We’ve launched a brand new look!

A complete redesign, we’ve moved away from the basic template we’ve used since we started in 2007 and have embraced the TARDIS.

With a changing top banner (go on – refresh the page!), a wider middle section, a completely redesigned homepage hub, and lots of other changes besides it’s all part of our aim to keep up to date at all times.

Our CUSTOMISATION DATABASE has undergone a redesign as well, with a reordering of sections, the creation of ‘Archive’ pages and the first of our now Monthly updates. Special thanks go to Chandra for his hard work that made it possible, and you can view the section here: http://www.drwhofigures.co.uk/content/view/155/240/

We’ve also shifted some of our focus onto our ‘WAVE PAGES’. As individual reviews are difficult to keep up with (though just hold on – more on them in a few weeks!) our Wave Pages easily list all the photos in a wave (be it an official wave – like ‘Series 5 Wave 1’ or ‘1st Doctor and TARDIS’), their contents, where to find them and a short review of the whole wave.

These pages will be checked at least every three days to ensure that they are always up to date.

So this is just the beginning – a lovely new canvas and the sign of new additions to it being seen already – but there’s so much more to come! Keep checking back!

As part of our new look (see: http://www.drwhofigures.co.uk/content/view/443/44/) we would really be incredibly grateful if you could consider support us by buying things through our links to other websites.

You will find the links on the homepage, the right hand banner of every other page on the main site, and at the top of the forum. These links will take you through to amazon.co.uk, ebay.co.uk, forbiddenplanet.co.uk and forbiddenplanet.com (any other sites you regularly buy through? Let us know!).

Buying through these links will not cost you a penny extra. In fact there’s no difference for you whatsoever, you can just shop like normal. But when you go through our links we get a small percentage of whatever you buy.

So if you want to support DWFO that’s one of the best ways to do it! I really does make a difference, and will hopefully mean further big expansion in the future!

Thank you very much indeed!

News is spreading of new Tesco exclusive 3-Packs of figures. Speculation began after a new listing appeared on the Tesco website showing a number of different figures in the photo: http://direct.tesco.com/StockWatch/default.aspx?r=209-8773.

Some worries have been expressed over the fact that the last Tesco boxsets were almost impossible to get hold of for many, and those that did find them often couldn’t buy them because of a database problem within Tesco!

The following packaging details are COMPLETELY UNCONFIRMED. They have appeared on another website apparently from someone within Tesco. If true, the most exciting prospect is certainly the new Series 4 Rose sculpt. But again – these are UNCONFIRMED.

SET A - Series 1
Sycorax Leader (With Whip/Staff) - The Christmas Invasion
Auton (Grey Suit) - Rose
Graske (With Blaster) - Attack Of The Graske [new figure to doctor who range]

SET B - Series 2
Sarah Jane Smith - School Reunion
Possessed Toby Zed - The Satan Pit
10th Doctor (In 3D Glasses) - Doomsday [new sculpt on the the 10th doctor's head/hair]

SET C - Series 3
Bannakaffalatta (With EMP Device) - Voyage Of The Damned
Ancient Doctor (With Sonic Screwdriver) - Last Of The Time Lords
Dalek - Daleks In Manhattan [not pictured in Tesco product image]
SET D - Series 4
Sontaran General Staal (With Cane) - The Poison Sky
25 Baby Adipose - Partners In Crime
Rose Tyler - The Stolen Earth [totally new series 4 sculpt, not pictured in Tesco product image]

With just a week to go before Argos release their new catalogue we are pleased to report what are APPARENTLY (UNCONFIRMED – though likely) the new listing numbers.

Many rumours suggested that the Flight Control TARDIS would be a special pack including the Stone Dalek – but this is apparently not to be the case now.

The TARDIS playset is also given a code. Whether this will be immediately available, and whether we will see better photographs, is completely unknown.

Again – these are unconfirmed, but highly likely to be correct.

Flight Control Tardis 388/3530
Series 5 figures 388/3509
Infra-red Battle RC Dalek 388/3516
Sonic Screwdriver projector 388/4924
Tardis playset (yes you read right!) 388/5370
13 inch RC Dalek Drone 388/5387

The new Doctor has a new TARDIS!

A new TARDIS playset has been announced, though it is fair to say that the reception it has received has not been brilliant overall so far.

Pictures were released, and a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6ggyZD2s7Q) was uploaded to the internet, apparently of the TARDIS playset at Toy Fairs. However many have expressed concern that it is not a particularly ‘realistic’ TARDIS. Although not in scale, and not completely accurate (for obvious reasons), the magic of the last TARDIS playset was the fact that it did feel realistic.

Some have suggested that this is a prototype, which would seem reasonable. Therefore improvements may be made. However the person who originally posted the photographs on the internet has made clear that, apparently, the final release will not include lights or sounds this time.

We will keep you fully informed...!

Underground Toys have officially announced two new SDCC exclusive sets to go alongside the ‘Unjacketed 11th Doctor and Orange Strategist Dalek’.

The ‘Regenerated 5th Doctor’ and ‘5th Doctor (with hat) and Master from Planet of Fire’ sets will only be available at the SDCC.

In the UK it is almost 100% certain that neither of the Forbidden Planets will have any stock of these figures officially, unlike last year.

However the .com website at least has pledged that a buyer will try and pick them up some, and Scificollector.co.uk is apparently attempting to get hold of some too, suggesting that many specialist shops will try and get stock in. These will be in extremely limited supply. Keep an eye on our Twitter feed (http://www.twitter.com/dwfo) - especially after the SDCC - as they are going to sell out very fast, maybe before we even get a news story up about it!!

The best chance of getting hold of the figures, however, is through ‘Bob’ – a friend of this site who is attending the SDCC and will, once again, kindly be getting hold of figures for people.

Full information can be found on the Wave Page: Doctor Who SDCC Figures 2010 Wave Page. BUT YOU ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE 19TH TO PLACE YOUR ORDER WITH HIM!!

Underground Toys, the American company that CO allows to make exclusives, have announced the first SDCC figure.

The Eleventh Doctor (without his jacket) will be packaged with the Orange Scientist Dalek.

However rumours are abound that further SDCC exclusives will be announced soon, and both Forbidden Planet websites have announced that, currently, they have no plans to stock these figures in bulk unless they are offered them before the Convention...

We will ensure that any website user who wants to get hold of these figures will be able to, and more information will be released in the next few days. So keep checking back!