Will we ever see a red Tardis?

Candlelight · January 18 2013, 08:44 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box

See the picture partway down. Scottish police boxes were apparently red.

Would be cool for the Master's Tardis.

MacLeod · January 18 2013, 10:04 AM

Well at the moment unlikely due to the fact that the only TARDIS in existance is stuck in it's current form due to faulty a chameleon circuit. Though I guess anything is possible

Relayer1 · January 18 2013, 10:51 AM

A scene where the Doctor is fiddling with the circuit, bangs it with his sonic screwdriver in frustration and the Tardis briefly turns red would be great...

Skywalker · January 18 2013, 10:59 AM

It's probably red in the parallel universe on Fringe.

Starkers · January 18 2013, 11:14 AM

Candlelight wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box

See the picture partway down. Scottish police boxes were apparently red.

Would be cool for the Master's Tardis.

Not all of them, the ones in Edinburgh are blue. I think it would look weird!

Pindar · January 18 2013, 12:45 PM

Starkers wrote:

Candlelight wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box

See the picture partway down. Scottish police boxes were apparently red.

Would be cool for the Master's Tardis.

Not all of them, the ones in Edinburgh are blue. I think it would look weird!

It's easy to spot Red, Blue and Purple around town plus a crazed White one near the Pleasance.

junxon · January 18 2013, 12:51 PM

according to the article only glasgow ones were red. so i'd assume the rest of scotland had blue too.

Emh · January 18 2013, 01:32 PM

Skywalker wrote:

It's probably red in the parallel universe on Fringe.

Now that's just begging for a crossover. Can you imagine The Doctor meeting Walter?

Mr Awe · January 18 2013, 03:27 PM

junxon wrote:

according to the article only glasgow ones were red. so i'd assume the rest of scotland had blue too.

I saw a red one in Glasgow's Transport museum.

Mr Awe

Sindatur · January 18 2013, 04:10 PM

I'll betcha if she catches the Doctor snuggling up to another TARDIS, she'll see Red

And, she doesn't have a defective Chameleon Circuit, she's just partial to the Blue Police Box look. (She did have a defective Chameleon Circuit when 6 started messing around with it, trying to force her to change, though).

diankra · January 18 2013, 04:25 PM

There was also a red one in east London - it was used as the fire control station for one of the Thames tunnels (the Blackwall tunnel ISTR... not there now, was until the mid 1980s), and as it was run by the fire brigade it was painted red.

When I was a kid, a poster magazine used a red police box as a graphic: cue massive playground arguments about what colour the TARDIS really was, ending in every kid in the street cramming into the one house with a colour TV to watch Planet of the Spiders (I think) and see for themselves.

Pindar · January 18 2013, 04:32 PM

List of Edinburgh Boxes and colours

I quite like this one:
Black and White

Robert D. Robot · January 18 2013, 08:19 PM

Relayer1 wrote:

A scene where the Doctor is fiddling with the circuit, bangs it with his sonic screwdriver in frustration and the Tardis briefly turns red would be great...

I am reminded of the scene in one of the Simpson's Halloween Specials where their house keeps changing because of the "damage" that Homer is doing to the timeline by the stuff he is doing in the past, thanks to the Toaster/Time-Machine.

Maybe the Doctor would be totally oblivious, but the audience would see it on-screen. It would only last for a few moments. Working under the console on some system supposedly unrelated to the Chameleon Circuit as the ship floats in deep space, he does not see how the TARDIS flashes from one outer shell to the next to the next, perhaps the first outer shell would simply be a red police box.... eventually back to the blue police box.

But your idea of a more brief, more simple segment might create a sweeter little moment on screen!

backstept · January 18 2013, 08:23 PM

Emh wrote:

Skywalker wrote:

It's probably red in the parallel universe on Fringe.

Now that's just begging for a crossover. Can you imagine The Doctor meeting Walter?

actually in the Fringe alternate universe, Doctor Who would be an Inspector Spacetime parody

Robert D. Robot · January 18 2013, 10:01 PM

On the planet Cheron, the good police boxes are white on the right side and black on the left....

January 18 2013, 08:44 AM	#1
Candlelight Admiral Location: New Zealand	Will we ever see a red Tardis? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_box See the picture partway down. Scottish police boxes were apparently red. Would be cool for the Master's Tardis. __________________ "I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six."

January 18 2013, 10:04 AM	#2
MacLeod Vice Admiral Location: Great Britain	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? Well at the moment unlikely due to the fact that the only TARDIS in existance is stuck in it's current form due to faulty a chameleon circuit. Though I guess anything is possible __________________ On the continent of wild endeavour in the mountains of solace and solitude there stood the citadel of the time lords, the oldest and most mighty race in the universe looking down on the galaxies below sworn never to interfere only to watch.

January 18 2013, 10:51 AM	#3
Relayer1 Fleet Captain Location: The Black Country, England	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? A scene where the Doctor is fiddling with the circuit, bangs it with his sonic screwdriver in frustration and the Tardis briefly turns red would be great... __________________ Soon oh soon the light, Pass within and soothe this endless night, And wait here for you, Our reason to be here...

January 18 2013, 10:59 AM	#4
Skywalker Admiral	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? It's probably red in the parallel universe on Fringe.

January 18 2013, 12:51 PM	#7
junxon Fleet Captain Location: I'm a Romulan now. Romulans are cool	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? according to the article only glasgow ones were red. so i'd assume the rest of scotland had blue too. __________________ I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, At your desire, Captain. - Mr Spock Hello to Jason Isaacs!

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January 18 2013, 04:10 PM	#10
Sindatur Rear Admiral Location: Sacramento, CA	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? I'll betcha if she catches the Doctor snuggling up to another TARDIS, she'll see Red And, she doesn't have a defective Chameleon Circuit, she's just partial to the Blue Police Box look. (She did have a defective Chameleon Circuit when 6 started messing around with it, trying to force her to change, though). __________________ One Day I hope to be the Man my Cat thinks I am Where are we going? And why are we in this Handbasket?

January 18 2013, 04:25 PM	#11
diankra Commodore Location: UK	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? There was also a red one in east London - it was used as the fire control station for one of the Thames tunnels (the Blackwall tunnel ISTR... not there now, was until the mid 1980s), and as it was run by the fire brigade it was painted red. When I was a kid, a poster magazine used a red police box as a graphic: cue massive playground arguments about what colour the TARDIS really was, ending in every kid in the street cramming into the one house with a colour TV to watch Planet of the Spiders (I think) and see for themselves. __________________ "Some days are better than others. They say that where I come from." "Loudly, I imagine, on the day you left." (Blake's 7 - Rumours of Death)

January 18 2013, 04:32 PM	#12
Pindar Rear Admiral Location: 76 Totters Lane	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? List of Edinburgh Boxes and colours I quite like this one: Black and White

January 18 2013, 10:01 PM	#15
Robert D. Robot Captain Location: Pre-Warp Civilization of New England	Re: Will we ever see a red Tardis? On the planet Cheron, the good police boxes are white on the right side and black on the left....