Not even the Celestial Toymaker could have captured the Doctor like this! LEGO has announced the production of an official Doctor Who set, via their fan-created LEGO Ideas brand.
The existing Character Building Doctor Who range is rather nice—several of their Doctor figures and their TARDIS stand guard at the base of my monitor—and I hope they will continue to be produced as well, but there’s something about LEGO that speaks quite directly to the nostalgic part of the brain. These will sell quite well, I imagine (and indeed, a glance at the prior LEGO Ideas productions shows almost all of them to be sold out).
From the look of the fan-created concept art above, the focus seems (as ever these days) to be on new-Who with a cursory nod to Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor. I will, of course, gleefully snap up whatever set Doctor Who sets LEGO produces, but I hope that demand for earlier Doctors and companions is sufficiently strong that we eventually get the entire cast.
LEGO William Hartnell and LEGO Maureen O’Brien, anyone?
(Image via LEGO Ideas)