Show your Dr. Who props!

just getting into the series, and id love to see what others have.... post em up.

 

it's not much...but...




...it's the sonic screwdriver toy that they put out for last season (the one that starts on sci-fi friday)...but for the new season it's what they're using on-screen because it's so much sturdier than what they were using (which broke constantly)...so while yes it's just the licensed toy it's also an exact replica...

i'm hoping to get an original series style one to go with it soon and i'm getting my new series tardis key next week...

i'm also working on some paper props....and if anyone can help it'd be great...does anyone know what font this is or do i have to try to make it photoshop?...



...skott

 

Someone made a font for it called Crespallion here:

http://www.21stcenturydoctorwho.com/pages/...loads/fonts.php

There's a few other nice bits to download there.

 

That's fantastic about the Sonic Screwdriver toy being used as the actual prop... now I gotta get one.



Found an interesting interview with the guy who runs the toy company... he seems dedicated to accuracy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/n.../26/20763.shtml

- k

 

very cool...thanks...it'll be a fun font to have...though sadly it won't work for this prop...unfortunately a lot of the letters are wrong and it doesn't have numbers...but it's ok...i actually finished the photoshop project version today...after i get ink for my printer tomorrow i'll do a test print and if it turns out well i'll put it up on the free paper props thread (if it doesn't turn out well then i'll go back to work on it)...skott

 

The new screwdriver and an old TARDIS key are all I have.

 

Here's my Sonic Screwdriver from the 2005 series:



I've also got a Silver Nemesis Cyberman replica from the 'classic' series:



and a few other Who related replicas (you can see them here):
Who gallery
along with some other Who replicas sent in by other collectors.

I'm looking forward to having a crack at a few new props from the 2006 series.

Cheers,

Simon.

 

My wife has a couple of those TARDIS keys, and I made a question mark umbrella when I was in high school, but it broke.

I had a friend of mine cut out the hook shape with his jig saw, then I attached it to a wooden doll head (those little wooden speroids you get at craft stores), sanded the crp out of it and painted candy apple red before attaching to an old black umbrella from which the handle had convieniently broken off of. Oh, I painted the metal tip red, too. I've been meaning to make a better for years, but never got around to it.

I also modified a cheapy pocket watch with the guts from a cheapy digital wrist watch to look like Sylvester McCoy's (I think it was in "Silver Nemesis"). I think I've still got it around somewhere . . . I'll have to see if I can dig it out and take some pics.

Can you tell that I like the 7th Doctor?

 

Where's the best place to get the new Sonics & the Tom Baker ones?

Thanks

 

"Where's the best place to get the new Sonics & the Tom Baker ones?"

i got my new style screwdriver on ebay...but you can get it from most online stores that get products from the uk....but i'm pretty sure if you can wait 6 or 8 months you'll probably be able to get them at target (assuming the sci-fi channel airings do well)...

one of the members on this board is currently selling a baker screwdriver...i haven't seen it up close...but the pics he showed were quite nice...check the junkyard...

...skott

 

Thats a Human soldier helmet from Earthshock isn't it, is it a 'found' one?

SAS

 

I haven't even seen the show yet, I I'm thinking I'll be needing one of those sonic screwdrivers. Man, I always wanted one from the Tom Baker years. I'm hoping I like this new edition, it would give me good reason to go around the hose using it on the cat.

 

heres mine


have scarfs too I want to build a gravitic anomolizer mini globe type thingy seen in the horns of nimon

charlie

 

finished my "end of the world" item tickets....what do you think?...sorry about the crappy pictures...and the color is much nicer...it just didn't photograph well...






...if you want one of your own..check the "free paper props" thread in a couple of minutes...skott

 

question...does anyone here read "doctor who magazine"?...if so...can someone get me a high res scan of the cover of issue 367?...specifically the tardis key?..thanks in advance...skott

EDIT - it would have to be really high res...i'm going to have to cut the key myself....if you help i'll send you a copy of the key

 

That's the new Tardis key? Looks rather boring... :confused

 

"That's the new Tardis key? Looks rather boring..."

yea...it is kinda boring...but i still want one...skott

 

It looks like the same key used during the Pertwee era, which I'm told is (or resembles) an actual Police Box key. At least that's what a London Met police officer told me

 

"It looks like the same key used during the Pertwee era"

thanks for the heads up on that...that makes it way less boring...more classic...skott

 

for people looking for the new sonic screwdriver, i found this place in America, just ordered mine for $35 shipped. Kind of annoying that it shows the lighter version grip but i ended up with the dark cracked leather one.

http://www.whona.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Scre...ory_Code=cotoys

 

Can't believe I missed this thread on the first time out. LOL.

I have the following:
Tom Baker style Sonic Screwdriver (Roguescout built with/Hyperdyne Sound module), Sontoran Experiment and/or City of Death version
Jon Pertwee style Sonic Screwdriver (Jeff Parks of Parksabers.com build w/Hyperdyne sound module), Colony In Space Version
Toy Sonic Screwdriver from the 1980's
Toy Sonic Screwdriver from Character Options (2005 version)
Two 800-Trekker Tardis Keys (the self same ones used in the 1996 film)
one of the new BBC issue Tardis keys from last year
one McCoy style Tardis key made by Megatron here on the RPF
One full 8th Doctor costume (vest, coat, ascot, shirt and pants)
...and a few other things.


See Also here: http://www.rpf.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=107052 for a few pics and links and stuff.

 

thanks I just ordered my screw driver

 

anyone know if the note pad that comes with the new Sonic Screwdriver is accurate to the one used in episode 2?

 

Note at all. It's a post-it pad with a Doctor Who logoed cardboard front.

 

Actually - the BBC showed a close up of a couple of the new keys in their "Whospy" section of their website and also you can see it clearly in the episode "Father's Day" that the prop is, indeed, nothing more than a run of the mill Yale Key.

 

this the image you're refering to?

 

"I have a feeling that the key used in the photoshoot was just a standard 'Yale' type key from a locksmiths looped on a silver string (not chain as I think the real prop would be). They've used the sirt of string that you'd wrap up a present with whereas the key was put on a metak chain in the TV series if memory serves."

that's all it is on the show is just a yale key...i'm pretty sure it's just hanging on a bit of ball-chain (in the shoot and on the show)...


"this the image you're refering to?"

thanks for that pic....the "era" detail will be most helpful...

...skott

 

Si Senior. Gracias.

 

Also did this up, if anyones interested in the hires let me know.

 

just got my new series sonic screwdriver today, man that was fast. Very cool prop.

 

Here is mine. I also have a yale key but this is my Pride and Joy so to speak.
Rob

http://www.rpf.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=107052

 

a run of accuratly cut keys would be something very cool, id be interested if anyone could organize it

 

"a run of accuratly cut keys would be something very cool, id be interested if anyone could organize it"

no promises yet...but that's part of my plan....skott

 

sweet

 

Just got my toy Eccleston driver today.




What's the deal with the HORRID deep cracked "leathery" texture on the grip... ugh. :confused



Otherwise pretty nifty. I like it.





Yes that's right, you need to use a screwdriver to put the batteries in your Sonic Screwdriver.





The toy plays two sound effects that are very similar to one another, alternating with each button press.

The amazing thing is how TINY the electronics are... three button-cell batteries and an unbelievably small circuit board.




Heh heh heh.

- k

 

yeah, the sounds sounded identical to me. What i figuired from the sound is it changes every other press, the only difference is a low pulsing sound, hold it close and you can hear it, but it has nothing to do with what position its in. And im not sure about the cracked texture, the original looks smooth to me

 

"What's the deal with the HORRID deep cracked "leathery" texture on the grip... ugh."

weird...mine's not as cracked looking...much more smooth...the handle is - i believe - supposed to look like old ivory....skott

 

Great work Simon. B) :thumbsup


- k

 

Thanks for that - it took a lot of trial and error to get it looking 'right'. There's still room for improvement but I've started other projects - some times you just have to draw a line and move on...

Cheers,

Simon.

 

hmm, looking at the new tardis key here, two images seem quite different...



so is there more than one style key?

 

I'm willing to bet there is one or two that actually work in the lock on the props door and the rest are probably just already cut keys they had laying around.

Rob

 

What about that TARDIS console that you were building?

 

I just got the new Sonic Screwdriver pen toy.
I've also got a 1/3rd scale (8 foot long) Tom Baker scarf.
A Seal of Rasillon
Cyberman cookie jar.
4" Cyberman toy

 

Mywife put the Tardis Console project on hold until we have a house with either a basement workshop or a garage I can build it in. The neighbors in my apartment building were starting to complain of the sounds of power tools and hammering.

The Sal of Rassilon you have is the one that Megatron did? I have one of those on my pocket watch and another I carry as a good luck charm. Curtis did a fantastic job on that.

 

Anyone know the dimensions of the key?



I was gonna make one.

 

Darn wives, stopping all our fun

That's the one.
I've got a pocket watch without a lid. Was gonna try and add a hinge to the seal, and mopunt it to the pocket watch.

 

I'd say talk to PropReplicator but Wayne's sort of retired, maybe Megatron can help you?

 

regarding that Tardis key, ive seen a couple different variations of that one, only a few slightly different, the spacing between the blocks etc, which is accurate to the Baker years version?