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Since the revival of Doctor Who almost six years ago, the BBC’s marketing machinery has been in full flow, with the programme spawning action figures, DVD box sets, plenty of other merchandise, alongside Proms concerts and exhibitions. Doctor Who Experience I remember my first Doctor Who exhibition, at Longleat in the 1970s …
... if you work it out as average commute time for actual, living people. There are almost eight times as many people living in London as in second place by population Birmingham and the transport links are excellent. You know, in relative terms, compared to the country as a whole.
I'm not sure that supports everything happening there though.
There have been exhibitions dotted around the UK, including Glasgow and one down in Cornwall as well.
I suppose the logic for this one is probably that London is a reasonable place close to the home of BBC Worldwide to try it out, while the production base in Cardiff is the show's home and so a logical final destination.
Of course, wherever you put this (or indeed, anything by the BBC) there will be people complaining that it's either too biased towards some particular area, or that they're spending money pandering to shouty people in the regions.
But for sixty five quid (or fifty five fifty for family of three) I would like it if you could educate my kid/s in the potential physics behind the many Whoism concepts to some degree, not just give them an expose' to the Who merchandising machine.
Caught me on a grumpy day.
I think that sounds like a job for the Science Museum; I'm sure they could get tons of people through their doors with a 'Science of Dr Who' show.
But you are right, in that there are lots of things that could be done, given the show's longevity, the range of topics that it's covered and the wealth of material they must have in the archives.
With enough space and time (see what I did there? ;)) you could probably find ways to work most of the subjects of a school curriculum into a really comprehensive Dr Who exhibition. But, if they can't find space for more than a couple of hundred words about each Doctor, there's not much chance of a gallery of, say, all the historical figures he's met over the years.
the physics you could relate to would be things like relativity and the fun things that happen near the speed of light and on a quantum level. Just general weirdness. But then you have the problems of:
1) It's too advanced for most kids to really grasp
2) If you apply physics that they will actually grasp, it would be too weakly related to the show to actually hold interest
I reckon you might be able to do something, but it would be more "look at how cool this is" rather than teaching science, the real avenue might be constructing an adventure which incorporated things like Natural History for a short-term exhibition.
On a side-note, I'd be interested whether teaching the real basics of QM to kids would change the way that they view the world, or if it would just confuse them and make them lose interest in science.
I had tickets for the test-pilot. I write here often, and there's a fair bit of cross-over between the fans of gadgets and those of Doctor Who, apparently.
So, it seemed only polite to offer to write about it for the lovely people here.
a significant quantity of us North Americans of varying flavors enjoy it as well.
I was really hoping to read that the exhibit was done up to the degree that Paramount Studios did the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas a few years ago. It is sadly no longer there but, while it was, it was VERY thorough and very well done - covering all aspects of the ST universe from TOS through Voyager.
Maybe when the Dr. Who exhibit moves to its "permanent?" home in Cardiff. I'm hoping to make a trip to Europe in the next couple years, mostly to trace familial roots, but also lots of typical touristy things. Must be sure to include this in the itinerary.
Mostly nostalgia, I think.
Many of us grew up in an age of just three (or even two) TV channels with Saturdays having only a couple of child-friendly programmes in the evening; so as a child you didn't generically watch TV, you watched Dr Who (or whatever was filling the slot at the time). And you knew that for the same reason that's what all your friends would be watching and recreating at school the next day. Dr Who - for better or worse - is part of most of our childhoods.
But no, it's a closed wifi network, which will have things like voucher offers, background material and additional stuff for the deaf.
It's a great shame it wasn't switched on for the test day, because I too thought "That's weird, wouldn't Bluetooth be more straightforward?"
I guess they know that they can deliver a wider range of material via WiFi and a local web server, but I can't help feeling that they will have to explain to quite a few people how to select the right network and connect to it; once that's done, then the standard hot-spot landing page mechanisms should help point people in the right direction.
What a shame that despite the promises suggested by the Giant Robot and Zygon pictures, this sounds like it continues the trend of trying to forget about the heritage of the 'original' Dr Who, like hiding a senile grandparent under the stairs when anyone calls. It's ironic that a programme that's based on time travel seems so embarrassed about its own past. Yes, some of it was appalling and lacked the flash-bang CGI that seems necessary in today's short attention span rating wars, but without William Hartnell there would be no Matt Smith.
That most of the stuff that belongs to the first era (Hartnell to McCoy) is unfortunately not suitable for an exhibition being tatty (the original Daleks were repaired, repainted, modified and painted again), long since lost or fallen into pieces (the Tardises), or now owned by individuals (and so not available)
I often wonder what happened to all the stuff from the permanent exhibition at the Dapol factory in Llangollen (where the used to make the figures) when it closed down - that had some good original stuff in it, albeit mostly from the Peter Davidson era IIRC. Best bit was when I took my (adult) sister there and as she was looking at an exhibit she felt a tap on her shoulder, turned round and found herself face-to-face with a Dalek. Think she still has nightmares about that to this day!
I'm more confused by Dr Who's love of the Brits. Didn't American children ever get so scared by a TV programme that they hid being their couches?
One of my firends is a compulsive collector who has a Dr Who room in his tiny flat. No models, videos, or other touristy nonsense, just amazingly rare literature and epsiodes. Now if any other obsessive wants a quick tour for £65 then I might just be able to arrange it.
thats the thing about these Londoner's they seem to have forgot about susan' s tardis she stole from the master In 2199.
or even remember the Dalek time ship that supposedly Ian and Barbara blow up after they returned home in it, but it was never sure it wasn't repairable or was in fact a real relative dimensional TARDIS replica and so larger inside than out etc :D
Didn't American children ever get so scared by a TV programme that they hid being their couches?
Probably not due to the warnings before each program..............
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A pint because scenes would be set in a pub, where booze was consumed & fags were seen to be smoked.
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I still remember the feeling of excitement on Saturday evening in the early sixties as we sat waiting after tea for Dr Who. To this day I still get a faint reminder of butterflies in my stomach if the old Radiophonic Workshop mix of the theme tune is played damn near fifty years after dear old William Hartnell first brought the Doctor to our screens.