The TARDIS Is Going to Space… For Real.

Doctor Who has become sort of like an icon among his many fans, with the show inspiring a whole range of products and mods, like the Doctor Who wall clockDalek planter, and TARDIS bunk bed.

A Kickstarter campaign inspired by the show was recently successfully funded, but it’s not for another Doctor Who-themed product. Instead, it’s a campaign that will be sending a real-life TARDIS into space – as cargo on a commercial satellite launch.

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The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is coming up (it’s on November 23rd) and what better way to commemorate the event than by sending the Doctor’s space and time machine into orbit?

The miniature TARDIS satellite has already been built and it’s equipped with a GoPro Hero 3 which will be recharged by solar panels (hidden in the police booth windows) that have been set up to provide it with power indefinitely. The team behind the launch hopes to get some nice photos of Earth from orbit, and they’re offering data space on the TARDIS as rewards for the backers of the campaign.

It’s about time someone made this happen! Now they just need to figure out how to get it to work as a time machine.

[via Dvice]

Dalek Planter: Germinate! Germinate!

Nothing takes the steam out of a Dalek like taking his dead carcass and putting it in your garden to use as a planter. Daleks don’t look menacing at all with flowers coming out of them.
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This “Ex-Germinate” Dalek flower pot was made by photographer and Doctor Who collector Chris Balcombe, who obviously knows how to handle an evil Dalek. Even the Doctor himself has never exiled a Dalek into a garden. Let’s just hope this doesn’t lead to a new Dalek race that is just as deadly, but looks prettier.

Now all we need is a Cyberman and K-9 and this could be an amazing Doctor Who robotic garden tourist attraction.

[via Nerd Approved]

TARDIS Octopus Necklace: Eight Arms to Hold You Through Time and Space

What is blue, has eights arms and is bigger on the inside? This Doctor Who “statement” necklace, that’s what. Or as I like to call it, the “OctoTARDIS” or “Doctor Cthulu”.

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Doctor Who Dalek Talking Bank

There are always benefits when it comes to saving up for a rainy day, especially in this time and age where economic uncertainty is still all around, never mind what the government of the day is telling you through the mass media. After all, there is no better time than now to start saving up, and as part of your parental responsibilities, you too, might want to help your little ones pick up this habit along the way. Instead of the usual porcelain piggy bank, how about settling for something far more interactive – in the form of the $29.99 Doctor Who Dalek Talking Bank?

With the Daleks, it is always “Exterminate! Exterminate!”, but this time around, they are not hell bent on exterminating your additional money, as other corporations out there already do a darn good job in helping you spend far more than you can earn by peddling stuff that you don’t need, although it would be nice to have. Each time you drop some coins into this Doctor Who Dalek Talking Bank, it will play back some sound effects from the Doctor Who TV show. This is an officially licensed Doctor Who collectible which measures 8″ in height, and would make for an ideal gift for any Doctor Who fans.
[ Doctor Who Dalek Talking Bank copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Doctor Who TARDIS Talking Money Bank

Forget about time travel with the latest Doctor Who TARDIS iteration this time around (granted, all the other TARDIS toys that have come out in the past also had nothing to do with time travel, but rather, it gave a semblance of doing so where your imagination will need to fill in the rest of the blanks. With the $24.99 Doctor Who TARDIS Talking Money Bank, however, it would offer a respite for your bank account, as you begin to accumulate your daily loose change in the TARDIS, and each time you decide to drop a coin inside, it will make some “vworp vworp” noises.

The Doctor Who TARDIS Talking Money Bank will measure 8″ in height, and it is large enough on the inside to be able to stash a fair number of coins. In order to access the coins within, all you need to do is open it up and remove those coins. Do bear in mind that this is an officially licensed Doctor Who collectible, so if you are a huge fan of the good Doctor, this is one particular toy or accessory which you could add to your collection.
[ Doctor Who TARDIS Talking Money Bank copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

TARDIS Prime Transformer Toy: Phone Booth in Disguise

Remember Jason Casteel’s cool Transfomers-meets-Doctor Who T-shirt? Thingiverse member Andrew Lindsey not only remembers it, he was inspired by it to make a 3D printed toy. Behold, TARDIS Prime in 3D! Vworp Vworp!

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Andrew had to deviate from Jason’s drawing in order to make the toy transformable from a phone booth to a robot and vice-versa. At least he still has the red bow tie.

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Andrew says he’s not fully satisfied with the toy. For one thing, the toy needs a lot of plastic to be printed, and it’s made of more than 70 parts. Also, it can’t stand on its own because it’s too top-heavy. I guess you could say that it’s… wibbly wobbly. YEEEEAA– Sorry. Andrew is thinking of designing a smaller version of the toy, but you can already print G1 TARDIS Prime if you want. Just download the files from Andrew’s Thingiverse page.

 

Doctor Who Ood Rolls: Ood to the Last Bite

The Ood from Doctor Who are mysterious – and as it turns out, also very delicious. Chris-Rachael Oseland’s Ood dinner rolls look pretty adorable as well.

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She used Hawaiian bread dinner rolls for the skulls and dyed the dough with maraschino cherry juice and bourbon vanilla for the tentacles. She used raisins for the eyes, and they are toasted to a light golden brown to get the faces just right.

Who knew that Ood food could look so good? Try saying that five times fast. So who is going to make these tonight? Can I come over? What time is good for you?

[via That’s Nerdalicious]

Doctor Who Wall Clock Gets all Timey Wimey

I don’t think we’ve ever seen a wall clock in the TARDIS, which is odd since it is a time machine after all. If the Doctor ever did hang up a clock, it would probably look something like this Timey Wimey TARDIS Wall Clock from UnicornEmpirePrints.

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Naturally, the Timey Wimey Tardis Clock is made in the Gallifreyan style. Of course, Time Lords don’t need any numbers to tell the time.

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This wooden clock is painted TARDIS Blue, with a metallic gold backing and is about 8″ tall. It’s selling for $46(USD), which is a whole lot less than buying an entire TARDIS.

The Doctor really might want to think about getting a clock, for the sake of his companions if nothing else. It gets confusing going to the past, the future, sideways…

[via Neatorama]

TARDIS Cast: Broken on the Inside

This Doctor Who cast is great. No, not the cast of the show. The cast you see here. I’m actually surprised we haven’t seen something like this before, since the Doctor runs around so much. You would think he would have broken some body part long ago.


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It probably has some kind of magical timey-wimey healing properties that regenerate its wearer’s bones. This cast was made for Laura Keeney while her arm was healing. To help cheer her up, her friend Zak Kinsella painted her cast in the geekiest way possible.

I guess it was either this or make it look like a Cyberman arm, which would have been equally as cool to look at.

[via Fashionably Geek]

Starry Night TARDIS Embroidery: Time and Relative Dimension in Sewing

Many fans really love the Doctor Who episode Vincent and The Doctor. People love a good historical story anyway and the episode was neat. It had the Doctor and Vincent van Gogh fighting monsters along with Amy Pond and even a special painting of Starry Night that featured the TARDIS.

This embroidered version of the Starry TARDIS was a gift to jfer007 from Greys Princess over on craftster.org. This gift giving was part of a larger craft swap in the community, but this is probably the best item of the bunch.

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I would so hang this on my wall. Its creator did a great job reproducing Van Gogh’s work with a TARDIS in it. I’m gonna have to get into that swap. Do you think I could get something cool if I gave them a TARDIS made out out Popsicle sticks?

[via Neatorama]