5" Radio-Controlled Davros

RRP Price: £19.99

Detail

The five inch radio controlled Davros figure has been made with a lot of hard work put into the detail. Everything on it is just like it was originally on TV, just a bit, well, a lot smaller. Apart from half-way down Davros' body, where he sits in his Dalek-shaped portable throne. Here, it just ends, and there is just a strip of grey plastic across, but just looking at it normally, it is pretty much unnoticeable, and the makers would not be able to make it any better really. Davros' control panel is suprisingly detailed, with every button and lever in the right place. Unfortunately, the blue light on the panel does not light up at all. His face includes all the wrinkles and nooks and crannies shown on the programme, and the eye slots are darkened for more effect, just like they were orginally. All the sense-spheres are put in the right places as well, plus his black jacket also has all the creases so the detail is a main highlight to the product.

Remote/Control

The figure comes with a brilliant small remote, which is smaller than the ones that come with the twelve inch Daleks. It is grey and hastwo knobs in the shape of Dalek eye-stalks, which move up and down to determine the direction you want the figure to go. The instructions tell you the full information about directions. At the top, the Doctor Who logo is shown, but as the same colour as the remote. A single button in the middle lets you enjoy various different phrases spoken by Davros at the end of the Series 4 finale. When you use the remote to let the figure move, it has more power than you would first think! It zooms across the room very quickly, but this can also be a disadvantage as when you try and turn it a little bit, it turns round a lot than you want. Say if you are going slightly at an angle and you wanted it get it straightened up. When you turn it, it goes in completely the wrong direction, but fortunately, this is only a minor worry. I believe it has as much power as larger radio controlled figures, and goes at the same speed, so it's quite amazing something that small could produce that much power.

Likeness

The figure is actually very much like the real thing. Apart from it is small, it's got all the correct colours and all the tiny little bits of detail that you could see on the show. A lot of care ha gone into it, to make it every bit as perfect as possible, so that children would be delighted to play with it and a Doctor figure, so they can relive the episodes and mae up new stories, having a very accurate, but small Davros of their own.

Articulation/Movement

There are only a few points of articulation on this five inch figure. As most of it is just the Dalek casing, not much really moves. But this isn't bad, because there could be nothing else added to it for more movement. Davros' arm and metal claw move, so you can either have Davros waving or you could just lay the hand down on his control panel. The head also spins round, but only about ninety degrees. No levers or buttons move on the control panel. So there is enough to get you by, at least.

Speech

There are many different phrases that you can trigger Davros to say by pressing a single button on the remote. There are phrases such as 'Welcome to my new empire, Doctor!', 'You will suffer for this!' and 'This is my ultimate victory... The destruction of reality itself!'. It is also quite loud, louder than you would expect for a figure of this size. This is an advantage if you want to scare your friends and family, and the sound is not too poor either!

Toughness

All things are breakable, but this figure is actually very sturdy. It may not help it if you knock it on something, but the lower half is very strong. The top is a little more flexible. You can bend the metal claw and the head part, and the back support is also quite flexible. The claw needs to be, but I don't really think the back does. But at least this makes the figure reliable not to break, as it would just bend and fall back into place.

Batteries

This Davros figure requires three AAA batteries and the controller is the same. Unfortunately they are not included, but AA or AAA ones rarely are included.

Packaging

It comes in blister packaging, which I must say is actually quite a challenge to open. It would be stupid trying to open it with just your fingers, so you will need something sharp, like a pair of scissors. It is very colourful and when you see it, Davros faces to the side. The controller is hidden under the title of the product, as well as the instructions. Be careful, though, if you want to keep any part of the packaging, as you might ruin it very easily.

Overall

For all your Davros needs, this is a perfect figure, that you can spend hours of your time playing with!

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