ALERT ALERT ALERT

[cleolinda]

Okay, you need to go back to the previous entry because Google is turning on Buzz whether you opted out or not and they're letting everyone see your most frequently-emailed contacts and it's a gigantic clusterfuck of privacy invasion and it's superstupidhard to get it to stop. MEANWHILE:

TONNER TORCHWOOD AND DOCTOR WHO DOLLS ARE FINALLY HERE

YES, THEY DO EXIST

SERIOUSLY, PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THESE FOR AT LEAST A YEAR

MAYBE TWO, I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER

 

AND CAN WE--sorry, can we discuss how bizarre the Tonner Jacob is? Still? Again? Some more? Because what the hell. AND ALSO

Comments

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

SCREAM. I WANT TO PLAY WITH THEM RIGHT NOW.

[jigglykat.livejournal.com]

Also, I like how you have to apparently purchase Ten's coat SEPARATELY.

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

God, that is some uncanny valley crap right there. And T!Doctor looks like he goes to the same hair guy as Tedward.

I bet the hair guy is named Alexandre, or Pepe or something.

[byakuya-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh Go I know. Someone kill me. Please.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Oh man, did you see this:

http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/

Google Buzz helpfully shared this gal's emails to her mother about where she's working now with her abusive ex husband!


....

I'm just gonna stare at the Captain Jack doll for a while.

[skybreak-seeker.livejournal.com]

Cleo's already covered this today, but thank you for the comment.

It does draw in the gaze, doesn't it? And not in the good way, but in the "can't sleep, doll will kill me" way.

[byakuya-chan.livejournal.com]

Oh god what the hell did they do to Davi Tennant's face what is this I don't even

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

IKR. The costume is pretty great, though. I hope that maybe he can be repainted to look less like an insane cockatoo?

[stillxmyxheart.livejournal.com]

Those Who and Torchwood dolls are kind of really awful. Martha is okay, but the others... no D:

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, the Captain Jack is the one that looks okay to me.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

The Tonner Doctor Who dolls are awful. Martha looks like a Barbie doll, and Ten looks like . . . not Ten. Don't get me started on the awfulness of the pinstripes on his suit AND the ridiculous fact that you have to pay $50 extra if you want his trenchcoat. I wouldn't pay $25 for these dolls, much less ten times that.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

OMG THE PINSTRIPES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE BROWN.

TONNER, YOU'RE AN IDIOT IF YOU THINK WHO FANS WILL NOT SCREAM DOWN THE HEAVENS OVER THINGS LIKE THAT.

[roseredhoofbeat.livejournal.com]

That looks nothing like David Tennant. And the hair SUCKS.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

Captain Jack looks more like Adam Lambert.

And that is NOT Gwen Cooper....

[khaman.livejournal.com]

I was interested, possibly to the point of being lured towards my first Tonner doll request, and then I got a good look at the Tennant head.

OH DEAR LORD NO MAKE IT STOP CAN'T SLEEP TENNANT WILL EAT ME.

[bizarreoptimism.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHAA _THIS_, SO MUCH!

Also what the hell did they do to Gwen, I do not even know. She looks like a cross between Barbie, Elvira, and Cher (or is that just me?!).

[celli]

No Ianto? Pfft.

...although he would probably look weird too. So.

[h4yleyg.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly - "Where's Ianto?" [...] "Ahhh. Never mind."

[meshuggeneh.livejournal.com]

My question is: why MARTHA? Rose would be yay, Donna would be yay, Martha is okay but why her first?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that Billie Piper doesn't want merchandise in her likeness--and given her days as a pop star and how weird people might have gotten about her, I can kind of imagine why--so Martha is the next companion in line.

[sethrak.livejournal.com]

I'd pout about the evident lack of a Tonner Ninth Doctor, except they really didn't do well by poor Ten at all.

Also, they gave Jack greasy emo hair, not unakin to that of dark!Peter in Spiderman 3. I always regarded Jack as too cheesy for words, but he doesn't deserve that hairdo. No opinion on the female dolls, as I haven't watched their characters yet.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

The good thing about Eccleston is that he already has a weirdly sculpted face. They'd probably make the ears too small, though. THAT would be heartbreaking.

[xerinmichellex.livejournal.com]

These are the Doctor Who and Torchwood dolls we've been waiting for? Capt. Jack Harkness looks like he's critiquing my clothing style and Gwen Cooper looks like a Bratz doll. I can't even look at Ten.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Those are...not very good likenesses. Why did it take so fucking long when they don't even look like the actors? *rage*

[sawcat.livejournal.com]

Who did they use as the models for those? Because it clearly was not the actors who play those characters. Gwen's hair and the outfits are decent but the rest....eh, NO.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Icon love!

[sophiamcdougall.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are really bad likenesses. The Doctor looks like Timothy Dalton. (Who was in it lately! But that doesn't make it work any better!) I don't even know what Jack looks like. At least 20 years younger than John Barrowman, for starters.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I heard that John Barrowman was very pleased with his doll. Heh.

[bishsticks.livejournal.com]

Ten does look a little odd. But I still want him.

Would rather have a Donna doll than Martha though. :(

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Word.

[laughingacademy.livejournal.com]

Re: the Tonner Whoniverse dolls, a WORLD OF NO. Dear lord, those are painfully bad. The hair...the hair will haunt my dreams.

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

OH HELL YAH!!

Are you just gonna end every other post with that "WHERE IS MY ALICE!!!" macro until they make you one? Because you know, you're my go-to source for all things Tonner.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I actually will, but it shouldn't take that long anyway. I hear the only holdup now is Ashley Green approving the likeness.

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

OMG FINALLY.

Except...*sigh*. They seem to hold up my theory that Tonner in general does a much better job with female characters than with male.

But, still, yes, it has been at least a year since they announced these, and my Hermione doll has been waiting for Martha Jones to come be her partner in crime. That doll doesn't look a whole lot like Freema, but at least she isn't as skeery as Ten, and I'll be getting her.

[bumblebee-1983.livejournal.com]

OH GOD.

Tennant looks like Daniel Craig. WTH?

No. Just...no. Now I will never, EVER see Tennant the same again. Thanks, Tonner.

[eleigh.livejournal.com]

and they're letting everyone see your most frequently-emailed contacts

Clearly I am not looking in the right place because I can't see anything about anybody I'm following except who I'm following and who's following me.

[melpemone.livejournal.com]

In that thumbnail, Gwen looks like she smelled something unpleasant. I covet that coat, though.

[all-ephemera.livejournal.com]

Those don't even LOOK like John Barrowman and Eve Myles! (I want her jacket.) It's like generic Ken face and generic Barbie face with black choppy hair. *pout*

[a-mae-zing.livejournal.com]

Considering the major Who kick I've been on lately+sudden cash, I was honestly planning on buying the Ten doll.

Until I got a look at him.

Hey, Tonner? Who the heck did you use as a model for this? Did you see the show/reference pictures at all?! The pinstripes, having to pay more for just the trenchcoat, and the fact that his face? does not look like the Tenth Doctor we know and love... yeah, think I'll be saving my first Tonner purchase for when you have a decent Who doll out. =/

omg that hair is going to eat me D:

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

OMG YOUR ICON. *gigglesnorts*

[nicolars.livejournal.com]

I love Tonner and Doctor Who, so I thought the two would be a delicious combination -- like chocolate and peanut butter. Unfortunately, I'm really not too happy with the production pictures seen here. The costumes are nice, but the sculpts...oy. You'd think that with all the time they have had to work on them, they'd look a bit more true to the actors. However, the dolls in person usually look much nicer than the production pics, so they could end up looking an awful lot better in person.

Oh yeah, and if you put the Tonner Edward in Ten's outfit he'd look an awful lot like Matt Smith as a Regeneration Version of Eleven. Just saying.

[byakuya-chan.livejournal.com]

...does Tonner!Edward really have such weird cheekbones as Matt Smith? Seriously, his cheekbones creep me out. D: