Vaaga / Varga Plants – Allies of the Daleks Species Type – Plant-Animal  mutation Home planet   -  Skaro First appearance     Mission to the Unknown Latest appearance – City of the Daleks (game) The Varga plants (sometimes spelt Vaarga) originally appeared in the First Doctor episode Mission to the Unknown the single-episode prologue to  the serial The [...]

Well, it seems the mysterious Dalek in the museum has indeed been turned to stone… Concept Art for the “Stone Dalek” Latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine…

Spoilers : The Doctor facing a Dalek : This looks to take place in the museum (?) where the Doctor encounters the younger Amy : Plus, more Daleks – possibly beneath Stonehenge : Here we see the White Supreme Dalek, Yellow “Eternal” Dalek and (an) Orange “Scientist”. Will we find out what the “Eternal” Dalek’s [...]

The latest bunch of spoilers from The Pandorica Opens includes this photo… Obviously it is a New Paradigm Dalek, and it appears to be in a museum or perhaps an art gallery. Also obviously, the Dalek has been damaged or killed. I’ve seen it suggested that the Dalek has been turned to stone but to [...]

A good picture for scale – from the Crooked Dice forum which can be found here The Dalek is standing next to the “Tweedy Mattison” figure from the Crooked Dice range of miniatures. (Crooked Dice are the designers of the excellent (and free) Doctor Who Miniatures Game – see the links menu) There are also [...]

After their unimpressive debut in “Victory of the Daleks” the New Paradigm Daleks (or at the very least, the new white Supreme Dalek – but I expect we’ll see others) will be back on-screen in the first part of the Doctor Who season finale, “The Pandorica Opens”. Also appearing are the Cybermen (or at least [...]

As expected, the Daleks (or at the very least one of ‘em) will be back in the season finale (along with a host of other familiar monsters)…

As I’ve grumbled about before, my main problem with the New Paradigm Daleks isn’t how they were designed but how they were eventually built. The designer of the New Daleks, Peter McKinistry, produced concept sketches that were certainly a departure from the “classic” Dalek design, but nevertheless at least looked like Daleks – While I [...]

One week to go until the new Dalek game is available for free download from the BBC…