Dalek Revamp

[kingandy]

More news on the new Doctor Who series - we have pictures of what the redesigned Daleks look like.  Personally I think this a horrific abomination, this change is completely unnecessary - they could easily have just stuck with the old designs.  Fucking travesty, raping my childhood...

SPOILERS.  Here and here.

On a related note:  I'm liking this Promo material.  Smooth.

Comments

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

Don't start otherwise I'll have to lump you with all those BSG "fans" that are getting on their high horses because Starbuck is a women in the new series.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I can't tell the difference between these new daleks and old daleks. WHat's the change?

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

They have been blinged

They have gold trim, theei bodyskirt is flared more and the have some pimping accessories (thruster jets)

Their paintwork is 'tight' or possibly 'legit'

[kingandy]

Isn't it obvous? Those rivets! The crenellations! The attention to detail and quality workmanship! It's disgusting!

For more information, try here.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Hey. Are you stuck at work? I'll e-mail you. I need to bitch.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

Oooo. Get her. (Clutches handbag).

Leave me alone. I don't feel well.

[kingandy]

Aw. You knows I loves you.

Big manly hug.

[wulfboy.livejournal.com]

That's better.

[morningstar-lj.livejournal.com]

Speaking as a long time dalek fanboy (I had the DW RPG Dalek expansion pack and that kit of dozens of tiny model daleks, for example) I have to say I really like the new look. Far from being 'blinged' they look lot more industrial and chunky although the essential proportions and lines havent been changed. I'd still prefer to see the sensor domes a darker colour than the skirt.

I'll have to dust off my synopsis for 'Renaissance of the Daleks' :)

[nattydreadi.livejournal.com]

Come on, they've slammed them, rammed on a set of 18 inchers and filled all available space with sub woofers, tweeters and dvd players.

They are so 'pimpin' it hurts

[arwel.livejournal.com]

I bet they more important Daleks have got some fat neon lights around the bottom.

[myki.livejournal.com]

Low riding pimpin' big daddy Davros?

[morningstar-lj.livejournal.com]

Chavros?

[arwel.livejournal.com]

First laugh of the day. Thanks.

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

They still have the plunger thing though!? Thought those would've disappeared as they don't seem too functional for anything (apart from unblocking loos maybe).

Doe anyone remember some comedy programme that had a 'camp daleks' sketch? What was it?! It's driving me mad!

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!

[kingandy]

There was a Spike Milligan show (one of the "Q" series) that had a sketch with Daleks in it. Was that it?

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Nope - it was a comedy series with the 'Camp Daleks' as a semi-regular sketch on it. They had handbags on their plungers. The show was sort of similar to, I dunno, Absolutely maybe? I think it was from the early to mid-nineties. Had no look on google - camp and dalek just brings up regular Doctor Who links....

[kingandy]

Ah - Googling for "Camp Daleks", on the other hand, brings up only a few entries, in association with Victor Lewis Smith. It rings a bell, it could have been "TV Offal" or "Inside Victor Lewis-Smith" .... Ah ha! TV Offal.

Probably the most controversial of TV Offal's regular features is the Gay Daleks: "They're camp ! They exterminate ! Better watch your backs ! It's the Gay Daleks !" You either feel that the sketches are crude, tasteless and offensive, or they're a splendid parody of both the Daleks and of gay cultural stereotypes; late night Channel 4 viewers (on the whole) would interpret them as the latter which is probably just as well given the content.

I AM KING OF TEH INTARWEBS.

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Yay, go you! That's it! They shot 'white wee wee' at the end of the sketches if I remember rightly.

[kingandy]

... on an entirely unrelated note, I feel I should mention how deeply hot that icon is.

[jacob-xiii.livejournal.com]

Cheers! ;oD I think I look better in greyscale than IRL.