Editing The Toymaker

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|alias       = {{il|Celestial Toymaker|Guardian of Dreams|The Crystal Guardian|The Mandarin|[[No Cha]]}}
|sister      = Hecuba
|first       = The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)
|appearances = {{appears}}
|actor       = Michael Gough
|other actor = Neil Patrick Harris
|voice actor = David Bailie
|other voice actor = [[Paul Antony-Barber]]
|clip        = The Last Move - Doctor Who - The Celestial Toymaker - BBC
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{{you may|Celestial Puppet Master|the Gamemaster}}
{{counterparts |name=the Toymaker|2=The Toymaker (Barusa's universe)|3=Celestial Toymaker (Earth-33⅓)}}
'''The Toymaker''', also known as the '''Celestial Toymaker''', was a powerful being who ensnared sentient beings in seemingly childish [[game]]s, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the Toymaker hated to lose and the games were always rigged in his favour.

There were many contradictory accounts of the Toymaker's identity; one equated him with the [[China|Chinese]] [[trickster]]-[[god]] '''[[No Cha]]''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}}) and others claimed that he was one of the [[Guardians of Time]], either the '''Crystal Guardian''', ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|The Quantum Archangel (novel)}}) or the '''Guardian of Dreams'''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Divided Loyalties (novel)}}) The [[Sixth Doctor]] believed the obfuscation of identity was deliberately encouraged on the part of the Toymaker as another game to keep him entertained. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')

Whatever he really was, the Toymaker had a sister named [[Hecuba]], who was known as the Queen of Time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Queen of Time (audio story)|The Queen of Time]]'')

== Biography ==
=== Origins ===
According to the [[Sixth Doctor]], much of the Toymaker's past was up to speculation: not even the Time Lords were able to confirm the Toymaker's true origins, as anyone who researched into him became tired of all the games they had to face along the way in their efforts to understand. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')

The [[First Doctor]] believed the Toymaker to be native to [[the Doctor's universe|the same universe]] as himself, and as having "only" lasted for "thousands of years" by the time of their first encounter. He told [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]] that "this Toymaker" was "immortal, like all [[toymaker]]s", explaining that "the urge to create toys that are ultimately destructive [was] unfortunately part of [their] universe", such that the world was metaphorically full of "destructive toymakers" like him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'') 

In contrast, the Sixth Doctor claimed that the Toymaker originated in [[pre-universe|a universe before his own]] and was hauled into the primary universe by "some kind of catastrophe", was immune to the usual laws of physics as a result. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') This echoed the Sixth and Seventh Doctors' accounts of the nature of the [[Great Old One]]s; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'') in fact, some accounts claimed that the Toymaker was the [[crystal]]-coloured Guardian of Dreams, counterbalancing the other five [[Guardian of Time|Guardians of Time]], the most powerful [[Great Old One]]s who had survived from [[Great Old Ones' universe|an destroyed universe]] in which they had been an [[earlier race of Time Lords]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') Six Guardians were stated in one account as having been in attendance for the [[Event One|creation of the universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')

According to the [[Eighth Doctor]], the Toymaker originated in "the [[Dark Places]]", ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)}}) with the [[Twelfth Doctor]] similarly claiming that the Toymaker was spawned in the [[Dark Times|chaos before time]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (comic story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') Likewise the [[Seventh Doctor]] described the Toymaker as an [[Elder God]] originating from the [[Old Times]] at the beginning of the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Magic Mousetrap (audio story)|The Magic Mousetrap]]'', ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'') In fact, one account equated him with the [[China|Chinese]] [[trickster]]-[[god]] [[No Cha]], depicting him as one of the magical entities from the chaotic "[[time before this]]" who had survived the [[Time Lord]]s' [[Anchoring of the thread|imposition of rationality]] upon the universe. Only when rationality's foothold on the universe lessened, such as during the reign of the [[Carnival Queen]], was the Toymaker able to descend from his realm outside time and space, and interfere in the physical world once again. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}})

In contrast, one account mentioned the "chap" who became "obsessed with games" and took to dressing like a [[China|Chinese]] [[mandarin]] as a member of one of the [[elder race]]s from the [[original palimpsest universe]]; in this account, this original state of reality before the [[Great House]]s' interference was one of perfect linearity, and it was only after the introduction of [[time travel]] to the universe that various members of the elder races went mad and turned their powers to evil or mischief. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Mr Saldaamir (short story)}}) 

Yet another account simply suggested that the Toymaker originated from "outside [[time]] and [[space]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia: Updated Edition (reference book)|page=35}})

=== Creating the Celestial Toyroom ===
In a confession to the [[Sixth Doctor]], the Toymaker stated that he eventually got bored of thousands of millennia of pointless creation and destruction after using his powers for other things in the beginnings of the universe, and found a new source of amusement in [[game]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') According to the [[First Doctor]], the Toymaker succeeded in creating a [[universe]] of his own, "entirely in his own vision" called the [[Celestial Toyroom]], where he would "manipulate people and turn them into his playthings". The Toymaker and his games became "notorious throughout the universe" as he spread his influence to attract people into his world and try to make them part of it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')

[[file:lead On.png|thumb|The Toymaker challenges [[Gaylord Lefevre]] to a [[playing card|game of cards]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=40}})]]
Out of [[boredom]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=41}}) the Toymaker began spending centuries of his time wandering the Earth and sampling its various games, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') frequently challenging [[human]]s from across history. He lured people from a variety of cultures to the Toyroom, turning them into toys when they lost his games. On one such occasion, he lured [[Gaylord Lefevre]] — a professional [[gambler]] from the [[Old West]] — from [[steamboat (The Greatest Gamble)|his steamboat]] in [[Mississippi River|the Mississippi]], challenging him to [[playing card|a game of cards]]; when Gaylord's [[luck]] began to sour he attempted to mark the cards to "even the [[score]]", but, aware of Gaylord's deception, the Toymaker proclaimed that the game was [[forfeit]] and transformed him into one of his many toys after playing along briefly. He later challenged [[Roman soldier (The Greatest Gamble)|a Roman soldier]], leading him past the toy version of Gaylord. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=39-42}}) In the [[18th century]], [[Hsen Ling]] told stories of his own abduction by the trickster-god [[No Cha]], who he beat in an unearthly game of [[cards]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')

=== First encounter with the Doctor ===
The [[Time Lord]]s' data banks on the Toymaker on [[Gallifrey]] during [[the Doctor's early life]] described him only as a vague legend, with some reports implying that there existed several Toymakers rather than just one. When the [[First Doctor]] investigated the legend with his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] in a stolen [[TARDIS]], they arrived in the Toyroom and found the Toymaker in a dormant, disembodied state. However, he managed to possess Rallon and make Millennia one of his living toys, with the Doctor able to best him with the help of the [[Dymova]]. Knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature, the Toymaker allowed the Doctor to leave the Toyroom. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'')

=== Rematch with the Doctor ===
[[File:ToymakerPointsAndGrins.jpg|thumb|left|The Toymaker has a clever idea. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')]]
After compiling a list of games to play, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Traveller From Beyond Time (short story)|page=21}}) the Toymaker drew [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to his realm, so he could make the Doctor play his games again with his companions, [[Steven Taylor]] and [[Dodo Chaplet]], but arranged things so that the Toyroom would vanish completely at their moment of victory, leaving him the only survivor and the Doctor and his companions his subjects forever. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'') However, Rallon was able to keep the Toymaker's powers in check and ensured that he abided by the rules of his games to help the Doctor to escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') The Doctor soon outwitted the Toymaker again and escaped, leaving his realm in chaos, and the Doctor believing that the Toyroom no longer existed, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'') but the Toymaker later stated that he had actually been banished to the [[ether]] for [[millennia]] after his defeat. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)|part=Three}})

=== Further activities ===
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[[File:Celestial Toymaker End Game.jpg|thumb|The Toymaker welcomes the [[Eighth Doctor]] to the [[Celestial Toyroom]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'')]]
Having been banished to the ether in his defeat, the Toymaker spent [[millennia]] searching for a way to best the Doctor, eventually finding that the [[Imagineum]] would be able to create a version of the Doctor under his bidding that was more powerful than the original. As the Imagineum had been in [[spacecraft (Endgame)|a spacecraft]] that crashed on Earth and looted by the [[Knights Templar]], the Toymaker played and won a game of [[canasta]] with a descendant of the Templar living in the [[1990s]] named [[Marwood (Endgame)|Marwood]], placing him under his bidding and the Imagineum in his possession. However, Marwood's [[adjutant]], [[Felix (Endgame)|Felix]], stole a component of the Imagineum called [[the Focus]], and entrusted it with [[Maxwell Edison]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]], before he was killed by Marwood in a mirror version of [[Stockbridge]] the Toymaker made, while keeping the real village in a [[Macro-Dimensional Linkage Device]] that resembled a [[snowglobe]].

When the [[Eighth Doctor]] arrived in the fake Stockbridge, the Toymaker confronted him when he, Max and Izzy tried to retreat to his TARDIS. While the Doctor and Izzy were able to escape from his clutches, Max was captured, and taken to the Macro-Dimensional Linkage Device that the Toymaker had sealed the real Stockbridge in. When the Doctor and Izzy mounted a rescue from the Toyroom, the Toymaker had Marwood and his dolls capture them, and forced them to play games of [[snakes and ladders]] and [[hangman]] before the Toymaker unveiled his possession of the Imagineum. The Toymaker placed Izzy and Max in a game of [[mousetrap]] and created [[Eighth Doctor (Imagineum)|his duplicate]] of the Doctor, placing them in a game of [[gladiatorial chess]]. 

Despite his duplicate being physically superior to him, the Doctor was able to convince his duplicate not to fight by explaining that he was merely just another one of the Toymaker's playthings. After seeing the Toymaker murder Marwood after growing bored of him, the duplicate of the Doctor was left with no doubt that he too would eventually befall the same fate, so he turned on the Toymaker, going to kill him, but the Doctor instead used the Imaginuem to create [[Celestial Toymaker (Imagineum)|a duplicate]] of the Toymaker, sending him and his duplicate to compete in a perpetual [[stalemate]] in the [[Dark Places]] where the Toymaker originated. As the Toyroom began to dissipate, the Doctor, Izzy, and Max fled, while the Doctor's duplicate remained so he could destroy the Imagineum, and the Doctor restored Stockbridge after Max took the "snowglobe" with him from the Toyroom. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (DWM comic story)}})

[[File:Toymaker wins.JPG|thumb|left|The [[Twelfth Doctor]] gives the Toymaker his TARDIS. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}})]]
When the Toyroom began to break down due its ancient age, the Toymaker feared that he would be "loose in a wild, unforgiving universe", thus luring the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and [[Clara Oswald]] on the pretence of a party hosted by [[Susan Foreman (toy)|Susan]], wanting to steal the Doctor's TARDIS to keep the Toyroom contained. After the toy replicas of some of the Doctor's previous companions failed to capture him, the Toymaker flew a toy [[biplane]] towards him and Clara; as the Toymaker's power over the Toyroom was waning, the Doctor was able to take some control, causing the biplane to crash by hitting it with a giant [[bauble]].

The Doctor and the Toymaker then battled with toy armies until he realised they were equally matched, deciding to propose a game of [[Truth or Dare]]; it was in this game the Toymaker revealed his fears about the Toyroom's collapse and, thinking he was outsmarting the Doctor, dared him to give the TARDIS to him. As the TARDIS materialised around the Toyroom, the Doctor and Clara travelled to the control room, rebuilding the Toyroom with the [[Zero Room]] and ejecting it into space. The Doctor had felt compassion for the Toymaker, for they weren't so dissimilar: "a lonely god, drifting through time and space in his magical toy box." ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}})

[[File:The Toymaker poem.JPG|thumb|right|The Toymaker toys with the [[Tenth Doctor]]. ([[POEM]]: {{cs|The Toymaker (poem)|page=32}})]]
The Toymaker attempted to persuade a victim to play the [[Trilogic Game]], while speaking about his toys and their sadness, as he toyed with the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], a [[Cybusman]], an [[Adipose]], and some [[Dalek]]s. ([[POEM]]: {{cs|The Toymaker (poem)|page=32-33}})

=== Becoming the Mandarin ===
[[File:The Nightmare Fair Big Finish Story Art.jpg|thumb|left|"The Mandarin" in [[Blackpool]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')]]
When the Toymaker discovered that Rallon's body was dying after centuries of existence, he set out to ensnare the Doctor again and hatched a complex plot to turn his companions against him and absorb the [[Fifth Doctor]] as a new host, but was thwarted when Rallon forced himself to undergo multiple [[regeneration]]s consecutively, with the trauma expelling the Toymaker from his body. A projection of Rallon's potential future self then merged with the Toymaker to ensure that his full powers continued to be kept under control. While waiting for his Toyroom to repair itself, the Toymaker decided to take his servant [[Stefan (The Nightmare Fair)|Stefan]] to Earth to seek amusement, deciding to go to [[Blackpool]] from an idea he had seen in [[Tegan Jovanka]]'s mind. 

By this account, although the Toymaker had meaningfully regenerated, in a way which altered his personality, he kept the same face as before; ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') this tallied with one account of the Doctor's subsequent encounter with the Toymaker in Blackpool, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') while another, otherwise-similar account of this event showed that the new Toymaker had adopted a different physical appearance and voice altogether, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'') which he would retain during an encounter with the [[Eighth Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'')

At any rate, now calling himself "the Mandarin", the Toymaker began operating in late 20th-century Blackpool, indulging in the same impulse that had led to his wanderings. Using the Space Mountain thrill-ride as his base-of-operations, he instructed Stefan, as well as [[Yatsumoto]] and others, to begin the development of arcade cabinets with video games that killed the players that failed with an electronic monster projected from the video screen. The Toymaker goaded the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] into a series of traps and games while they were on holiday in Blackpool. However, when the Doctor recognised the Toymaker's infinite loneliness, the Toymaker was agitated enough to cheat the Doctor of his game and use the video game's murderous monster to kill him, but he was thwarted by the combined intervention of Peri and his other surviving prisoners. To ensure his video games could never be released to harm the people of Earth, the Doctor imprisoned the Toymaker in an impenetrable force-field sustained by his own mental energy, which he considered inescapable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')

[[File:Brief Encounter - Games.png|thumb|The [[The Mandarin-the Entity chess match|four dimensional chess match]] played between the Mandarin and [[the Entity (Games)|the Entity]] in [[Shadow Dimensions|his non-world]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}})]]
[[The Mandarin]] began tracking [[the Entity (Games)|the Entity]] through the [[Arabian plains]], intending to challenge him to a game, but was unable to as the Entity was "hurled" into a [[non-world]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}}) the [[Shadow Dimensions]], by [[the Doctor]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (novelisation)}}) and so he had to travel to the non-world to challenge him there instead. After agreeing on the [[stake (gambling)|stakes]] — the Mandarin would relinquish his body to the Entity if he lost or the Entity would become the Mandarin's [[toy]] if he were to lose instead — the Entity chose [[four dimensional chess]] as the [[The Mandarin-the Entity chess match|game of choice]]. After playing for an unknowable duration of time, the [[advantage]] swaying between them, the Mandarin realised, towards the [[endgame]], that he was going to lose, so, for the first time, he was able to comprehend the [[concept]] of a [[stalemate]]. After such an event happened, the Entity demanded a rematch, but the Mandarin declined explaining they were equally matched rendering a rematch pointless, and thus left the non-world, thanking the Entity for teaching him that "perhaps winning [wasn't] everything after all." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}})

The Toymaker later captured [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and took it to his Toyshop, where he transformed the Eighth Doctor into a [[puppet]] and the Doctor's companion, [[Charley Pollard]], was forced to take part in his riddle, but was tricked by the Toyshop, which shrunk to 0% of its original size and the body the Toymaker was using was destroyed within it. The Toymaker swore that when his new body had formed, he would take his revenge upon the Doctor and Charley, who had escaped before the Toyshop's destruction. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]]'')

=== The Seventh Doctor's trap ===
"Stirred up" by [[Fenric]] as part of a game among the [[Elder God]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'') the Toymaker somehow regained full control of his powers and lured several people into his domain, including the [[Seventh Doctor]] and his companions [[Ace]] and [[Hex]]. Working under the Doctor's leadership, the group of victims were apparently successful in defeating the Toymaker and imprisoning his essence in a doll. Each of them ate a piece of the doll, dividing the Toymaker so that he would no longer be capable of using his powers. The Doctor concocted an elaborate plan to keep control over the fragments of the Toymaker in the minds of each member of the group until the Toymaker withered away forever. As this plan involved the Doctor forgetting having made the plan in the first place, he wound up short-circuiting it. In the end, it was revealed that the Toymaker had been in control all along, allowing himself to be absorbed into humanity so that he could "feel what it was like to lose". Finally, one of the people involved, the chess master [[Swapnil Khan]], managed to trap the Toymaker in a perpetual stalemate in his own dimension, but not before the Toymaker had reduced everyone except the Doctor, Ace, Hex, and Khan's daughter, [[Queenie Glasscock]], to wooden dolls. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Magic Mousetrap (audio story)|The Magic Mousetrap]]'')

=== Return ===
[[File:The Toymaker (Double Danger).jpg|thumb|left|The Toymaker faces the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Double Danger (game)|page=44}})]]
The Toymaker, now taking on a new appearance, was the subject of the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s request of [[Human (Double Danger)|a human]] to figure out the differences between two versions of [[reality]] following a [[rupture]] in [[time]] by examining two pictures. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Double Danger (game)|page=44}})

=== Undated events ===
* [[Romana II]] once recalled an incident in which the Celestial Toymaker took over the [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]]'s [[Light Entertainment Department]], greatly harming [[human]]ity but boosting sales figures. In order for her and the [[Fourth Doctor]] to defeat the Toymaker, Romana had to work at the BBC and produce a radio drama about cow owners. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen]]'')
* For an indefinitely prolonged period, the Fourth Doctor and Romana II were trapped in [[The Doctor's reality (The Not-So-Sinister Sponge)|a hazy and simplistic reality in which they went on endless frivolous adventures, only occasionally having flashes of their true personalities]]. The Doctor once realised that he and Romana were dolls being played with until they fell apart, in the process seeing an "exquisitely carved Chinese mandarin doll" which he sensed was important. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Playing with Toys (short story)|Playing with Toys]]'')

=== Legacy ===
{{Section stub|Information from [[GAME]]: ''[[The Saviour of Time (video game)|The Saviour of Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Miniaturist (audio story)|The Miniaturist]]'', ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'' and ''[[The Widow's Assassin (audio story)|The Widow's Assassin]]'' needs to be added.}}
The [[Elder]]s, recording the [[First Doctor]]'s voyages using their [[instrument]]s and [[chart]]s, included how the Celestial Toymaker showed the Doctor how gods were most dangerous when they were [[boredom|bored]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Traveller From Beyond Time (short story)|page=20-21}})

On [[Siralos]], the [[Tremas Master]] used "what was once the Celestial Toymaker's favourite toy" to trap [[the Graak]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors (video game)|Destiny of the Doctors]]'')

In the [[city-state]] [[Tor-Ka-Nom]] in [[2708]], after [[Izzy Sinclair]] retorted to the [[Eighth Doctor]] to "keep out of trouble", they both began citing trouble they got into, with the Doctor mentioning how she "almost got her neck stretched in a floating [[noose]]". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|By Hook or By Crook (comic story)|part=One}})

During the Eighth Doctor's supposed [[Eighth Doctor's regeneration|regeneration]] into [[the Doctor (Party Animals)|a new incarnation]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Final Chapter (comic story)|part=Four}}) secretly the shapeshifting construct [[Shayde]] who had switched places with the real Doctor, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Wormwood (comic story)}}) an image of the Celestial Toymaker was seen. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Final Chapter (comic story)|part=Four}})

Upon Izzy's return [[Redfern Inn|home]] to [[Stockbridge]] on [[19 December]] [[1996]], having felt guilty about how she treated her [[Sandra Sinclair|adoptive]] [[Les Sinclair|parents]], they asked her about her day and she reminisced to herself about her adventures with the Doctor, including her first with the Toymaker. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Oblivion (comic story)|part=Six}})

In mid-[[December]] [[2008]], upon being reunited with [[Maxwell Edison]] in [[Stockbridge]], the [[Tenth Doctor]] reminisced about several of his adventures with Max, including how they defeated the Celestial Toymaker. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Stockbridge Child (comic story)|part=One|page=24}})

When the [[Trylonian]]s attempted to use their [[Trylonian brain drain machine|Brain Drain machine]] on the [[Eleventh Doctor]] to gain [[intelligence|intel]] on their many enemies, the Celestial Toymaker was one of the individuals in the resulting mental projection who asked the Doctor for his help. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Birthday Boy (comic story)}})

While trapping the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] aboard [[Zellin's space platform|his space platform]], [[Zellin]] told the Doctor that [[the Doctor's universe|her dimension]] was like a [[board game]] for him of which "the Toymaker would approve". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Can You Hear Me? (TV story)}})

=== Other realities ===
[[File:Celestial Toymaker Earth-33⅓.jpg|thumb|The Celestial Toymaker in [[Earth-33⅓]], receiving a career-changing birthday gift. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Doctor Who? (DWM 196 comic story)|''Doctor Who?'' 196}})]]
In [[Earth-33⅓]], the Celestial Toymaker  was a ''[[Doctor Who (Earth-33⅓)|Doctor Who]]'' villain. Early in his [[career]], he received an influential [[birthday present]] — a [[Paul Daniel's Magic Set]] — which he liked to an extent. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Doctor Who? (DWM 196 comic story)|''Doctor Who?'' 196}})

In [[Barusa's universe|one]] of the infinite [[parallel universe]]s of "[[Multiverse|possible space]]", ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Fire and Brimstone (comic story)}}) [[the Doctor (Barusa's universe)|the Doctor]] once encountered "[[the Toymaker (Barusa's universe)|the Toymaker]]", described as an "evil force dominating a fantasy world", in [[2525]]. [[Barusa]] later discovered that the Toymaker was actually under the control of [[the Master (Barusa's universe)|the Master]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Chronicles of Doctor Who? (short story)}})

== Appearance ==
While possessing [[Rallon]]'s body, as one account posited, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'') the Toymaker was a tall and imposing man with deep set, glittering eyes. He dressed as a [[Chinese]] [[mandarin]], wearing a round black hat with gold thread and a silver, red and blue collar over a [[dragon]]-patterned black robe encrusted with [[ruby|rubies]], [[emerald]]s, [[diamond]]s and [[pearl]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')

In the form encountered by the Fourteenth Doctor, the Toymaker appeared as a blonde man who wore a [[tuxedo]] and a [[top hat]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Double Danger (game)|page=44}})

== Psychological profile ==
As the Toymaker was [[immortality|immortal]], he would otherwise be incredibly [[boredom|bored]] if it weren't for his games; ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=41}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Traveller From Beyond Time (short story)|page=21}}) he therefore lived for these "times of [[chance]]", when both his [[skill]] and [[fortune]] were challenged, as it made [[eternity]] bearable. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}}) As he was isolated for so long, he had become [[Insanity|insane]]; ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia: Updated Edition (reference book)|page=35}}) indeed, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] was aware that people believed the Toymaker was insane, expressing that they were probably correct. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}}) According to the [[Sixth Doctor]], games were the Toymaker's "[[meat]] and [[drink]]". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Trick or Treat (short story)|page=91}})

The Toymaker was also wily, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=41}}) and he described himself as the "pan-dimensional" equivalent of [[Walt Disney]], [[Charles Darrow]], and [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cite source|Divided Loyalties (novel)}})

The Toymaker also only wanted the Doctor's help if he could best him in a game, seemingly to proud to ask him directly. According to this account, the Toymaker was deathly afraid of the universe and could barely conceive the idea of being forced to leave the Toyroom. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}}) However, other accounts indicated he visited the outside universe without such fear. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)}}, etc.) The [[concept]]s of [[evil]] and, up until a point, a [[stalemate]] were beyond his comprehension. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}})

=== Powers and abilities ===
[[File:ToymakerSnapsFingers.jpg|thumb|left|The Toymaker in his realm. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}})]]
Within the [[Celestial Toyroom]], the Toymaker commanded immense powers, but they were limited by the rules he set for any particular game, although he could bend these rules or "forget" to mention them to his opponents if he so chose. He himself was immortal and invulnerable, and appeared capable of space and time travel at will. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) The Toymaker could control the [[gravity]] of the Toyroom ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=42}}) was able to fly, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Relative Dimensions (comic story)}}) animate toys and render people [[invisible]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Doctor Who Character Encyclopedia: Updated Edition (reference book)|page=35}}) He seemed to be able to travel from the Toyroom to other locations, and back, with ease. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|page=40, 42}}, [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Games (short story)|page=22}})

During the course of a game, one of the players might die outright or they might lose, in which case, the Toymaker would have total control over their life and personality, perpetually. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}) Apart from these children's games, the Toymaker sometimes played in person against his "guests", playing games such as [[playing card|cards]]. The Toymaker would be aware of if his opponent cheated and would reverse their actions before declaring the game [[forfeit]] and would have to pay a hefty price: becoming another one of his many toys within the Toyroom. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Greatest Gamble (comic story)}})

== Behind the scenes==
=== As a Time Lord ===
According to [[Donald Tosh]], the commissioning [[script editor]] and (uncredited) co-author of ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'', the intention was that the Toymaker was, like [[the Monk]] who had predated him, a member of [[the Doctor's species|the Doctor's own race]]. ([[BBC DVD]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'')

In the [[The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|novelisation of ''The Celestial Toymaker'']], which was based in part on concepts for the original TV story which had to be abandoned due to a rushed production, the Doctor describes the Celestial Toymaker as native to the universe and several thousands of years old. Additionally, the Toymaker wields [[The Toymaker's ring|a sapphire ring]] reminiscent of [[the Doctor's signet ring]], which he uses when altering elements of his realm, such as shrinking toys to human size or making a wall vanish.

However, this fact has not explicitly been followed upon in any narratives featuring the Toymaker to this day, with other accounts instead positing the Toymaker was something quite different from a [[human]] or [[Time Lord]], as the 1960s era was generally unclear about what exactly the Doctor's species was. Notably, however, the audio story ''[[Faustian (audio story)|Faustian]]'' described the Time Lords as "a celestial race".

=== As a Guardian of Time ===
''[[Divided Loyalties (novel)|Divided Loyalties]]'', a novel by [[Gary Russell]], retconned the Toymaker into being a [[Great Old One]] and [[Guardian of Time]], a notion originating in [[Craig Hinton]]'s extensive cosmology of the [[Doctor Who universe|''Doctor Who'' universe]]. However, it followed Hinton's notion that the Guardians, like the other Great Old Ones, were survivors of an "[[earlier race of Time Lords]]", having been the "upper echelons" of the Time Lords who ruled the [[Great Old Ones' universe|previous universe]]. 

Notes explaining Hinton's view of the matter were written as part of the preparatory work for ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'', and later printed in the [[charity anthology]] ''[[Shelf Life]]''. Therein, Hinton explained that in his theory: 
{{quote|The [[High Council]] of the [[Old Time Lord]]s were all linked to [[the Matrix]] when the universe ended. They became the Guardians – sentient life forms that acted as the vessels or conduits through which the fundamental essence of the Universe could act.|[[Craig Hinton]]}}
The Crystal Guardian, dubbed "the Guardian of Thought in Time, the Guardian of Dreams, He Who Walks in Dreams", was therein stated to have been the [[Keeper of the Matrix]] in his former life. 

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