁
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 9:15pmIt would be unlikely that we would get all 3 so quick.
WFK DVD Collector 13
February 28th, 2013 - 5:03pmThis news made my day!!!!! Can’t wait for August 26th!!! Love the animation!!!!! 🙂
matparks08
February 28th, 2013 - 4:40pmWill it be finished in time for the release date?
Some bloke
February 28th, 2013 - 5:13pmhas to be!
pathdw98
February 28th, 2013 - 4:22pmbrilliant. really looking forward to this now.
Just hoping for the underwater menace, the crusade and the moonbase to be announced for animation now then thats it collection complete (minus special editions).
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 4:20pmthis clip is also on YouTube now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpyHzrl1USI&feature=youtu.be
Gareth T
February 28th, 2013 - 4:05pmGreat news, its nice that they are alternating animation styles to give us a good cross section of styles, i’d like to thank 2/Entertain for giving us the Ice Warriors & the Tenth Planet for this Anniversary year.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 4:07pm2/entertain don’t exist anymore. It got taken over by BBC worldwide.
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 3:54pmi think this style of animation is better than the invasion (from what i can see)
Adam Clark
March 2nd, 2013 - 12:38amI agree with you.
WHOlikes Jelly Babies
February 28th, 2013 - 3:53pmi like the doctor in the invasion better (animation wise) but i still think that it will be fun to have it complete again! 🙂
The Greater Intelligence
February 28th, 2013 - 3:49pmYES!!!
I never lost faith that they would animate these. The Ice Warriors are my favorite alien form the 60s and 70s and now I will be able to see the original story.
Hooray!
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 3:46pmi say the animation is a sort of cross between crosgrove halls and thetamation
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 3:44pmthis is awesome! just the underwater menace to go for this year and then i think that’s all i want!
Anonymous
February 28th, 2013 - 5:40pmProvided it is coming out this year. They could end up holding it off until next year (hopefully so it can get its own animation).
gordon
February 28th, 2013 - 9:13pmDan hall said at galifrey 1 that are no firm plans regarding underwater menace 2. I can see 3 possibilities. 1. It’s getting put on iTunes (there was plans at 1 point to put airlock on there) 2. It’s an extra (probably ice warriors) 3. It’s getting animated (which probably rules out a 2013 release). I think its a possibility Dan is waiting to see how the reaction is with the ice warriors first compared with reign before deciding
drjakeyoung
February 28th, 2013 - 9:15pmi think it would be a wise idea to release it in the same year as the moonbase and the crusade. (probable 2014 release)