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Contents:

Torchwood Captain Jack
Gwen Cooper
Cyberwoman
Weevil

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First Impression Review:

Short Review

Great figures. Great packaging. Great detail. The Torchwood figures, produced independently by Scificollector, have really amazed collectors and proved a lot of people wrong. With Wave 2 coming on the horizon there’s a lot of interest and pressure building, but if the fantastic debut wave is anything to go by we’re in safe hands!

Long Review

It was about a year ago that news started coming through about the Torchwood figure range and what a lot has happened since! Remember the original reaction? The idea of Torchwood figures was received with a lot of positive comments, though the idea of it being created through Scificollector turned a few people off.

Could a smaller company do justice to the figures? Would it be better for CO to make them? Would it work aiming mainly at collectors? Then the pictures, greeted with a mixed reaction as people wondered what would change from the prototypes. Then the packaging, again with mixed reviews.

However now Wave 1 is out there it’s the perfect time to look back and say… Yes, Scificollector have done a superb job. Comparisons with CO would always be difficult, they’ve had three years to perfect the detail of the figures, but Scificollector have done themselves proud. I received mine in the same week as COs latest wave (Hath, Vashta Nerada, etc…) and I can honestly say that the Torchwood ones have excited me more.

They’ve got a feeling all of their own, helped a lot by the excellent detail on guns and the bases. Originally the bases just sounded like a nice addition, nothing too exciting, but upon receiving them I realised what a difference they make! You can really pose the figures well to the best of their ability without the fear of them falling over and they really add to that adult collectors feel.

Let me take you to the core of collecting. Why do we do it? For the most boring of us it’s to buy good figures to look at, but for the majority there’s something more. CO have produced some really excellently detailed figures that aren’t that popular simply because they lack a certain something. I’m talking here of figures like Novice Hame, the Scarecrows, etc. Excellent detail, good articulation, but without the heart. The latest CO wave is superb – all excellent detail, no real weak point, but that’s all they really are. Good figures. It’s the same with everything – episodes of Doctor Who like ‘Love and Monsters’ have good budgets and are ‘well made’, but I’d rather sit and watch something like ‘The Unearthly Child’, full of heart and very enjoyable, even if not as ‘well made’.

The Torchwood figures have ‘heart’ in abundance and I think this takes collectors to the core of why they get the figures. It’s the first wave and not every figure is perfect, but I haven’t heard of a single collector who’s not going to buy Wave 2. For a spin-off series of figures that’s incredibly impressive.

The packaging, so integral to figures and yet so often overlooked, is bold and different, taking them in a very different way from the Who figures. Personally I really like it, it’s very unusual and very ‘exciting’. I can see that jumping off a shelf at you easily.

And if you want to get involved with the figures then you can – Scificollector are really listening to those that buy them, and that means a lot. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank them for that – companies like CO can sometimes feel a little distant, here that’s certainly not the case. As with their many other private commissions, such as their prints, photos, etc., they listen to what people want and respond – a welcome change from the attitude of other companies who often seem to think ‘we know best.’

So go on – if you haven’t bought the figures yet then you must. I look to the future of the wave with great excitement, in some ways this is already the end of the first wave but, of course, ‘the end is where we start from’…