Do you know if the back of the box of the one you had said Surreal Entertainment on it? If so then, having looked at Dark Cyber Sabers it seems more like they've bought up a load of the sonics and then sold them at a higher price. I'm more inclined to go with the information I've got come from the actual toy manufacturers who deal with knock off and things like this all the time, so they would be more in a position to known. But that's only my interpretation of what information I have to hand.

It's certainly not a bad sonic on the surface by any means and it is a way for people to get hold of one they missed, but on the flip side it is a knock off version and it's a shame that's the route people have to go down to get one

Hopefully we might see a selection of re-releases of sonics in future, probably not chromed ones but like they did for the 50th they've got more they could release in single packages now

Interesting to know!

I had heard rumours about Nawya Replica's involvement however I specifically didn't mention them in this video as I have also seen supposed evidence of them taking issue against those suggesting their replicas are being produced illegally, whether that is true or not. So for my own legal cover I stress to add I'm simply repeating what I've heard and I'm not making any such allegations myself.

It is something that I think people should be aware of it, but to be fair it's highly likely that others have reviewed them weren't aware, rather than just not talking about it I've only found out myself because I happen to be in the right position to talk to those in the know about such things.

The middle Twelfth & Eleventh are definitely real, and I was pretty sure The Tenth's one was but it's good to have it confirmed. The Surreal sonics do feel slightly cheaper in terms of plastic which is hard to capture on videos for obvious reason but it wouldn't surprise me if being an American product is more cheaply produced using lighter materials.

@@CaptainJimiPie That's more than likely the case. The handle on the Tenth one even seems to be painted in a glossy finish in comparison to the matte look of the CO versions

I think that might be more the type of plastic rather than a particular finish put on it, which again adds more evidence to it being made of different materials

They are real as they manufacture merchandise for lots of large popular franchises across TV, Movies, Game and Anime, however they are largely unknown outside of the US in terms of toys as alot of their export products seem to be things like household items, mugs, t-shirts etc

As I said some of them are real, as Surreal Entertainment has made DW Merch in the past, as the DW merchandise licence isn't exclusive to one company. Even the Underground Toys stuff wasn't actually made by them, CO produced the toys but UT distributed/marketed them in the US. If you look at any of the figures actually made with UT on the packaging the figures themselves still have all the CO legal printing on them.

I would love to see him expanded that instagram post into a full story of it's own. Even if it didn't feature 15, just about what caused them to cross over! Even if it disproves my theory!

Unfortunately this specifically is a custom figure I've made myself so it's not for sale, however there will soon be an official one available later this year

The CO exclusive one has been in stock on their website for a few months now. The real irony is that the "standard" version has actually become the one that's now more sought after

@@CaptainJimiPie That's funny, I got one from The Who Shop back in January but the wire broke about a month after I got it, so now I'm replacing it with the FP exclusive haha. May or may not get the chrome one. I've heard the chrome comes off really easily but I'm not sure.

Again I've heard people saying the chromes comes off easily but I haven't actually seen evidence of it myself yet. I know some people said that theirs snapped really easily and the chromes makes the plastic more brittle but again from looking at mine whilst it does seem to make the plastic a little bit more flexible, you still have to put it under quite a bit of force and/or be pretty careless with it to snap it so easily

I'm afraid I can't provide an answer to that as my nearest FP store is over 100 miles away

That's news to me if that's that case, I know some people had "faults" were they were getting a "purple setting" when opening and closing it due to the lights mixing but I wasn't aware of broken wire issues.

@@CaptainJimiPieI actually really dug the faulty purple light 😂 (mine didn't break, but I've seen examples of others that did). Mine has gotten jammed open a few times, but that's about it.

I am envious of those who did get the extra purple light haha

There's certainly plenty of ways you could make this canon with a really good story!

It does look very striking, and the design certainly grows more on me the more I look over it

It is a very nice design, the more I look at it the more it's growing on me

I appreciate not everyone will like it but I think that may be overstating it a touch, especially given that the Warriors Of The Deep sets have now sold out too. At the end of the day both the standard and chrome versions are still available for people that don't like this one, and I as I say, if this meant we could get other FP exclusives in future then this could hopefully be the start to something good.

That's actually semi-accurate to it's appearance in The Infinite Quest animated story, in which in has more of a green coloured casing

@@CaptainJimiPie oh. I did not know that, I take it back, it is weirder

It is certainly an odd choice but the more I look at it the more it's growing on me

@@CaptainJimiPie Huh. I did not know that lol. I remember they did try and pass it off as the 9ths though and then blatantly lied to a customer when they sent an email pointing out the inaccuracy which was odd.

In all fairness when I say it was meant to be from The Infinite Quest I mean more that's likely what it was inspired by. The "passing it off" as The Ninth Doctor was probably just a general error/mistake and the "blatantly lying" was likely just the person responding to the email with the information that had to had rather than a direct attempt to deceive

It's not though, as I quite clearly show in the review, it's got the extra features that the CO Exclusive sonic has, and the electroplating costs more too. It's exactly the same price as the CO exclusive one for that reason, the standard one is cheaper because it has less features and cheaper detailing

Thanks and to be honest I'd probably just print a whole new one to make it more accurate rather than just improving my original one

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Unfortunately without doing it myself I can't advised on specific figures, however the regenerated Tenth Doctor official figures are pretty common and cheaply available on eBay

Thanks, I'm really pleased with how well it's come out. As for reference I used the animation but had to make a few minor changes on the ground of "artistic licence"

@@CaptainJimiPie Fair enough, it’s kinda hard to get some stuff 100% accurate from animation stuff The way his lapels were like were odd as they all folded to the right instead of the usual lapels for a outfit yk

Sadly it's unlikely we'd ever see it released as a set!

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Thanks, sadly I think it's highly unlikely we'd ever see such a set officially released but it's not impossible

Thanks! And thank you for the amazing head sculpt! Superb work on your part!

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Thanks, although as I say in the video, credit for the TARDIS model itself must go to Brookster3D on Cults3D

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Because it was recorded over 9 years ago when I'd been making videos for less than an year, and all I had to record with was a cheap compact camera

@@CaptainJimiPie ah I see. We all have to begin somewhere aha. Do you recon you’d ever do another one, maybe with the regular nsd daleks?

I have, you can a find a full playlist of more of these videos on my channel

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It is indeed

I don't really have any particular favourite as I didn't really get into the whole Lockdown Who! thing at the time as my main concern was looking after my mum and dad who were both in full isolation so we were each others "support bubbles"

@@CaptainJimiPie oh sorry to hear that.

It's all good, we all made it through :) and now I have the time to actually catch up on all the Lockdown stuff worry free!

I did consider that as part of or as a seperate idea but even then it just felt a bit too "loose" of an explanation especially given that previously The Shalka Doctor has been established as a whole separate timeline, so it logically he'd never be a part of the same jigsaw in the first place. And even if The Toymaker did include other Doctor's from other universes it means there's ALOT more others that should have been seen too.

If memory serves you're referring to the short story The End. in which The Eighth Doctor questions if his end is coming because his lack of memories at times but later finds out this isn't the case. Whilst you COULD potentially put an incarnation between McGann & Hurt, personally I just don't think it works because it's far too "convenient" just have The Doctor degenerate to retcon that timeline, it doesn't really serve any real purpose to the continuing narrative.

@@CaptainJimiPiethe degeneration would be to undo interference by the great intelligence stepping into his timeline, which is how this face came about.

The problem there though is by creating a whole new incarnation between War & McGann it would mean The Tenth Doctor would be the last incarnation, therefore never becoming The Eleventh and the events on Trenzalore and the creation of The Doctor's Timestream/grave would never happen. As such it means that The Great Intelligence would never have stepped in it in the first place so they would effectively erase their own future and thereby their past. You COULD argue that the Trenzalore events still happened but with The Tenth Doctor in the place of The Eleventh, but as I said in the video at that point you're having to create alot of non-canon/fan assumptions that there's no real basis for.

@@CaptainJimiPie there’s a lot of evidence within the show that the writers intended for Tom baker to be number 13 at the time. They invented the limit in The Deadly Assassin and bumped the numbers up in The Brain of Morbius. Professor Chronotis surpassed the limit in Shada. Suppose he, Romana and the Doctor found a way to reproduce the event. As he regenerates for the thirteenth time, the Doctor admits “it’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for”. He had spent all 12 regenerations, but was able to circumvent the limit with The Watcher (portrayed by Adrian Gibbs). Now, with the addition of Richard E Grant and why not let’s have another Tennant regeneration in Evolution of the Daleks atop the empire state building, Smith is again number 13 and out of lives. 1. William Hartnell (an unearthly child) 2. Patrick Troughton (the power of the daleks) 3. George Gallaccio (the brain of morbius) 4. Robert Holmes 5. Graeme Harper 6. Douglas Camfield 7. Philip Hinchcliffe 8. Christopher Baker 9. Robert Banks Stewart 10. Christopher Barry 11. Jo Martin (fugitive of the judoon) 12. Jon Pertwee (spearhead from space) 13. Tom Baker (robot) 1. Adrian Gibbs (logopolis) 2. Peter Davison (castrovalva) 3. Colin Baker (the twin dilemma) 4. Sylvester McCoy (time and the rani) 5. Paul McGann (doctor who) 6. Richard E. Grant (scream of the shalka) 7. Paul McGann (blood of the daleks) 8. John Hurt (the day of the doctor) 9. Christopher Eccleston (rose) 10. David Tennant (the christmas invasion) 11. David Tennant (evolution of the daleks) 12. David Tennant (journey’s end) 13. Matt Smith (the eleventh hour)

But this is exactly my point, I'm not saying that people can't have their own head canons, that's why my fan theories are after all, but by doing things like saying "suppose this happened" or "let's just add another regeneration/incarnation in here" it's not building on existing plot points, it's simply adding it random things which have no real basis JUST to make it work. The extra Evolution regeneration for example doesn't stand up because he wouldn't have stayed looking like The Tenth Doctor. The only reason he did that in Stolen Earth/Journey's End was because he had a receptacle in the form of his severed hand to channel off the excess energy and regenerate without changing. He didn't have anything like that in Evolution, so it doesn't stand up without inventing some kind of "deus ex machina"

To be fair Doctor Who has never had an established canon, alot of people say the TV show IS the only established canon but that in itself has often referenced much of the expanded media, meaning therefore that expanded media is also canon. Being an alternate timeline doesn't mean it's not canon overall, it's just not canon to that particular timeline. The show has delved into the concept of alternate timelines enough for them to generally be accepted within the shows narrative existence.

The biggest problem with him coming between The War & Ninth Doctor's is that The Shalka Doctor exists in a universe where The Last Great Time War never took place, and coupling that with his comments about having had 8 previous incarnations it means The War Doctor also never existed in the Shalka timeline.

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It was remastered slightly for the DVD release I believe, but personally I've always liked the animation style of it

Thanks, I've been working on this since the episode aired haha I really liked your video on him too!

@@CaptainJimiPie thanks

No worries :D

He did indeed! So even if it proves this theory wrong I'm actually hoping he wasn't just there to take photos and his appearance somehow fits into the finale!

@@CaptainJimiPie My favorite cliffhanger would be one where Richard E. Grant and Rowan Atkinson suddenly appear from the Time Window (which is confirmed to appear in the finale) and set up the start of the Doctor Who multiverse.

That narrative has sort of already been explored as in the novel The Tomorrow Windows, The Eighth Doctor sees Eccleston, Atkinson & Grant incarnations as all possible futures for himself, and the show itself is no strange to the idea of alternate timelines and multiverses.

@@CaptainJimiPie Yes, I've heard about that, which is why it would be cool to see them both reprise the characters on the main show.

Sadly it's unlikely to happen for Atkinson's Doctor due to COFD being a charity sketch I believe it's applications in future media are EXTREMELY limited. I believe it's why it's never been released on DVD, although given that's it's been released for digital purchase before with proceeds going towards Comic Relief.

The main problem with him being Pre-Hartnell is presence of The Master as his companion, as going by previous narrative evidence The Master was unaware of The Doctor's existence before The First Doctor. Whilst you COULD explain this away as The TimeLord's/The Division also wiped The Master's memory too, it just feels too "flimsy" as an explanation, especially when you consider The Shalka Doctor's intended backstory too, and his own admission that by the time he has become The Shalka Doctor there have only been nine incarnations before him. The earliest realistically you COULD put The Shalka Doctor in the main timeline is Season 6B but even then you'd still be re-writing a whole timeline that never happened in order to reset the timeline to the TV Show one.