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daleks with legs?!?!?
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 10:31
by Quiff Boy
http://www.theregister.com/2004/08/09/dalek_legs/
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."
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 10:44
by markfiend
Quiff Boy wrote:
Pure genius.
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 11:12
by MrChris
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!
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 11:19
by Spiggy's hat
Ridiculous.
Next they'll be inventing women that can park, and men that admit they are in the wrong
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 12:08
by Francis
Daleks in wellies? Wouldn't have happened in Jon Pertwee's day.
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 12:34
by Thea
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!
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.
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 13:08
by MrChris
Hooray! I'm not the only Who geek on the forum! Now, anyone remember the one where they dressed up in women's underwear?
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 13:20
by paint it black
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!
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)
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 13:53
by Thea
MrChris wrote:Hooray! I'm not the only Who geek on the forum! Now, anyone remember the one where they dressed up in women's underwear?
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 14:25
by lazarus corporation
paint it black wrote: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!
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)
Yeah, they definitely flew, well hovered really, in the McCoy episode (Resurrection of the Daleks?), and managed to get up a flight of stairs.
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?
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 14:32
by CorpPunk
Edit: Goddammit!
Nothing like a 'puter malfunction to steal one's thunder.
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 14:32
by CorpPunk
Spiggy's hat wrote:Ridiculous.
Next they'll be inventing ... men that admit they are in the wrong
They've already got the prototype--his name is Stephen Hawking.
Posted: 10 Aug 2004, 15:08
by Loki
Double posting to boost her count! Stone her!
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 00:58
by Andy TG
Ex-Ter-Min-Ate
You Will Be Assimilated (Sorry wrong show!)
Resistence is Useless*
* 10 points to anyone who can tell me where that line comes from!
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 09:18
by markfiend
AndyTheGoth wrote:Resistence is Useless*
* 10 points to anyone who can tell me where that line comes from!
Vogon guard to Ford and Arthur? On the way to a poetry recital.
"Oh freddled grunt buggly
Thy micturations are to me
As glurbled gabbleblotchits on
A lurgid bee"
Boll
ocks I can't remember the rest and I can't be ars
ed looking it up.
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 09:20
by Quiff Boy
"it is useless to resist"
darth vader to luke skywalker at the end of "the empire strikes back"
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 09:51
by Chairman Bux
That's so very, very wrong.
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 11:19
by Quiff Boy
Chairman Bux wrote:That's so very, very wrong.
so who's your favourite assistant then?
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 11:23
by Chairman Bux
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 11:24
by Quiff Boy
*cough*
fair enough
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 12:41
by Andy TG
@ Chairman Bux
Rubbish and Tosh - Mary Tamm who played "Romana" is far far better!
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 12:43
by Andy TG
markfiend wrote:AndyTheGoth wrote:Resistence is Useless*
* 10 points to anyone who can tell me where that line comes from!
Vogon guard to Ford and Arthur? On the way to a poetry recital.
"Oh freddled grunt buggly
Thy micturations are to me
As glurbled gabbleblotchits on
A lurgid bee"
Boll
ocks I can't remember the rest and I can't be ars
ed looking it up.
@ Markfiend
Nice One Mate - Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters around then Barman Blast!
Posted: 11 Aug 2004, 12:45
by markfiend
"Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters: The alcoholic equivalent of a mugging. Expensive and bad for the head."
Sounds like my kind of drink.
