New Celestial Toyroom vworps into view from Doctor Who Appreciation Society

By John Freeman on 21 December 2025

Published by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, Celestial Toyroom 555, featuring a cover by Elbert Smith, will be online shortly, and available to buy in print after Christmas.

Edited by James Ashway, contents include:

Anniversaries of The Daleks’ Master Plan, The Android Invasion and Series Nine
The Chimes of Midnight and Jubilee revisited following their novelisation
An interview with Doctor Who collector and publisher David J Howe
The New Adventurers take on Transit
Where might CBeebies Doctor Who take us?
Reports from conventions at Riverside Studios and the BFI
Reviews of books, Big Finish and other releases
And much more!

Doctor Who Appreciation Society's Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 - Cover by Carolyn Edwards

Don’t forget the Celestial Toyroom Annual 2026 is available now, too. Previous editions looked at a specific Doctor’s era, and the 2026 Annual celebrates the Fifth Doctor. Packed with story critiques, features, an interview and fiction, available here as a PDF download, it includes contributions from artists Andrew Skilleter, Colin Howard, Andy Lambert, author Paul Scoones and many others.

• Doctor Who Appreciation Society Official Site

• Celestial Toyroom Annuals

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.