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Doctor Who Experience – Full Press release
The Doctor Who Experience
From the BBC Press office
Step into the TARDIS and be part of the adventure… Doctor Who Experience – starring you as the Doctor’s companion
Date: 01.11.2010
BBC Worldwide invite you on a journey of a lifetime. Step inside the TARDIS this spring to take a starring role in your very own Doctor Who adventure at the Doctor Who Experience.
Opening in London on Sunday 20th February 2011 at London’s Olympia Two venue, the Doctor Who Experience promises to be an unmissable adventure featuring an exhilarating and unique walk-through experience and an awe-inspiring exhibition.
Visitors will be invited to step through a crack in time to become the Doctor’s companion on an adventure. Their challenge will be to reunite the Doctor with the TARDIS whilst fending off threats from a Dalek spaceship and Weeping Angels along the way, before exploring the wonders of Doctor Who at an out of this world exhibition.
The Doctor Who Experience allows visitors to join the Doctor on a journey through time and space, encountering some of the best-loved and scariest monsters from the hit international television series. Special scenes filmed with current Doctor Matt Smith combine with amazing special effects and the chance to enter a recreation of the modern TARDIS interior topped off by a breathtaking 3-D finale. The walk through experience is a fully contained interactive Doctor Who adventure, which puts the public at the heart of the action.
The exhibition element of the Doctor Who Experience will chart the success of the show from the first series in 1963 to the most recent episodes starring Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. Displays will include items never seen before including original costumes, the Tom Baker TARDIS police box and two authentic TARDIS sets from the eras of David Tennant and Peter Davison. The public will also be able to get up close and personal with iconic sets from recent series, including the Pandorica Box and Chair and confront numerous monsters including several generations of the Daleks and Cybermen as well as Silurians an Ice Warrior and a Zygon.
Steven Moffat, Executive Producer and show runner for the hit television series comments: “The Doctor Who Experience is a fan’s dream come true – a fully interactive adventure that will allow viewers of the show to get as close as possible to some of the scariest monsters from the series. It will also be the first time that Doctor Who artefacts from all the show’s 47 year history – classic and new – will be on display together, many of them being seen for the first time. And never mind that, this is the day the Doctor teaches you how to fly the TARDIS through time and space, and takes you into battle with all his deadliest enemies in a brand new adventure. So steady your nerves and bring your own sofa – the Doctor needs you!”
Doctor Who star, Matt Smith, who has recorded a series of special, new scenes exclusive to the Doctor Who Experience comments: “The whole concept of the Doctor Who Experience, which will give fans a chance to star in their very own Doctor Who adventure, is massively exciting! I hope as many people as possible enjoy boarding the TARDIS next year to embark upon an exhilarating and sometimes terrifying adventure through time and space.”
BBC Worldwide is pleased to announce that it is planning to relocate the Doctor Who Experience to a long term home in Cardiff in 2012.
The Doctor Who Experience promises to be an unmissable adventure for the whole family to enjoy.
The Doctor needs your help – are you brave enough to step in to the TARDIS and join the adventure?
Door Price / Advance peak / Advance off-peak
* Adult: £20.00 / £18.00 / £15.50
* Child (5 to 16): £15.50 /£14.00 /£12.50
* Under 5’s are free
* Family of 4: £62.00 / £52.00 /£46.00
* Schools/Groups/Tour Operators: separate pricing.
Tickets for the show are on sale through www.doctorwhoexperience.com
booboo
January 11th, 2011 - 8:25pmwe are going on the first day in feb, i hope you have a great time
Sally & Joshua
January 11th, 2011 - 8:23pmWe (Mummy and Joshua who is 4 years old) are so excited to have booked our tickets to come to the exhibition in Feb! We live in Manchester and are travelling down by train and coming to London for the first time ever. Never been on a tube, never seen london so we’ve used our summer holiday funds to come for 2 days and see Dr who… very very excited by it all!! We love Dr Who very much… and Mummy is coming back in May to see David in his new west end play too!!
Lalalab Bob
January 8th, 2011 - 4:14pmi went to the doctor who prom and that was BRILLIANT and my dad brought me tickets to this and it sounds even more brilliant than the prom! i cant wait!
DoctorWho4Eva
January 8th, 2011 - 10:10amThis looks so cooooooooooooooooooooool……..
i have to go……..
looks great, i bet this will be better than DW Live.
😀 😀
dr who mega fan900
January 8th, 2011 - 9:56amIm going to the dr who experience with my graphics class at school to learn how, graphics are used to make dr who, im really looking forward to it as I love dr who, Ahhhhhh cant march just hurry up???
fezes are cool 24564789957
January 7th, 2011 - 8:14pmi’m going for my birthday witch is tue 22 march but i’m going on sun 20 march cause i got school on tuesday 22 march
21cwh04
January 6th, 2011 - 6:27pmWent to ‘Doctor Who Live’ which was amazing! I’ve got the advance TARDIS tickets for this so I’m stupidly excited!!
The Doctor’s Biggest FAN!
January 5th, 2011 - 6:46pmI’ve got a preveiw ticket for the 17th! Im gonna be the first person in!
the big,biggest big fan of wocky woo
January 5th, 2011 - 6:25pmsorry i spelt biggest wrong
the big,bigest big fan of wocky woo
January 5th, 2011 - 6:23pmOMG! im going and i am mega excited!!!!!!!!!!lulu 11
mama who
January 1st, 2011 - 11:05pmBeen to Dr Who live was amazing !!! i have already bought tickets for the Dr Who experience in London ! didnt realise it was going to be in Cardiff too ?!? oh well its so worth it 😀 x
dr who fans
January 1st, 2011 - 5:22amWOW WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ME AND M SON CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS.
denise evens
January 20th, 2012 - 6:05pmmy friend denise evens what be doctor who fan
julie
December 31st, 2010 - 9:55pmoh my giddy aunt….ive just booked tickets for march for me and my gorgeous daughter….so excited
biggest dr who fan
December 29th, 2010 - 12:46ammy dad just baught the tickets !!!! i almost died when he told me 🙂
amz
December 27th, 2010 - 4:06pmi got preview tickets im going on the 18th!!!! i got them for xmas !!!
it looks realy good
Australian Dr Who Lover
December 26th, 2010 - 6:59amHave just watched ‘Dr Who at the Proms’. Loved it, Loved it, Loved it!
Is the ‘Dr who Experience’ coming to Australia?? Pleeeeeese do. It should. Many fans downunder.
The aussie doctor
June 23rd, 2012 - 9:13amYeah. Australia is part of the universe. The TARDIS should travel here once in a while too
twelth doctor
November 16th, 2010 - 4:16pmwhen does everything come to london????? karen gillan did ONE toy sighnin in glasgow,and australia,u have all the goodies episodes playing on you tv stations and we are not allowed for some reason,so we dont get everything,but i do agree WHY do the usa get exclusive figures?????? UK IS WHERE DR WHO IS FROM,just like the wrestling the us get the lot,so usa,ha ha if you want to see this dr who exiibition u gotta travel!!!!!!!!!!!
NATASHA
November 15th, 2010 - 6:42pmdrwho is cool when matt smith comes on the tv
Space fish
November 14th, 2010 - 4:56pmThis looks soooooooooo cool
crawford alford
November 12th, 2010 - 7:25pmi wonder if my son Lyle will twist my arm to take him 🙂
Oh well……dare say we might make it
He is a BIG fan
angelus100
November 12th, 2010 - 5:47pmOg course it is London and Cardiff. London because they have the big exhibition centres and transport links and Cardiff because it is home. They can’t transport a museum roudn the country.
Dr Who live went to makor cities. Come on you all know you’ll travel if you are a real fan.
the doctor
November 11th, 2010 - 5:27pmi really want to go [falls to the floor and weeps]why?! why?!
DOCTOR WHO 10
November 9th, 2010 - 6:43pmsome of u think youre hard done by i live in ireland and we never get doctor who here except for doctor who live in belfast which i had to drive 3 hours to go see
Heart of Tardis
November 9th, 2010 - 4:49amFantastic Sounds like a taste of things to come for the BIG 50th Anniversary 2013!!
Jean
November 8th, 2010 - 9:34amHi All sounds Very Exciting!! Sooo looking forward to it. Just wondering how they can exhibit the old artefacts. I believe most of them were sold off when they closed the Dr Who Museum in Blackpool last year. Just wondering.
dalek stratagist
November 6th, 2010 - 11:12amyes booboo but do they sell figures, dvds, cds and books that exsit
ANDREW
November 6th, 2010 - 7:22amI live in Louth 😀 and i want it to go to somewhere like Manchester or Nottingham, so it’s close to me.
cazgaz
November 5th, 2010 - 10:49pmerTOOK MY SON TO DOCTOR WHO LIVE IN LONDON, IT WAS FANTASTIC, MATT SMITH & KAREN WERE IN THE AUDIENCE. GREAT SHOW, WE WANT TO GO TO DOCTOR WHO EXHIBITION NEXT YEAR.
The Whofan101
November 5th, 2010 - 8:39pmCome to the Notts, we rarely get any Who-related Exhibts
The Doctor
November 4th, 2010 - 10:15pmDu they have exclusive merchandise there??????????