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This is a lovely Nyssa trading card! 🙂

I rarely get a chance to review any ‘Doctor Who’ merchandise, but for me, this is a very special item. Nyssa is my favourite ‘Doctor Who’ companion, as I’m sure many of you know by now. 😀 I love Sarah Sutton who plays Nyssa of Traken, as she gives lovely performances with her character in the TV and audio stories.

In my opinion, Nyssa is the best ‘Doctor Who’ companion from the Peter Davison/Fifth Doctor era. It’s pretty clear though that Nyssa is a pretty underrated companion. She often gets overlooked by the majority of ‘Doctor Who’ fandom with companions like Sarah Jane, Rose, Donna, Amy and Clara.

Through no fault of her own, Nyssa tends to get left out a lot in ‘Doctor Who’ circles. Nyssa deserves her own Top Trump trading card and it’s rather sad her character wasn’t included in the 45th anniversary collection of ‘Doctor Who’ Top Trump trading cards, which I purchased in Cardiff in 2008.

I recall Sarah Sutton saying on the ‘Four to Doomsday’ DVD audio commentary that she wished for her own trading card. How lucky I was to find this rare item on Amazon.co.uk that is a collector’s item for definite Nyssa and ‘Doctor Who’ fans in general. This trading card is part of the ‘Alien Attax’ series by Topps in 2013.

The ‘Alien Attax’ card series was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’. Nyssa’s trading card is #196 and was part of the Companions card collection. Being a Sarah Sutton/Nyssa fan and the fact that I love collecting any memorabilia and photos of her, I couldn’t resist purchasing this lovely card.

It’s a really nice collector’s item and one that I treasure keeping in my scrapbook of Nyssa items over the years from conventions and photos purchased for me over Christmas from Amazon or eBay. The card is good, as it has a picture of Sarah as Nyssa in her blue and white stripy outfit from ‘Snakedance’.

It’s a very complimentary picture of Nyssa who looks nice in her ‘Snakedance’ outfit, despite it being the least favourite costume of the fans. Nyssa’s name is placed well in a blue box on the left-hand side. According to the card, Nyssa has a ‘defence’ of 42 and an ‘attack’ of 38, which was intriguing to see.

Now I don’t know much about statistics and how to use trading cards in a card game like this, but those statistics for Nyssa in ‘defence’ and ‘attack’ seem about right for her character. When I received the Nyssa trading card in the post, it came with two non-related ‘Top Gear’ trading cards in a slim casing.

Now I didn’t want those ‘Top Gear’ cards, but the supplier who sent the item must have put them in so that the Nyssa trading card can be protected from being damaged or scratched. It was very good of the supplier to do that, especially as the Nyssa card looks perfect in every detail when it came in the post.

So if you’re a Nyssa fan like me, you should add this trading card to your collection of ‘Doctor Who’ memorabilia. It features a complimentary picture of Nyssa in her ‘Snakedance’ costume and it’s a worthy purchase that I was pleased to receive from Amazon during the 50th anniversary of ‘Doctor Who’.

I need to show this Nyssa trading card to Sarah Sutton next time I see her at a convention! 😀

Thanks for reading!

Bye for now!

Tim. 🙂