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|doctor            = Sixth Doctor
|doctor            = Sixth Doctor
|companions        =  
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|enemy            = [[Celestial Toymaker]]
|enemy            = The [[Celestial Toymaker]]
|setting          = [[Celestial Toyroom]]
|setting          = [[Celestial Toyroom]]
|writer            = [[Jacqueline Rayner]]
|writer            = [[Jacqueline Rayner]]
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== References ==
== References ==
* The trick-or-treaters with a [[Guy Fawkes|guy]] knock on the TARDIS doors while the ship is in the [[Time Vortex]]. Each boy represents the Doctor's previous five selves. They play [[blind man's buff]] with the Doctor, after he criticizes them for having a guy on [[Halloween]].
* The trick-or-treaters, with [[Guy Fawkes|a guy]], knock on the TARDIS doors while the ship is in the [[Time Vortex]]. Each boy represents the Doctor's previous five selves. They play [[blind man's buff]] with the Doctor, after he criticizes them for having a guy on [[Halloween]].
* The Toymaker claims the [[Dalek]]s were always his favourite.
* The Toymaker claims the [[Dalek]]s were always his "favourite".
* Toys in the Toymaker's [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] [[dollhouse]] include [[Steven Taylor]], [[Dodo Chaplet]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Frobisher]], and [[Leela]]. The Toymaker also has a [[TARDIS control room]] set with a Sixth Doctor marionette.
* Toys in the Toymaker's [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] [[dollhouse]] include [[Steven Taylor]], [[Dodo Chaplet]], [[Sarah Jane Smith]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], [[Frobisher]], and [[Leela]]. The Toymaker also has a [[TARDIS control room]] set with a Sixth Doctor marionette.
* The Doctor tricks the Toymaker with a game of [[two truths, one lie]]. The Toymaker refuses to answer because it would both admit defeat and result in the [[Celestial Toyroom]]'s destruction.
* The Doctor tricks the Toymaker with a game of [[two truths, one lie]]. The Toymaker refuses to answer because it would both admit defeat and result in the [[Celestial Toyroom]]'s destruction.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The Toymaker mentions ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'' and ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'' and being "recent," and the Doctor notes that the Toymaker waiting for him to be travelling alone. As one of the Toymaker's toys resemble [[Frobisher]], this story likely takes place during the Sixth Doctor's comic run, when he travels with Frobisher and Peri is taking a break from the TARDIS.
* The Toymaker's comments about the [[reality filter]]s occasionally going out refer to the bad effects of some stories from the classic era.
* The Toymaker's comments about the [[reality filter]]s occasionally going out refer to the bad effects of some stories from the classic era.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Toymaker mentions plastic [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'') "wobbly [[dinosaur]]s," ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') the "[[giant rat|giant plush rat]]," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') and the [[Kontron tunnel|time tunnel]] literally decorated with [[Christmas]] tinsel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
* The Toymaker mentions plastic [[Dalek]]s, ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'') "wobbly [[dinosaur]]s," ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') the "[[giant rat|giant plush rat]]," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)|The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]'') and the [[Kontron tunnel|time tunnel]] literally decorated with [[Christmas]] tinsel. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
* The Toymaker claims that, along with everything else, he's orchestrated every battle the Doctor's had with the Daleks, including his recent one. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
* The Toymaker claims that, along with everything else, he's orchestrated every battle the Doctor's had with the Daleks, including his recent one on [[Tranquil Repose]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)|Revelation of the Daleks]]'')
* The Toymaker tries to convince the Doctor that he forfeited the game, that he, [[Steven Taylor|Steven]] , and [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]] never left the Toyroom, and that all his adventures and companions were created by the Toymaker. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Murder in the Dark (short story)|Murder in the Dark]]'') Both the Sixth and [[Seventh Doctor]]s later contemplated that they had never really left the [[Land of Fiction]] and that none of their adventures were real. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)|Legend of the Cybermen]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Conundrum (novel)|Conundrum]]'')
* The Toymaker tries to convince the Doctor that he forfeited the game, and that he, [[Steven Taylor|Steven]] , and [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]] never left the Toyroom, with all his adventures and companions since having been created by the Toymaker. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Murder in the Dark (short story)|Murder in the Dark]]'')  
* The Toymaker would later turn the [[Eighth Doctor]] into a puppet. ([[AUDIO]]: [[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]])
* The Toymaker will once again refuse to admit defeat, being crushed by his Toyshop due to a time limit. ([[AUDIO]]: [[Solitaire (audio story)|Solitaire]])


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