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The Twelfth Doctor’s Second Sonic Screwdriver

Twelfth Doctor’s Second Sonic Screwdriver Blasts into Character Options’ Collection

After months of speculation it is now official, the Twelfth Doctor’s Second Sonic Screwdriver is to be part of the Character Options’ toy collection.

The first images have been released with confirmation that the eagerly awaited Sonic will be on sale within weeks!

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This new toy version is a faithful recreation of the current Doctor’s Sonic Screwdriver which debuted in the Series 9 Episode ‘Hell Bent’.

This is the first Sonic to have 4 light modes and four sound FX. The model has been designed as a replica from the Series 9 Prop.

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As all fans would know, the Doctor has carried many Sonic Screwdrivers of various designs throughout his lifetimes, ranging from a simple silver coloured tube to more complex illuminated and articulated versions.

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This second Sonic for the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, was ‘gifted’ to him by the TARDIS itself after his previous version was lost.

Although we are yet to discover all of the new Sonic’s abilities, like the Doctor himself, it has become ever more complex and mysterious.

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This multipurpose tool features numerous settings and can open most locks, detect all manner of deadly rays, read bio-signs and generate Sonic waves of great power.

Alasdair Dewar, Head of Product Development at Character Options commented:

“Since this Twelfth Doctor’s Second Sonic Screwdriver appeared at the end of series 9, we have been inundated by fan requests to produce a toy replica as part of our toy range. We are therefore very proud to finally be able to reveal it. The Sonic Screwdriver has historically been one of the most sought after toys for fans and collectors alike and we hope they will be as delighted with it as we are.”

The Character Options’ Twelfth Doctor’s Second Sonic Screwdriver costs just SRP £14.99


For a limited time only, exclusively on the Doctor Who Shop (USA and Canada), fans will receive a Gift with Purchase – one pack of three exclusive trading cards from the Twelfth Doctor’s limited edition set – with the new Sonic Screwdriver, while supplies last.

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335 comments

  • whotoys

    May 21st, 2016 - 10:22am

    Just recived mines and its amazing highly recommend it

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  • Anonymous

    May 20th, 2016 - 10:51pm

    I know this is definitely the wrong place to ask this, but does anyone know how to button up the coat on the 12th Doctor Big Chef studio figure, I don’t even know if you can, but I’ve seen pictures of people’s figure with his coat done up, so I was wondering if anybody here knew or has actually did it!

    Reply
    • Anonymous

      May 21st, 2016 - 8:43am

      There’s a magnet in the coat and if you work with it you can make it look buttoned up and even have the sides with the red showing.

  • The Living Shadow

    May 20th, 2016 - 10:47pm

    Called my local Toys R Us and before I could even finish the words ’12th Doctor…’ They said they knew what I was talking about, and said that they’d had many callers about it! Sadly there were none there though. I think I’ll just hold on for about a month until they’re easily available and in good stock..!

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  • DOCTORWHOFAN1

    May 20th, 2016 - 9:41pm

    Would you recommend an earth shock Cyberman or silver nemesis set of Cybermen?

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    • DOCTORWHOFAN1

      May 21st, 2016 - 9:18am

      Please reply

    • Luke

      May 21st, 2016 - 12:04pm

      I would recommend the silver nemesis set its brilliant

    • DOCTORWHOFAN1

      May 21st, 2016 - 5:04pm

      Thank you so much!!! I’ll definitely be getting it now!

    • The Living Shadow

      May 21st, 2016 - 7:33pm

      Yeah, I’d go for Silver Nemesis if I were you!

  • Dalekparadigm2

    May 20th, 2016 - 12:33pm

    Mine’s arrived. Its so good! Packaging is a bit tough to get the sonic out of but otherwise, great!

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    • The Legend Doctor

      May 20th, 2016 - 12:50pm

      Omg thats what i thought too! The Packaging was really tough! but i suppose we can’t moan atleast its secure lol

  • Dean Wells

    May 19th, 2016 - 4:46pm

    Got mine today from my TRU order last Friday. Yes it is beautiful.

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  • The Legend Doctor

    May 19th, 2016 - 12:25pm

    Got mine! Woohoo! 😀

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  • Nathan

    May 19th, 2016 - 9:32am

    Finally ordered one from toys r us 🙂

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  • whotoys

    May 19th, 2016 - 7:29am

    Just ordered one of the toys r us website cannot wait for it to arrive

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  • Mrdubyadee

    May 18th, 2016 - 10:16pm

    I picked this up from tru in Wigan today,very happy with it. It’s probably my favourite of the Nu Who sonics so far.

    Reply
  • moofmilker

    May 18th, 2016 - 8:35pm

    i just saw that this is available on amazon for preorder in the US

    http://www.amazon.com

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  • Trenzalore

    May 18th, 2016 - 6:40pm

    The quote in green makes it sound like they weren’t gonna do it but they gave in to fan requests and made it because they care about fans.
    I’m betting this isn’t the case and they had something to do with the design from the start or the fact it would be in stores as a toy was a big thing in the way it was designed.

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  • doctorgeorgebaker

    May 18th, 2016 - 6:22pm

    are these sonics gonna be hard to get?? preordered mine of forbidden planet.com but then they went out of stock and there back in for an extra 2 pound. plus amazon have sold out to and toys r us

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    • booboo

      May 18th, 2016 - 6:26pm

      the main delivery has yet to arrive, i dont think it will be difficult to get once thing settle down

      Your order with FP should be ok (as should the price you ordered it at) they just sold the quantity they put on

  • sheep

    May 18th, 2016 - 2:42pm

    manged to pick mine up this morning from colliers wood. 3 left if anyone’s interested

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    • The Living Shadow

      May 20th, 2016 - 10:52pm

      I had a little look on the website, and it says that they’re out if stock there as of today. I’m not sure how accurate their site is, so it might be worth a check… (It’s a little far from me, but not too far)

  • Nathan

    May 18th, 2016 - 1:34pm

    Never got a stock update sent to my email so I missed out again 🙁

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    • booboo

      May 18th, 2016 - 1:35pm

      seemed to be only about an hour and dont think they put on that many

      sure it will come back soon

  • Exterminator

    May 18th, 2016 - 9:12am

    Just managed to order 2 and a foil ballon for 46p (this takes it over the £29.99 limit for free delivery worth doing otherwise it’s £5 for delivery!)

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    • booboo

      May 18th, 2016 - 9:17am

      personally i would have bought the 125g Chocolate Covered Snowman Poo

    • Exterminator

      May 18th, 2016 - 9:46am

      I did see that but it wasn’t available for home delivery. 🙂

  • sw

    May 18th, 2016 - 9:08am

    Ordered on Friday and it’s just arrived, Awesome item although I was afraid I’d break it trying to get it out of the plastic, had to take the scissors to the plastic as it was molded to the ends, never had this problem before with any of the sonics :/

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  • Timelord96

    May 18th, 2016 - 9:02am

    I just went through the pains of ordering one on EBay for over its RRP, then literally after I get a stock update from TRU saying its back in stock with them..ah well it’s a nice product 😀

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  • Jacky 97

    May 18th, 2016 - 8:09am

    I ordered my sonic on Friday afternoon from toys r us, when do you think I’ll recieve it booboo?

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    • booboo

      May 18th, 2016 - 8:50am

      they aim to deliver within 4 working days for orders placed before 12pm so on or by Thursday should be

  • Part Gollum Part Time Lord

    May 17th, 2016 - 4:29pm

    Damn! I just realized that I used a really old email that I haven’t used for ages when ordering, as it was the saved address! Any way that I can check how my order is? Will it show up on the website if I log in?

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    • Part Gollum Part Time Lord

      May 17th, 2016 - 4:33pm

      No matter, just discovered that it was dispatched.

  • thewardoctor

    May 17th, 2016 - 12:24pm

    Went to my awful local toys r us yesterday… wasn’t in as the website said… woke up this morning to see an email from them saying it’s in stock in the one I was at :/

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    • booboo

      May 17th, 2016 - 12:32pm

      the problem is their system isn’t really geared up to high volume reserves on new and popular items , it relies on staff taking the stock of the shelf which someone could easily have bought in between.

      the system seems to lag behind with updates as well

      for a standard stock items non of this would normally be an issue but i can see that ebay private sellers have been clearing the shelves and selling multiples for double the price, that wont help either

      just hang on in there

    • thewardoctor

      May 17th, 2016 - 12:55pm

      Well my mum is going into town later and I have reserved it in case she manages to find time to pop in to the store. Fingers crossed !

    • thewardoctor

      May 17th, 2016 - 8:33pm

      My mum went. They showed her the sonic… 11’s sonic… Argued with my mum as apparently they have the same bar code. Just got phone call from them saying the blue one has definitely just arrived….

  • Exterminator

    May 17th, 2016 - 11:07am

    None of these in Lakeside Essex toys r us yesterday. No collector series 5″ figures either.

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  • Obsie

    May 17th, 2016 - 7:57am

    Put three fin like attachments on it and it could be a blue version of Thunderbird 3, lol.

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  • TARDISGuy

    May 16th, 2016 - 11:28pm

    Yet again, Aus misses out. I’m really starting to think that Character and/or Underground Toys hates us

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    • booboo

      May 17th, 2016 - 10:13am

      the distribution has clearly changed but Missy is listed now so you might get this after a time

      your best bet is to get a group together and order from Character you can work out the weight and shipping up to 1.8kg for £29.99, you will not pay the VAT so will get 20% off the costs of the sonic

      if you do that to its maximum potential you might end up paying less that we do each!

      either that or do it yourself and flog the rest on ebay

      You in the USA/AUS are lucky because in the UK we cant do the same as we might get walloped for import duties and costs

    • TARDISGuy

      May 18th, 2016 - 2:59pm

      Missy is listed? Where? I need her.
      Also, all of the places that sell this screwdriver either don’t post to Australia or post is so high, it’s hardly worth it. FP usually don’t post here anyway but even Amazon keeps telling me they can’t post this item

    • booboo

      May 18th, 2016 - 3:03pm

      she on on Ikon Collectables for shops to order

      looking at the item numbers she will be in the std packaging not the UK online exclusive packaging they are showing

  • Anonymous

    May 16th, 2016 - 10:54pm

    Booboo do you think toys r us will be getting any more stock anytime soon?

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    • booboo

      May 17th, 2016 - 7:08am

      yes in the next few days they said

  • Exterminator

    May 16th, 2016 - 9:36pm

    None in Lakeside Essex toys r us today when I looked. They had wave 4b of the 3.75″ figures, no 5″ collector series figures at all.

    Reply
  • Cameron

    May 16th, 2016 - 5:50pm

    Finally managed to pick this up today and it’s great! I think this and the new FC TARDIS are the best pieces of merchandise released by character recently

    Reply
  • unearthly child

    May 16th, 2016 - 3:23pm

    i ordered min first thing friday morning and lots seem to have theres despatched or even arrived where as i have had none should i be worried

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    • Anonymous

      May 16th, 2016 - 5:01pm

      I ordered mine on Friday too and I still haven’t heard anything, so I wouldn’t worry about it

    • unearthly child

      May 16th, 2016 - 5:26pm

      WHEN SHOULD I EXPECT

  • Nathan

    May 16th, 2016 - 3:10pm

    Would someone please let me know when they see this in Gloucester toys r us

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    • booboo

      May 16th, 2016 - 5:16pm

      i would keep ringing and if they have one specifically ask them to put one buy and ask the name of the person you spoke to

      Toys r us are expecting more stock in a couple of days Thursday seems to be the delivery day but i can take a while for stock to get on the shelves

      Character and possibly others should have theirs by the end of this week

    • Nathan

      May 16th, 2016 - 5:38pm

      Thanks booboo

  • sheep

    May 16th, 2016 - 12:45pm

    anyone know if theres any in colliers wood or croydon? please reply

    Reply

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