dapol Doctor Who?

[rche]

Anybody got any Doctor Who toys by Dapol?

Looking for info on manufacturing dates and such.

thanks

rche

[palitoy]

I did an article on them once for Lee's. As I recall, they started the line around 1989 and were still doing it up until 1998. The quality went all over the map though, also a fire in their HQ killed more than a few cool projects.

I might be able to help.

[Bo8a_Fett]

I've got a few 4th doc, sea devil, time lord, master, 25th anniversary tardis consol set..and proberly a few more hidden away somewhere...the fact that the playset was out for the 25th anniversary gives the date away as 1987/8.
Dapol Doctor Who toys

[Bo8a_Fett]

Dapol were more infamous for the mistakes they made ...the 2 handed Davros and 5 sided (instead of 6) tardis console spring to mind.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Wow didnt realise they brought a Troughton figure out as late as 2001
Doctor Who - Dapol Action Figures

[Bo8a_Fett]

Another good site
Dapol Doctor Who Toys and Figures

[palitoy]

Wow didnt realise they brought a Troughton figure out as late as 2001
Doctor Who - Dapol Action Figures

It's a figurine as is the early cyberman, no articulation whatsoever.

[Bo8a_Fett]

glad I missed out then...lol

[rche]

Thanks fett,

Lotta info on the vintage who toy site. Ought to keep me in trouble for a bit.

rche

[rche]

Hiya Palitoy,

Any way to look up that Lee's article?

thanks
rche

edit - I can't find an archive for Lee's, but they sell the back issues. Do you have any way of finding out what iss. that article was in?

thanks for your time.
rche

[Bionic Joe]

I rember buying them at the comicbook shop back in Jersey around 87/88 back then i thought they were cool, I have the 7th DOCTOR/TWO ARMED DEVOS/4TH DOCTOR/BLACK DALEK/CYBERMAN of course i never opened them, Looking at them now DENY FISHER did a much better job

[goldenryan]

they are decent figures. i like the 3 3/4 scale.

[Mikey]

At one time I owned

Patrick Troughton
John Pertwee
Tom Baker
Sly McCoy
The Master
Cyberman (Earthshock)
3 Time Lords
K-9
MIB TARDIS

They were decent figures, but not great.

I always hated Pertwee being a giant.
I also hated the TARDIS being way out of scale with them.

[palitoy]

I bought them when they first came out because I was so starved for Doctor Who toys, the quality was so inconsistant that it made me crazy.

Tom Baker figure looked like an action figure of Tom Baker, the Cyberman was 8' feet tall and John Pertwee suffered from gigantism.

[Gorn Captain]

I have Baker, McCoy, Cyberman, Davros, 5 different Daleks, Tetrap, Ice Warrior, Tardis!