Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #642 in Toys & Games
• Brand: Character Options

Features

• This future sonic screwdriver was seen in Series 4 and was used by Dr River Song from the Doctor's future.
• It includes light and sound effects and has an interchangable red and blue tip.

Customer Reviews

Aron Robinson
The modeling is excellent, with much more detail than the other sonic screwdrivers and a good match for the one in the show, so it's great for collectors. The best gadget copy yet. Despite the extra detail it looks good on the shelf beside the others, suitably worn and battered after (presumably) long term use. I'm very happy with it!

As a toy though it seems to me to have two basic problems.

Its rather quiet, about half as loud as the other screwdrivers - great for parents irritated by the sound of their kids playing with Doctors' and Masters' screwdrivers all the time, but not so good for the kids themselves who presumably want the sounds to match each other, as they do in the show.

The biggest problem, however, is that rather than having an external button to switch between the blue and red settings (it's main play feature compared to the Doctors' screwdriver, after all) the only way to change it is to take off the panel disguising the neural relay, a small strip of plastic with a handle which is an essential design feature but almost calculated to get lost, snapped off at the holding tab, or dropped and trodden on during rigorous play.

If possible, get the kids to give you this panel for safe-keeping first and then let them play!

Also l can't help mentioning as a typical nitpicking Whovian that the switch between red/blue settings and the neural relay being in the same place doesn't make any sense in the context of the story either. If they were both under the same panel, River Song would have realised the Doctor was trying to save her at some point in the future the first time she tried changing the setting. It's strongly implied (though not explicitly stated) in the show that the neural relay is a hidden function only The Doctor would have known about.

Why not just have an external switch? There's even a false red button about 1cm below the existing one that would have been perfect for the purpose and not a great feat of electrical engineering to wire up either....

So overall, ten out of ten as a collector's piece for looks, still six out of ten as a toy because young Whovians will probably love it anyway. (Just look after that panel!).

BAD WOLF BOY
I play with this so much dad nearly threw it in the bin , when i brought it to a birthday party at the cinema and i nearly lost it but cathel found it for me so i never let it out of my sight again aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!

Supersonic Screwdriver
River's sonic screwdriver was begging to be made into a toy the moment it appeared last year in Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, and now it's here. The styling is very nice given that it, like all the other prop replicas, is a plastic toy. It features the usual blue light and sound effect, but the mysterious 'red setting' only alluded to in the episodes is available too and nice to see. Whatever the 'dampers' were, Character don't appear to have tried to guess at those. A really neat feature is an extra series of green lights under a hidden compartment in the screwdriver, the neural relay - it's a pity this didn't trigger any sound. The only other thing that would have been nice to have is a felt tip in the bottom, but it's a small point. My main concerns are for the durability of the toy, most of all with the cover to the neural relay/colour change button, which looks as if it has the potential for snapping, but overall it's really nice to finally be able to get one's hands on this prop!