Daleks in the Chatroom

Dounreay · 31 January, 2003, 01:36:46 PM

Just admiring Dr X's most excellent icon.

The comic potential for daleks is there, y'know, dalek in an internet chat room (well I thought it was funny), daleks advertising stairlifts and so on.

But despite their being a bit limited in a fight there's something deeply sinister about that design. Am I just suffering from childhood trauma from Dr Who exposure or does anyone agree?

Devons Daddy · 31 January, 2003, 01:59:24 PM

Daleks
i lieke the marketing potentail. you should be working for the BBC.
DR who = scarry childhood moments. totally.

The Enigmatic Dr X · 31 January, 2003, 02:33:04 PM

I choose it cos my wife got me a plastic Dalek for Christmas. It's really quite fabby (for a plastic piece of tat). You push a button and it speaks in a scarily loud voice ("Exterminate" "You are an ememy of the Daleks" etc).

DALEKS -

No home (or message board) should be without one.

Queen Firey-Bou · 31 January, 2003, 03:32:01 PM

Cool , what a whole big proper dalek ? fantastic. !

wheres the sofa to hide behind?
(tho i still believe the giant maggots to be worse)

The Enigmatic Dr X · 31 January, 2003, 03:40:05 PM

Well, it's about 10 inches high. You get them in the Gadget Shop for about ?10. I really wanted the remote control one in Forbidden Planet but that was ?60 and too big for my bookcase (it's about eighteen inches tall). Still, you can always dream.

Proudhuff · 31 January, 2003, 04:19:11 PM

This will bore you, but the building I work in has a full sized Dalek in the Atrium! It's the black on that David Bailey photographed for a stamp a few years ago,it's amazing how everyday it has become... loking forward to some wag subverting it someday in some subtle way...

Middenpus

OldOne · 02 February, 2003, 07:01:58 AM

Oh, this reminds me.... if any of you happen to be down in Brighton any time soon, there's a 100% real Dalek for sale in one of the shops in the Laines. Used for the show, even does the funny voice thing and everything.
It's three grand, mind

Quirkafleeg · 02 February, 2003, 07:19:10 AM

There is a company making replica Daleks, complete with voice, along with Tardises (Tardi?), cybersuits etc ... cannot remember the name of hand.

Yeah when I win the lottery...

Devons Daddy · 02 February, 2003, 02:27:18 PM

i posted that link a few months ago.
i will see if i still have it and post it again. they had a full set. and K9 as well.cyber men helmets as well.

thats on my must buy when i win the lottery list also.
get one and place it in the garden. much better then a garden gnome or some arty statue.

Devons Daddy · 02 February, 2003, 02:30:44 PM

here it is.
worth a look for the sake of dreaming
who buys these things? or should that question be how many sad sci fi fans have won the lottery then?

Link: http://.www.thisplanetearth.co.uk

Devons Daddy · 02 February, 2003, 02:33:15 PM

sorry this should work. if it does not. just cut and paste and take a look.
:~)

Link: www.thisplanetearth.com.uk