A little bit of Doctor Who toy lust I’m working out of my system

Okay, let’s just get right down to it: the figures of the first and second Doctors. I was beginning to think, with Character Options reporting major losses and planned cutbacks in new product, that we’d never see these.

The word goes something like this: these are the 2009 San Diego Comic Con Exclusives. The first Doctor comes with a black Dalek from Dalek Invasion of Earth, and the second Doctor comes with a Tomb Of The Cybermen Cyberman. The sixth Doctor comes in his “revised” outfiit as “seen” in the Big Finish audios post-Real Time. (Talk about something I never thought I’d see: an action figure based on Big Finish!?) I might take a rain check on Big Finish Baker, but the other two? I was starting to think that we’d never see the first and second Doctors, period. Dapol didn’t get around to them, except as cold-cast, un-jointed non-action figures. With Character backing off of releasing, well, much of any new product this year, fans and collectors had been warned not to expect a follow-up to 2008’s outstanding wave of classic series figures anytime soon. So fandom should be immensely appreciative of Underground Toys (the U.S. distributor for the Doctor Who and Torchwood figures) for stepping up to the plate and saying “Hey, those two least likely Doctors to happen? Let’s have those then.” Because given that the much more high-profile third, seventh and eighth Doctors are still stuck in an indefinite limbo, we might never have seen these otherwise. (The SDCC exclusives will also be available in variations of their own – the first and second Doctors and their pack-in adversaries will come in full color or black & white/greyscale.)

But wait! There’s more! Character has announced a few new characters as part of mix-and-match “collect and build” waves; a fourth season c&b wave will, once all the characters are collected, give you the pieces for the giant wasp from the Agatha Christie episode, while a c&b wave built around the first three seasons gets you the pieces for a translucent Gelth ghost thingie. Unlike the c&b ’60s Cyberleader from the currently available “Ages of Steel” Cybermen wave, I have no interest in either of those. That’s really the catch: the Cyberleader and the Giant Robot are actually neat things to have as collect-and-builds; a translucent statue of a gas ghost or a giant wasp? Maybe not so much. Not that I didn’t like those episodes, but I just don’t need a giant plastic wasp on my shelf, you know? So here are the figures I’m really after from the collect-and-build waves, and the c&b pieces will probably wind up being given away on the Outpost Gallifrey forums for the price of postage: