Dr. Who Sonic Screwdriver

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Please make a sonic screwdriver from the new Doctor Who series! I'm sure this has been asked before, but I figured I'd start a separate thread to stir up some noise.

The new DK book documents it about as well as can be hoped (except perhaps for precise length) and there's screen grabs-a-plenty on this very forum.

Any chance???
 
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Heck, a decent "classic series" screwdriver would rock as well. :lol
 
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I could stand to have a new series SS with my Tom Baker one and my full scale K9 :D
 
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I wonder if he is off kiteboarding somewhere....;)
 
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MattMunson said:
Please make a sonic screwdriver from the new Doctor Who series! I'm sure this has been asked before, but I figured I'd start a separate thread to stir up some noise.

The new DK book documents it about as well as can be hoped (except perhaps for precise length) and there's screen grabs-a-plenty on this very forum.

Any chance???
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Matt Munson is a merketing genius!!

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The toy version is an inch too long (they had to extend it to accomodate the sound system) and all plastic parts. The cry here is for one with metal parts and I, too, would like to have one.
 
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I thought the way it worked was that there was a series 1 prop but it broke all the time. Then the toy came out and they liked it, so the toy maker provided the molds to the studio, and the studio started making props from the toy molds.

Or something like that.

- k
 
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LeMarchand said:
are there pic comparing the two?
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Ganked, sans permission, from the DW Visual Dictionary Thread:

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Said thread found here: http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=25398&page=3&highlight=sonic+screwdriver
 
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, Matt. :$

I suspect hands would start going down rather fast once we got as far as the appropriate price for this. We're talking about some tricky machine work there.

People just aren't spending what they once did for quality goodies. I think it would be tough to get enough people on board for something like this.

But, I'll watch the thread for more pics and info. I'm not sure how I feel about this one.

- Rylo
 
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We've got faith in you Rylo, if anyone can find a way to make it accurate and realtively inexpensive but not cheaply made it's you.
 
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I would be in for one as well. I have lots of pictures and caps for reference if you need them.
 
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How about a kit - would that be possible? With cast metal parts?
 
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I know it was kinda bypassed in the other thread, but regarding the sonic screwdriver picture "comparison" above.

Actually from what my sources tell me, that top one is NOT the actual prop, but actually Character Options first Sonic Screwdriver which was pretty dead on to the real one, but due to electronics and adding the sound it was made to be larger. The blue tip was added for the black light and the BBC used the ORIGINAL molds for the new prop, not the current toys.
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The best references to go from currentltly are the scans from the VD that Coz uploaded and the image Kylash had.

Another thing to note is that it seems on Tennents SS, that the slider moves down then the neck goes up and up when teh neck goes down. I figured out, with the help of a few engineering friends, that there is more than likely a U shape mechanism that turns on a gear allowing this to happen... However in the newer episodes it looks like its up for both positions, so I have no idea, anyone have scereen caps conclusive of either?

Also there is a small black button on the slider to activate the light. It was accurately eproduced on the LED Torch in detail though, not function.

Also to note, in the episode the Lazerus Experiment I seem to recall Martha twisting the black nib...did anyone else notice?

Eitherway I hope to get one made...Rylo if you figure the costs, may not be a bad thing just to get an idea...
 
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Primrodo said:
Also to note, in the episode the Lazerus Experiment I seem to recall Martha twisting the black nib...did anyone else notice?
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I saw it too and wrote it off as the actress miming an action in order to make it look like she was doing something. The same was Ian Marter (Harry Sulivan) twisted the bottom of it in the Sontoran Experiment before going into the Sontoran Sphere Ship to mess with the energy feeding system.

I always figured that, in teh fiction of the show, the blue strip was a touch point similar to the two silver panels of the telepathic circuit on the old Tardis Console. You put your thumb or finger on it, think of a number and that adjusts the setting to open locks, mend cut barbed wire, ramp up the power on an X-Ray machine, etc...

But I digress from the conversation.

GO RYLO!!! (y)thumbsup:thumbsup
 
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