I am a Genius!

Semi-true fact. For example, I know that in Mathematics, a Score is "20". But that's beside the point. Today has to do less with the fact I'm a genius and more to do with actually being thankful that I shop around/am really, really luck. 

It also links into my last post, since it regards this: 

The amazing Pandorica Wave

Yep, the Pandorica Wave which consists of: 

-Eleventh Doctor with a Fez
-Amy Pond
-Damaged Cyberman
-Silurian
-Angel Bob
-Roman Auton.

Well, I found it on Amazon for roughly £50, including Shipping. I was fine with this, but a distinct lack of money caused me to postpone it and postpone it until I got some, which occured this morning when someone paid me some of the money he owed me. But since I was away from my laptop, I decided to postpone it until I got home. 

The rest of my day proceeded with its normal level of usualness, until we reached Tesco. As I do, I had a look around the shelves when I saw the Eleventh Doctor in Fez for £2.99. I thought cool, and had a look behind it. Angel Bob stared back at me (I was careful not to look at it in its tiny plastic eyes). Awesome. 

To cut a story short, they had the entire set...for LESS then £20! So as a result, I now have this: 

MY Pandorica Set!

And notice that that Amy is the limited Amy in Kissogram. So not only did I save £30, I got an exclusive-ish at a brilliantly reasonable price to boot! 

Bring on that River Song figure!

And the SDCC Exclusive is...

Spoilers...

River Song AKA Cleopatra AKA Mrs Robinson AKA Melody Pond in her outfit from "The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang. A fantastic choice, since we've been needing a new River Song figure since her second appearance. Her first figure is brilliant, but there's one small problem with it: 

Admittedly, this is only an issue for me, who wants to do a Doctor Who Figure Adventure series. Since I didn't want River Song to only be appearing in her space suit, I've been hoping for this figure for quite a while, as one of my best friends will atest to lol!

BUT WAIT! IT GETS BETTER! Lookie:

It comes with the Pandorica Chair. YAY!

However, this presents a tiny problem for me. You see, loyal readers, about six months (or a year, I'm not a hundred percent sure) ago, Character Options released this: 

PANDORICA BOX!

A Wave with a Pandorica Build-it thingie! At the time, I already have 5 Silurian Warriors, 8 Weeping Angels (4 weeping, 4 screaming) and while I liked the Cyberman, I wasn't majorally fussed about buying it. So in the end, I bought the Fezzed Doctor and Policewoman Amy (not pictured). I then proceeded to give the Pandorica Pieces I bought with those two to a friend in America. 

Of course, had I known about this Set, I would've kept them for myself, but I didn't. In hindsight, not my brightest move ever, but not my worse either. Dad'll be getting the Fezzed Doctor, Amy and Headless Cyberman (whom I bought today and will be keeping the Pandorica Piece) from the complete Set I'll be buying in a couple of weeks. Huzzah for me.

Also, let me focus on the chair for a moment. It actually works! You can put your Eleventh Doctor figure inside it (Though I have doubts about Amy). See:

"No! Please, listen to me! The TARDIS is exploding right now and I'm the only one who can stop it! Listen to me!"

Kudos on an excellent figure choose, Underground Toys/Character Options! 

Oma

My Oma is the best in the entire Universe.

That's all. 

Really.

There's no more

Go away!

SERIOUSLY PISS OFF!

Brilliant quote about Daleks!

"On Full power, they can blast a human to atoms in a split second. But they never do that. Every Dalek dials down the power on it's gun-stick to the specific level to kill a human being. Then they lower the power setting just a tiny bit further, so that the beam burns away the Central Nervous System from the outside in, meaning that EVERY Human Being dies in agony. So it takes a full two or three seconds for a Dalek to exterminate one of us... and that's deliberate."

You... Bastards!

That quote comes from "Prisoner of the Daleks" by Trevor Baxendale. If you liked it, you might enjoy the book as I did. It should be available on Amazon or, if you like that sort of things, in a bookshop somewhere. 

Look for some variation of that quote in an episode of my DWFA.

Holy Double Disappointment.

Today has been a bit of a disappointment for me. As my regular readers will know, I collect the Doctor Who action figures, both the New and Classic Who lines. So on Friday, when Underground Toys announced via Twitter that there would be a new announcement on Monday (today), I was excited. 

Turns out, it was a mistake. 

Around 3pm, it was announced it was a Classic Exclusive, and that it would be properly announced at roughly 5 gmt. So I sat here, waiting patiently when I spotted that the first wave of Series 6's figures had been announced. I was somewhat excited, and so I clicked the link. This is what I saw.

- Doctor with Stetson (and Sonic Screwdriver)

- Amelia Pond 

- Silence (closed mouth)

- Silence (open mouth)

- Nephew 

This was something of a disappointment to me, since that wave primarily consists of tweaked re-releases. The Doctor, for example. They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here you go. Here's the figures of the Eleventh Doctor we already have.

From left to right, we have a Jacketless Doc, a blue bow tied Doctor, a Fez Doc, a Tiger print Jacket Doc, a Red Bow tied Doc and a Raggardy Doc. So you can understand me when I say the Stetson Doc doesn't excite me much at all.

Now, the Amelia Pond figure is something good. Thus far, only one other has been announced. But it's still going to tick some poeple off. Because of this:

The fact is, the first Amelia Pond figure was announced as an exclusive to the Doctor Who experience and, while it is somewhat different from the one pictured above, it'd still be something I'd be ticked off about.

Now the Ood figure. That's been released before, numerous times, to the extent that no one at Character Options could be bothered to remember the fact that Nephew (the name of the above Ood) didn't have gloves on. But then, why make a correct figure when you can just slap out one from a pre-existing mould? Typical Character Options. 

Because I like Pictures.

Now, I AM excited about the Silence figures, but I'm still ticked about it. There is ONE new figure in this Wave, and a variant of that new figure. It has an open mouth... BIG difference! what happened to the days when they'd release ONE figure with an interchangeable head? They did with the Fourth Doctor, and Tom Baker was very excited about it!

So after this, I was looking forward to the Twitter Announcement. The last time they hyped it up that much, they announced the Jon Pertwee Sonic. The time before that, it was the Peri/Sil Set (the first of the Classic Companions). So I was thinking it was possibly another Companion Set (possible even the Brig or Sarah Jane, in remembrance of the departed Actors). But no.... It was this: 

The Time Monster Set - consisting of the Roger Delgado Master, his TARDIS and two accessories from the serial. Not bad...except for one small detail. 

The Delgado is a re-release... of a figure I already have. Whoopee! Basically, if I were to buy this, I'd be paying £19.99 for a big lump and two smaller pieces of plastic. Since that's not on my to-do list, I'm disappointed by this. Go Figure. 

lol "Figure"

Elisabeth Sladen (1946 - 2011)

As many of you know, Elisabeth Sladen passed away on the 19th of April after a battle with Cancer. Being the woman she was, she only told her family and a few close friends because "She didn't want her fans to worry about her." That in itself says a lot about her character. 

Her death affected me a lot more then I thought it would. It certainly hit me a lot harder then the recent passing of Nicholas Courtney, as you can tell by the fact it took me this long just to be able to write this without tearing up. For me, it was like losing a member of the family. Her death is the first time ever I cried over losing someone I didn't know personally. 

Being born at the tail end of Sylvester McCoy's time as the Doctor, my viewing of Doctor Who consisted solely of whatever episode the BBC felt like showing. Nine times out of ten, it was a serial with Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen. I was brought up with that Doctor/Companion team, and right up until 2005, it was what I thought of when I thought of Doctor Who. I always assumed that all the other companions were like her, so it was a shock when I saw another team which, while good in their own right, paled in comparsion. 

Then 2006 came along, and Sarah Jane returned to Doctor Who. By then, it was David Tennant and Billie Piper in the TARDIS. . I looked forward to that episode more then any of the others that series because "Sarah Jane's coming back". I enjoyed her interactions with David Tennant, Billie Piper and Noel Clark, and I remember thinking "I wish she'd gone off with them instead of Mickey." Though my wish didn't come true, the next best thing happened.

The Sarah Jane Adventures. 

I'll admit it. I didn't watch it at first because I thought it would be a dumbed down version of Doctor Who. But then on the spree of the moment, I bought "Invasion of the Bane" and, after watching it, instantly changed my mind and bought the First and Second Series on DVD. After watching them, I patiently waited for CBBC to show the Third Series and after that, the Fourth Series. Before her untimely death, she completed work on three more episodes. I hope that the BBC shows them, as they are her last contribution to the official Doctor Who Universe.

People close to me know how much I loved her. When my Gran first asked why I want to play the Last Doctor, I instantly replied with "So I can work with Elisabeth Sladen." There is a reason that when I was writing my DWFA scripts, I knew from the beginning that she was going to the Tenth Doctor's Companion. She had an energy about her that belied her years and I know that never getting the chance to meet her, along with the Brigadier, will be one of the biggest regrets of my life.

Goodbye... my Sarah Jane.

Don't forget me

It is a truly sad day for Doctor Who fans across the World. Elisabeth Sladen, known to multiple generations as Sarah Jane Smith, passed away this morning. 

I tried to write her a tribute like I did with Nicholas Courtney, but found myself completely and utterly unable to without tearing up. So instead, I'll just quote Russell T Davis:

"The universe was lucky to have Sarah Jane Smith; the world was lucky to have Lis."

My sympathies to her husband of 43 years, Brian Miller, and their daughter Sadie

Rest in Peace, Elisabeth Sladen