Just want to remind everyone that the 1988 ‘Build the TARDIS’ book is actually part of the Target range, and so technically no #DoctorWho Target collection is officially complete without it.
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Got my copy for free at Galaxy Bookshop in Sydney. They mustn't have been able to shift them, and were giving them away - presumably because I was buying other Doctor Who stuff at the time. I can't remember the details now, it was the late 80s! But I still have it. I never 'built the TARDIS'.
I've just checked and the publication date is actually 1987. (Though it's reviewed in the Feb 88 edition of DWM...) But there were still quite a few neon logos flying about, even in 88...!
The tabs folded into slots to create a wonky structure that you couldn’t move without it coming apart and it basically gathered dust because it was too fragile to touch so you ended up taking it apart and just putting the pieces back in the book. I’ve heard..
I remember mine being pretty sturdy, at least in terms of its structural integrity. The one iffy bit was the lamp, which I don't think ever sat quite right.
I had lamp trouble, issues with one of the ‘police box’ signs and the base plus a corner. If it turned out I got some shoddy later print run of it. I would not be surprised. ☹️ (I am of course not entertaining the idea that I just wasn’t very good at putting it together..)
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