TARDIS Candy Bank

The one constant on Doctor Who from episode one forward has been the police box shaped TARDIS. Personally, I love the TARDIS as a police box and believe it is one of the greatest sci-fi spaceships ever created in all of fiction. Collecting TARDISes is also a favorite passion of mine. The new series merchandise has given us two different TARDIS banks – the electronic version (one with Eccelston’s Doctor and another with Tennants) and a smaller candy filled TARDIS by a company called BobBon Buddies.  

SCULPT – It is should be a no-brainer to sculpt a police box; all those right angles are pretty easy to duplicate. BobBon’s “Coin Bank with Mallow” (that’s marshmallows to us in the USA) is nicely sculpted. Nothing special here, but certainly a fair representation of the new series police box. It’s molded completely in blur plastic with stickers for the windows and signs. The coin bank TARDIS is all one piece with a hold and plug in the bottom to access the candy and/or you savings. There is an annoying little extra piece sculpted to the back on one side wall that holds the product tag. I hate this. Since this TARDIS is apparently sold loose in UK stores, they added this piece for the product information and price tag. Mine came in a plain white box, but it was shipped overseas with this and is probably not sold with the bank in British stores.

ACCESSORIES – Technically, the “mallows” are probably considered accessories. However, once you eat them, they are gone for good. I was torn about preserving the “mint-ness” of the coin bank if I actually ate the mallows vs. letting them rot away inside their little individually wrapped plastic baggies (like any corporation made candy will ever decompose…).  I compromised and opened one bag and ate the strawberry filled mallows. I imagine packing foam has the same taste, and certainly the same texture, but I seemed to have survived.  There is a slot cut in the back for adding money. No money is included with the TARDIS, however...

PAINT – None. The stickers over the windows instead of sculpting are kind of a cheat, but it still looks passable.

ARTICULATION/ACTION FEATURES – The bottom opens, but that’s it. No opening doors or flashing lights. It is a coin bank after-all and not a toy. It is too small to be used with the 5 inch scale action figures too.

RATING – 9 out of 10. If you love the TARDIS or are a big mallow aficionado, this is a near-perfect, inexpensive little TARDIS.

Where to Buy - I have only seen these on Ebay and got mine for around $10 US plus $6 shipping. They retail for 3 or 4 british pounds and the US conversion rate was worth it to me because of my slight TARDIS obsession.