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Revision as of 06:40, 4 April 2011
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion was a new collectible Doctor Who magazine and trading card series, similar to Battles in Time, that was unveiled by BBC Magazines in April 201 but was only available within a limited test area (in the south west of the UK) until July 2010. A revised nationwide release was planned for April 2011 around the time of the Series 6 television premiere.
The initial test run featured a regular magazine with a packet of 9 different trading cards. The initial test run consisted of a total of 90 common, rare and super rare cards based on the past era and series five of Doctor Who.
Packs of trading cards were also available separately from newsagents and selected retailers.
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion (magazine)
Each issue had a packet of trading cards (also available separately at newsagents) consisting of 24 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
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion (initial pilot card collection)
In the initial test run a total of 90 cards were available in the set (the full national release could include in excess of 375 cards).
Seperately available in packs of 9 cards; these were divided into coloured categories;
- Doctor (6 blue cards)
- Villians (11 purple cards)
- Adventures (24 yellow cards)
- Monsters (26 red cards)
- Doctor’s Allies (13 turquoise cards)
- Gadgets (9 green cards)
16 of these cards were special cards with an interactive element on the official website
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