The BBC have announced the return of the Cybermen in an up coming episode of Doctor Who entitled “Rise of the Cybermen”. The Doctor’s worst (non Darlek) enemy has had a make so extreme you would forgiven for thinking that it they had had the “Max Power” treatment was it not for the lack of a Burberry baseball cap, and a scantly clad glamour model. The first Cybermen were seen in the 1966 episode “The Tenth Planet” and were basically a man in a silver suit with a flash light on his head and an office fan strapped to his belly. Of cause new audiences would never stand for those kind of low budget effects, its the same in every Sci-Fi show. Klingons have suddenly evolve ridges on there foreheads, Clyons can now take on human form, and Yoda can now do back-flips.








You have to take your hat off to people that buck this trend, such as the guy that came up with the 1920’s design for Satan’s Robot in the 1998 Star Trek Voyager episode “Night”. Why blow millions on CGI graphics when you can just use cardboard and silver spray paint.