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19-04-2010, 21:30
ANGRY Doctor Who fans claim a shock redesign has turned Daleks from cold, menacing metallic killers into brightly coloured TELETUBBIES.
Others say the new breed look like Fisher-Price toys - or Ikea kitchenware.
The new, bulkier exterminators which made their debut on Saturday have also been accused of looking fat.
A fan called DiscoP wrote on a web forum: "Why have they got such huge backsides?"
Aneechick added: "They looked like disabled toilets."
Others claimed their coloured panels make the Doctor's armoured foes appear SPONGY.
One wrote: "It's a padded Dalek. A soft toy Dalek. It looks like it's half marshmallow and half plastic."
Another added: "What a shame to see a genuinely menacing Dalek design scrapped."
Twitter, fan sites and blogs were swamped with messages after the coloured Daleks killed off the last of the classic-looking ones in Saturday's Second World War-themed episode.
PM Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) had been trying to use the old-style monsters to fight against the Nazis.
A poll on the biggest Who fansite, Gallifrey Base, gave the new look a big thumbs down.
But the BBC1 show's new boss Steven Moffat said: "It's all-new Doctor Who. Let's change the Daleks too. We wanted them bigger and more colourful and we wanted more of them."
Source: Sun
Others say the new breed look like Fisher-Price toys - or Ikea kitchenware.
The new, bulkier exterminators which made their debut on Saturday have also been accused of looking fat.
A fan called DiscoP wrote on a web forum: "Why have they got such huge backsides?"
Aneechick added: "They looked like disabled toilets."
Others claimed their coloured panels make the Doctor's armoured foes appear SPONGY.
One wrote: "It's a padded Dalek. A soft toy Dalek. It looks like it's half marshmallow and half plastic."
Another added: "What a shame to see a genuinely menacing Dalek design scrapped."
Twitter, fan sites and blogs were swamped with messages after the coloured Daleks killed off the last of the classic-looking ones in Saturday's Second World War-themed episode.
PM Winston Churchill (Ian McNeice) had been trying to use the old-style monsters to fight against the Nazis.
A poll on the biggest Who fansite, Gallifrey Base, gave the new look a big thumbs down.
But the BBC1 show's new boss Steven Moffat said: "It's all-new Doctor Who. Let's change the Daleks too. We wanted them bigger and more colourful and we wanted more of them."
Source: Sun