This is a nice wee article from the Radio Times – latest attempt to get Dr who views while the show’s off air 😉 – about what’s your favourite TARDIS design.
http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-01-11/the-best-and-worst-doctor-who-tardis-designs-of-all-time
Though I disagree with them on their top 3 🙂
I’d have to put Hartnell’s as #1 – it was the original and all the others are pretty closely based on its essentials – hexagonal console with central time rotor, the roundels (the roundels!!!) feature in all of them to a greater or lesser degree, even when only as a hint in a design motif, as in AG’s more organic style. And it was my first. So there!
I’m really torn in making a decision about the latest design and 9/10’s. I’m edging towards Capaldi’s as #2 partly because it reminds me the most of Hartnell’s and partly for the sheer craftsmanship of it as a set; it’s an incredibly beautiful, and functional design, and the fact that it’s 360 deg, completley enclosed. (And also the fact I’ve been on/in it 🙂 (If you’re ever in Cardiff and get the chance to do a TARDIS tour, GO! (Through the Dr Who Experience which is also worth every penny and then some))) It is hugely detailed in its design, and 12’s addition of books and blackboards adds a warmth and more lived-in feel, compared to when it was 11’s
#3 is then 9/10’s but only edged out by a whisker. It was breathtaking in how radical a rethink it was, in making it have such an organic, warm feel. 11’s early one is close behind, love the orange and tangerine.
#5 is 4’s secondary console. I love steampunk 🙂
#6 is probably the movie version of 8’s. I like the steampunk/meccano look of console surround, but contrary wise the rest of the console room seems too big and spacious. I know, that doesn’t make sense,the TARDIS is capable of being any size she wants!
#7 for me is Hurt Doctor’s, a nice mid-stage between movie 8’s and Eccleston’s.
And the rest fall in a random order of OK cos it’s the TARDIS but not much of a muchness 🙂 Kudos to the AG design teams who weren’t afraid to do a radical rethink while keeping the core identity, and for all the detail that’s gone into all the console panels and buttons and knobs.
Or maybe I’ll just put Idris as #1 Now THAT was a radical redesign!!
So. What does everyone else think?
Craig 8 years, 7 months ago.
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