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| |image = Celestial Toymaker.jpg
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| |name = The Celestial Toymaker
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| |alias = The Guardian of Dreams<br />The Crystal Guardian<br />The Mandarin
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| |species = Guardians of Time
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| |origin = Unknown (possibly [[Calabi-Yau Space]] or the [[Celestial Toyroom]])
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| |appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|The Greatest Gamble]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Games]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]''|[[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Magic Mousetrap]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire]]''}}
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| |actor = Michael Gough
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| |voice actor=David Bailie
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| {{you may|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker (novelisation)|n1=television story|n2=its novelisation}}
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| The '''Celestial Toymaker''' (also known as the '''Crystal Guardian''' and possibly '''the Mandarin''') was a powerful being who ensnared sentient beings in apparently childish games, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the Toymaker hated to lose and the games were always rigged in his favour.
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| == Biography ==
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| === Nature and powers ===
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| The Toymaker once claimed to be the embodiment of one of the fundamental forces of the [[universe]], much like the [[Guardians of Time]]
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| [[File:ToymakerSnapsFingers.jpg|thumb|left|The Toymaker in his realm. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')]]Within his realm, 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 spa--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)--[[Special:Contributions/24.164.25.53|24.164.25.53]]<sup>[[User talk:24.164.25.53#top|talk to me]]</sup> 23:01, May 24, 2013 (UTC)[[[]]]t sacrificing any great editability. New sections can be created, inspected, and vetted before they appear on the front page. And the regular maintenance of the page is now made much easier by allowing editors to just concentrate on the one section they want to change. No more hunting through lines of obscure code to find the bit that changes the "Quote of the week". Now you just click on the edit symbol close to the "QOTW", and change away. Easy.
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| [[Category:Floor 500]]opponent lost or tried to cheat he became another exhibit in the Toyroom. Such opponents included professional gamblers from the [[America]]n west and [[Rome|Roman]] soldiers. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Greatest Gamble (comic story)|The Greatest Gamble]]'') | |
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| === Personal history ===
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| The [[First Doctor]] learned of the Toymaker when he was a youth at the [[Prydon Academy]]. The [[Time Lord]]s' data banks described him only as a vague legend. The Doctor and his friends [[Rallon]] and [[Millennia]] who, like the Doctor belonged to a clique known as [[the Deca]], investigated the legend, travelling to the Toyroom in a stolen [[TARDIS]]. The Toymaker was in a dormant, disembodied state, but on their arrival he possessed Rallon and made Millennia one of his servants. The Doctor defeated him, and the Toymaker allowed him to leave, knowing that he would become an even more worthy opponent given time to mature. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| [[File:Celestial title.jpg|thumb|The Celestial Toymaker and the [[First Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')]]
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| During the latter days of his first incarnation, the Toymaker drew [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] back to his realm and made the Doctor and his companions play his games again. This time the Toymaker arranged things so that even if they won, the Toyroom would collapse around them at their moment of victory, leaving him the only survivor. The Doctor outwitted the Toymaker again and escaped, leaving his realm in chaos. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'') Rallon had been keeping the Toymaker's powers in check since he was first possessed. He made the Toymaker abide by the rules of his games to allow the Doctor to escape. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| At the end of this adventure, the Doctor believed, incorrectly, that since he had won, the Toyroom no longer existed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')
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| [[File:ToymakerPointsAndGrins.jpg|thumb|left|The Toymaker has a clever idea. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)|The Celestial Toymaker]]'')]]
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| The Toymaker discovered that after centuries of existence, Rallon's body was dying. He set out to ensnare the Doctor again and hatched a complex plot to turn his companions against him and absorb the Doctor as a new host. He was thwarted when Rallon forced himself to undergo multiple [[regeneration]]s consecutively. The trauma expelled the Toymaker from his body. A projection of Rallon's potential future self merged with the Toymaker to ensure that the full powers of the immortal continued to be kept under control. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Divided Loyalties]]'')
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| Eventually, the Toymaker returned, trapping the [[Eighth Doctor]] in a replica of the village of [[Stockbridge]]. Here he forced the Doctor to play games for control of a reality-warping alien device called the [[Imagineum]]. The Toymaker's pawn this time was a replica of the Doctor himself. The Doctor persuaded his double to turn against his master. With the Toymaker distracted, the Doctor used the Imagineum to create a replica Toymaker, which he set against the original. A stalemate ensued. The Doctor destroyed the Imagineum and freed Stockbridge from the Toyroom. The Toymaker was trapped in apparently perpetual battle with himself. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Endgame (DWM comic story)|Endgame]]'')
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| 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 successful in defeating the Toymaker and imprisoning his essence in a doll (or so it seemed). 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 chessmaster 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]]'')
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| The Toymaker later captured [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] and took it to his [[The Celestial Toyshop|Toyshop]]. He transformed the [[Eighth Doctor]] into a puppet. The Doctor's companion, [[Charley Pollard|Charley]], was forced by the Toymaker to take part in his riddle, but was tricked by the Toyshop which shrunk to 0% of its original size and the body he 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 the Toyshop's destruction. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Solitaire]]'')
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| ==== Other accounts ====
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| The Toymaker played chess against [[Fenric]] during the latter's imprisonment. The Toymaker found himself on the verge of being outplayed, but slowly realised that, in this case, playing for a stalemate would be a victory of sorts. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Games]]'')
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| :''We do not know "when", in relationship to other events, we can date this account, although given the date of Fenric's captivity it must have occurred between the 3rd century AD and the 1940s. Therefore we cannot place it in the timeline of either the Doctor or the Toymaker.''
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| [[The Master]] was shown having "what was once the Celestial Toymaker's favourite toy" and trapping [[the Graak]] inside it. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Destiny of the Doctors]]'')
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| [[File:The Nightmare Fair 5.jpg|thumb|left|"The Mandarin" in [[Blackpool]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (audio story)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')]]
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| Another story tells that the Toymaker, now calling himself the Mandarin, appeared in [[Blackpool]] and, using a thrill ride, [[Space Mountain]], as his base of operations, manufactured deadly video arcade games. He was stopped by the [[Sixth Doctor]] and placed in an impenetrable [[force field]]. Because the Mandarin's mental energy maintained the force field, the Doctor had set it up so that he could never escape it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)|The Nightmare Fair]]'')
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| :''This story presents another, radically different, origin for the Toymaker. This, and the discrepancies between this adventure and other ones (the Toymaker previously showed no interest in conquest, and, unlike here, did not depend on technology for his powers) suggests that this may not be a [[canon|true account]]; however, an explanation for the personal differences is hinted at in ''Divided Loyalties'', where the Fifth Doctor reflects that Rallon's Watcher integrating itself with the Toymaker had a similar effect on him that a regeneration would have on Time Lords, changing his personality in subtle yet significant ways while leaving his essential driving goals and appearance intact.''
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| == Behind the scenes ==
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| * 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 [[Time Lord|own race]]. ([[BBC DVD]]: ''[[The Time Meddler]]'')
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| * In an interview, [[Peter Cushing]] stated that he believed that [[Dr. Who (Dalek movies)|his human incarnation of the Doctor]] was canon, and that his film version of the Doctor and the television Doctor were bridged together by the Celestial Toymaker. His theory was that his Doctor is a future incarnation kidnapped by the Toymaker, who "wiped his memory and made him relive some of his earlier adventures."<ref>[http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/category/peter-cushing/ Archive for the ‘Peter Cushing’ Category ''Doctor Who Interviews'' Sep 15, 2009]</ref>
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| == Footnotes ==
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| [[Category:Guardians of Time]] | | [[Category:Guardians of Time]] |
| [[Category:Celestial Toyroom individuals]] | | [[Category:Celestial Toyroom individuals]] |
