I Heart Toys: Amy Pond in My Queen in the ‘Doctor Who’ Chess Set

25 April 2011 Eric Kwun | Posted in: I Heart Toys

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If I was to describe ‘Doctor Who’ as a maddening chess game through time and space as the Doctor battles it’s foes in calculate strategy, I guess it would make sense that Doctor Who gets it own themed chess set. Spotted on Firebox, this Doctor Who chess set features chess pieces that is roughly shaped like the TARDIS with pictures of Doctor Who characters as the various chess pieces. The blue side includes the Eleventh Doctor as the king, Amy Pond as the queen, Rory as the knight, and the TARDIS as the bishop. On the other side we are are the baddies to Doctor Who. Everything from Cybermen and Daleks are positioned to take down the Doctor. I do wish that the pieces were more figural types and not just printed pictures in a clear box, but I can’t complain. It’s better than nothing right? Well, I guess considering I suck in chess. Maybe a Doctor Who themed “Connect Four” game needs to be made. I would rule in that.

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Grotesque & Kinda Cute: Cthulhu Mythos Chess Set

18 May 2010 Eric Kwun | Posted in: Customized, I Heart Toys

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Etsy community member, MonstersDomesticated created a really cool chest set featuring the gruesome monsters of the H.P. Lovecraft universe. Dubbed the “Cthulhu Mythos Chess Set“, each of these hideous chess pieces are hand made and not produced from a mold. This is pretty cool considering not a single piece is identical to the other. The chess pieces are sculpted out of polymer clay, painted, than sealed in a polyurethane to ensure that, as MonstersDomesticated describes it “will outlast us all…”.

We consider the black pieces to be the Cthulhoid forces, with dread Cthulhu itself as king, and menacing Dagon as swift and malevolent queen, and the mouldering green pieces to be led by Yog-Sothoth as king, in all its gibbering madness, and primordial Ubbo-Sathla as queen. Of course, you’re the cultist, so you’re entitled to assign whatever mythos iconography you like. The interpretations, fortunately for all life in this dimension, are loose.

The bishops of each side are mad alien priests, the knights grotesque mounts with vile curved spines, the rooks writhe horribly within their blasted towers. The black pawns are sinister, writhing spawn of dread Cthulhu, and the green pawns mocking little tentacular skulls.

For a shit load of cash ($420 to be precise), you can buy this vile chess set on Etsy. I personally would love to just buy a Nyarlathotep chess piece.

Hit the jump to check out more pix of MonstersDomesticated’s Cthulhu Mythos Chess Set!

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