Theory:Timeline - The Toymaker

This page attempts to list the appearances of the Toymaker in the order in which he experienced them.

Limiting factors
The Toymaker's timeline does not necessarily derive from the order of the Doctor's encounters with him. His lives are akin to "incarnations," which he changes depending on how bored he gets of them, although presumably he does not switch between appearances.

Early life

 * PROSE: The Quantum Archangel
 * The Toymaker helps to imprison Kronos the Chronovore.


 * COMIC: The Greatest Gamble
 * The Toymaker collects Gaylord Lefevre, who appears in Divided Loyalties.

Challenging the Doctor

 * TV: The Celestial Toymaker


 * COMIC: Endgame
 * Dialogue indicates that this is the first meeting of the Doctor and the Toymaker since The Celestial Toymaker.


 * PROSE: Murder in the Dark
 * Dialogue indicates this is the first meeting of the Doctor and the Toymaker since The Celestial Toymaker. The ending leads into Trick or Treat. Although only a few days have passed from the Doctor's perspective, he explains to Steven and Dodo that due to his timeless nature, a thousand years could have passed from the Toymaker's perspective since their last meeting.


 * PROSE: Trick or Treat
 * The Toymaker tries to trick the Sixth Doctor into believing that he has been his puppet for hundreds of years, ever since the events of Murder in the Dark.


 * COMIC: Relative Dimensions
 * The Toymaker encounters the Twelfth Doctor and builds a new toyroom. Although this account posits that the Toymaker is too scared to leave his Toyroom, other accounts set prior show he has no problem visiting parts of the universe.

As the Mandarin

 * PROSE: Divided Loyalties
 * The Toymaker loses his current body in a battle with the Fifth Doctor; he regenerates into a new form here described as still looking like Michael Gough, but with a colder demeanour. He decides to set up a base in Blackpool, leading directly into The Nightmare Fair


 * PROSE: The Nightmare Fair
 * The Toymaker is now calling himself "the Mandarin" and has the colder demeanour Divided Loyalties sought to retroactively explain. The audio adaptation coincidentally depicts him in a different body based on actor David Bailie, whereas Divided Loyalties and the prose Nightmare Fair depict the Toymaker as still being Gough.


 * PROSE: Games
 * Using the name of "the Mandarin", the Toymaker plays a game with Fenric.


 * AUDIO: Solitaire
 * After being bested by Charley Pollard, the Toymaker's David Bailie body is destroyed, though he plans to form a new one to seek his revenge.

Trapped

 * AUDIO: The Magic Mousetrap
 * The Toymaker encounters the Seventh Doctor.

Return

 * POEM: The Toymaker
 * The Toymaker toys with the Tenth Doctor.


 * GAME: Double Danger
 * The Toymaker, now in a body resembling actor Neil Patrick Harris, encounters the Fourteenth Doctor.