August 12th, 2013
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Docu-drama Tardis Console Arrives at Dr Who Experience
Docu-drama TARDIS console materialises at Doctor Who Experience
The Doctor Who Experience – home to the biggest official collection of Doctor Who props, costumes and sets in the world –celebrates the latest new arrival at the multisensory attraction in Cardiff Bay.
The replica original TARDIS console which will feature in the much-awaited BBC docu-drama focusing on the genesis of Doctor Who – An Adventure in Space and Time – is on display from today in the mezzanine section of the building.
The console was originally designed in 1963 by BBC designer Peter Brachaki (with valuable input from Barry Newberry) and was piloted by the first Doctor as portrayed by William Hartnell. It soon became a design icon and set a basic template which can still be seen in TARDIS console designs to this day.
Gleaming white, with a hexagonal central console and illuminated circular indents in the walls, this TARDIS interior was scattered with objects from the Doctor’s travels – including an elegant Ormolu clock and a Sheraton chair. In the very earliest episodes, it included a huge hexagonal device on the ceiling next to the console and other separate banks of instruments, including a ‘fault locator’.
The TARDIS console (which will be piloted by David Bradley who will portray the first Doctor in the docu-drama) was displayed at Comic-Con Paris in July 2013. It will be on display to all visitors at the Experience throughout the summer.
Tickets can be booked at www.doctorwhoexperience.com and prices start from just £13 for an adult and £9 for children.
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Derek Browell
August 30th, 2013 - 9:21pmYes.I agree.I have been scrabbling round for morsels on the internet.I am still waiting for anything….. Perhaps I should have liked sport after all. Sherlock Holmes novels are a poor second.
dalek 105
August 26th, 2013 - 7:10pmyes i have done it i would recomend it to anyone
It’s My Theif
August 25th, 2013 - 10:05am5 if you count the Tardis in the actual Experience and the Tardis from the Doctor’s wife 🙂
thedaleksdeath
August 21st, 2013 - 2:12pmOr a simple name. “Doctor Who time”?
thedaleksdeath
August 21st, 2013 - 2:11pmWent on Sunday, it was………….MASSIVE!!!!! Bigger than I thought actually! ( I even tripped over the police box :-/
DOCTOR WHO ONE
August 19th, 2013 - 4:27pmTV channel ‘Watch’ broadcasts various episodes of modern Doctor Who, I think more or less every day.
Seeing as this is the 50 Anniversary of the show, it would be fantastic if the BBC created a TV channel created specifically for Doctor Who, broadcasting old and new episodes, talk about upcoming events and merchandise etc etc.
They could name it ‘WHO TV’, but then again, someone might mistake it for the band ‘The Who’, so probably best not. Thou anyone else reading this comment with suggestions for a name for such a TV channel would be awesome to read 😉
lepter
August 18th, 2013 - 6:15pmIs it just me but considering this is the 50th aniversary year, there seams to be a total lack of doctor who at the moment? were are the classic stories on bbc4 or even GOLD? its august…were is who?
Dalek The Supreme
August 18th, 2013 - 2:52pmWow, now the Experience has three consoles on display! 😀
DOCTOR WHO ONE
August 17th, 2013 - 3:34pmYeah, my sister told me about it recently, and today, Spencer Kelly of the BBC series ‘Click’ also gave it a brief mention.
It’s brilliant 😀
C@A
August 16th, 2013 - 9:47pmI assume that the railing is more a safety feature than a security feature; given the Time Lord technology already seen in the programme, security would be far more complex than that.
darkerjack
August 16th, 2013 - 4:27pmcool
rassilonrocks
August 16th, 2013 - 12:13pmYou can now visit the tardis on google maps street view on earl court just.though you should know
geronimo2605
August 16th, 2013 - 10:54amMe too, it’s incredible to finally see it so close up!!!!
Cybermen Rule
August 15th, 2013 - 8:29pmLol me and you have same photo
The Flying Shark
August 15th, 2013 - 7:13pmI saw this on Tuesday! It’s really big!
Adam
August 15th, 2013 - 3:30pmhow do you know they haven’t confirmed when An Adventure in Space and Time is on or are you referring to 50th anniversary special
DOCTOR WHO ONE
August 14th, 2013 - 7:18pmVery true 😉
Pity that the director of ‘An Unearthly Child’, Waris Hussain, admitted on the DVD for the very 1st Doctor Who story that he never really liked the original Tardis console room set.
He felt that it was put together very quickly by designer Peter Brachacki, and that the original console lacked in anything technological, but also stated, as you yourself did have said, that the design of the console has indeed become iconic 😀
Dalek sec
August 14th, 2013 - 1:06pmHow nostalgic. I bet the people who helped bring this console to life, never imagined that it will still carry an iconic significance in 50 years.
the astroanout of death
August 14th, 2013 - 10:06amgoing on the 28th so exited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matt Smithy
August 14th, 2013 - 9:09amOnly 100 days now until this is shown on TV 😀
THE EPIC DAVROS
August 14th, 2013 - 3:52amits awesome
karl
August 13th, 2013 - 7:26pmwell that’s just plain stupid, there’s only a two bar railing – anyone can jump over and steal that type 40 tardis!
The 17th Cyberman
August 13th, 2013 - 4:01pmIt looks great!
Anonymous
August 13th, 2013 - 10:21amGleaming white? It’s green, just as the original was. You can even see it in the picture.
thedaleksdeath
August 12th, 2013 - 8:16pm😮 OMG CAN’T WAIT!!!!!!!! Considring I’m going there on Sunday, it’ll be a plesure to see the TARDIS. The original you might say. 😀
TheWhomobile
August 12th, 2013 - 8:04pmI definitely need to pay another visit to Cardiff now!
The11thdoctorThe2nd
August 12th, 2013 - 6:50pmGoing in 10 days!! This will be so amazing to see!!! 😀
DOCTOR WHO ONE
August 12th, 2013 - 6:41pmBRILLIANT !!!!!!. I love the fact that it’s right next to the 1983 version shown in the above picture.
Tardis’nt
August 12th, 2013 - 5:24pmWow! They sure made that fast!
doc fan
August 12th, 2013 - 5:22pmcool