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Phaeton99 — Golden Age TARDIS Poster
Published: 2012-06-05 01:27:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 42729; Favourites: 856; Downloads: 0
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New Edition Available as High-resolution Premium Content Download!If there is any interest in seeing a (non-DA) print run of the current edition, please contact me.
I still have a number of prints of the previous edition of this poster.
Please contact me directly if interested in purchasing one — available in both 24 inch (61cm) and 36 inch (92cm) sizes, priced at $45 US and $65 US, respectively (shipping included to NA addresses). Payments may be made via Paypal.
(All prints are significantly higher resolution than the Premium Content Download.)
The TARDIS print poster project has come together into one big layout!
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This TARDIS looks like it's ready for a Time Trek...
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It appears that you put a lot of time and effort into this. Bravo!
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I have a number prints of the prior edition on hand (see the caption section above for details), but not yet the more current.
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TARDIS coral: 1 of thee largest living species in all of the known series, whose size is very much unknown, but is stated to be very large
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Beautiful work! I'm wondering about the Grand Staircase though. I suppose that the descending Grand Staircase is pretty much the 'central boulevard' to all the other spaces and it would make sense to have it descending from the control room and exterior access, for aesthetics. But what about the ascending Grand Staircase? I suppose it could connect to the Tower of Rassilon, although I'm not sure why you would have a 'Grand Staircase' going to such a plebian destination. Or is the whole Grand Staircase a Penrose Stair and going up or down is just a practical choice depending on how far along your destination is in a particular direction?
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Like many things in transcendental architecture, one should not presume the obvious destination is based upon simple euclidean geometry. The Grand Staircase, for example, is in fact endless, looping back upon itself while linking into every major section of this Tardis. Whether one goes up or down from the point of entry is only significant in regard to the relative number steps one might take to any given destination, and will ultimately lead back to the point entry if one continues along its full length.
Perhaps it is symbolic of some particular philosophic tenet of the Time Lord, or simply the sort of spatial obfuscation they seem to delight in.
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Beautiful. Nice to see a Tardis that isn't a Police box for a change.
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I have often been amazed by how people are obsessed with a certain, dumpy old Type-40, when there can be so many other possibilities.
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Indeed, I have designed a few variants myself. You can actually see one of my early attempts in my avatar. Now don't get me wrong, I love a Police Box as much as the next guy, but when your time machine can adopt ANY shape? As you say, soooo many possibilities.
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And one can tailor the form to the situation. Need to rapidly move about in real space or an atmosphere? Morph the exterior into something highly aerodynamic (the old Trimaxian drone ship from Flight of the Navigator is a favorite of mine for this purpose, something you seem to favor likewise — which I have commentated upon in the past). Need to be inconspicuous by accessible? Replace a framed door on the wall with it (a trick done in the incomplete DrW episode Shada). And yet, everyone is stuck on the Police Box. I can understand using it as a basic default, but the plot possibilities of being a bit more inventive are innumerable.
And then there are the unimaginative console rooms... but at least that aspect has gotten better of late.
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Funny that you mention the Trimaxian drone ship. Have you seen my Trimaxian TARDIS?
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If you visit it in your gallery, you'll see I commented upon it some time ago.
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Ah- so you did! Good man!
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I will admit I was gratified that someone else had the same idea. I should really design a console room for piloting such a real-space nimble TARDIS — the usual introverted layout would be unsuitable. Perhaps a transforming chamber... though that might be a tad too much, even for DrW.
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That sounds like a great idea. Go for it!
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Another idea to add to the backlog of personal projects...
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I know how you feel...so many ideas, so little time...
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I would love to get a print of the "Golden Age TARDIS Poster" just have other priorities right now, new camera. Very nice prints you have.
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If and when you decide to, just drop me a line and arrangements can be made.
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To quote an elderly Jedi of some note: "they're for sale if you want them."
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And they remain for sale, if one wants one — though via direct sale due to certain issues with DA's print policy and its strange refusal to acknowledge official legal authorizations.
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This is really cool. Does the purchase link on the right work to buy this or do I have to do something else?
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The Premium Download link provides a high-resolution file — nowhere as high as print quality, but that would be a prohibitively huge download.
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What is the resolution of the high resolution file?
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(In contrast, the print version is all vector)
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I always looked at geeky Haynes manuals of say the Deathstar or the Enterprise and always jokingly thought "pfft like to see them try and do a TARDIS!" and you have pulled it off and then some. Love the detail in the text, really got me picturing a crew of time lords piloting it. So good I might actually buy a print.
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Alas, DA refuses to allow the prints to be sold, anymore — but the high-rez download is still available.
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This is beyond incredible. For some reason that symbol reminds me of the GE logo.
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