Hello everyone! 🙂
Following the sad news that ‘The Doctor Who Experience’ will be closing in 2017; I wanted to make sure I visited the experience at least one more time before it closed. I’m very glad I did as last weekend on Saturday, my best mate Stephen and I visited the experience and made the most of it!
LEGO Red Dalek at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Three Daleks at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
‘Gallifrey Museum’ Entrance at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
I’ve enjoyed going to ‘The Doctor Who Experience’ as it was local and close to where I live in Cardiff. Lately, I’ve been visiting the shop whilst in the bay. But last Saturday was a last opportunity to actually go into the experience itself, enjoy the fun and adventure and look around their exhibition.
Handprints by Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Tom Baker and Peter Davison at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Janet Fielding and Colin Baker at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Paul McGann and Daphne Ashbrook at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Billie Piper and John Barrowman at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by David Tennant at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by John Hurt and Matt Smith at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Jenna Colemanat ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Handprints by Peter Capaldi and showrunner Steven Moffat at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Before we went inside the experience, I took photos of Dalek displays and also of gold handprints of ‘Doctor Who’ stars who’ve visited the experience like Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, etc. It was all so amazing!
Inside the experience itself was a fun adventure around the Gallifrey Museum. We enjoyed being escorted around the curator, hearing Lalla Ward’s Romana at the beginning and interacted with Peter Capaldi’s Doctor who guided us on the adventure. I even got to pilot the TARDIS. Honest I did! 😀
There were a number of scary monsters during the adventure. As well being inside the TARDIS, we also faced Daleks and Weeping Angels which was quite scary. There was also a 3D experience in the adventure, as we got to put 3D glasses on and see Daleks and Weeping sucked back into the vortex.
Tim Bradley with 1960s TARDIS console at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
The TARDIS with the poster ‘IT IS FORBIDDEN TO DUMP BODIES INTO THE RIVER’ from ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’, ‘Doctor Who Experience’, April 2017
Tim Bradley with early 1980s TARDIS console at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley with 1980s TARDIS console at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Bessie at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Scene from ‘The Leisure Hive’ at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley with 2000s TARDIS console at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim outside 2000s TARDIS at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Once the adventure was over, we got into the ‘Doctor Who’ exhibition. This was the exciting part for me, as I got to take photos of various exhibits from the TV show. On the ground floor, there were TARDIS console displays that I got to have posed photos with and there were Bessie the car and K-9.
The Face of Boe at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Absorbaloff at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley with the Ood at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
The Silence at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Hath at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Sontaran at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Mandrel from ‘Nightmare of Eden’ at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Morbius at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Zygon at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Giant K-1 Robot at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Yeti at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Ice Warrior at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Linx the Sontaran at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley with Melkur at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Sil at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Up on the next floor, there were more displays of monsters, costumes and set designs from the TV series of ‘Doctor Who’. The monsters included the Face of Boe, the Absorbaloff, the Ood, the Silence, the Hath, a Mandrel, Morbius, a Zygon, the Giant K-1 Robot, Sontarans, a Yeti, an Ice Warrior, a Melkur, Sil, etc.
There were also lots of Cybermen there…
Cyber Heads at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
‘Earthshock’ Cyberman at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Cyber-Controller at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Cyberman at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
‘Nightmare in Silver’ Cybermen with Wooden Cyberman from ‘The Time of the Doctor’ at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Cyberman in container at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley with Cybermen at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Look who’s behind me! at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
…as well as lots of Daleks and their creator Davros.
Stone Dalek at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Yellow Dalek Ranger! 😀 at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Rusty the Dalek at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Davros at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Lots of Daleks at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Lots more Daleks at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley introducing the Daleks at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley introducing the Supreme Red Dalek at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Davros from ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’/’The Witch’s Familiar’ at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, April 2017
Emperor of the Daleks at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
There were also a number of costume displays at the experience to see. There were the costumes of all thirteen Doctors from the series…
First Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Second Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Third Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Fourth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Fifth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Sixth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Seventh Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Eighth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
War Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Ninth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tenth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Eleventh Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Twelfth Doctor costume at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
…as well as costumes of the ‘Torchwood’ characters and the companions of ‘Doctor Who’.
Scene from ‘Torchwood’ at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
‘Torchwood’ costumes at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Costumes of the ‘Doctor Who’ companions at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
There were also some nice costumes of Clara Oswald that I loved seeing from the series.
Clara TARDIS from ‘Face the Raven’ at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Costumes of Clara at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
More costumes of Clara at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Clara Oswald’s portrait from ‘Heaven Sent’ at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Clara’s costume from ‘Face the Raven’ at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
It’s such a shame that costumes of classic companions of the series weren’t on display like Nyssa of Traken. 😀 But they did have the U.N.I.T. photos of companions from the Black Archive scene in ‘The Day of the Doctor’. This included photos of Nyssa, Tegan and Adric which I had to take with my camera.
Companion photos from the U.N.I.T. Black Archive at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tegan and Nyssa photo from the Black Archive at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Nyssa profile from the Black Archive at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Nyssa, Tegan and Adric profiles from the Black Archive at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
We then visited the shop where I purchased some items including a new ‘Doctor Who’ book, the first ‘War Doctor’ CD box set from Big Finish and a Fifth Doctor cricket jumper as worn by Peter Davison. We also visited the art gallery full of Target novelization covers and ‘Doctor Who Magazine’ covers.
Art Gallery at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Lots of ‘Target Novelizations’ of ‘Doctor Who’ at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Seating area in the Art Gallery at ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Tim Bradley reading ‘Beautiful Chaos’ at the ‘Doctor Who Experience’, November 2016
Visiting ‘The Doctor Who Experience’ again last weekend was tremendous! That could be the last time I visit that place, as I’ve enjoyed going to it, stepping inside the experience and visiting the shop. I hope I’ll get to see it again before it closes, but for now here’s my thanks to the experience!
By the way, I took quite a lot of photos of the ‘Doctor Who Experience’ on that day, didn’t I?! 😀
Thanks for reading!
Hope you enjoyed the photos! 😀
Bye for now!
Tim. 🙂
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