Run, Run, as Fast as You Can!
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She likes the story, and the confection, so was more excited than usual to get this home and up and running. All that enthusiasm evaporated in the course of her one and only turn, but she enjoys messing around with the components in isolation. Drawing him on the Magna-Doodle and erasing him piece by piece is probably still best though.
2004 / Board game / 2-4 players / UK
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There's no more 'learning' involved than with Snakes and Ladders or any other basic roll-and-move game. A jig-board, 3D castle and pop-up victory proved to be unexciting frills.
2017 / Jigsaw puzzles / 1 player
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She seemed to be over jigsaws, but not over Frozen merch. There's appropriate difficulty in working out face piece rotations, but the backgrounds and images generally are boring. Still it was the same price as a sticker book for about as much long-term use.
2011 / Tower building/demolition game / 1-2 players / UK
****
She's always liked toppling towers, so this tricolour junior Jenga was a cheap hit. She even warmed to the boring building phase and was inventing her own hazardous variations before long.
Even as someone who appreciates clunky old sci-fi, watching the entirety of "Classic" Doctor Who wasn't worth the significant time investment that could have been spent elsewhere, though I would have been eternally curious. Like the modern series, it has its high and low points that are worth selective revisiting, but it probably does require the childhood connection to get much out of it.
I used to think I'd missed out on the communal childhood trauma thanks to growing up in the '90s wilderness, but being drawn by mysterious forces to watch the latter years of the original series before the rest, I recognised imagery that had haunted my nightmares for years and realised I had just scraped in after all.
It's a run that's as inconsistent as they come, but it's still part of 'My' Doctor Who. Here are my Top Twelve Seventh Doctor Stories.
