Teletubby Daleks vs proper design

 

This is your new plastic Dalek

 
The Teletubbies meet Dalek Storm

The new plastic Daleks were at Sheffield railway station yesterday, to promote the new Dalek game due in June which was developed in Sheffield.

Alan Clark, the designer and builder of the Dalek close to the camera, went along for a bit of a wind up, to show the BBC and hopefully those responsible for this new design, how you alter a Dalek to make it more menacing whilst maintaining everything a Dalek stands for.

Meet Delek Storm.  Six feet tall and 150 Kgs of nastiness and armed with two high power water cannons just for fun.

 

 

I'm sure American readers of the soapbox whether Dr. Who fans of not are thinking just what is the big deal.

Well, I reckon there's been such a big fuss, is that a lot of Dr. Who fans are around my age and therefore remember the Saturday evening ritual of watching the show from behind the settee, especially when the Daleks were on.  We've nursed the "fun to be scared" feeling since our childhood and when they came back in 2005 they were just as good as they were back in 1963 and just as daft with their obsession with exterminating anything in sight.

There's currently a campaign on Face Tube to gather 10,000 fans as petition to have the new plastic ones scrapped or banished to a far part of the universe.  Here's the link Facebook group

.The comments on this group's page repeat themselves over and over again:

They look cheap and plasticy, they look like they've had too many happy meals at Micky D's and they aren't scary.

Add to this the fact everyone has seen through the merchandising angle, the only thing people seem to like are the colours (the Daleks were pretty colourful in the 2 rather limp Dr. Who films from the sixties) and yet they were still Daleks.

There was a piece on TV the other night about complaints being made about the new arrangement of the theme tune.  I have to confess I don't like it much either.

Rather cool intro to Delak Storm website in FLV format below.

Download STORM Dark Dimeensions Special Weapons Dalek

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