The Toymaker: Difference between revisions

=== The Mandarin in Blackpool ===

[[File:Toymaker Nightmare Fair Cover.jpg|thumb|right|The Toymaker in [[Blackpool]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)}})]]Whichever face he wore, the Toymaker began operating in late 20th-century Blackpool, indulging in the same impulse that had led to his wanderings. Using the Space Mountain thrill-ride as his base-of-operations, he instructed Stefan, as well as [[Yatsumoto]] and others, to begin the development of arcade cabinets with video games that killed the players that failed with an electronic monster projected from the video screen. The Toymaker goaded the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]] into a series of traps and games while they were on holiday in Blackpool. However, when the Doctor recognised the Toymaker's infinite loneliness, the Toymaker was agitated enough to cheat the Doctor of his game and use the video game's murderous monster to kill him, but he was thwarted by the combined intervention of Peri and his other surviving prisoners. To ensure his video games could never be released to harm the people of Earth, the Doctor turned one of the neural relays the Toymaker had built to passively redirect his telekinetic energy against its creator, using it to trap the Toymaker in an endless mental [[time loop]] sustained by his own mental energy. The Doctor believed that the Toymaker could not escape from such a fate until his body finally died of old age after uncountable millions of years; the Doctor confessed to Peri that he was quite aggrieved to have had no other option but to visit such a "loathsome" fate upon his ancient foe. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)}}, [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Nightmare Fair (audio story)}})

=== The Seventh Doctor's trap ===