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What's in your TARDIS?

I've been inspired by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the video below to think about what would be included in my dream TARDIS, were I lucky enough to have one bestowed upon me.


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In case you're not sure, the TARDIS is the Doctor's* time machine. Externally, it looks like a classic blue police box from the 1960s, but on the inside it's something else entirely. For starters, it's bigger. Much bigger. No one really knows how much bigger, but some schools of thought believe that it's infinitely big on the inside. We already know that the Doctor's TARDIS has certain features beyond the console room that we see regularly on TV: living quarters, bathrooms, a medical bay, the cloister room, a greenhouse, a library (complete with swimming pool), an enormous multi-storey wardrobe and even a secondary console room, but with such enormous amounts of space to play with, there must be room for customisation.

Matt's initial suggestions are disappointingly normal (a music room and a football pitch), but at least he's thinking big. But why not bigger? You could have your own stadium! Karen's go a little further into the wacky and wonderful with her idea of going down a floor by slide only. But what would you have if you could specify rooms or other features to be included in your TARDIS?

Some examples? Well, to take Karen's sliding down to lower floors idea a little further, if you've got the tech to stuff the enormity of the TARDIS interior into a police box, you already know how to fold space in on itself, so why not add a nip and a tuck here and there so that you can slide up to higher floors as well?
But the first original idea that came into my head was this: an exercise room that you can only get into by travelling up an escalator that only works in the downwards direction.

I'm sure you can come up with better ones, so either comment here, or post them on twitter using the hashtag #inmyTARDIS.




* As in Doctor Who. If you're still not sure what I'm talking about, you might like to have a browse through some of the tags in the sidebar on the right of this post for something more 'you'.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousFriday, 27 August 2010 at 11:07:00 BST

    How about an ever present rock concert of which you are the star. When you feel so inclined you walk through a door, out onto the stage, belt out a couple of numbers, the crowd goes wild, you exit the stage and leave it for another day!

    Oh and I want a room like in Charlie and the chocolate factory where everything is edible...I ALWAYS wanted to go to that room! I mean the bubble room is good, but the "chocolate room"? well......

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  2. AnonymousFriday, 27 August 2010 at 11:13:00 BST

    How about an ever-present rock concert of which you are the star? You go through a door onto the stage of a huge stadium, belt out a few numbers, the crowd go wild, then you exit the stage, leaving it waiting until the next time you feel so inclined.

    And Matt Smith nearly had something with the bubble room...but missed a trick. The room in Wonka's factory which I most want to own is the "Chocolate room" where everything is edible! Also some of that lickable wallpaper would be a nice decor touch!

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  3. curious yellow monkeySaturday, 4 September 2010 at 14:00:00 BST

    hmmm... a room that is a hard copy representation of the internet where every byte is a single post it note?? pretty useless for anything other than getting an idea of how big the flippin thing is but i waste a lot of brain power trying to visualise the infinite/really really big and a small obsession with post it notes...

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