9. The Entire Dapol Range
This is where Doctor Who tried to follow in the footsteps of Star Wars with a range of action figures, and the company chosen to hold the prestigious licensing rights was a model train company called Dapol. The only downside was that although most of the characters (emphasis on most of) were memorable, they held little or no resemblance to the character in question. The first release was the Seventh Doctor, which if it werent for the torso you would never have guessed - to look at the face youd never guess it was Sylvester McCoy, furthermore, the figure shows the Doctor wearing some snazzy olive green trousers. Sylvester McCoy told me himself that he never wore green trousers and on closer inspection he was right. In the same wave came everyones favourite companion Mel as played by Bonnie Langford, only when this figure actually came along, Mel had been written out of the show for over a year. So then to fix that, along came Ace, who was released just a short year after Doctor Who was cancelled altogether. Other such howlers included a green K99, Davros with two hands (many of which were recalled so they cut physically cut off the extra hand), a Fourth Doctor who came without a scarf and was also the shortest figure in the range, even shorter than the Seventh Doctor, who is the shortest Doctor of all. Interestingly the Third Doctor released in 1997 was the tallest figure released, and compared to the measurements Seventh Doctor it suggested that in real life Jon Pertwee was actually roughly 8 feet tall. And how could I not mention the legendary battery powered TARDIS console, which sounded like a power saw and had only five sides rather than six? A corrected replacement was planned but a fire destroyed the factory and the console mould and it was considered too expensive to produce another. The other releases in the range were generally pretty good, they had a TARDIS model that opened up to form the interior walls, an 80s Cyberman, an Ice Warrior, lots of Daleks and the Melkur Of course the Melkur from that memorable story the Keeper of Traken in 1980 that by 1997 when the figure was released, everyone had forgotten about!