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|Gadgets and Gizmos: [[Sonic lipstick]] <br />
Slamdown pullout: [[Handbot]] beats [[Royal Guard]]<br />
Slamdown pullout: [[Handbot]] beats [[Royal Guard]]<br />
Episode Guide: [[Silence in the Library]]<br />
A-Z: H is for [[Hath]] <br />
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|''Doctor Who: Monster Invasion <br /> '''Issue 17''' ''<br />The Astronaut - Spacesuit secrets revealed!||[[File:DWMI 17.jpg|100px]]|
|Gadgets and Gizmos: [[Astronaut Suit]] <br />
Slamdown pullout: [[Commander Strax]] beaten by [[Auton Roman]]s <br />
Episode Guide: [[Victory of the Daleks]]<br />
Episode Guide: [[Victory of the Daleks]]<br />
A-Z: H is for [[Hath]] <br />  
A-Z: I is for [[Idris]] <br />
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|Gadgets and Gizmos: [[River Song|River Song's Top Tech]] <br />
Slamdown pullout: [[Nephew]] vs [[Prisoner Zero]] <br />
Episode Guide: TBC<br />
A-Z: I is for [[Ironsides]] <br />  
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Revision as of 02:04, 7 January 2012

Overview

Following a successful test run in 2010, Doctor Who: Monster Invasion, a collectible trading card and magazine from BBC Magazines, similar in concept to Doctor Who: Battles in Time, was released nationally in April 2011 fortnightly.

The first five issues included premiums and/or subscriber gifts.

Each issue had a packet of trading cards (also available separately at newsagents) consisting of twenty-four pages that included the following features;

  • Card collection and gameplay
  • Website info (how to unlock areas of the website to play games and bring the 3D cards to life)
  • All-time top ten (cool countdowns)
  • Gadget’s Gadgets (coolest gadgets in the universe)
  • Alien Slamdown (monsters head-to-head)
  • Episode Guide
  • Where’s the Doctor (search and find)
  • A-Z of Aliens
  • Doctor Who Puzzles

Regular Issues

Title Image Features and comment
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 1

Battle of the Daleks
DWMI01b.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Sonic screwdriver

Slamdown pullout: Dalek Strategist
Episode Guide: The Impossible Astronaut
A-Z: A is for Adipose

  • This first issue came with 5 packs of trading cards with the special price of £1.50 (UK)
  • Also included was the first (of three) part of a double sided poster featuring on one side a picture card tick list of all 165 trading cards to be collected and on the reverse an Eleventh Doctor montage.
  • A further insert featured a pull out four-player battle zone gameplay.
  • Subscribers received an additional 4 packs of trading cards with this issue.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 2

Beware the Silence!
DWMI02.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Progenitor

Slamdown pullout: The Silence
Episode Guide: The Time of Angels
A-Z: A is for Atraxi

  • This second issue included the second of three part of a double sided poster featuring on one side a picture card tick list of all 165 trading cards to be collected and on the reverse an Eleventh Doctor montage.
  • Also included was a TARDIS card collecting case (the roof being included as a bonus with issue 3)
  • A further bonus was a card mounted Eleventh Doctor cut-out mask.
  • Subscribers received a magazine box file and swap box with this issue.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 3

Attack of the Angels!
DWMI03.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Psychic paper

Slamdown pullout: Weeping Angel
Episode Guide: A Christmas Carol
A-Z: B is for Bannakaffalatta

  • This third issue included the final part of a three part of a double sided poster featuring on one side a picture card tick list of all 165 trading cards to be collected and on the reverse an Eleventh Doctor montage.
  • Also included was the roof for the TARDIS card collecting case that came with the previous issue.
  • A further bonus was a card mounted set of five new Daleks to cut out.
  • Subscribers received a Doctor Who Battle pack of plastic moulded figures of 17 mini Daleks, 8 Cybermen and 8 Sontarans with this issue.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 4

Soul Sucker!
DWMI04.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Vortex manipulator

Slamdown pullout: The Doctor
Episode Guide: The Doctor's Wife
A-Z: B is for Blathereen

  • Subscribers received a squirty sonic screwdriver with this issue.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 5

Stomp! Stomp!
DWMI05.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: TARDIS

Slamdown pullout: Davros
Episode Guide: The Eleventh Hour
A-Z: C is for Cybermen

  • Subscribers received a Doctor Who Monster Invasion rucksack with this issue.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 6

Fear the Flesh!
DWMI06.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Gadget

Slamdown pullout: Gangers
Episode Guide: Day of the Moon
A-Z: C is for Carrionite

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 7

Silurian Warrior Technology!
DWMI07.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Silurian Heat Ray

Slamdown pullout: Cyberman
Episode Guide: The Lodger
A-Z: D is for Dalek

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 8

Curse of the Siren
DWMI08.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Sontaran Clonepod

Slamdown pullout: Vashta Nerada
Episode Guide: Curse of the Black Spot
A-Z: D is for Doctor - All of them!

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 9

Water Fight
DWMI 09.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Visual Recognition System

Slamdown pullout: Flood
Episode Guide: A Good Man Goes to War
A-Z: E is for Empress of the Racnoss

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 10

Sontar-aah!
DWMI10.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Auton handgun

Slamdown pullout: Silurian
Episode Guide: The Next Doctor
A-Z: E is for Emperor Dalek

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 11
Adipose Attack
DWMI 11.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Junk TARDIS

Slamdown pullout: CyberKing
Episode Guide: The Next Doctor
A-Z: F is for Face of Boe

  • After only 10 issues This issue saw the launch of a further set of 189 cards with an exclusive Eleventh Doctor autograph card, and two packs of nine Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Extreme trading cards.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 12

Dalek Danger!
DWMI 12.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Nano Recorder

Slamdown pullout: Werewolf
Episode Guide: The Stolen Earth
A-Z: F is for The Flood

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 13
Deadly Dolls
DWMI 13.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Home box
Slamdown pullout: Smilers vs. Peg dolls
Episode Guide: Doomsday
A-Z: G is for Ganger
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 14
Mighty Minotaur!
DWMI 14.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Chameleon arch
Slamdown pullout: Minotaur
Episode Guide: The Pandorica Opens
Top 10 TARDIS moments
A-Z: G is for Graske
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 15
Creature Clash!
DWMI 15.jpg Gadgets and Gizmos: Pandorica
Slamdown pullout: Judoon
Episode Guide: Night Terrors
A-Z: H is for Headless monks
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 16

Battle of the Bots
DWMI 16.jpg| Gadgets and Gizmos: Sonic lipstick

Slamdown pullout: Handbot beats Royal Guard
Episode Guide: Silence in the Library
A-Z: H is for Hath

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 17

The Astronaut - Spacesuit secrets revealed!
DWMI 17.jpg| Gadgets and Gizmos: Astronaut Suit

Slamdown pullout: Commander Strax beaten by Auton Romans
Episode Guide: Victory of the Daleks
A-Z: I is for Idris

Doctor Who: Monster Invasion
Issue 18

TBC
DWMI 18.jpg| Gadgets and Gizmos: River Song's Top Tech

Slamdown pullout: Nephew vs Prisoner Zero
Episode Guide: TBC
A-Z: I is for Ironsides

Special Issues Cover Gallery

Subscription Offer

DWMIsub.jpg

Subscribers were offered gifts dispatched with the first five issues (although feedback shows these were not consistently applied in the initial test run);

  • Issue 1 - 4 packs of cards
  • Issue 2 - Magazine Box File and Swops box
  • Issue 3 - Doctor Who Flashing Light and Sound TARDIS lid
  • Issue 4 - Doctor Who squirty sonic screwdriver
  • Issue 5 - Doctor Who Weeping Angels Backpack

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