An Adventure in Space and Time Console Room

[Rassilons Rod]

Visible seams? Ah, do you mean in the roundel bins?

Yes, they should have used these:


...It's a concrete pillar mold, as Chris previously mentioned in his thread

I'm almost certain they probably came here to research the time column and so on.

[DoctorWho8]

No, on the wall faces.  Not just the roundels.

Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[Rassilons Rod]

Oh wow...

I'd seen the one above the doors (though I'd forgotten), but the ones on the wall I'd totally missed.

[DoctorWho8]

I wonder if they did that to make it easy to transport after it was done being used as a set. That would make sense to me.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[tony farrell]

Let's take a brightened color shot an make it B&W.

That looks nice and proper.  A little dismayed with the visible seams in the walls.  There weren't any on the originals.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

Hi Bill.
Actually there were, just not in the same places:


Tony

[DoctorWho8]

Never noticed the one above the left door before.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

[BioDoctor900]

I think its most likely just for purpose of putting the set together quickly. As regards to the screen accuracy on the console. I don't think that the BBC would have been very bothered about getting everything 100%, but getting it to look near enough for the purpose they are using it for. It's a bit of a shame though, especially as it will be on display at the experience. But I don't think the BBC thought about us lot, the guys who would sit there and nitpick over it    we should have referred them to Celation's Console, show the BBC how a Real Console is made 

BioDoctor900

[13drwho]

Come on guys, this console is beautiful. It's more effort than the BBC has ever put into a flashback console!!! Remember the "Two Doctors" where Patrick Troughton used a kluged leftover 4th-5th Doctor console.

I assume they made some practical decisions when building, but I'm impressed at all the effort they took to make a console for one special. I imagine they justified it partially by sending it to the experience.

Just my opinion

[tony farrell]

Tony..about the move to Cardiff; Do you know if they have recreated or intend to recreate the whole of the console room and that all of this will be at Cardiff?

Do we know exactly who made this?

Graham

Given that so much of this is 'out there', I don't think I'd be spoiling anything if I said that, like the console, the recreated set isn't a slavish copy of the original: Two of the photo blow-up walls have been replaced by a 3D wall with eight columns of roundels. The recreated set also contains the fault locator wall/scanner assembly and at least one computer tower/light column. The beige hexagonal floor plate has also been made but, for some reason, the metal one surrounding the console doesn't seem to have been reproduced.
The only other thing not to have been attempted is the so-called 'Power Octagon' (I assume that the absence of the ceiling canopy will be corrected by a bit of CGI for the transmitted version).
Even though the artistic changes mean that the recreated Tardis set is smaller than the original - which was 43' by 35' - it's still a substantial set; mind you the building housing the Dr Who Experience is certainly big enough to accommodate it as a full-sized display!
Tony

As regards the labelling of the little black oblongs well, why not? We've seen that the radiation meter was so-labelled as was the fast return switch. Both of these appeared in English so, perhaps, the Tardis' translation circuits were working overtime that day! 
Or, to those of you with cryptic minds, do they contain a hidden meaning?   

[galacticprobe]

Not meaning to throw more confusion about this console into the mix, but could it possibly a refurb of the console from the 'Doctor Who Devious' production (that's seemed to go dead after they worked on it for what? 17+ years? - though I have heard rumors that it was supposed to have been completed by the end of 2011, and I know some of it is on "The War Games" DVD Special Features)?

I mean, the BBC used the 'Devious' console for the Red Nose Day story "The Curse of Fatal Death" - which was commissioned by the BBC and written by Steven Moffat. So is it possible since 'Devious' wasn't doing anything with their console anymore that the BBC acquired it from 'Devious' and then just gave it a facelift?

Dino.

[domvar]

Nah, the angles on it are different and it looks much smaller.

http://www.doctorwho-devious.com/setspropsetc/tardis-console



Looks like it's still being filmed as well:-

[fivefingeredstyre]

Ha! I was only playing with that console a couple of months ago...



And one of their Daleks...

[galacticprobe]

Styre, you lucky dog, you! Did they give you any hint as to when they might finish filming and publish this? (I've been waiting to see it ever since I heard about it, which was some time around 1999, I think - when I saw it as part of the "Curse of Fatal Death" VHS extras.)

Dino.

[superrichi1a]

Does anyone have any idea when this is arriving for it's stunt at the Experience?

[DoctorWho8]

I thought I read by the end of this month or early next month.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff