Welcome to the latest Never Mind The Adverts Here Are The Toys!
In this edition, I finally get my hands on a Thirteenth Doctor action figure as portrayed by Jodie Whittaker in the BBC sci-fi drama Doctor Who. Judge Death stops by to give us an intimate portrait. X-23 Laura Kinney strikes some cool poses. Barbie meets a Dalek! And test your knowledge with TVTA’s fun-time action figure quiz: can you identify the characters and which franchise they belong to?
Doctor Who by Character Options
When 13 met Martha…
The Doctor and Martha Jones finally meet. It’s only natural they strike a pose for the camera.
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- Martha: Enough of the posing around. I just spotted danger ahead… I think I saw a Dalek! 13: Really? Where? Oh no, I just remembered I don’t like Daleks, neither do you. Let’s get after it!
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- Martha: oh, it’s okay… looks like Barbie is dealing with the Dalek situation now. 13: Barbie… how did she get here?
when Barbie met Dalek
Dalek: Exfoliate! Exfoliate! Barbie: All in good time my lovely new blue accessory… first we have to choose outfits, do our hair, bake cakes, then there’s this cool party I’m throwing later over at my place. What? You haven’t seen my dream house yet!?!
Judge Death – the intimate side
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- It’ssss not eassssy, all thissss death… There are timesss when I yearn to be at peace with the world…
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- Ssssometimesss I like to read poetry, paint… I garden, though my flowersss take often the habit of dying…
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- They asssk me… how can you live with yourssself when being resssponsssible for the murder of sssso many innocent beingsss? …
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- I reply, I do not live, therefore I do not have to live with myssself…,
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- They reply back… you’re not a nice guy… we’re gonna get Judgesss Anderssson and Dredd to sssort you out!
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- Oh no… I’m sssso ssscared!!!!
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- Boo!
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- Hahahahahahahaha!
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- But really, all joking assside, my criticsss are quite right.. I’m not a nice guy at all…
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- Sssso run! You have ten ssecondsss before I sssentence you to death!!
X-23 – These boots are made for slashing, and a fistful of adamantium!
X-23… how do you like it?
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- X-23 figure from the TVTA collection.
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- X-23.
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- X-23.
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- X-23.
Quiz time!!!
And now, from Norwich, it’s the quiz of the week! Presenting, in glorious TVTAColorVision, the TVTA fun-time action figure quiz: Identify each character for 1 point, its franchise for a bonus point. Can you score more than 14 points? Don’t feel bad if not, this is quite hard, and Wooof only scored 5 points and he’s supposed to be an expert! Haha. Hard cheese, cat… What, shhhh, don’t tell the readers I only scored 3 points!
Answers are at the end of the post… no cheating! Deduct a point if you do, naughty you!
Right, let’s go! Name the following characters, and the franchise they appear in…
Cowboys!
And finally, how about some cool cowboy figures from the 1980s? These were made by a company called Gerca. I remember nagging my mom for ages as a kid for a pack of cowboys very similar to these – I wanted them because their hats and guns were removable and the body parts interchangeable!
Wild West figures. Gerca. 1980s. Made in Macau. Loose.
Wild West figures. Gerca. 1980s. Made in Macau. MIP.
That’s all folks,
Thanks for getting action figure quizzical with us 🙂 Join us again soon for another edition of Never Mind The Adverts, in glorious TVTAColorVision!!
The Vintage Toy Advertiser 
Daleks, in any form. Give me the creeps!
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Where’s the answers. Did I miss something? I might have 4.
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Oops! Your daft quizmaster forgot to post them… That’s just been remedied… and the answers are now included at the bottom of the post 🙂 🙂
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OKAY!
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I have 4. (The Thing, Mr. Potato Head,Peach and Snoopy) I could have had 5, but I didn’t recognize Robin! Lol!
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4 is okay. They’re hard.
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I can only name 5 of the 15! fun post…
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Thanks Spanish! That’s a decent effort, some of them are hard.
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Great fun read, especially love me some Judge Death, he’s a candidate for one of our World’s Finest interviews if I can actually persuade our poor hapless interviewer to agree to it (he’s railing against the idea… can’t think why!) 😉 🙂
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Thanks Arcane. Yes, the Judge Death piece we did was more than a bit hair-raising! Our photographer is still in therapy!
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Wow TVTA, some unique images and mashups! I never realised that 2000AD had a Judge Death figurine available, that is cool. But it’s the Dr Who pics that bring me to a bit of an exclusive which I will be sending your way via email. Your comments about the Doctor’s other well known silver nemesis got me thinking and I designed something for ya, hope you like. Thanks.
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Ah cool! Can’t beat a bit of Who! Look forward to the mail. Thanks FT.
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