Thursday, 28 February 2019

The Daffodil Man.

Oh My Sainted Aunt, look what the doctor Who Figure Collection is about to release. The Daffodil Man from The Terror Of The Autons. When I was a boy and I first saw this character giving out plastic daffodils, which later horrifically suffocated any one close enough to smell them, I was filled with the heebee jeebies. Those big baby shaped heads with a smile that goes nowhere near the eyes, the bright tasteless clothes, eek its the stuff of nightmares.
             That story has a lot going for it in terms of seeds of dread. The horrible homunculus doll, scrambling about when it warms up. The black plastic chair that swallows anyone who sits on it, folding about them and crushing and suffocating them. The Master using a phone line coming to life and strangling The Doctor. And the eerie van full of daffodil men sitting together not speaking or making a sound.
               The Daffodil Men want you to know they love you.
               Why its enough to give a chap, or chapette, bad dreams.