User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-4028641-20170222073756/@comment-24894325-20170228190702

On this I must side with OttselSpy25.

There were plenty of mind-boggling transformations in the DWU, including transformations into toys. Amy Pond was turned into a peg doll in Night Terrors; the Eighth Doctor was turned into a ventriloquist dummy in Solitaire; the whole TARDIS crew has been miniaturised in Planet of Giants, to name just the few.

Just the fact of being toys cannot discount the characters from being themselves. What it boils down to (every time) is intent. They could be characters turned into toys.

They could be characters intended to be themselves but represented through toys, which would not be too different from animated images in Dreamland or images in comic stories, which do not match the original characters exactly. In fact, although provided in an invalid game, there is a very simple technobabble explanation ready for any writer to use: a computer virus affected our perception and we see things as 8-bit computer game characters/LEGO pieces/play-doh figures/etc.

Or they could be intended as toys, based on the characters from Doctor Who.

PS I would like to apologise to to all "them" whom I called "he" in this thread and beyond. I meant no offence. Just was too lazy to spend time researching the preferred pronoun.