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Toybox REVIEW: Doctor Who 3.75" Scale Cyberman (Season 7 Ver.)

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I'm still not quite over Character Options ' decision to change the new series  Doctor Who figure scale from 5" to 3.75", but I'm getting there slowly. From a business point of view it makes perfect sense, but certain areas of my collection are now going to feel strange - particularly my Cyberman display. After amassing a collection of 5" Cybermen through the ages, the latest incarnation from Nightmare in Silver is a bit short standing next to its predecessors. But that aside, is it a good figure?   There's nothing particularly unique about the Cyberman's packaging, as its a uniform card for each figure in the wave. The front features a picture of the TARDIS and the time vortex, while the back features images of the latest Who figures on the shelves. The Cyberman also comes with a single accessory - the stand included with every other figure with the exception of the Dalek. Out of the package we have a bog-standard Cyber...

Reviews in Time & Space: Doctor Who Season Seven Part Two - An Overview

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After the Ponds bowed out at the end of The Angels Take Manhattan back in October, the Doctor has turned his attentions towards a new mystery. Following his second encounter with the "impossible girl" Clara Oswald in The Snowmen , finding out who she really is and how she can exist in more than one place has become the Doctor's newest priority. Luckily, it doesn't take him long to find a new Clara to take on adventures in the second half of Doctor Who 's seventh (modern) season! We begin the half-season with  The Bells of Saint John (★★★) which, while not a bad episode in itself, doesn't feel like anything the audience hasn't seen before. The Great Intelligence is back again, only this time moving away from snow-related henchmen to a more contemporary scheme. The not-so-subtle commentary on just how vulnerable we would be from a wifi attack is great, but the dodgy looking robot things and motorcycle action sequences just reek of a generic f...