Right, let's look at this one in a bit of detail:
'One by one, their limbs became diseased - they were replaced by plastic and steel!
Little by little, their brains tired - computers worked just as well!
With metal limbs, they had the strength of ten men. They could live in the airless vacuum of space. They had no heart, no feelings, no emotions and only one goal - power!
In the year 2070, a small blue planet caught their attention. They would land on its satellite and, from there, attack, ransack, destroy and finally abandon...
THE SATELLITE WAS THE MOON
THE HELPLESS PLANET - EARTH
THEIR NAMES? THE CYBERMEN!
Can the Doctor defeat an enemy whose threat is almost as great as that of the mighty Daleks?'
This is easily the hardest sell on the Target back covers yet, though it does rather idiosyncratically include the phrase 'almost as great as ... the Daleks', so they're not exactly flowing free with the hyperbole. I can't not wonder about applying the adjective 'airless' to 'vacuum' and why, trumping 'attack', 'ransack' and 'destroy' as the terrible things the Cybermen have planned for the Earth, is 'abandon'.
All that said, the rather lovely first two lines are far more indicative of what's inside this than the easily nit-picked second half. This is a lovely one to end on before the arrival of Tom Baker and the new cover format.
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