A Dalek on an Egg

Via Springfield Punx. As you were.

Turkish Doctor Who

Or ... something. Honestly, I have NO idea what this is. My apologies.

Dr. Who LIVE tour in UK starts this week

American Dr. Who fans are a patient lot. It's not like we have much choice, mind you ... on the best of days we're a year behind British fans when it comes to access to new Dr. Who stories. On the worst? Fans in the 1970s were left to the whims of PBS scheduling, which was fairly erratic.

It hasn't always been easy for Dr. Who fans in the UK, either, with the situation ranging from feast to famine. The nation's present Dr. Who status is clearly "feast," though, as a new stage show called Dr. Who Live is set to begin Oct. 8 and will tour until next month.

Even better, Dr. Who Live features Nigel Planer (Neil of the Young Ones!)

From The Daily Mail:

Created by Dr Who executive ­producer and writer Steven Moffat, it kicks off in ­London next week. ‘It’s everything I wanted since I was 11,’ says Moffat. ‘A live show with the coolest Doctor Who monsters, a proper story and new screen material for Matt Smith’s ­Doctor. I’ll probably attend every night!’

Audiences are warned to expect the ­unexpected. With Nigel Planer starring as a new character, ­Vorgensen — ‘the ­greatest ­showman in the galaxy’ — some of the best-loved ­monsters and most ­terrifying foes who have never ­managed to conquer the Time Lord make an appearance.

Via.

Doctor Who's Sonic Screwdriver Wii stylus

Boy, this is old ... but if I'm just hearing about it, then maybe it's news to some of you, as well. Nintendo is releasing a Doctor Who game later this year titled Return to Earth (as well as a DS game titled Evacuation Earth.) The games feature the Cybermen and Daleks, naturally.

The best part? There's a Sonic Screwdriver controller being produced for the Wii. I don't actually own a Wii (I'm an Xbox man, myself) so I might have to settle for the Sonic Screwdriver pictured below. It's more my speed, anyway.

Build your own Dalek (Genocide not included)

Say you needed a soulless army of killing machines to devastate a neighboring planet. Or, maybe, you were shooting a fetish film that needed that special touch. What would you do?

Most of us would go to Amazon.com and buy whatever killing machine they had on sale, but that's not really cost effective, is it? Any experienced megalomaniac will tell you that world conquest can be done on a budget and that it's sometimes best to create your own army from scratch. That's how the Confederacy of Independent Systems did it. That's how Skynet does it. And it seems to have worked out pretty well so far.

TomR's Media Creations has just the thing to help you get started: DALEK BLUE PRINTS!

The website has a collection of hi-rez scans of a Dalek that illustrate, step-by-step, how to build one yourself.
(Courtesy of the Hypno-Pimp)

Rule 34: Dalek Porn UPDATED

You know ... I just don't have anything to add here. DALEK PORN kinda says it all. There's probably a joke somewhere about the star of the movie swinging both Dalek and Kaled or something but I just can't find it.

If you don't know what Rule 34 is, you might want to have a couple of drinks before Googling it. The Internet can be a wild, treacherous place, after all. I found this image while searching for the words "Dr. Who" and still came across porn.

UPDATED: Because you demanded it, here's a bit of info about the fake Dr. Who porno, as well as a few PG-rated screen caps from the trailer.

"While originally sold/released as "Abducted by the Daleks", after the BBC’s action the film was re-released with the "Daloids" title, though technically the film still infringes on copyright laws by using Dalek characters." VIA.

Does my medical insurance cover this?

 $100 for 11 doctors! I wonder ... how long it will take someone to create a custom Father Brennan toy with the Patrick Troughton figure?

My car plays the Star Trek theme ... what's yours play?

One of the stupidest controversies concerning electric cars is that their engines aren't accompanied by the obnoxious sounds made by traditional combustion engines. As expected, the idiots in the mainstream media present any change -- no matter how positive -- as some radical deviation from the norm. You know ... a perversion.

Instead of touting all benefits from reducing the levels of noise pollution in the modern environment, we get stories about how people might get hit and killed while cross the street because they aren't accustomed to looking both ways before walking into traffic. If you want to know what the media thinks of their audience, look no further than this.

People get killed in traffic everyday without aid of electric cars. But that's just not sexy.

Want to know what is sexy? An electric motor that plays the theme to Doctor Who. Check out these "mobile ringtones."

 "The system is totally customisable either by territory or individual. You could have Star Trek sounds for the US market and Doctor Who for the UK.

"If you take it to its extreme it could be like ringtones for mobile phones. If someone wanted the sound of the car in the latest James Bond film, they could have that."

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Daleks

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Gundam Calling t-shirt

Book Report: Doctor Whoand the Web of Fear

Here's more artwork from my book report series, drawn between 1979 and 1980 when I was a child. 
I only vaguely remember this book ... or, more specifically, I remember the monsters, but little else. According to Amazon, this story was from the Patrick Troughton years.

Book Report: Terry Nation's Dalek Special

A lot of folks don't understand the appeal of Boba Fett. In a way, they kind of have a point ... all he really does in the Star Wars films is shoot at Luke Skywalker a few times (and miss) and fall into the mouth of an immobile monster. But I like him, anyway.
These days I'm a little perplexed by the adoration of the Daleks, those clunky old Doctor Who villains. I loved them as a child (and even got to see the two Peter Cushing "Doctor Who" movies in a local theater in England in the early '80s) and still have a certain fondness for them. but I have to admit they aren't the most intimidating villains ever designed. R2-D2 is a lot more agile and functional.
Above is art for a book report I wrote when I was 10 years old (give or take) for Terry Nation's Dalek Special. Not the most literary (or educational) book I could have selected, but there it is.

My ill-planned phone call to Doctor Who

When it comes to Doctor Who, my generation was amazingly fortunate. Not only did we discover the series when Tom Baker was still front and center, but rising interest in the show in the early 1980s even prompted some very special re-runs of the original William Hartnell years.

Around the time that Peter Davidson was getting comfortable with his new Doctor Who costume, BBC aired An Unearthly Child — the very first Doctor Who storyline ever. It was a great bookend to the new Doctor Who series and the perfect reminder about the changing nature of the character. While I missed Tom Baker, it put things into perspective.

When Davidson was making the promotional rounds for Doctor Who, he found himself on a children's show answering live questions from the audience — as well as questions via telephone (I think he was a guest on Swap Shop but could be wrong.) I decided to call and almost dropped the phone when they told me they were patching me through to talk to the new Doctor, himself.

It was around this time I realized I didn't have a question. Or a clue. So I followed my first stupid instinct and hung up the phone. At the time it seemed like a better plan than running the risk of embarrassing other Americans by broadcasting my panic on British television.

Don't be too hard on me. I was only 10, and the closest I'd ever come to dealing with a "celebrity" at that point was having bumped into Barbara Woodhouse on a class field trip to Beaulieu.