Torrent Watch: BBC - Doctor Who. The Daleks' Master Plan (64s,MQ,149mb,by Purves)

I have found The Daleks' Master Plan (Audio) whilst randomly browsing the web. It is zipped up in a 149MB file...click here to grab it! (Copy the URL at the bottom of the page to get the ZIP file...) Enjoy.

I WANT TO LICK THE NEW DALEKS!

Why all the hate? I have noticed recently that pretty much everyone on the forums hates the new look Daleks...apart from me! I am a huge fan of the Cushing Movie Daleks and so of course I am going to love these. Victory of the Daleks and City of the Daleks were dreams come true for me, certainly the highlights of Series 5! They make me feel like a kid again....glowing, bright coloured Daleks - just the way I remember them as a kid.

Yes, I am an odd fan in every respect - I love The Web Planet and The Dominators, which a lot of fans would put at the bottom of their lists. So sue me! I love the new Daleks!!! I am happy and content with the whole of Series 5 in a way that I never got during the RTD era. I feel like that 7 year old boy again...taking the weekly trip to W H Smith's to buy the latest Target novel.



Moffat's Daleks have my seal of approval - I will certainly be buying lots of Dalek toys this Christmas, something that I haven't done since I was little when I used to collect the Dapol toys. I am sold - these new Daleks are the master race from Skaro! Roll on Series 6. More Daleks please!

Want to buy me a stocking filler this Christmas? Then mine is a bright red Dalek drone please!

Coming Soon: Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes

September 2010 sees the release of Richard Molesworth's new book Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes from Telos Publising. You can order your copy here! I will certainly be grabbing this one when it is out, as I'm a huge fan of 1960s Doctor Who and spend a lot of my time watching the Loose Cannon reconstructions at the moment.

City of the Daleks: Online Now

The Beeb have released their computer game City of the Daleks a few days early....here is a direct link to the installer. This is for Window$ users only though, Mac users have to wait until the 15th for their installer. That counts me out then - I'm a Linux user, and we never get luxuries such as this, until some talented hacker figures out how to make it run in WINE or Cedega.

I have been so looking foward to seeing Skaro in the game, the concept art looks awesome...
I will have to wait until the 15th to play it, I guess my Dad won't be too happy when I spend the day taking over his Mac and fighting Daleks! Peace.

Review: The Daleks' Master Plan Reconstruction

I have dreamed of seeing this story since I was a child, after seeing Daleks - The Early Years when it first came out. The episodes featured on that release never made much sense on their own when I first saw them, until now - having just seen Loose Cannon's wonderful reconstruction of the story (and the surviving episodes 2, 5 & 10 ripped from the Lost In Time box set). After seeing Loose Cannon's wondeful reconstruction of Power of the Daleks, I decided to give this a go...and it delivers! On a grand scale. This is my type of Doctor Who. It is epic - 12 parts in total. This is to Doctor Who exactly what Star Wars is to fantasy cinema. I won't go into too much detail over the plot, or give too much away, but the story oozes atmosphere - Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner at their best!
Many elements in this story also feature in Nation's other Dalek stories, notably The Chase and Planet of the Daleks (alien planets, jungles, invisible monsters, Daleks chasing the Doctor through time & space, invasion forces, etc).
Kevin Stoney is brilliant as the Guardian of the Solar System, Mavic Chen - he also later appeared in the Patrick Troughton story The Invasion as Tobias Vaughn.
William Hartnell is at his best as the Doctor here, he shines in the role - even in the reconstructed episodes. In Episode 7 (The Feast of Steven) the Doctor breaks the forth wall and wishes all of the viewers at home a very happy Christmas!
Episode 12 (The Destruction of Time) is the climatic ending of the saga, the tragic ending of Sara Kingdom was unexpected - must have been shocking for all those kids to watch when it was aired!
I must also give praise to the wonderful soundtrack - eerie to say the least, Murray Gold take note!!!
Again, much praise to Loose Cannon for this wonderful reconstruction, I actually feel as though I have seen this story all the way through now, and the existing episodes make sense like they never did before. This is easily one of my favourite Doctor Who stories now...hopefully in the near future the remaining episodes will be found and given a make-over by the Restoration Team, but until then you can get your copy of the recon from Loose Cannon's website.

City of the Daleks Walkthrough

A new preview of the upcoming PC game Doctor Who - City of the Daleks has been uploaded, with plenty of in-game footage to drool over:

This will be the first in a series of games available to download for free from the BBC's website next month!

New Trailer!

All I can say at this moment... *gasps for air* ...is - HOLY DROK!

Link: The second 'Who' series five trailer!

Doctor Who RPG Stuff Announced!

Link: Aliens And Creatures Coming For The Doctor Who RPG...
Cubicle 7 has today revealed, via ICv2, its forthcoming boxed set supplement for the Doctor Who Roleplaying Game, which should hit shelves in December - a month after the main game.

Dalek Saucer Bloop?

I've just been watching The Dalek Invasion of Earth on DVD and noticed a bloop when watching with the CGI effects enabled - the shots of the Dalek ship when it has landed resemble the old 'tin-can' one, not the newer Dalek Saucer. Anyone else noticed this?

Are we to assume the CGI one is a mother-ship of some sort? I'll see if the Restoration Team guys know about this...