Fantastic Beasts: 10 Ties To Doctor Who You Might Have Missed
3. Coming To A Department Store Near You. Smashing!
If the multitude of stories are to be believed, then department stores have long been popular locations for aliens and fantastic creatures to cause havoc and draw attention to themselves.
In Doctor Who one alien species (the Nestene Consciousness) capitalised on the fact by making shop mannequins their footsoldiers. A scene, first shown in 1970, of the plastic Autons smashing out of window displays and shooting down innocent shoppers was so iconic that Russell T Davies recreated the same effect for the first episode of the revived show in 2005.
In that story, the Doctor’s companion to be, Rose, is working in the fictional London department store Henricks. Five minutes into the episode and the whole building explodes causing mayhem on the streets of London and putting Rose and her colleagues out of a job.
The iconic New York department store Macy’s might have suffered a destructive fate of an altogether different kind, were it not for the last minute interventions of Newt, Tina and Jacob. Hunting for the Demiguise Dougal, our heroes find him babysitting an Occamy who can grow or shrink to fit any available space. Some quick-witted thinking from Newt, combined with Tina’s dexterity and a lucky throw from Jacob, prevents any further damage to the store as the trio trap the Occamy with a teapot and a cockroach.