Some Cybermen in the early stories were even given individual names such as "Krang" (however these names only appeared in the cast listings for " The Tenth Planet" and were not spoken on-screen). The most jarring thing about the arrangement of the costume is that the head seems to be floating above the neck. Another example of the influence of the Radio Times photos is the Cyberman card which came with Weetabix breakfast cereal, pictured right. no, not one which claims he has all the missing Doctor Who episodes in his dungeon, but one whose identity is a muddle. Kate concluded that these cables allowed the Cybermen to wirelessly receive power from any worlds that had been assimilated into the Mainframe.

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The Radio Times cover shoot of October 1973 turned out to be the key to why these monsters took a step backwards in their evolution on screen. The Chest units and helmets and other like attachments were moulded and constructed by Millennium FX. But in fact it turned out that that these unofficial hybrid Cybermen were more influential over merchandise and the television series designs than the show's own continuity.Baugh's solution was to spray-paint two padded wet suits to make them look bulkier, with the helmets, junction boxes and rods from the filmed inserts modified or removed to make the actors move more freely.

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The Cybermen in the revived series are usually constructed from human brains bonded to a Cyberman exoskeletal shell with an artificially-grown nervous system threaded throughout ("The Age of Steel"), although direct grafting of cyber-components is another method of conversion (" Cyberwoman").Having eventually removed all emotion from their brains (to maintain their sanity), the natives installed a drive propulsion system to pilot the planet itself through space.