New 5" Doctor Who sets arriving 13th August 2018 into B&M stores

The 2018 Doctor Who 5" sets are due to arrive at B&M stores and be on sale from the 13th August 2018. There are four sets, as listed below, and the overall numbers of each set are reported around 5000 units across 560 B&M stores. Once the first run has cleared there is apparently no restocks planned - as has been the case in previous years. The packaging design remains unchanged as does the price at £16.99

Sets have already turned up early in the hands of collectors, and sadly in the hands of scalpers on eBay. Our advice is to buy the ones you want as you find them as we suspect these sets will not hang about.

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The 1970's pack is made up of a new 4th Doctor in his Weng Chaing "Sherlock Holmes" inspired outfit. This had been developed by Character when the line was in full flow, but never made it to an official release. This version appears to be a 3rd Doctor body with a new cloak section. The Doctor is accompanied by a Brigadier figure based on his look in Spearhead from Space and throughout Pertwee's first series, cleverly this is a re-use of the Captain Jack Harkness body with a Lethbridge Stewart head. Finally we get a repaint of the Auton to make a Terror of the Autons version.

The next pack is an 11th Doctor themed pack and includes a repainted 11th Doctor as seen in The Snowman. This is the Doctor figure from the 2014 Impossible Girl set, minus the hat. He is accompanied by Clara from Asylum of the Dalek and Amy from Lets Kill Hitler. While Clara is just a straight up repack from the same "Impossible Girl "set, Amy is a full repaint from her original figure with some impressive printing on her T-Shirt and Coat.

Pack three gets us up to date with the 12th Doctor. The highlight here is the Bill Potts figure we saw over Christmas 2017. It seems this might have been destined for Toys R Us stores, and has since been reworked into this line. It is worth noting the T-shirt design has changed since the image we first saw, and this therefore may be just one of other Bill figures on the way - it was noted earlier in 2018 that Amazon were potentially lining these up as exclusives? We get a tweaked Missy figure from Extremis. The final figure is the 12th Doctor in his red jacket. This is another repaint of the original 12th Doctor figure.

There is a fourth set with a new 3rd Doctor figure and a repainted TARDIS. The Doctor is wearing his Time Monster outfit, This is the red jacket that was used in the 13 Doctor box set, but with a white cravat instead of the bow tie. The TARDIS is a non electronic version, and in the promo images looks a little too light in the blue, but we will see how this looks in reality when the sets hit stores.