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  • Godzilla
    Permanent Member
    • Nov 3, 2002
    • 3009

    Doctor Who Experience

    About a month ago, I took a week long vacation with my wife and kids (7 and 5) to London. It was an incredible trip and really something of a dream. As part of the trip we all went to the Doctor Who Experience. It was just phenominal and I'd thought I'd share some pictures in the link below.

    The experience is part show, part museum exhibiton. You and your group start off in a room on Starship Earth (from the space whale episode). Suddenly the Doctor (Matt Smith) breaks into the tour broadcast. He's trapped in the Pandorica II (because they hada a spare) and he's sent out a distress signal to Amy Pond. Unfortunately something has gone wrong, and instead of contacting her he's contacted us: a subspecies of humans called "shoppers". We'll have to do and we're off to save the Doctor. At that point you hear the noise of the Tardis landing, a wall shifts, and there's the blue box. The doors open and we're rushed into the Tardis.

    Seriously, we walk through the doors into the control room of the Tardis. It wasn't as big as the set on the show, but it was the control room and it was the console. They have the kids all gather around the console and each stand on one side of it as Matt Smith guides them through how to fly it through another video recording. The floor of the Tardis was on hydrolic lifts, so as they pulled levers and pushed buttons, the floor shifts and moves. Very ,very cool.

    We land and exit the Tardis to a room where the Daleks are after us. At first, 3 of the new Daleks come out and threaten us. But then some of the Ecelston/Tennant era Daleks from the Cult of Skaro show up and a civil war breaks out amongst the Dalek factions allowing us to escape to the next room.

    Which is the Weeping Angels planet. Way creepy. We work through there to the final room which is a 3-D movie of all the bad guys (Daleks, Angels, Cybermen, etc) flying through the time vortex. The Doctor gets free and we've saved the day. We can then exit to the museum part of the exhibit.

    The stuff in the museum was incredible. Tennants console room, the 80s' console room (Baker, Davidson, Mcoy, etc). Baker's Giant Robot, K-9, the Melkur. I'm obviously an old school fan, but the newer show stuff was cool too.

    The whole thing was just perfect. My kids loved it and they still talk about flying the Tardis (and how my youngest crashed it).

    There are a ton of pictures so enjoy!

    https://picasaweb.google.com/1140272...NDYloH4qIreGg#
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    The Dead Teach the Living
  • Mikey
    Verbose Member
    • Aug 9, 2001
    • 47258

    #2
    That is soooooooooo cool Rob !!!!!!!!!

    I never heard of the Doctor Who Experience before --- now I wanna go

    Love the pics !!! --- gunna look at them better tonight

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    • Godzilla
      Permanent Member
      • Nov 3, 2002
      • 3009

      #3
      I read about it in Dor Who magazine and I'd never considered going. My wife made a joke in December about going to England and I mentioned going to the Experience and she said "make it so".
      Mortui Vivos Docent
      The Dead Teach the Living

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      • rche
        channeling Bob Wills
        • Mar 26, 2008
        • 7391

        #4
        Wow. That sounds like a grand time. I'm gonna have to hope for some longevity for the exhibit so my kids can be old enough to have a good time with it. That and I gotta start saving my pennies for an across the pond trip. Thanks for sharing.

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        • rche
          channeling Bob Wills
          • Mar 26, 2008
          • 7391

          #5
          so are the Doctors outfits actual show costumes or are they recreations for the exhibit?

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          • johnmiic
            Adrift
            • Sep 6, 2002
            • 8427

            #6
            It's like I died and went to heaven!

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            • Godzilla
              Permanent Member
              • Nov 3, 2002
              • 3009

              #7
              They very clearly have the recreations labeled. I didn't get pictures of the display of the Cyberman helmets through time, but the first 3 were clearly marked as recreations. They still looked very cool though. All the costumes were worn at some point. I couldn't believe a Hartnell or Trouton costume still existed.
              Mortui Vivos Docent
              The Dead Teach the Living

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              • rche
                channeling Bob Wills
                • Mar 26, 2008
                • 7391

                #8
                That is truly fantastic if there are still bits of wardrobe from the '60s. Especially seeing that the BBC did not archive very much else from that period.

                I would have loved to see the Cybermen through the years thing. That is great. An early Dalek would have been swell as well.

                Do your kids watch the show with you at all? Some of those modern episodes seem a little much for my kiddos and we are at about the same age.

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                • alex
                  Permanent Member
                  • Jun 15, 2009
                  • 3142

                  #9
                  Very cool, will have to check this out in september.

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                  • Godzilla
                    Permanent Member
                    • Nov 3, 2002
                    • 3009

                    #10
                    rche my kids do love the show. We tend to watch a mix of old and new, but some of the new ones are way to scary. They love the Weeping Angels, but have yet to actually watch an episode with them. But they love most of the monsters from the Daleks to the Adipose.

                    They make a magazine called Dr Who Adventures that's aimed right at their age group which is prefect. It's not easy to get ahold of here in the States, but it's fun to read with them and do the activities. I like to think Who is helping them learn to read. Plus it let's me geek out at the same time.
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                    The Dead Teach the Living

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                    • Captain Big Trousers
                      Veteran Member
                      • Jan 14, 2012
                      • 333

                      #11
                      Damnit! Now I have to book four tickets across planet Earth.

                      Thanks. Thanks a lot.

                      I've got my own little Dr Who exhibit right here in my study. Neill Gorton's company, Millenium FX, are the guys who make the current Who props/aliens/etc. A few years ago they started selling direct to the public (they don't anymore), so I took the opportunity to buy a Cyberman head.



                      I can tell you the guys who play Cybermen must have tiny heads, because my noggin doesn't come close to fitting in there.

                      And my lovely (equally nerdy) wife knitted me a Tom Baker scarf...



                      ... but yeah, gonna have to make this trip before my son outgrows Who.
                      Even My Henchmen Think I'm Crazy.

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                      • The4thDoctor
                        Travelling thru time
                        • Nov 2, 2011
                        • 647

                        #12
                        Awesome pics, both you guys....I've got a couple of books autographed by Frazer Hines at a Con in Toronto YEARS ago...'80's....
                        sigpic****WANT LIST-----WANT LIST***
                        Denys Fisher Mego Dr Who Sonic Screwdriver acc
                        Vintage Cheron
                        Mego Spiderman right arm/hand
                        SMDM right leg/pair socks
                        Mego Green Goblin

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                        • Bruce Banner
                          HULK SMASH!
                          • Apr 3, 2010
                          • 4335

                          #13
                          Cool. I considered going to that, but ended up not doing.

                          The last DW exhibition I went to was in 1983!
                          Still have the pin badge.
                          PUNY HUMANS!

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                          • alex
                            Permanent Member
                            • Jun 15, 2009
                            • 3142

                            #14
                            Cool pics of your room, whats the "G" for on the door, "Goodies"?

                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnlAh...eature=related

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                            • Mikey
                              Verbose Member
                              • Aug 9, 2001
                              • 47258

                              #15
                              Cool pics, keep 'em coming

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