DWA 178

The 178th issue of the BBC's weekly Doctor Who Adventures

Free gift

 * Weeping Angels boxed stationery set AND keyring pen with Doctor Who Factcards (previously issued with issue 121)

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACT FILE: The Ultimate Monster Gang

Comic content

 * A Mess of Trouble (4 pages)

Mega Moments (favourite scene told as a photo-feature)

 * From: TV: The Time of Angels - The Doctor realises the statues are not Aplan but Weeping Angels.
 * Adventure Guide: The Vampires of Venice

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact File)

 * None

Posters

 * A3 Saturnyne Rosanna in natural form (The Vampires of Venice)
 * A4 The TARDIS at the Millennium Centre, Cardiff – in the snow!
 * A4 The Doctor listens to the Pandorica The Pandorica Opens
 * A4 The Doctor and the Dalek Supreme (Victory of the Daleks)

Behind the scenes

 * Filming The Hungry Earth and the hungry holes

Interview

 * None

Additional features

 * Welcome and news
 * DWA Awards (Online Readers Poll): Meanest Baddy (Supreme Dalek)
 * Doctor Huh? (Readers questions)
 * Doctor Who Jokes
 * Make-It: Smiler in a booth
 * Competition: Draw a Haemo-Goth (mentioned by River Song but never yet seen)
 * Spot the Difference
 * Readers contributions
 * Competition Goodies (Doctor Who: Myths and Legends DVD, Doctor Who Audiobooks, Doctor Who: Nuclear Time book, Lego Toy Story sets, Dragons Universe toys)

Credits

 * Editor: Moray Laing
 * Deputy Editor: Annie Gibson
 * Senior Art Editor: Paul Laing
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett
 * Designer: Melanie Caine

Hidden Away / Facts

 * In 102 a gathering of the Doctors enemies included: Commander Strak and four Sontaran battlefleets, Daleks with 12,000 battleships and Cyberships.
 * Chelonians are cybernetic tortoises with X-ray vision that hate humans.
 * The Hungry Earth used a steelworks on location made to look like a coal mine. The hungry "hole" was actually a mechanics pit with a secret little room accessed through a trap door as people slide through a rubber ring that inflates to give the impression of being sucked through the earth.

Additional details

 * The Pandorica Alliance feature (The Ultimate Monster Gang) also mentions: Drahvins, Draconians, Atraxi, Terileptil, Zygons and Chelonians.
 * Incidentally, mention of the Chelonians (with a pictorial reference) is the first reference to a non-BBC created alien encounter of the Doctor. The encounter however does appears as an e-book online.
 * The subscription offer for this issue with a saving of 40%.
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.50 (UK).
 * This issue's free gift was bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as double sided giant poster, Dalek playing cards and more than sixty stickers.

External link

 * The official BBC magazine site with cover gallery and news of the latest available issue