DWA 245
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The 245th issue of Doctor Who Adventures was released in November 2011.
Contents
Free gift
- Bumper Pack includes a double sided board game and advent calendar, and a monster games set comprising spinner, dice, maze counters and mini-pinball.
Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)
Comic strips
Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)
- From: DW: Night Terrors
Highlighted moments from episode 10
Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)
- A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER: Pig Slave
Posters
- A3 Rory Williams, The Doctor and Amy Pond
- A4 General Staal
Behind the scenes
- Backstage filming of the Stormcage facility
Interview
Also featuring
- Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
- Geronimo: What’s new -DVD Box-set extras, What’s going on in a Silent’s Brain?, Hot or not!
- Big Puzzle: Giant Suduko (2 pages)
- Puzzle page and Quiz
- Readers contributions: Who and You Upload
featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art. - Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
- Competition Goodies (Day trip to London and steam train adventure.)
- Readers Offer: 25% discount of personalised Doctor Who cards from funkypigeon.com
Main team credits
With the character they would most like to chat to on the phone.
- Editor: Natalie Barnes Joy – we could chat about eyewear fashions!
- Deputy Editor: Paul Laing Yvonne Hartman – we’d discuss pensions
- Production Editor: Liza Millett The Doctor – but only on free weekend calls, because he talks too much!
- Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Captain Jack – I’d ask to borrow his coat for winter
- Deputy Senior Art Editor: Lee Midwinter The Silurians, to talk about celeriac
Hidden Away / Facts
- WHO SAID: “The House is all around you, my sweets. You are standing on him.” TBC
- The first Sontaran on television was Commander Jingo Linx in The Time Warrior.
- On a secret mission in a war against the Rutan Host, Field Major Kaarsh had a three-fingered hand in Guy Fawkes’ plot to blow up Parliament.
- The Stormcage facility was flmed at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
- Breakfast cereal Cheerios first went on sale in 1941. The Midnight Snack was To
Further information
- Destination is a new feature that looks at events in both the real world and the Whoniverse.
- The subscription offer for this issue was a saving of 25% (6 months for £49.99) (UK).
- Subscribers received a letter explaining a change in publisher’s name. from BBC to Immediate Media Company London.
- This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK) and the free gift was bagged
- Next issue's free gift is promoted as a mobile phone kit (Phone Sock, Lanyard and screen wipe)
