'Doctor Who's Day Roundup: Ex-Experience
Welcome to this week's Doctor Who's Day roundup, a bigger-on-the-inside bucket of delightful Whovian stuff and nonsense from a week on the internet.
And we begin this week with the end of an era. The Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff has opened its doors for the last time. Here's a brief tribute to a place of genuine pilgrimage for Whovians worldwide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U59ru5LlCrU
And here's Christel Dee and Luke Spillane from Doctor Who: The Fan Show enjoying the last day from the inside:
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We are inside the Doctor Who Experience on its last day talking to some of the guests!Posted by Doctor Who on Saturday, September 9, 2017
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And Peter Capaldi even sent a special message to fans:
https://twitter.com/GeorgeBaker87/status/906572589413347329
Here's what else has been going on in space and time this week:
• Intense stares from Twelve:
https://twitter.com/JoseRodMota/status/904790765452308480
• And a friendlier Ten:
https://twitter.com/stuffsophdoes/status/907353027971047424
• A solution to your home storage needs, make more room inside:
https://twitter.com/DoctorWho_Today/status/906756178268565505
• A rocking version of the Who theme, with added ukulele:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1Yrzyx8g4U
• Remember when David Morrissey was "The Next Doctor"?:
https://twitter.com/WhoviVortex/status/905152943577591809
• A tribute to the Seventh Doctor:
• An alternate history of Doctor Who:
https://twitter.com/GedParsons/status/906243580167159810
• Anyone going to London soon?
• Doctor Who: The Fan Show visits Big Finish to interview Jake Tapper, the voice of the Tenth Doctor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKDo9Sn4jW0
• The entirety of Peter Capaldi's appearance at San Francisco Comic Con has appeared online, and it's grand. Keep an eye out for the section in which a member of the audience asks what it is like to be thought of as a "silver fox"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8MjAmKMRdA
• The Doctor's favorite things:
https://twitter.com/AnaAllanPoe/status/905503494618087424
• Amazing costume idea for the Thirteenth Doctor from artist James J Dunn:
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/165166628584/widdle-iddy-13-ok-im-throwing-my-idea-for-the
• He has also drawn the other Doctors in similar style:
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/165243203359/widdle-iddy-12just-a-few-more-till-i-take-a-break
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/165065906509/hey-its-a-widdle-iddy-eweveleven
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/163658767444/widdle-iddy-10th-doctor
• And some of their worst foes:
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/165127530334/silence-will-falljust-a-widdle
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/164814911519/widdle-iddy-ice-warrior
http://jamesjdunn.tumblr.com/post/164273824564/widdle-iddy-weeping-angel
• And finally, should you ever be in need of a basic summary of the basic principles of Doctor Who, to send to a friend who maybe isn't quite up to speed but keen, here's a video from Babelcolour (the YouTube account of digital artist and colourist Stuart Humphryes) that should help out tremendously:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omj2O_fIP7I
Oh, and by the way, should you wish to learn a little bit of what will happen in this year's Christmas Special, from the mouth of Steven Moffat, watch this roundup of Babelcolour's 11 years on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UX3kLNELPw
TTFN!