Big Finish Podcast Notes and Misc News Roundup Thread

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Having just listened to the podcast myself, I can confirm this being true.

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PLEASE l NEED ROMANA I DONā€™T CARE WHICH

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Would the Coldstream Romana do?

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Maybe as some hideous alternative universe version :squinting_face_with_tongue:

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PODCAST NOTES:

  • Not exactly news, but Nick reiterates that new releases being download only is due to manufacturing costs and a decline in CD sales. Nick said thereā€™s also a slight environmental concern to CDs too, but really itā€™s the costs.
  • Benji saw an article this week that vinyl is on its way out and that the younger generation is starting to be interested in CDs again. Nick said if CDs at Big Finish became popular again theyā€™d make more, but they just donā€™t have the sales right now to justify it.
  • There are plans for Alex Macqueenā€™s Master to return soon (some ā€œrather thrilling plansā€ ā€” Nick is trying to keep it vague).

BIG FINISH NEWS:

DOCTOR WHO NEWS:

  • The Season 2 finale ā€œThe Reality Warā€ will officially be simulcast around the world at 7pm BST on 31 May on iPlayer or Disney+ where available.

MERCHANDISE NEWS:

  • N/A

BBC AUDIO/BOOKS/MEDIA NEWS:

BIG FINISH SALES AND RECOMMENDATIONS:

Fifteen Minute Drama Tease: The Eighth Doctor and Lucie Miller Series 4

Production Interviews: Dark Gallifrey: Missy Part 2

Randomoid Selectotron: 25% off a random Big Finish release every week! Just click on this link and enter the code BUCKUP. This weekā€™s selection: The Monthly Adventures - 227. The High Price of Parking

Out of Print This Week (In the last month this time)

  • The Early Adventures: The Fifth Traveler
  • The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Dark Eyes 1
  • The Tenth Doctor Adventures Volume 2 (Limited Edition)
  • The Tenth Doctor and River Song (box set, not individual releases)
  • The Monthly Adventures: Kingdom of Lies
  • The Monthly Adventures: Ghost Walk
  • The Monthly Adventures: Interstitial / Feast of Fear
  • The Monthly Adventures: Thin Time / Madquake
  • The Monthly Adventures: Colony of Fear
  • Time Lord Victorious: Mutually Assured Destruction
  • Torchwood: Save Our Souls
  • Torchwood: The Crown
  • Torchwood: Gooseberry
  • Torchwood: The 5 People You Kill in Middlesbrough
  • Torchwood: Madam Iā€™m
  • Torchwood: The Great Sontaran War
  • Iris Wildthyme: Wildthyme Reloaded
  • Dan Dare Volume 2

Big Finish Release Date Schedule:

Community Reviews
Release No. Title Review Members
S02E01 The Robot Revolution 3.34/5 688 members
S02E02 Lux 4.01/5 664 members
S02E03 The Well 4.09/5 613 members
S02E04 Lucky Day 3.54/5 552 members
S02E05 The Story and the Engine 3.98/5 500 members
S02E06 The Interstellar Song Contest 3.37/5 341 members
3.1 Missy Part 1 3.26/5 41 members
15 The Companion Chronicles: Families
The Temple of Light 3.71/5 14 members
Stardust and Ashes 4.25/5 14 members
The White Ship 3.45/5 10 members
The Y Factor 3.40/5 10 members
7 The Sixth Doctor Adventures: The Cosmos and Mrs. Clarke
The Story Demon 3.98/5 31 members
The Key to Many Worlds 3.93/5 30 members
Inconstancy 3.26/5 21 members
3 The War Doctor Rises: Fallen Heroes
The Dead Sea 4.43/5 37 members
Unit 26 4.40/5 36 members
Yesterday is Tomorrow and Tomorrow is Today 4.71/5 34 members
8 The Fifth Doctor Adventures: Hooklight 2 4.65/5 23 members

What Big Finish I Was Listening to This Week: Finished The Story Demon and listened to all of The War Doctor: Fallen Heroes and Hooklight 2. All three were absolutely amazing, especially Fallen Heroes and Hooklight 2. I canā€™t believe Big Finish released two of their best sets in recent memory in the same week.

Random Tangents: Nick talks about an experience of going on holiday where the airline he flew down with to Bermuda went bankrupt while he was there, so their return flight suddenly didnā€™t exist.

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Iā€™m glad theyā€™ve reiterated it again, because it does irk me to constantly see people berate them for it when theyā€™re a small company that cannot justify such expenses if the demand isnā€™t there.

OH!!! This is very exciting.

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YESSS!! Do you hear that @BSCTDrayden? Big Day for us Macqueeners!!!

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Vinyl is already on its way out after the resurgence a few years ago? Wow.

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Iā€™m shocked too, Iā€™ve loved getting vinyl over the last few years and still do when an album drops for one of my faves, or an album I like.

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Yeah, the only physical releases Iā€™ve bought are vinyl (9th Doctor, Dalek Universe & Iā€™ve picked up some of the limited ones through 3rd party sellers).

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The biggest problem with Vinyl is that itā€™s become so damn expensive. It got popular and the price skyrocketed.

Also, large artists/labels are hogging pressing plants, so smaller labels donā€™t have a chance to get vinyl pressed.

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Understandable. Admittedly Iā€™m a part of the statistic as Iā€™ve long since stopped buying vinyl (but the bands I like are old school so I was only buying used). I do recall how expensive the new albums were though when Iā€™d sift through the record stores.

Iā€™ve seen some people buy a record or two without even having a player; they wanted a physical copy of an album they liked just to say they had it or because they admired the cover art. These days itā€™s difficult to justify spending the money on something that will sit on a shelf collecting dust.

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Thatā€™s technically me! I bought my copy of Julien Bakerā€™s Little Oblivions thinking our old record player still worked; sadly, it doesnā€™t. I still have the record, of course ā€” I even have it on my wall! But have never played it :cry:

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FERAL NOISES THATS MY BOY !!!

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Although from a general trend point of view vinyl may be on its way out, I only got a turntable and starting buying records a year ago, and I still think itā€™s neat (I love physical media). That being said, I have no desire to buy Big Finish audios on vinyl, because I tend to listen to those when traveling.

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Yeah Iā€™ve never found the appeal for BF vinyls myself either as I prefer listening with headphones! But I can see the want to collect them, theyā€™re lovely to collect and they even did exclusive artworks for some I believe.

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Iā€™ve only just realised that the actor plays one of the dads in the inbetweeners (which i loved growing up)

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If I got a BF vinyl, itā€™d have to be Torchwood, and Iā€™d probably just hang it somewhere or something cuz I never plan on owning a vinyl player

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Yes, the one who definitey isnā€™t gay.. :slight_smile:

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Me with my big circles of spinning plastic:

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I donā€™t get the appeal of listening to audiobooks/dramas on vinyl at all - Iā€™d go for cassette before vinyl - but clearly some people do, or they wouldnā€™t have sold so well!

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