If you haven’t yet made it to the National Media Museum in Bradford, Yorkshire, for its exhibit “Doctor Who and Me: 50 Years of Doctor Who Fans” (which I’ve mentioned before), you’ve got only two more weeks: the exhibit closes on February 9th.
I was at the opening night of the exhibit back in November, and I figure it’s time to share some thoughts and images from the exhibit. So I’ll be doing that all this week.
Today: Daleks. These, for instance, are not props from actual production but fan-made replicas:
A perhaps less accomplished replica (yet one still made with great love) and an inflatable Dalek (for use as decoys in battle, maybe?):
These completely different inflatable Daleks were not part of the exhibit, but were busy helping decorate the stage for the exhibit’s opening-night open mike event:
This Dalek may be part of the furniture at the museum. If you got close enough, Dalek voice demanded a donation toward the museum’s running (since you pay no admission fee to get in). Note the slot for a pound coin or three between the gun and plunger:
(If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
That last one practically demands a caption competition. “Galactic conquest is not cheap. DONATE. DONATE. DONATE.”
I took a few pictures myself. I’ll try and upload some.
http://s162.photobucket.com/user/speccy4i/library/Doctor%20Who%20Exhibit
That should work.
Portraits of the Doctor. Love the gap between 8 and 9…
I loved this sign. There’s a model of Thunderbird 2 elsewhere in the Museum. One day I went, the model was gone, with a sign saying that Thunderbird 2 was off getting fixed. I think that’s my favourite sign ever.
A good shot of all the Daleks
Lots of random stuff including a child’s 10 costume.
Obligatory TARDIS shot….
A Christmas Angel.
The entrance had this projector running classic clips. Managed to wait to take a picture just as 11’s saying “Hello, I’m the Doctor.”
I deleted them. Upload one, if you like, to share. But it’s not appropriate to hijack the thread with tons of your own stuff. If you’d like to post them on your own blog or tumblr or Flickr or whatever and then post a link here, that’s fine too.
That’s fine. Sorry.
There is a Dalek that is part of the museum, I’m surprised they didn’t move it closer to the exhibit.
Here is one we found in our archive http://www.seasphotography.org from 1965, probably at Ramsgate carnival Kent. Daleks became very popular after 1964 we have found quite a few examples where kids were making their own costumes – and so it continues.