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For a long time now, I've really had a problem with the current design of the Cybermen and wanted to make my own redesign to address my problems with it. It's possible to create a scary, effective design that doesn't look as cheap and primitive as the original Cybermen did, and for them to work as scary, subtle, characterful villains instead of clunky robots making noise and (according to Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) just a brain in a jar. That's been slowly retconned since 2006.

For this design, I tried to take out the things I didn't like and keep certain things in the head mainly that I did. When the Daleks were redesigned for Victory of the Daleks in 2010, part of the inspiration were the Daleks in the Dalek Invasion of Earth movie from the 60s. This takes inspiration from about the same time, from The Tenth Planet. Instead of a helmet, the head is covered in a cloth mask but with a metal faceplate and headpeice on top of that. Another influence is an artwork by Keith Watson for Genesis of the Cybermen, a story by Gerry Davis which is in my 1987 Cybermen book ([link] )

I've called this the 2016 Cyberman redesign because 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cybermen, and it doesn't look like they'll get a renewal anytime soon from Stephen Moffat. I'd like to email him or send him this design somehow, but I think it would take a big demand to see the Cybermen brought back with a new design in a meaty Cyber story for it to happen. Last year. Closing Time was disappointingly focused on the Doctor and Craig and the Cybermen were just an afterthought, the monsters of the week, and the same goes for A Good Man Goes to War. Cybermen and other monsters seem to make cameos these days instead of full stories devoted to them. The Daleks are an exception, but I guess the Daleks and Weeping Angels are more popular than Cybermen or Sontarans by far, so I'm not expecting to get exactly what I want unless loads of other people are thinking the same, which they're not.

Smaller sketch from earlier: [link]

Description
For a long time now, I've really had a problem with the current design of the Cybermen and wanted to make my own redesign to address my problems with it. It's possible to create a scary, effective design that doesn't look as cheap and primitive as the original Cybermen did, and for them to work as scary, subtle, characterful villains instead of clunky robots making noise and (according to Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) just a brain in a jar. That's been slowly retconned since 2006.

For this design, I tried to take out the things I didn't like and keep certain things in the head mainly that I did. When the Daleks were redesigned for Victory of the Daleks in 2010, part of the inspiration were the Daleks in the Dalek Invasion of Earth movie from the 60s. This takes inspiration from about the same time, from The Tenth Planet. Instead of a helmet, the head is covered in a cloth mask but with a metal faceplate and headpeice on top of that. Another influence is an artwork by Keith Watson for Genesis of the Cybermen, a story by Gerry Davis which is in my 1987 Cybermen book ([link] )

I've called this the 2016 Cyberman redesign because 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cybermen, and it doesn't look like they'll get a renewal anytime soon from Stephen Moffat. I'd like to email him or send him this design somehow, but I think it would take a big demand to see the Cybermen brought back with a new design in a meaty Cyber story for it to happen. Last year. Closing Time was disappointingly focused on the Doctor and Craig and the Cybermen were just an afterthought, the monsters of the week, and the same goes for A Good Man Goes to War. Cybermen and other monsters seem to make cameos these days instead of full stories devoted to them. The Daleks are an exception, but I guess the Daleks and Weeping Angels are more popular than Cybermen or Sontarans by far, so I'm not expecting to get exactly what I want unless loads of other people are thinking the same, which they're not.

Smaller sketch from earlier: [link]