Daleks to sprout legs
Doctor Who fans are in for a special treat when the new series hits the screens - Daleks with legs.
The BBC is considering solving the greatest challenge facing the trundling terminators: that of climbing a simple flight of stairs. What's more, the new-look salt cellars may also have the ability to fly.
Tim Hancock, spokesman for the estate of Daleks creator Terry Nation, told UK tabloid the Sun: "We all accept that the Daleks were designed in the early Sixties and need to be updated. They have got to be able to move, be mobile, but they have also got to retain the initial look of the original Daleks about them."
daleks with legs?!?!?
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Sorry to come over all nerdy here, but I seem to dimly remember, at some long ago misty point in time, that SOME Daleks already flew. With some kind of hissy propulsion system thingie. Didn't they? Or did I dream this? Is anyone else going to admit to knowing, and more to the point caring, about this kind of thing?
That graphic is indeed fab!
That graphic is indeed fab!
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Ridiculous.
Next they'll be inventing women that can park, and men that admit they are in the wrong
Next they'll be inventing women that can park, and men that admit they are in the wrong
Give me one good reason
yep - some daleks flew. when i've woken up properly i'll remember the name of 1) the Sylvester mccoy episode and 2) the 60's comic where they flew.MrChris wrote:Sorry to come over all nerdy here, but I seem to dimly remember, at some long ago misty point in time, that SOME Daleks already flew. With some kind of hissy propulsion system thingie. Didn't they? Or did I dream this? Is anyone else going to admit to knowing, and more to the point caring, about this kind of thing?
That graphic is indeed fab!
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they flew in the 70's, also had big orange wooly creatures on the planet first TV program i saw in colour (so that makes it Feb 71-72)MrChris wrote:Sorry to come over all nerdy here, but I seem to dimly remember, at some long ago misty point in time, that SOME Daleks already flew. With some kind of hissy propulsion system thingie. Didn't they? Or did I dream this? Is anyone else going to admit to knowing, and more to the point caring, about this kind of thing?
That graphic is indeed fab!
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Yeah, they definitely flew, well hovered really, in the McCoy episode (Resurrection of the Daleks?), and managed to get up a flight of stairs.paint it black wrote:they flew in the 70's, also had big orange wooly creatures on the planet first TV program i saw in colour (so that makes it Feb 71-72)MrChris wrote:Sorry to come over all nerdy here, but I seem to dimly remember, at some long ago misty point in time, that SOME Daleks already flew. With some kind of hissy propulsion system thingie. Didn't they? Or did I dream this? Is anyone else going to admit to knowing, and more to the point caring, about this kind of thing?
That graphic is indeed fab!
I think they might have done the same in the early 70s, which would have made it "Planet of the Daleks" or "Death to the Daleks" I think - a Pertwee episode either way.
In the 60s comic they had little hover-platforms.
erm ... have I made myself look like a nerd now?
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That's so very, very wrong.
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@ Markfiendmarkfiend wrote:Vogon guard to Ford and Arthur? On the way to a poetry recital.AndyTheGoth wrote:Resistence is Useless*
* 10 points to anyone who can tell me where that line comes from!
"Oh freddled grunt buggly
Thy micturations are to me
As glurbled gabbleblotchits on
A lurgid bee"
Bollocks I can't remember the rest and I can't be arsed looking it up.
Nice One Mate - Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters around then Barman Blast!
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"Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters: The alcoholic equivalent of a mugging. Expensive and bad for the head."
Sounds like my kind of drink.
Sounds like my kind of drink.
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