Doctor Who: Monster Invasion (magazine)
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 |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Sonic screwdriver Slamdown pullout: Dalek Strategist
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 2 Beware the Silence! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Progenitor Slamdown pullout: The Silence
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 3 Attack of the Angels! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Psychic paper Slamdown pullout: Weeping Angel
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 4 Soul Sucker! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Vortex manipulator Slamdown pullout: The Doctor
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 5 Stomp! Stomp! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: TARDIS Slamdown pullout: Davros
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 6 Fear the Flesh! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Gadget Slamdown pullout: Gangers |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 7 Silurian Warrior Technology! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Silurian Heat Ray Slamdown pullout: Cyberman |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 8 Curse of the Siren |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Sontaran Clonepod Slamdown pullout: Vashta Nerada |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 9 Water Fight |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Visual Recognition System Slamdown pullout: Flood |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 10 Sontar-aah! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Auton handgun Slamdown pullout: Silurian |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 11 Adipose Attack |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Junk TARDIS Slamdown pullout: CyberKing
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| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 12 Dalek Danger! |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Nano Recorder Slamdown pullout: Werewolf |
| Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Issue 13 Deadly Dolls |
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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! |
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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! |
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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 |
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Gadgets and Gizmos: Sonic lipstick Slamdown pullout: Handbot beats Royal Guard |
Special Issues Cover Gallery
Doctor Who: Monster Invasion Cardmounted First Trial Issue
The trial cover
Subscription Offer
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
