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Tardis

According to some accounts, the Toymaker wore a large sapphire ring on the middle finger of his left hand.

History[]

The ring appeared to be key to the Toymaker's power, as he used it to manipulate the various elements of the Celestial Toyroom during his match against the First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet. The Toymaker used it to enlarge his clowns from inanimate toys to human-sized talking, moving beings, and also to make one of the Toyroom's walls vanish to reveal the conveyor belt of duplicate police boxes he had created to prevent his "guests" from easily escaping in the Doctor's TARDIS. When the Toymaker used his ring, it emitted "concentric rings of blue fire". (PROSE: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Gerry Davis and Alison Bingeman, adapted from The Celestial Toymaker (Brian Hayles), Target novelisations (Target Books, 1986).)

During his encounter with the Fifth Doctor, the Toymaker waved his "ornate ring" to control his memory mirror. After the Toymaker was temporarily defeated, the Doctor took the ring from him and slipped on his own finger, using it to command the memory mirror to show him one last glimpse of Rallon and Millennia as they had been in their earlier, happy days; he then hurled the ring at the mirror, shattering it. As the mirror was destroyed, the ring mysteriously vanished. (PROSE: Divided Loyalties [+]Gary Russell, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).)

The Toymaker supported this ring while facing the Fourteenth Doctor. (TV: The Giggle [+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 2023 specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

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