Thirteenyear- old Jimmy Mann, as he appeared in issue 298 of Doctor Who Magazine in November 2000.
Jimmy Mann fulfilled a boyhood dream by working on the Mondasian Cybermen but, as he reveals, this wasn’t his first time. His first attempt at building a Cyberman actually appeared in Doctor Who Magazine way back in issue 298, when Jimmy was just 13 years old.
“DWM published a picture of my home-made Cyberman costume,” he says. “I was always interested in making costumes, and the David Banks Cybermen book [first published in 1988] was a bible to me. I didn’t have a silver suit, but I had a blue boiler suit, and a supersoaker, as that’s the only gun I could get! The head and the chest unit I made out of cardboard boxes. I wanted to be a Cyber Leader, which is why he’s got the black handles.”