News A Chibnall Insider: A 'new look Police Box' for Thirteen? (!)

[Haggis and tatties]

Maybe she'll transmogrify into a concrete version, not wooden, as a proper Police Box should be!

Not just concrete, it won't be a real Tardis until some drunk Scotsman is urinating onto the side of it on a Friday night, then it will be a real Tardis.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I'd be sad to see the current console room go, it was my favorite of the new series ones by far. Eachone however has had its own feel and much to adore about, from all the crazy entrances and exits of Smith's initial room to the found-in-a-rubbish-tip lived-in feel of the Eccleston/Tennant years.

The current one is the most complete, most practical set the show has ever had - no missing walls, no reflective surfaces to shot around, and actual ways to get on and off the set without pretending a door was there. Capaldi's time made it much more lived-in and comfortable, and I hope that a new set - pretty much the only constant set of the whole show - will get the kind of love it deserves from the new showrunning team.

The TARDIS primarily serves as the way to get our heroes from one predicament to the next, but of all the ships in all of sci-fi, this one is about as much an actual character as any show's has been -and actually HAS been embodied as a character, too!

Mark

 

[Redfern]

have any of the TARDIS props ever matched closely as possible to an actual Police call box?

NightOwl beat me to the punch, noting the AARU movie boxes being the closest,

But for easy comparison, I recommend the side by side elevation drawing the "MindRobber" provides at the bottom of the linked page.

http://www.themindrobber.co.uk/real-police-box-history.html

Sadly, it does not include the Peter Cushing set piece, but many fans agree it is arguably the most faithful to the real life "station".

 

[Solariabsg25]

I have learned from my fellow BBSers to be suspicious about some of these statements from unidentified sources. So I don't think we'll get a Happiness Patrol pink Tardis.

If I were Chibnall I'd "leak" pictures of the pink TARDIS from "Happiness Patrol" - the Daily Mail readers would have aneurisms.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

If I were Chibnall I'd "leak" pictures of the pink TARDIS from "Happiness Patrol" - the Daily Mail readers would have aneurisms.

Better yet: Actually temporary paint the TARDIS (either the current one or an older mock-up) pink and post it on social media. The tears will be glorious.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

 

[Christopher]

The funny thing is, prior to WWII or so, the "gender values" of pink and blue, to the degree that they existed at all, were the other way around -- pink was considered the more masculine color because it was a shade of red (as in blood and aggression), while blue was the softer, gentler, and therefore more feminine color. It's unclear how it got reversed, but the modern perception of the sexes being strongly color-coded was basically created to market baby products -- I guess the makers figured they could sell more stuff if they convinced people they needed two separate, non-interchangeable lines of baby clothes and goods.

 

[Lonemagpie]

The usual story for how they got reversed is that when the Nazis used pink triangles... nobody wanted their sons in pink lest they be thought gay. Like so many apparently obvious things that everybody knows, it's probably apocryphal and nobody knows for certain. Then again, it might be true.

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

Also, the TARDIS has been pink before.

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[Nightowl1701]

So now we have our new 'look': No ambulance badge, solid color windows (no white stripe), more classic font on upper sign (and the sign itself now smaller and inset into a larger panel), instruction panel gone black (and now, for the first time to my knowledge, opening from the other side!), and we're back to the lock being over the door handle. Roof looks slightly lower too. Don't have a good look at the lamp yet.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I would have loved a red Tardis, i remember seeing them around Glasgow in the 70s, would have been awesome to see it that colour.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

No way! That would lead to pitchforks and torches...and I would be in front of the pack.

 

[StCoop]

So now we have our new 'look': No ambulance badge, solid color windows (no white stripe), more classic font on upper sign (and the sign itself now smaller and inset into a larger panel), instruction panel gone black (and now, for the first time to my knowledge, opening from the other side!), and we're back to the lock being over the door handle.

Very strange look; seems like changing for the sake of changing.

 

[Christopher]

Very strange look; seems like changing for the sake of changing.

Hm? What's strange about it? It's basically a return to the aesthetic of the classic series and the Davies era, the look the TARDIS has had for most of its existence, just with a few minor detail tweaks of the sort that have been made to it many times over the decades.

 

[Iamnotspock]

So now we have our new 'look': No ambulance badge, solid color windows (no white stripe), more classic font on upper sign (and the sign itself now smaller and inset into a larger panel), instruction panel gone black (and now, for the first time to my knowledge, opening from the other side!), and we're back to the lock being over the door handle. Roof looks slightly lower too. Don't have a good look at the lamp yet.

Looks like the door sign has reverted to "Officers and cars respond to urgent calls" instead of "all calls" too.

 

[Butters]

I like it. Shame they didn't leave the door ajar though; a peek inside.