Top Trumps Specials: Doctor Who

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A good quality scan would be perfect, but – if not – then a clear photo of your artwork, lying flat, is fine. The choice is yours between those that reveal the name of your opponent's card to others that enable you to use a strong card repeatedly. Tom Baker’s Doctor was a hugely important part of my childhood – I adored him, and the show soon took a central place in my life. Tom is the most easily recognisable, and clearly the one I have spent the most time on – his hat and scarf are definitely in evidence.

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Tom Baker was very much “my Doctor” as I’m 48 years old now myself, making me around 8 at the time of Christopher’s drawings. Just as season 4 of Doctor Who reaches its climax, with Davros stealing Planet Earth, theres a brand new Doctor Who Top Trumps zooming through the Galaxy. Aside from the rules text being rewritten to include references to the long running SF show, there was a slight change to the stats on the cards - for while we still had the attributes Special Powers and Weapons, just like the Marvel deck, instead of Physical Strength we now had Mental Ability - a fitting change as the Doctor tends to out-think his enemies rather than throw buses at them.For in 1978 they produced another suspiciously Trumps-like card game but tied to another legendary fictional universe - Doctor Who. This effectively meant that despite Galactus being capable of destroying the planet that Hulk was standing on, he wouldn't be able to beat the angry green guy in an arm wrestle. As you progress and the bigger the pack becomes, you assume the role of different characters, add new power-ups and unlock new mini-games. These were given out at political party conferences, and featured politicians such as Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Other Countries that Winning Moves make Top Trumps for are: Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Turkey, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Iran.

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The original Top Trumps was launched in 1978, [1] with eleven different packs selling at 50p each, published by a company named Dubreq. Some cards do like rather nice, and it's fun to see familiar faces from Whoniverse rendered in a pseudo comic-book style.For example, the 3D tarantula from the Bugs collection can also be made to dance, slide on ice, and hunt among other things. And not only was Tom Baker's incarnation of the Time Lord that delighting the kids with his own brand of anarchy, humour and jelly babies, he was teamed up with the companion, Leela, she of the handy dagger and tribal garb, who was particularly popular with Dad and teenage boys for some reason. Relive the horrific Sontaran attack on Earth and take cover in ancient Pompeii as the Pyroviles come to life.

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It’s hard to put my finger on my first memory of Doctor Who, although I have a vague image of staring out at the street light through the rippled glass of our front door one night, and imagining myself being taken into Sutekh’s sarcophagus time-tunnel from The Pyramids of Mars. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit. Games made include: Horror, Skyscrapers, ODI Stars (Unavailable as packs), World Football Stars, NBA 2K9, Sharks and Star Wars, Armchair General (Unavailable as packs) and Bratz. Winning Moves has been often criticised for releasing the pack but not releasing the 3D content until several weeks later.

The cards may deliver camouflaged learning, or learning through play, as reading about the facts on the cards, and enhancing memory and maths skills through the use of comparing the data, adds an educational benefit.