Last post on modern production
Dr. Who products for a while - I promise, but this time we're not looking at
Dr. Who Adventures Magazine, it's
Character Options and their licence to produce 'mini-figs' after
Lego, after
Hestair-Kiddicraft!
Following the
Lego 'collectable' figure sets with figure sets of their (
CH's) own which we have looked at before, an innovation
Lego themselves took from the 'mono-block' and 'designer figure' fields,
Character Options (hereafter;
CH, as I can't be arsed to keep typing a word I've never been able to spell!) have just issued their third series, and look what's in it...a proper 1970's gold
Dalek, old school, old stylie, old enemy of the doctor, and if you fill in the stud receiving-holes in the base and give it a wash or dry-brushing it will be the best small scale
Dalek ever made by the toy industry.
What it also means - I suspect - is that the
Fatlek is all but dead. Explanation;Coming so soon after the
Dr. Who Adventures mag issued a set of six on what might be the tail-end of their figure range (I hope not - I've undertaken to collect them for Sam!), we have a company -
CH - who probably talk even more closely to the makers of the TV series about how to use and exploit the licence - to the benefits of both increased toy sales and more seats on the sofa at transmission time - than the magazine, taking
Fatleks out of their range? It can only be good news for fans of 'proper'
Daleks! (apologies for that rather crucified paragraph!)
Musical
Daleks! The beauty of
CH having utilised
Hilary Page's construction system is that you can become your own Skarovian living-suit development engineer, and with four colours of
Fatlek issued so far (red and blue in tranche 1, this white one in tranche 2 and yellow ones in a larger set) there is a lot of scope for general silliness! This seasons larger sets include the same gold
Daleks, lets hope other colours will be issued by
CH - in the mean-time there's always paint, and remember; it's easy to find them by squeezing the envelopes!
[they contain the largest single piece, and it's bobbly...but the new 'old' shape are not as easy to spot as the
Fatleks]
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