• Comment: Poor sourcing mostly talking about NPH TARDIS wiki is unreliable. Questions? four Olifanofmrtennant (she/her) 03:18, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: This was mostly copied from The Toymaker at Tardis Wiki. — Diannaa (talk) 12:29, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

• Comment: Only one source demonstrates significant coverage about the character itself ~Liance^talk 19:19, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

The Toymaker is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its associated spin-off works. There a powerful individual who ensnared sentient beings in seemingly childish games, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the toymaker hated to lose and the games were always rigged in his favour. He was an adversary of the Doctor and played at least three deadly games with him over several millennia and his worst enemy is the Doctor. They were most recently portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris.^[1]

The Toymaker is a powerful individual who ensnared sentient beings in seemingly childish games, with their freedom as the stakes. However, the Toymaker hated to lose and the games were always rigged in his favour. He was an adversary of the Doctor and played at least three deadly games with him over several millennia^[2][3]

According to the Sixth Doctor, "nobody [knew]" who the Toymaker really was. He was said to be "old beyond imagining" and to predate "Time Lord records". A team of modern Gallifreyan researchers who attempted to "chart his path through time" gave up, bored of all the games he played with his own past. The Doctor speculated that they didn't try any harder than that because they couldn't find a way to control him. Indeed, one account showed the Toymaker acknowledging different origins in separate conversations with Adric and the Fifth Doctor, once even altering the details of his story mid-conversation.

The Toymaker's family includes his sister, Hecuba, who was known as the Queen of Time, and his child, Maestro, who was considered as the essence of music itself. (The Devil's Chord)

Within the Celestial Toyroom, the Toymaker commanded immense powers, but they were limited by the rules he or his opponents set for any particular game. The Fourteenth Doctor stated the Toymaker was bound by the rules, so much so that he could not cheat to win, even if he wanted to. He also had to follow new rules he brought into the game, even if the new rule did not gain him the result he was expecting, like how his desire to face the Fifteenth Doctor accidentally meant he also had to face the Fourteenth Doctor at the same time. Although, he could bend these rules or "forget" to mention them to his opponents if he so chose, but he was not above cheating if his opponent also did so; on one occasion, he tauntingly claimed that he was just following a "new rule" his opponent had unwittingly introduced by cheating.

• Text was copied from The Toymaker^[4] at Tardis Wiki, which is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (Unported) (CC-BY-SA 3.0) license.^[5]