Welsh toymaker Dapol, renowned as a top model train manufacturer for the past five years, releases the first wave of 3 3/4″ action figures based on characters from Doctor Who, including a TARDIS and a limited run of a 25th anniversary playset featuring a motorized TARDIS console. The first of Dapol’s long-running series of Dalek toys is also included in this first wave, in a variety of colors. 
Welsh toymaker Dapol, renowned as a top model train manufacturer for the past five years, releases the second wave of 3 3/4″ action figures based on characters from Doctor Who, including current companion Ace, the fourth Doctor as played by Tom Baker and, infamously, a figure of Davros with one arm too many (!). More variations are added to Dapol’s long-running series of Dalek toys as well.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of the first wave of new Doctor Who action figures since the late 1980s, this group including the third Doctor, the Master, a Sea Devil, two different Silurians, and four variants on a “Gallifrey High Councillor”.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of a series of limited edition Doctor Who “Millennium Daleks”. Essentially the same mold and tooling as with their existing Dalek action figures, these Daleks have an assortment of glittery, colorful paint jobs (not matching anything seen on television).
Dapol, the makers of Doctor Who action figures, release a fourth wave of 3 3/4″ toys from the long-running series, including two varieties of Sontarans and the calcified Melkur from season 18’s The Keeper of Traken. Though not the last action figure release from Dapol, it will prove to be the last non-Dalek-related wave of Doctor Who figures before the Welsh toymaker loses the Doctor Who license.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of a box set of “early” Daleks depicted in various 1960s Doctor Who episodes. The set, containing four uniquely modified Dalek action figures, is a limited run of 2,000 units.
Welsh toy company Dapol announces the release of a Doctor Who Transmat Dalek action figure. Essentially the same mold and tooling as with their existing Dalek action figures, these toys are to be molded in clear plastic with a colorful “mutant” inside.
British toymaker Character Options releases the first wave of 5-inch action figures based on characters from the new Doctor Who series, including the ninth and tenth Doctors, Rose and K-9. The figures are identical to those included in Character’s Dalek infrared battle set.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on characters from the 2007 Doctor Who Christmas episode, Voyage Of The Damned.
British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of three action figure double-packs from the Doctor Who spinoff The Sarah Jane Adventures. Made in scale with the company’s popular range of Doctor Who toys, the spinoff characters do not sell well enough to justify the manufacture of a second series of figures.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on the Daleks as seen in the classic Doctor Who series, reflecting various Dalek redesigns and color schemes from 1963 through the ’70s.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on characters from the Doctor Who episodes The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky. These are the first Sontaran action figures since one of the last waves of Dapol action figures in the late 1990s.
British toymaker Character Options releases a boxed set of action figures based on characters from the Doctor Who episodes The Stolen Earth and Journey’s End. This features the first Davros action figure since the earliest waves of Dapol action figures in the late 1980s.
British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of action figures based on various versions of the Cybermen as seen in the classic Doctor Who series, including Cybermen from The Tenth Planet (1966), Tomb Of The Cybermen (1967), The Invasion (1969) and the recently-aired Christmas special The Next Doctor (2008).
British toymaker Character Options and American distributor Underground Toys release a wave of exclusive Doctor Who action figures at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con. This wave includes the first action figures ever made of the Doctor’s two earliest incarnations, as well as the first Cyberman design not from the current series. Rounding out the wave is the first action figure of any Doctor Who character in a costume specified by the Big Finish audio adventures.
British toymaker Character Options releases the Eleven Doctors Collectors’ Set, a boxed set featuring – for the first time – action figures of all eleven actors to have portrayed Doctor Who. With prices weighing in at around the $100 mark (and often well past that price point), the set is, for the moment, the only means of acquiring the eighth Doctor (as played by Paul McGann) in action figure form.
British toymaker Character Options releases a double-pack of action figures based on the Cybermen as seen in the classic Doctor Who series story Silver Nemesis (1988).
British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of five action figures depicting the New Dalek Paradigm introduces in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. These toys reflect the extremely colorful redesign – somewhat controversial in Who fandom – of the Doctor’s arch enemies.
Character Options and Underground Toys release a box set of action figures from the 1985 Doctor Who episode Vengeance On Varos, including the first figure of the sixth Doctor’s companion Peri.