Honestly I'm gonna have to get this set for that goth figure, cant believe a DW legend like Bernard Horsfall is actually going to have a figure! All we need now is a war games timelord set....
I'm so glad you said that about displaying the deffinately not Barrussa in the Invasion of time Section. I was thinking the same thing when the video started. Great Review as always Mathew. Looking forward to the HOTD Reviews!!
Bernard was brilliant as Goth. I remember him as Gulliver as well from The Mind Robber. He was a seasoned Doctor Who actor. Actually there's quite a few others that kept coming back to do other roles. Philip Madoc is another regular. Very happy with this set despite certain details being a little inaccurate and just plain wrong lol. They look awesome in my classic collection. From a distance.
I really like the 4 and Goth figures, but that Borusa figure is absolutely appalling. If Al Dewar is always on about doing a figure 'properly', then why on earth did they use some random guy's head for him?? Biggest letdown on a figure from Character Options in years.
I think the lack of a Borusa head is a massive disappointment - not only does this mean that isn't actually Borusa, but the different skull cap makes them feel a bit out of place in comparison to the other two, and in addition means that those of us who have the original generic Timelord release can't display the two together without it looking odd. If they'd gone for a generic Timelord, I'd have been less fussed with the head reuse, despite those last two points, but they went for Borusa, so should atleast have splashed for an Angus McKay likeness. I still intend to pick up the set, since I think Goth and the 4th Doctor are great figures, but that "Borusa" is massively disappointing.
If they're re-using passable heads for named characters they can put a Marcus Scarman head on a brown Captain Jack jumpsuit body to give us a Tyssan from Destiny of the Daleks.
I love the Time Lords! I hope we do get more from different stories including The End of Time versions. Would be nice to even have some verisons of Rassilon as he wore Time Lord robes as well. I would love to see some female Time Lords
These are great. I wish they'd do a cream/green one and a lord president now! A second three pack could be green/cream, lord president (repaint of standard time lord with sash), and Tom again as lord president.
AHHHHHHHHH YES!!!!!!! Deadly assassin is one of my fav tom stories as well and its great to see these classic era timelords and a tom in gallifreyan robes
Definitely in agreement on Borusa. Lovely work on the robes but just doesn’t feel like him at all. Probably the stingiest move since using the krynoid body for the Axon. Goth is as near to perfect as you can expect though and I’m not unhappy with 4. I love the Deadly Assassin too, so there’s no way I’m not getting this.
I've been looking forward to seeing your reviews on these, if I'd realised my video was going to be the only one with the figures in hand for a week I might have tried to make something less chaotic. Or maybe I wouldn't, idk. I'd somehow not noticed the paint apps not going round the back until you pointed it out. I couldn't work out for certain if Tom was the same head as Zygons or not, I was fairly sure it was, but with the hair/hat piece swapped but it was hard to tell. The paint apps are very different, if it is, slightly better I'd say, but still not right. Interestingly, I'd had a little sneak preview of these way back in May, and at that stage the timelord sea l hadn't been painted over, I remember thinking that was a shame, so I was really pleased they added the seal of rassilon in there. I wasn't shown Borusa at that point, though, I didn't realise they'd done that until the figures arrived last tuesday, the way Al was talking about it made it sound like they'd done a new head but it wasn't a good likeness, or maybe I just misunderstood what he was saying, but I laughed so much when I saw that. It's a shame they couldn't do a new head for him, but on the whole I think it's a lovely set, that Bernard Horsefall headsculpt is just so good, I love it.
Toms face is too wide for his head, mostly his nose. Tom has very distinctly round eyes rather than coming to sharp points in the corners, like this figure does. They’re also much closer together and shaded underneath toms prominent brow. Tom has a large nose but it’s pointed with a slight hook. The figures nose is wide and bulbous at the tip. Making the nose narrower would let you bring the eyes closer. The mouth does just sit a little too high on the face too, bringing it down by raising thin chin would make the face that bit wider at the chin, meaning the cheeks need filling out, making the face rounder. Also, the cap should sit prouder on the head and his curls look more like waves to me, but that’s just nitpicking. This is what your brain does when you only socialise with art students
Certainly the most interesting set of the year but that’s not hard when the competition is mostly just Daleks. I really liked this set when I first saw it but writing this comment made me realize there really are some problems. For a start it’s not exactly the Miriam Margolyes doctor who figure I wanted (surely they’ll have the budget to do Beep eventually right?). They just tested doing an unpainted head on the sixth doctor and it worked well enough, and that was a sculpt which looked good painted in the first place. Surely they could’ve done the Tom figure in this set with an unpainted face if that’s really what the issue is here? In recent years new faces have gotten a bit more cartoony (just look at Benton, Yates, or even Sarah Jane Smith) but this one just goes too far. I honestly didn’t mind Borusa too much but I wished they would’ve just advertised it as an invasion of time figure or made the president instead. What really gets me about Borusa is that it goes against the policy of not doing things unless they can be done right. Ill take these sets for what they are but the argument against doing a Dhawan figure because reusing the 7B body not being 100% accurate really looses credibility when we’re getting named characters with reused faces that look nothing like the actors they’re meant to portray. I have sympathy for CO as some people (especially younger and less familiar with the line) are definitely being ridiculous with their expectations for B&M sets demanding things like the fugitive doctor on a B&M budget or declaring this the worst set ever (did we all forget the 10th Dr 3 pack last year?) but wanting a new head sculpt to actually look good or wanting a reused head to even vaguely resemble the character it’s supposed to represent really aren’t unreasonable expectations. I like being positive so I’ll say a nice bonus of having fewer sets this year is that more people sell entire waves online as bundles so it’s easier for me to get them all outside the UK. I wouldn’t have bought the necros Daleks set for the usual $70 individually but when it’s only $10-20 more expensive getting them all as a bundle than just buying the other two individually it was worth it. Same mentality should get me to gladly buy this set. Goth is definitely a great figure.
Great review, I agree Goth looks lovely and Bernard Horsefalls likeness is fantastic. Hopefully going forward they mould that Tom headsculpt in skin colour plastic (like this years 6th Dr) as I think that what was needed this time. Admittedly, Borusa is a big let down as I think it's a disservice to Angus MacKay and it feels misleading. When I first heard about his inclusion I hoped it could pave the way for his other incarnations to be released later down the line but I don't know if would want that now given how this incarnation had been handled (though hopefully one day this could be re-released with a new headsculpt).
Look, I grew up with Character Options Doctor Who figures. Their Daleks especially are incredible, their bigger sets were fantastic, and I have a huge collection of the figures back home. But we're in an age of toys and figures where there is advanced face printing and genuinely incredible articulation hidden behind fantastic sculpts, and we are not seeing a hint of that in Doctor Who figures - even though their price keeps going up, especially internationally for people like me. With some exceptions, I don't think this company meets the standards we should be getting from figures today. I know Doctor Who isn't as big as other properties, but there are certain basic articulation and painting standards these figures just do not meet.
The chancellor Goth figure is fantastic, mvp of the set, its pity about Borusa, all they had to do was paint the robes white and gold and it could have been the time lord president instead, would've fitted the old man sculpt better. the Baker sculpt... i think the face is just too pointed out, needs to be flatter if that makes sense
I believe they are due for release in November. But if it’s anything like previous releases my local B&M won’t get them and the only way I will stand a chance is by getting one from one of those a**e-holes who buy up all the stock as soon as it hits the shelves and sells it on line at three times the original price.
They should really start moulding heads and hands in flesh tone plastic and only paint on the necessary details like eyes, hair and lips so then the sculpted details aren’t lost. Worked perfect for this years ultimate adventure 6 so hopefully that becomes a standard in future sets.
I’ve been longing for some classic Time Lords ever since the first wave of classic figures came out. And so I really want this. But, like every other B&M exclusives, no branch anywhere near me will sell it and the only way I stand a chance of getting it will be to pay one of those b*****d scalpers at over 4 times the original cost - which I won’t do because I refuse to encourage the insidious habit of buying up all the stock to sell for increased profit. I really don’t like the Tom Baker head. It’s not just in the paint. The chin is too narrow and too long (as is Goth’s a little bit) and I wonder if this is to help it fit in the narrow space at the front of the collar. But I can live with that to get some time Lord robes. The Borusa figure could just be any generic member of the House Of Petrax, which also neatly sidesteps the design error in Deadly Assassin when they establish in the script that he is a Prydonian but inexplicably put him in the heliotrope robes of a Petraxes for the whole story. I’m not a lover of the way the Seal Of Rassilon is done, as the original was not really raised that high off the surface of the collar. And I had concerns that it may stand out as badly as the RAF insignia when they recycled Captain Jack’s body for one of the Brigadier figures. But it looks like they’ve done as good a job as they can, and I understand the reasons for keeping tooling costs to a minimum. I don’t think I’ve wanted a Doctor Who action figure this badly since the first issued the War Doctor - I will be gutted if my local B&M don’t stock it.
That’s Miriam Margolyes not Tom Baker. Also you can’t blame the paint apps when the Chancellor Goth figure is 10x more sharp than this blobby and bloated Tom Baker
