Tardis Toys
From the first simple police call box to the latest electronic Tardis Playset, new Tardis Toys are constantly materialising.
- Flight Control Tardis
Featuring eight motion activated in flight interactive sound effects. Electronic Flight Control Tardis has different sound effects for de-materialisation (take off) and re-materialisation (landing) as well as spinning and turbulence sound effects. This Tardis has a flashing Tardis lantern and light up interior. The doors of the Flight Control Tardis can be opened to accomodate the 5" figures. The Tardis also has an opening telephone door with telephone detail - Tardis Playset
The Tardis playset from Character Options. The Tardis Playset is great for Doctor Who action figures; the 5" figures fit nicely inside the console. This replica toy of the Tardis Console Room needs to be fully assembled using components supplied. The Tardis Playset would not survive the Time Wars and hence may be better suited to slightly older fans or else kept on display. In play mode it features background noises and 13 distinct combinations of light and sound activated by buttons on the console. The Tardis is entered by an authentic police box door leading to the central Time Rotor which goes up and down and lights up in green to the classic sounds of de-materialisation "Vwoorp! Vwooorp!" - Tardis Talking Money Bank
Save up for more action figures with the Tardis money bank featuring flashing blue light and Tardis sound effects. Collectors note the Talking Tardis is available in three versions; with ninth Doctor and Rose voices; with tenth Doctor and Rose voices; and with tenth Doctor and Martha Jones voices. Note also that the interior Tardis pictures differ on all three versions and that from 2006 the Tardis light is much brighter - Supermag Doctor Who Tardis
Build your own Tardis with Supermag connectors. The connectors are magnetic and this Tardis has 162 components
- Tardis Cookie Jar
The Tardis Cookie Jar, manufactured by Wesco, stands just under 11" tall. This Tardis features light and sound effects activated by either pushing down on the lamp or closing the lid. - Paper Tardis
Build The Tardis - Make your very own Time Machine without scissors or glue, Mark Harris (1987). Tardis Manual (2005) - Includes press-out and make Tardis - Micro Universe TARDIS with The Doctor Figure
The 2008 Micro Universe Tardis and Micro The Doctor Figure - Power Rollers Tardis Box
Doctor Who Power Rollers Packs and Tardis Rollers Box 2008 from Magic Box International - Tardis Mouse Mat
Character Options Tardis Mouse Mat with Tardis and Doctor Who logo
What is a Tardis?
TARDIS is an acronym; it stands for Time And Relative Dimensions In Space.
The Tardis was developed by the Time Lords to travel in time and space. It has been the Doctor's mode of travel since the series began in 1963.
Doctor Who's Tardis resembles a London-style police box from the 1950s. Its police box exterior has remained constant but the interior has undergone periodic changes.
Police boxes were commonplace in the UK from the 1930s to the 70s. Housing telephones and sometimes criminal suspects, their blue lights flashed when assistance was required.
Dr Who's Tardis is an obsolete Type 40 TT from his home planet Gallifrey, one of only 305 made.
Dematerialising in one location, the Tardis can cross the time vortex, and rematerialise elsewhere.
The idea for the police box exterior of the Doctor's Tardis spaceship is credited to Anthony Coburn, a staff-writer in the BBC's Script Department.
"Its Bigger on the Inside!"
The Tardis is dimensionally trenscendental.
Its police box exterior and console room interior thus exist in separate dimensions, to the great surprise of new entrants.
Tardis Toys Through the Decades
In the 1930s, long before Doctor Who began, Dinky Toys made a miniature metal police box to go with their Dinky cars, now highly prized by Tardis collectors.
In the 1970s Denys Fisher Toys Ltd released the first official Tardis toy with doors that opened to reveal a revolving cylinder to make the Doctor appear and disappear.
Dapol released a toy Tardis to accompany their Dr Who figure range produced in the 1980s and 1990s. The Dapol Tardis featured fold-out doors and a flashing light. A later version in 2000 included Tardis sound effects.
For the 25th anniversary of The Doctor Who series in 1988 Dapol released a box set with The Tardis, Console Room, 7th Doctor, Mel and K-9. The Dapol Tardis police box exterior comes apart to form the interior walls of the Console Room. The anniversary set included a base which you could plug the console and console walls into. Thanks Sergio
In the 1990s Corgi Toys made a metal Tardis to go with its range of die-cast figures which included a Tom Baker in hat figure as the Doctor looking out from the Tardis doors.
In 2005 Character Options were granted the Master Toy Licence from the BBC and began making their Tardis Playset, Tardis Money Bank and a range of other Tardis merchandise.
2007 Sees the release of the Flight Control Tardis.
2008 The Micro-Universe and Flight Control Tardis.
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