If you want to get hold of what are probably the first toys of the new-style Daleks – which also just happen to be on the right scale for use with war-games/role-playing games figures – the check out the “free gift” in this week’s “Doctor Who Adventures Magazine”* – issue number 170 price £2.20 – [...]

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…

The original concept sketch from the designer of the new Daleks : If you look closely at the concept sketch you can see that the original redesign looks both very similar and very different to what got built. The concept looks more like a Dalek-as-we-know-it with extra casing elements, an all-in-one bumper/skirt extending up the [...]

One of the things that irritates me about the “New Dalek” design is that almost anyone familiar with the Daleks could have done a better job… and I really do mean that… It is a moot point as to whether a redesign was needed, but accepting that the production staff thought it was a good [...]

The White Dalek The White Dalek is the new Supreme Dalek. So White is the new Black…. Unfortunately this dodgem-style Dalek doesn’t actually look very Supreme… Even the colour is wrong… Dalek Supremes have been popping in Doctor Who and the wider off-screen Dalek universe since the early 1960s. There have been many variations on [...]

The Red Dalek The new Red Dalek is the “Drone” (standard Dalek, general soldier and dogsbody) A Red “drone”? Hmmmmm. It may come as a surprise to some that this is the first time a “standard” Red Dalek has actually appeared in the TV show. The only other Red Dalek to appear on TV was [...]

The Orange Dalek The new Orange Dalek is described as a “Scientist” Dalek. OK, the Daleks need scientists – but why are they orange? Beats me. While I was initially rather sceptical about an Orange Dalek (whatever its rank or function might be) I was pleasantly surprised to find that the colour scheme didn’t seem [...]

The Blue Dalek The New Blue Dalek is described as a “Strategist Dalek”. It seems that Dalek strategy currently consists of lulling alien races into a false sense of security by making the Daleks seem a lot less frightening. The Daleks managed to get over their old tactical disadvantage of not being able to climb [...]