DWA 312

Doctor Who Adventures # was the issue of the magazine for the week beginning 21st March 2013

Free gift

 * Dalek battle pack featuring Drones and Strategists

Information / Fact File (Photo feature and Essential Info)

 * FACT FILE: New Series top ten preview
 * FUN FEATURE: Monsters Easter Plans

Comic strips

 * The Tail of Decky Flamboon

Fast Facts (Collectable Fact Files)

 * DATA DOWNLOAD: Dalek Skeletons
 * POCKET SCIENCE: Laser screwdriver

Posters

 * A3 Eleventh Doctor and Clara Oswald
 * A4 Cybermen
 * A4 ULTIMATE DALEK COLLECTION: Dalek Scientist

Behind the scenes

 * Filming  A Town Called Mercy 

Interview

 * None this issue

Also featuring

 * Welcome and news (“Hello Time Travellers!”)
 * Geronimo: News, Need to Know, Joke, Hot or Not
 * Big Puzzle: Silent Maze (2 pages)
 * Jokes, Puzzle page and Quiz
 * Mega Moment
 * ACTIVITY: Make a Dalek Puppet Skeleton Mask
 * ACTIVITY: Make a Brain Attack mask (Lego Hero Factory advertisement)
 * What’s on the Doctor’s phone messages.
 * Readers contributions: Who and You Upload featuring reader’s letters, photos, and art.
 * Doctor, Doctor! (Q &A)
 * Competition Goodies (Trash Pack goodies, Hot Wheels Ballistiks Rapid Fire Blasters and 15 packs of Doctor Who Alien Attax Cards and a Collectors Tin)

Main team credits
…and fave thing about the new-look issue
 * Editor: Natalie Barnes Collectible Whoniverse guide!
 * Deputy Editor: Annabel Gibson Where’s the Doctor?
 * Production Editor: Liza Millett Two whole pages of your brilliant drawings and photos!
 * Senior Art Editor: Nikki Davies Doctor, Doctor!
 * Writer: Craig Donaghy All the cool puzzles!
 * Designer: Phil White One off companion Pippa!

Hidden Away / Facts
and A Town Called Mercy .
 * Christmas Special 2013 is confirmed!
 * The Silents design of having four fingers on each hand with one finger much longer than the others was inspired by the aye-aye lemurs.
 * The Master’s laser screwdriver had isomorphic controls and was powered by an Artron crystal.
 * Matt Smith has ridden a horse in  The Pandorica Opens 
 * There were no interior shots of the TARDIS in A Town Called Mercy (TV story)  that was filmed on location in Spain.
 * Working Titles for  A Town Called Mercy  included ‘The Gunslinger’ and ‘Mercy’.

Further information

 * There is no subscription offer promoted for this issue.
 * A Doctor Who Adventures app is now available £1.99 (UK).
 * This issue had a cover price of £2.70 (UK) and the free gift was cover mounted bagged.
 * Next issue's free gift is promoted as a giant monster sticker sheet, exclusive Doctor Who Alien Atax trading card and a pack, set of three pens, transfers, two badges and a white bow tie!
 * The next issue also sees a new-look to the magazine featuring new adventures, new comic, new monsters and new series scares along with the chance to win 100 prizes!