Its Been a Long, Long Week (EPIC, long, pics)

[Jay 2K Winger]

I have to give my favorite Dalek quote...

"This is not war. This. is. pest. control."

(They have that weird, halting sort of way of talking when they use longer sentences than "exterminate!")

"WOULD. YOU. CARE. FOR. SOME. TEA?"

[NorthernZel]

"WOULD. YOU. CARE. FOR. SOME. TEA?"

Wait, so Mrs. Doyle is really a Dalek?!

[Jay 2K Winger]

Wait, so Mrs. Doyle is really a Dalek?!

Tea Time of the Daleks

[PepperElf]

hmmm i wonder if my Amy figure would fit inside.
she's lying down next to my windup tardis. (insert drunk karen gillian jokes here).

of course it's kinda funny cos amy's the regular sized figure ... and she looks like an amazon giant next to my miniature tardis, doctor (#11, x2), dalek, silence and ... admiral akbar.

[wagegoth]

I still loudly claim I'm a Toys R Us kid.

I think we've graduated to Things from Another World kids.

[BeenThereDoneThat]

MUST remember to bring my yellow Dalek to work...

[Tama]

A yellow Dalek? Did 10 take a whiz on one?

[Mr Hero]

For people asking about the TARDIS: here's a little video of it in action. And yeah, my 3 year old is doing her darndest to try and get at it near the end. <.<

http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...t=8456a8aa.mp4

Is the child asking if you're her mummy?

[PepperElf]

Is the child asking if you're her mummy?

apparently they make figures of the mummy kid.
http://www.spiritofthestairwell.net/...astoon/Ep7.jpg

the other figure is also from doctor who, i think from tom baker's run

[Seraph]

Is the child asking if you're her mummy?

<criiiiiiiinge>

[Dilorenzo]

As terrifying as that episode was, it'll always be one of my favorites.

Because, just this once...

[dalesys]

Is the child asking if you're her mummy?

<criiiiiiiinge>

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[Chromatix]

When the Daleks were designed, the main method of speech synthesis was to process one word at a time, and didn't support much if any inflection. These limitations led to the stereotypical robot voice having the same characteristics.

Some announcement systems are based on even more primitive technology, putting together pre-recorded phrases together in a limited number of ways, again with no overlap. Ironically, the phrases are often recorded from a modern, sophisticated speech synthesiser for maximum clarity and little risk of the same voice being unavailable for future expansion. So there is an announcement system in use at many British railway stations (called Phil Sayer) which speaks in the following style:

The next train from platform ... FIVE ... will be the ... SIXTEEN ... FORTY-FIVE ... service to ... LEEDS. Calling at ... MANCHESTER PICCADILLY ... STALYBRIDGE ... etc.

I should point out that I wrote a similar system (in AppleScript, of all possible languages) before I left secondary school, and it worked approximately as well as that. Overlapping the quiet sections at the beginning and end of each phrase - the audio equivalent of kerning - results in a much smoother delivery.

[wolfie]

hmmm i wonder if my Amy figure would fit inside.
she's lying down next to my windup tardis. (insert drunk karen gillian jokes here).

of course it's kinda funny cos amy's the regular sized figure ... and she looks like an amazon giant next to my miniature tardis, doctor (#11, x2), dalek, silence and ... admiral akbar.

Are you sure you passed the etymology section of your English classes in school?

[BeenThereDoneThat]

A yellow Dalek? Did 10 take a whiz on one?

LOL...no :-) In Victory of the Daleks (Series 5 Episode 3, an 11th Doctor episode) - the ones where the British think the Daleks are their allies in WWII - there is a small fleet of brightly colored Daleks later on in the episode. Here's a still...



I got mine from Amazon though...http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o01_s00_i00