Toby Hadoke

Toby Hadoke will be signing at our store - Thursday 28th Feb 2008 from 4pm. Toby is performing his hit one man show "Moths Ate my Doctor Who Scarf" at the Norwich Arts Centre on Thursday night, and we've managed to persuade him to come into our store beforehand to sign copies of his CD - the BBC7 adaptation of the show. Feel free to pop in and chat to him about all things Doctor Who and stand up comedy.

"Moths" is an award winning show, a comedy autobiography, charting his childhood geekdom and affection for Doctor Who, through to introducing his kids to the phenomena with the 2005 relaunch. It's great stuff (I especially liked the "BBC Announcer" doing his "This week, the Deadly Assassin... I mean, is there any other kind of assassin?" bit. I'm paraphrasing, but you get the idea), and will ring true to many a sad geek like me. Heck, I grew up when Star Wars had just come out (yes, I saw it when it was first released, I'm that old), and started playing D&D when that was first released too.

Maybe I should write a Geek-Autobiography myself? There don't seem to be many around. There are a few good ones... "Dalek I loved you" by Nick Griffiths is cool too (out in paperback in April), "The Elfish Gene" by Mark Barrowcliffe is another classic, but probably only cool to the D&Ders out there. And, of course, "Just a Geek" by Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher from Star Trek TNG).

All good reading!

Pop into the shop and chat to Toby Hadoke on Thursday and feel free to talk to us about all things cool and slightly geeky!

Micro Universe Trading Day

First of all, many thanks to all who attended our first go at a "Trading Day" for Micro Universe Doctor Who figures. After a quiet start, the game playing soon kicked into gear with much pondering over whether a "Spacesuit Doctor" (only found in the Santuary Rocket) is worth swapping for the "Master". Personally, I don't think so...

I brought in my custom "Rose" Micro Universe figure, but I don't think I'd be willing to swap that for anything. Basically, I carved a Martha figure up a bit, rebuilt her hair, made her jacket into a hoodie and repainted her. It's a good job the Micro Universe figures don't have faces, cause I'd have probably ruined it by trying. I'm in the midsts of customising another of my many spare Martha's into a Donna in wedding dress, which has involved a lot of Milliput sculpting. Not sure how well it's turning out yet, but I'll keep at it.

Other than that, nothing too huge to report. We've had some amazing Thunderbird replica models come in...

They come in cool display cabinets and everything. We have TB1 and TB3 (£395.00 each or £750.00 for the two), they're pricey and for the serious collector, but when you see them you'll instantly see why they're so expensive - they're very, VERY nice, and come with a certificate signed by Gerry Anderson himself.

At the other end of the spectrum, we've just had the Doctor Who busts come in.

The box packaging doesn't really do them justice, and when you see them "in the flesh" so to speak you'll be impressed. Not only that, but we're selling them for £14.99, rather than the £39.99 they originally were. Would look nice on the top of my TV, if it wasn't being hogged by my Master Chief Halo 3 helmet...

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Sylvester McCoy and Micro Universe

Well, yesterday was one of disappointment as Sylvester McCoy had to pull out of our signing event at the last minute. One thing that surprised us pleasantly was the reaction of most of the people who turned up - sure, all were disappointed, but in the true spirit of the dedicated Who fan, the first question wasn't "Why didn't you tell us earlier?" or anything like that (we didn't find out until the morning of the signing). No, the first question we got back from almost everyone when we announced he wouldn't be coming was "Is he alright?"

It was just nice that despite travelling to come and see him, their first concern is not for themselves or for their journeys, but for the wellbeing of their Doctor.

In answer to the question, as far as we know he's okay. Sophie Aldred, who played his companion Ace, signed for us the week before and mentioned an injury and recovering from his critically acclaimed run on King Lear with Sir Ian McKellen.

Next Saturday, we'll be hosting our first "Swap Meet" for Micro Universe figures. Before you ask, we know that all of the figures are not yet available (so if anyone turns up with an elusive Sycorax, Ood, Pig Slave or Empty Child, they're likely to be besieged with swap offers), but this is a good opportunity to swap the spares you have for any duplicates you may have.

I don't know if I have any spares anyone would want (though I have more Clockwork Men than I know what to do with), as I've started customising them. If they're successful, I'll post pictures here and on Outpost Gallifrey (that was), but I've already started repainting and resculpting Martha to make a Rose figure, and repainting a couple of spare Mickey's to make Pete Tyler and Jake - I may make some more generic Preachers to have a little army of them to fight the Cybermen!

So, if anyone wants to come along to our swap meet, it's Saturday 16th, between 2-4pm. We're hoping to have some cool displays, and we've recently discovered that the mini Die Cast TARDIS produced by SciFiCollector is just about the right size for the figures... Me thinks a purchase is coming on!

Welcome

Welcome to the Blog of the Television and Movie Store here in Norwich. We're based where the old BBC shop used to be opposite the Forum, and have become the place to be for all things related to Doctor Who and cool cult TV and movies. The pic above is from just one of our many signings with the incredibly nice people from Doctor Who. (In this case, this is a couple of our staff with Nicholas Courtney, who played Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, at a signing in our store in January.)

What's the purpose of the blog? Well, we just thought it'd be a cool way to display photos from the signings, rave about the cool stuff we have in the shop, and gossip about all things TV and movie... like who's back in Series 4, or whether Farscape was better than Babylon 5... stuff like that.

We'll post again soon, as we have the 7th Doctor, Sylvester McCoy signing at our store tomorrow (9th Feb 2008), so we'll take loads of photos and let you know how it all goes.