Custom Birthday Dalek

Carpenter Jason Wardman of Shropshire has bettered last year's birthday present for his son - a TARDIS - with a black Genesis of the Daleks-style Dalek.

Comprising of a ring modulator voice alteration unit and powered by an electric wheelchair, Mr Wardman's Dalek was built for his son's 6th birthday - but turned up several weeks late, leading to a postponement of the birthday party!

“All the kids thought it was fantastic.”

“Last year I built a full size police box for my son’s birthday and this year I have built a Dalek for him.”

The carpenter said: “There was a lot of fibre glass involved. I was having to learn new skills, that is what delayed me and finding the fibreglass.”

Must be cracking fun to have a dad making stuff like that - oh to be 6 again!

Meet budding Telford Time Lord Jason Wardman. He keeps a replica life-size Tardis in his conservatory.

The married dad-of-two, 36, took four months to build a copy of Doctor Who’s time machine as a birthday present for his five-year-old son Adam.

The factory worker and carpenter found plans for the Tardis on the internet and spent evenings and weekends painstakingly putting it together.

Mr Wardman, of Admaston Road, Wellington, said his Tardis is just like the real thing with a flashing blue light on the roof - but he admits that is not quite as roomy inside as the Doctor’s machine.

He now hopes to hire out the 8ft Tardis for children’s parties and corporate events.

Mr Wardman said: “It’s just like the real thing and has all the signs properly painted.

“Inside it’s just an empty police box and not a spaceship. I’m good, but I’m not that good.” He said he has been a fan of the BBC TV sci-fi show since he was a child.

Mr Wardman is not the only nimble-fingered Telford fan of the much-loved Time Lord.

Last month we reported that former heroin user Nick Stokes, 33, from Randlay, was poised to launch a new business venture after designing a mini Tardis computer case.

The fourth series of Doctor Who is currently on our screens.

Photographs Of The Doctor Who Camp In Dubai

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Two photographs of the Doctor Who camp in Dubai, you can't see anyone important, they are all off filming, but at least here is the camp!

New plotlines will explain damage to the double decker bus used in Planet of the Dead, the Doctor Who easter special! The bus was badly damaged when dropped by a crane as it was being unloaded at the Dubai port.
The bus is identical to one being used in Cardiff, where the rest of the episode is being shot. Russell T Davies has rewritten the script, so now the bus the Doctor is in collides with another craft while traveling through space, and then crash-lands on an uninhabited planet - in real life, the Dubai desert.
So it appears the report about a third bus was wrong!

Dubai Final Day Location Report

 

This from SunJunky...

Off I went again to the Doctor Who desert shoot location. First thing this morning we were told that although stills were being shot with the bus there, the cast/crew were about 20km away filming in area 53 (sounded like something from x-files to me). So all hope was pinned on lunchtime - David Tennant etc. were due back for lunch between 2-3pm.
So myself, hubby & kids ventured back. And who should greet us this time, but that lovely lady who had already sent me packing two days ago! Though her attitude changed when Tracie Simpson, the producer of Planet Of The Dead came over. But it was the same old story. Not only did they not want us anywhere near the filming, they didn't want us there when DT etc came back. No amount of cute smiles from the kids, or my friends daughter showing off her extensive DW scrapbook could make them change their minds. Tracie only told us what we already knew about Planet Of The Dead, its an hour long episode, to be shown at Easter. Oh and it was her hand that picked up the Masters ring from the fire, and she's been an extra, along with David Tennants make-up artist in another episode!
Tracie very politely took the childrens names and our addresses and has promised to send them Doctor Who goodie bags, which was very nice of her. Oh and her business card has a picture of the tardis in the corner of it.
She said they fly back to the UK tomorrow, but there are at least 4 BA flights leaving here for Heathrow, so I think we'd be setting ourselves up for yet more disappointment if we went along to the airport!

Thanx to SunJunky for this!