Cybermen @ Peterborough (2)

The last of my photo posts from the Peterborough museum exhibition covers the later Cybermen, from the JNT era through "Nu Who". You saw some images of the first of the three Cyber-displays when I covered the 1960's models in a previous post.

The second row features the 1980's ones, and includes some actual screen-used costumes.

A Cyberman from Earthshock (judging by the moonboots) and the Controller from Attack of the Cybermen. This is the actual suit worn by Michael Kilgarriff in the story, bought at auction. The mannequin had to be padded in order to mount it properly.

Then a standard Cyberman from Attack of the Cybermen - another original costume - and one from Silver Nemesis. This is a reproduction made for the Hyde Fundraisers group.

The latter suffered a mishap as the display was being set up. The mannequin fell over and the helmet smashed - lucky it was only a reproduction - so the donor had to quickly create a replacement.

We then move onto the revived series, with a rather oddly posed Cybus Cyberman accompanied by a Cybershade from The Next Doctor and one of the models first introduced in Nightmare in Silver:

In the room containing the masks and models we also have "Handles" from The Day of the Doctor and a Cybergun, in a case next to the Julian Bleach Davros:

It's then onto the Chibnall era to finish off, with Ashad and a Cyber-Warrior from Ascension of the Cybermen and a finally CyberMaster from The Power of the Doctor. Nice seeing the detailing on the latter's suit up close.

Personally, other than the impressive Emperor, I would say that the Cyberman display on show at Peterborough is superior to the Dalek collection in its wide range of costumes, from The Tenth Planet through The Wheel in Space to The Power of the Doctor (though I'm always biased in favour of the Cybermen over the motorised dustbins anyway).

That's it for now. I may be revisiting the exhibition very soon as I'm back in London, though I may hold fire until the autumn to see if they've added some other items.

That holiday runs 26th July to 3rd August when there'll be no posts, but I'll stick a "Blog Update" out nearer the time.