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Doctor Who Experience Opening Date
Keep an eye out for the new Doctor Who Experience website coming soon.
MULTI-AWARD WINNING DOCTOR WHO EXPERIENCE ANNOUNCES OPENING DATE
OFFICIAL OPENING DATE: 20th JULY TICKETS ON SALE FROM 14th JUNE
With thanks to BBC Worldwide…
“My exhibition of the year so far? The Doctor Who Experience” The Guardian
“The hottest ticket in the universe” Daily Mail
“suddenly it’s as if you’re actually in an episode of the television series” The Telegraph
BBC Worldwide today announced the official opening date for their multi-award winning attraction the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff, the home of the BBC One show. Doors will open to the public on the 20th July with tickets going on sale at 10am on the 14th June. Paula Al-Lach, Head of Exhibitions and Events at BBC Worldwide formally accepted the keys to the Experience’s distinctive new home in Cardiff Bay this afternoon and the first exhibits are already being moved in.
Philip Murphy, Managing Director of BBC Worldwide Live Events said: “The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff is going to be just minutes away from where the BBC Wales television series is made which I’m incredibly excited about. The Experience sets out to engage visitors’ imaginations from the outset immersing them in the world of Doctor Who and what better place to do this than in Cardiff the home of the show.”
Image from The BBC Facebook page.
The Doctor Who Experience is the first ever interactive Doctor Who exhibition that invites visitors to star in their very own Doctor Who adventure. Arriving at the venue they will step through a crack in time to become the Doctor’s companion, taking on the challenge of reuniting the Doctor with the TARDIS whilst fending off threats from some of his most fearsome foes – entering a Dalek spaceship and finding a way through a maze of Weeping Angels. Featuring a replica of the Eleventh Doctor’s TARDIS which visitors get to fly themselves the interactive walk-through culminates in a stunning 3D finale that sets the scene for fans entering the exhibition.
The exhibition presents fans with the world’s most extensive collection of original Doctor Who costumes and artefacts stretching back almost 50 years to the very first series of Doctor Who.
The content of the exhibition is updated constantly with new items from the television series to ensure it is ever changing offering fans the chance to get up close to the incredible sets, costumes and props that feature in their favourite show.
New items to be shown to the public for the first time in Cardiff include the Doctor’s cradle seen in A Good Man Goes to War; the Silence spaceship and Matt Smith’s sonic cane from Let’s Kill Hitler with many more items being kept under wraps until the doors open on 20th July.
McGann is the Doctor.
May 20th, 2012 - 8:24pmHope I can get the chance to visit the one in cardiff, they should really get Peter Davison’s red-collar shirt, they are using his green-collard version from season 21 which he never had with that first outfit !
And more importantly, Sylvester McCoy’s scarf. 🙁
Anonymous
May 18th, 2012 - 6:56pmYou would think if they were making a big deal out of the 50th anniversary they would have updated the website to include everything rather than just merge the RTD and Moffat bits together and leave the original run behind.
booboo
May 18th, 2012 - 6:33pmdont know there might be new stuff, they have changed the site to fit in with there new format for all TV programmes
TARDISTIK TIMEVORTEXKID
May 18th, 2012 - 6:28pmSo no more Trailer Maker / Comic Maker?
booboo
May 18th, 2012 - 6:27pmi would think they have lots of new idea coming
TARDISTIK TIMEVORTEXKID
May 18th, 2012 - 6:25pmJust found this on the Doctor Who website
‘The Doctor Who Comic Maker and Trailer Maker applications are no longer available.
Coming Soon!
You may have noticed that the Comic Maker and Trailer Maker are no longer available. We hope you enjoyed playing and experimenting on them over the past five years.
Over the course of the following months and throughout Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary year in 2013, we’ll be launching lots more games and innovative content.’
Does this mean that they won’t make another one for the Matt Smith series?
Judooning
May 18th, 2012 - 1:14pmThe BBC Have just updated their Doctor who site and have now included updated pages for series 1-4 of Doctor who. There are new episode guides and a huge picture gallery full of pictures from series 1 to 6.
They are also grouping all the different series monsters and characters into different catagories and it looks like they may contine this with series 1-4 in the ‘Monster’ section.
The site already looks so much better!
Doctordredd67
May 17th, 2012 - 8:38pmMarch 2009 I was there in Cardiff for my little brothers’ stag weekend. Early on the sunday I walked down to the waterfront and took pictures of the Torchwood Hub ( the water tower) and the door entrance at the Quay side. Then later went to the Dr who exhibition that was there at the time, first in and no crowds. Brilliant. Will go back there in the summer to see this new experience!
georgia-doctor
May 17th, 2012 - 9:08ami wish i could go 🙁
stupid nz
Harold Saxon
May 17th, 2012 - 12:53ami want to go later this year,the london one was excellent.
Bow tie + Fez=cool
May 16th, 2012 - 4:04pmI live quite near to cardiff and last year I went to loads of places were they’ve filmed Doctor Who so it’ll be really cool to see all this stuff now.
Jake
May 16th, 2012 - 3:46pmWhy should they doctor who is a British show and should stay in Britain just like Harry potter except they have that at Orlando but that’s just a fake
TheSupreme Dalek (formerly IronsideDalek)
May 15th, 2012 - 6:50pmI wish I could go there, but I live in the US and I couldn’t really afford to go to the UK… Maybe they could make one in America for American Whovians!
booboo
May 15th, 2012 - 11:13amnot yet
outnumbered
May 15th, 2012 - 10:28amdoes onyone know the prices
Dalek Sec
May 15th, 2012 - 7:34amAlso i haven’t went into these exhibitions before, in the book ‘Dalek I loved you’, it claims one of them is very boring. But this looks very interesting, i want to go to Cardiff. Maybe see the “secret” location of Torchwood.
Dalek Sec
May 15th, 2012 - 7:30amThe 5th Doctors clothes are brilliant, they are sooooo colourful. But i hope thats not real celery.
paul cox
May 15th, 2012 - 2:39amThis summer… Cardiff here i come WOO HOO!
Mark J S
May 14th, 2012 - 9:12pmMy wonderful wife bought me tickets to the Cardiff Doctor Who Convention: Lisa bought them as a Christmas gift, I almost cried when I opened the surprise tickets. What a fabulous gift, God only knows how she’ll top that… Maybe a ticket to go to the Doctor Who Experiance! I can dream cant I?
DALEKS ARE BACK (YAY!!!)
May 14th, 2012 - 6:43pmI am going next year near the time of the 50th Anniversary I hope they do an event there!!!
DW2012
May 14th, 2012 - 6:00pmReally want to go again!!!! 😀
Give me a Dalek any day
May 14th, 2012 - 5:35pmIt will be there till 2017 and perhaps after that. At least I think it’s 2017. Is it 2017 booboo? 🙂
Bigger on the Inside
May 14th, 2012 - 5:06pmwill it stay in cardiff forever???
Give me a Dalek any day
May 14th, 2012 - 4:55pmThe Doctor’s cot, Silent ship and the Sonic Cane???? This calls for some celebratory jammie dodgers! 😀
I’d love to go again when it moves to Cardiff. 🙂 😀 😀
Tardis’nt
May 14th, 2012 - 4:14pmcool, thanks 🙂
booboo
May 14th, 2012 - 3:06pmyes i think it may change on a regular basis to attract return vistors
Tardis’nt
May 14th, 2012 - 2:53pmi loved the experience when i went there on one of the closing days. in the future when the dr changes, do you think the adventure will?
booboo
May 14th, 2012 - 12:42pmnothing has been put up yet we will have it on the site as soon as it goes live
finlay
May 14th, 2012 - 12:40pmil miss it 🙁
DOCTORWHOSBIGGESTFAN
May 14th, 2012 - 10:09amHi. Would you know where we can get tickets for the opening of the Experience please? I’d love to be able to go on the first day!!!