DWA 272

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 30 May 2012

Free gift

 * Collapsable Dalek spiner.

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACTFILE: Space traffic (coolest spaceships)
 * FEATURE: Creature Feature – Restac reviews The Girl Who Waited
 * Matt Smith’s EPISODE GUIDE 6: The Almost People

Comic strips

 * Ghost Train
 * AAAGH! (Alien Assignment Agency General Headquarters) featuring Queen Victoria

Photo Story (favourite told as a photo-feature)

 * The Madman in a HAT! (the Eleventh Doctor’s headwear)

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * FACTFILE: DOCTOR’S COMPANIONS: Sarah Jane Smith

Posters

 * A3 FREAKY FIRST ENCOUNTERS: Sixth Doctor and Sil in   (1985)
 * A4 Sontar-Ha!
 * A4 ULTIMATE MONSTER Plasmavore

Behind the scenes

 * Filming the Tenth Doctor’s Regeneration.

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: News, Monster Companions!, Freaky Formula, Joke, Hot or
 * Big Puzzle: (2 pages)
 * Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Whats on the Doctor’s phone messages.
 * Jokes
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition: Draw a spacecraft
 * Competition Goodies (Helicopter and soccer table and Lego Ninjago sets and a Doctor Who boardgame)

Main team credits
With an alien spaceship of their choice.
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Starship Titanic – but a version that definitely wouldn’t crah!
 * Deputy Editor: Paul Laing I would like the Rani’s TARDIS!
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett I would like the SS Madame de Pompadour – complete with horse!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies One of their dinky little Sontaran spheres – greta for parking!
 * Writer: Craig Donaghty I would love a Dalek saucer – without the Daleks and some comfy chairs!

Hidden Away / Facts

 * WHO SAID: “Got my spaceship, got my boys.”? TBC
 * The Minotaur had been praised by Catkind and Sontarans.
 * The Androzani Trees on Tree Farm 457 grew a wooden ship capable of travelling through time and space.
 * The Hesperus was a Vinvocci salvage ship with lasers that could blast meteors.

Further information

 * The subscription offer for this issue was four issues for £1 then a saving of 10% (thirteen issues for £29.25) (UK).
 * Because of Bank Holiday arrangements, subscribers received this issue on Saturday June 2nd.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.60 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as badge, stickers, Rivers diary notebook, invisible pen and revealer.