{"id":1513,"date":"2009-07-23T22:10:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2009-07-23T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:10:49","slug":"sdcc-who-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2009\/07\/23\/sdcc-who-too\/","title":{"rendered":"More SDCC-related toy collecting rambling…blogging"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re freaked out by the thought of a grown man who’s still adding to his toy collection, feel free to wait for the next train! <\/p>\n

Okay, here are the official press release photos from Underground Toys…ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jon Pertwee in plastic form:<\/p>\n

\"Doctor<\/p>\n

Here I was already excited about getting the first two Doctors (thank you, Kristine!), and they pop this on us a day into the show? I can’t tell if Underground Toys is irredeemably cool or irredeemably cruel. Probably somewhere in between. And their press release is so amazingly confusing that I still don’t know if they’re for sale at<\/em> the show or not until afterward (August availability for online retailers is mentioned) – the wording is that vague.<\/p>\n

To understand why this is a big deal to someone who (A) has a kid with his own growing toy collection, and (B) is in his late 30s, I can really only offer the following thoughts: I’ve been watching Doctor Who since I was around 8 years old. The first toys along these lines didn’t appear until I was almost out of high school<\/em>. And for comparison’s sake, here is the earlier toy line’s take on Pertwee:<\/p>\n

\"Plastic<\/p>\n

Bit of a difference, yeah? (Pertwee may have been tall<\/em>, but that torso is just plain unnatural<\/em>.) The aforementioned ’80s\/’90s varied wildly in quality, and of the eight Doctors we’d seen by that time, only three were produced. So, to boil it down to a few words: unfinished childhood business. I would love to have had these when I was eight or ten or so, and I’ll happily settle for getting my hands on them at that age plus 30-odd years.<\/p>\n

Hey, you guys do<\/em> know I’m a card-carrying geek…right? \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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