It seems like an eternity since I’ve featured any Doctor Who figures based on the modern series, and that’s mostly because there haven’t been that many. Nonetheless I’ve been hankering for some NuWho figures and so I’ve started tracking down the “Series 5” inspired“Build The Pandorica” Wave. For the uninitiated, this was an assortment of Series 5 figures that originally came bundled with a Doctor Who audio CD adventure. The CD and case also doubled as a piece to the Pandorica. Honestly, I thought the CD was a pretty hokey idea, but when CO released the wave again, slightly cheaper and with non-CD Pandorica pieces that were sculpted and looked better, I new I’d get around to picking these up sooner or later. Did I mention they’re compatible with the Pandorica chair that was released last year? Well, they are!

Its going to take me a while to hunt down all of these figures, so I started off with the one I wanted the most. He’s the creepy, delapidated Cyberman that the Pandorica Alliance left behind to guard the Pandorica. The packaging is the same as we’ve been getting with all the Series 5 and 6 figures. You get a simple, generic cardback with the figure in a bubble. The Pandorica piece is behind the figure and the cardback shows one big Pandorica rather than other figures in the wave. You’ll also note the big sticker that points out the lack of a CD in the package. That’s pretty important because the back of the cards says there’s still a CD in there!

The coolest thing about this Cyberman is obviously the detatched open head. Its sculpted in the open position with the mummified skull inside. It comes detatched from the figure and you get a set of wire tentacles to plug into the neck hole if you want to display it off the Cyberman. The sculpt is pretty amazing, although I think it would have been cool if the skull was colored differently from the rest of the helmet. As it is its just all covered in the same rusty petina. Damn, this is a creepy sculpt. I like the missing right handle too. Naturally, you can unplug the wires and plug the head onto the Cyberman body.

The body itself is pretty well done too. Character Options could have gone for a cheap repaint here, but they actually introduced a lot of new tooling to the sculpt to show the damage. His chest armor is cracked, his arms are pitted.I guess my only complaint here is that it should be missing its left arm to be show accurate. But laying that aside, CO really went all out on this one.

The Pandorica wall plugs into the base of the Pandorica chair. If you don’t have the chair, you can get all six pieces to form the complete cube. I actually prefer the walls without the CD because they feature new sculpting and while you can tell they were designed to be CD cases, they still look more like the Pandorica walls and less like some dopey gimmick.

I picked up this figure for $13 shipped, which was a mighty fine deal. This Cybie was probably the most sought after figure of the wave. I suppose Kiss-o-gram Amy would be a close second, but she was previously available in the Christmas Adventure Set, so chances are a lot of the more dedicated collectors already had her. Some of the other figures in this assortment are going to be pretty hard to pony up for just to get the Pandorica piece, but I’ll get them all eventually.

Tomorrow, I’ll deliver the second in a one-two Doctor Who punch with a look at the “Destiny of the Daleks” set.