Set of playing cards featuring Classic Doctor Who images
Product Features
- Pack of cards featuring Classic Doctor Who imagery
- Official and Licensed
- Does what it says on the tin!
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Rather good fun… These cards are pretty cool – they have pictures of Doctor Who stuff on them, and you can also use them to play card games! It’s quite good fun to look through them and identify all the different characters and aliens.Having said that, some of the pictures are poorly chosen – bad pictures of characters or strange subjects to choose, and quite a few really cool characters don’t get a card. I would gladly give up my cards of Sontarans and other aliens to get ones of Sarah Jane or Romana II.The cards are worth the price and still pretty good, but with a bit more care and attention they could have been so much better.
Pleasant curiosity for fan collectors Okay, it’s nothing to get too excited about – it’s a pack of cards. And as it was produced when Richard E. Grant’s online cartoon Doctor was the latest introduction to the mythos, it’s looking a bit dated when the new BBC Cardiff version of the series has made such a big impact.There’s some attempt at a pattern running through the cards (the spades are all monsters, the hearts all female companions, the clubs all male companions and the diamonds all Doctors) with some attempt to link each pip value thematically as well; not successfully in some areas – for instance you might find yourself idly wondering, if all the kings refer to the Peter Cushing movies why is the King of Clubs the emperor Dalek from Evil of the Daleks, and not a movie dalek? Also in the failed attempt to maintain this thematic pattern obscurities are included whilst popular characters fail to appear – to make up the numbers the diamonds include Trevor Martin as the stageplay Doctor and Richard Hurndull as the William Hartnell stand-in.Still it’s a pleasant thing to have, it doesn’t cost much and I’m proud of my set. I’d suggest it was time for a re-release now Christopher Ecclestone and David Tennant and their associates and adversaries are sorely missed from the pack, but since current merchandise tends to ignore the original series entirely it just wouldn’t be the same.