Guess what, folks? I’ve got 5-inch Doctor Who figures to look at! Yes, some of the newly released Dalek-Doctor two-packs have been landing on my doorstep and I’m very excited about it. But we won’t be looking at those today because I still have one more 3 ¾” figure to look at before slamming a lid on this most recent wave. It’s the Zygon because there were motherf’cking Zygons in the 50^th Anniversary Special! Sure, they were almost totally superfluous to much of the plot but it was still good to see Zygons in NuWho and now we have figures!

I’ve said my piece about the packaging. It’s totally serviceable for a 3 ¾” figure line but certainly nothing special. It just begs to be ripped open and thrown away. The Zygon comes carded beside his grey “DWARTIS” figure stand. Yes, grey! Why did you change these to grey, Character Options? What was wrong with blue?

The Zygons in the 50^th didn’t change much from their last appearance way back in 1975 and that’s fine with me. I always thought they were one of the best looking monsters from the Classic series and despite having been absent from the small screen for almost 40 years, they still tend to get lumped in with the recurring aliens. They must have really good agents. And that’s one of the cool things about these figures is that they can easily pass for classic Zygons. If only we had some classic Doctors in this scale to display with them.

The sculpting here is quite good for the scale in general and exceptionally good for this line in particular. Well, to be fair, most of the aliens in this scale have been decent and the Zygon figure continues that trend. The head sculpt is very evocative of the way they looked in the 50^th and the skin is appropriately laced with all sorts of ridges and suckers. Since the Zygon is technically nekkid, the paint is uniform over the whole figure. Nonetheless CO really nailed the grubby orange color of the Zygon’s skin.

Articulation here is pretty close to what we got with the Ice Warriors and Cybermen in this scale. You get ball joints in the shoulders and hips, there are hinges in the elbows and knees, and there are swivels in the wrists. The ankles do have hinges, but they don’t really offer any movment. There’s no torso articulation and because the Zygon’s head is basically just a continuation of his torso, there’s no neck articulation either. Nonetheless, what’s here is pretty good and any limitations are more likely due to the design of the creature than shortcuts in the figure.

The Zygon is definitely my favorite figure in this wave and that’s saying something because he was up against a couple of those excellent Dalek variants. Some of my love for this figure has to do with the fact that I’ve always liked the look of this particular alien menace, but also because CO did a genuinely fine job with him and he looks great on the shelf alongside the rest of the 3 ¾” menagerie of aliens. I picked up three of these guys and who knows if I’ll stop there. Yes, as Tom Baker would say, “Who Knows?”

And… that’ll wrap up my look at this wave for now. It’s likely I’ll eventually double back and pick up the tweed jacket 11^th Doctor just because there’s plenty of him around and these figures are pretty cheap. But for now, I can finally start digging into some of the new 5-inch Who figures that are on my receivings pile. I think I’ll start with a couple of the Dalek and Doctor two-packs and then maybe we’ll circle back to that Claws of Axos set that’s been sitting around here for what seems like forever.