Is the Zavvi ZBox still available?

No. The Zavvi ZBox has since stopped running, so the December 2015 Doctor Who TARDIS special cannot be bought. This review is kept as an archive record of what the box contained at the time.

What did the December 2015 Zavvi Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox cost?

The limited edition Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox was priced at £29.99, around $45, which was higher than the standard monthly Zavvi ZBox price.

What was inside the December 2015 Zavvi Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox?

The box held a TARDIS T-shirt, an oversized TARDIS Funko POP! Vinyl, a TARDIS mug, a tin of TARDIS shaped mints, plus a wristband, a Doctor Who lanyard and a vinyl sticker.

What was the best item in the December 2015 Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox?

The reviewer rated the oversized TARDIS Funko POP! Vinyl as the main item, noting it was double the size of a standard POP! and that its doors open to hold normal sized figures.

Was the December 2015 Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox worth it?

The reviewer counted $51 of value against the £29.99 price, but several items held no personal interest and the advertised exclusives were unclear, so the box fell just short of a worthwhile purchase.

Zavvi Doctor Who TARDIS ZBox Geek Box Review – December 2015

Zavvi ZBox has since stopped running. This review is kept as a record of what the box was like; every edition we opened is on the Zavvi ZBox page.

The Zavvi ZBox is a monthly UK based geek subscription box. Occasionally, they release special extra boxes and this is what is being reviewed here.

The Doctor Who box promised to focus on the TARDIS and was made available at a higher price than normal, at £29.99 GBP (around $45 USD).

The special ZBox did arrive through Royal Mail in a much larger box than normal, although unfortunately there was no information card included with this limited edition. The advertising did state an exclusive T-Shirt and three further exclusive items.

As a Doctor Who fan, I had high hopes of finding some interesting and unusual items inside this one.

Box Contents

TARDIS T-Shirt (Exclusive)

I only know that this is an exclusive from the advertising – there was no information card or booklet included.

Not too impressed with this one. It just looks cheap with the white T-Shirt. But, I’ll still value this at the standard $10 USD.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 TShirt

TARDIS Funko POP! Vinyl

This is clearly the main item of the box. It is now the largest POP! Vinyl I own (double the size of the rest) and really cool.

You can also open the doors and put the usual size Funkos inside (I have a few from this series from other boxes).

You can buy the TARDIS Funko POP! Vinyl on Amazon.com. These sell for much more than other POP!s in the series, I’ll use a typical price of $20 USD.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 TARDIS Funko POP Vinyl

TARDIS Wristband

A cheap and nasty filler item. This may be an exclusive, but to me a $2 USD valuation is charitable.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 Wristband

Doctor Who Lanyard

Another filler item. I’ll use the $2 USD value again, as it’s just of no use or interest.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 Lanyard

TARDIS Vinyl Sticker

And, yet another filler item. There is nothing I’d ever do with a sticker. $2 USD of value.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 Vinyl Sticker

TARDIS Tin Of Mints

This is at least slightly more like it. It’s a very small tin, but it will be reusable once the mints are eaten.

The mints are shaped like tiny DW TARDIS logos. About Tic Tac size for comparison. Unfortunately, they are also quite nasty, with a menthol taste to them.

This presumably isn’t an exclusive as I’ve found similar tins for sale online. I’ll use a value of $5 USD (although I should really downgrade that for the poor quality of the contents).

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 Mints

TARDIS Mug

And finally, a decent item.

I expect that this is an exclusive. There are lots of Doctor Who mugs available on Amazon.com, but I can’t see this exact one.

The prices for licensed mugs vary a lot, but I’ll use a midpoint value of $10 USD.

Zavvi Doctor Who December 2015 Mug

More from this box: all our Zavvi ZBox reviews.

Box Review

This one is quite difficult to rate. The contents were better than many of the Zavvi ZBox offerings, but this was also presented as a premium priced product.

There have been several boxes with Doctor Who as its theme recently. Kewel Boxes used this as their debut theme and did a great job. Loot Crate also offered a special limited edition box, but this was priced too high to make UK shipping worthwhile, sold out quickly and didn’t get terrible good reviews. There were no duplicate items across any of these.

I make this $51 USD of value, which is very slightly above the cost price. However, there are also several items in here that I’d never have considered buying. It’s not even clear which the advertised exclusive items were. This was really missing one more decent value item to make it a worthwhile purchase.

With that said, I do like my TARDIS POP! Vinyl and my mug, but I could have picked up equivalents much cheaper elsewhere.

I’d recommend sticking with the standard monthly Zavvi ZBox. Not many companies are doing these special limited edition boxes right.

Box update

Zavvi ZBox has since stopped running, so the subscription link that originally sat here has been retired. You can still browse every Zavvi ZBox review on this site.