Re: OT: Breeding nextgen Daleks!

On 4/2/2024 7:34 AM, Martin Brown wrote:

One of my friends has a full size ex BBC one in his living room.

We had thought of putting a proper TARDIS in the back yard -- but figured the
reference would be lost on most folks.   (extra points to make it larger on
the inside!!!)

Cybermen were much scarier though because they *could* climb stairs. Even if they looked a lot like blokes in silver boilersuits with accordions and plumbing for ears. Modern ones are much tougher looking.

The whole problem with Dr Who is that these things just keep recurring.
Sort of like the Star Wars trilogies:  A swats B; B swats A; A swats B; ...
<yawn>
Any time-travel-related story too often falls on "let's go to a different
time" to get the writers out of a bind and save them from having to think up
some truly original plot.  The "magic wand" solution.

If you want a really badly made Dr Who alien "The Ark in Space, 1974" is one such. Amazing what you can do with green paint and bubblewrap.
 https://randomwhoness.com/2016/11/11/imagination-bubble-wrap-and-the-ark-in-space-1974/
 If you go even further back there were plenty of worse aliens in the likes of "Plan 9 from Outer Space". A film that was so bad that it became good again and had a cult following (along with others of that ilk). I can't recall the film now but another alien was obviously two blokes under a carpet!

In the 60's, the introduction of color TV made for some truly silly
"aliens" in the sci-fi serieses of the day:  Lost in Space, Voyage to
the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek, etc.  Often, guys dressed in rubber
suits -- that were rePAINTed from one episode to the next to create
an entirely new alien!
<frown>
[we used to make *active* Tribbles in college and drop them in/near
folks' beds to be "discovered" when the room had gone quiet enough to sleep]
OTOH, Robbie the Robot (/Forbidden Planet/, /The Invisible Boy/, etc.)
epitomizes what a robot *should* look like!  (though the newest rendering
of Marvin is an amusing, modern take -- the original was depressingly
pathetic!)
And who can forget Godzilla's floppy rubber tail (that defied the physics
of scale -- along with everything ELSE on the set!)?
Or, the ants in /Them!/?