Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Toy Compression Eliminator
News has reached me that Doctor Who figures will be 3 3/4” scale from now on. The Classic line will apparently remain at 5".
So we’ll get Jenna-Louise in Star Wars scale rather than the scale used by the Who line since 2005.
Argh.
So we’ll get Jenna-Louise in Star Wars scale rather than the scale used by the Who line since 2005.
Argh.
Monday, 15 October 2012
The Planet With Four Suns
Discovered by ‘armchair’ astronomers.
“The bright new world, almost 5,000 light years away, is believed to be six times the size of Earth. It orbits one pair of stars and is in turn circled by a second pair, meaning four stars light up its skies.”
That’s one more than the planet in Pitch Black!
“The bright new world, almost 5,000 light years away, is believed to be six times the size of Earth. It orbits one pair of stars and is in turn circled by a second pair, meaning four stars light up its skies.”
That’s one more than the planet in Pitch Black!
In Dreams
Today’s Google Doodle is a huge beautifully animated pastiche of Little Nemo In Slumberland.
A much-loved early masterpiece of comics art, it’s also an example of the topsy-turvy logic of dreams and surreal flights of fancy, as one might see in the Land of Fiction or the Celestial Toyshop.
And a lot of falling.
A much-loved early masterpiece of comics art, it’s also an example of the topsy-turvy logic of dreams and surreal flights of fancy, as one might see in the Land of Fiction or the Celestial Toyshop.
And a lot of falling.
Friday, 12 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Diamond Planet
A diamond the size of a planet. A big planet.
Seems like this might have some plot hook potential. Say... a robbery?
Seems like this might have some plot hook potential. Say... a robbery?
Monday, 8 October 2012
Doctor Who: Century House
Century House trailer
We never finished episode three of the Doctor Who Series A play-by-post RPG, but this was the next episode in the queue, based on an unmade script by Tom MacRae for Ten and Donna in 2008.
The Doctor goes live with a ghost-hunting TV show to solve the mystery of the haunting...
We never finished episode three of the Doctor Who Series A play-by-post RPG, but this was the next episode in the queue, based on an unmade script by Tom MacRae for Ten and Donna in 2008.
The Doctor goes live with a ghost-hunting TV show to solve the mystery of the haunting...
Doctor Who Down Under
Australian MP launches an online campaign to make it happen!
Where else should the TARDIS go?
Peter Jackson has already said he’d be happy to help make or even direct one in New Zealand...
Where else should the TARDIS go?
Peter Jackson has already said he’d be happy to help make or even direct one in New Zealand...
Sunday, 7 October 2012
“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.”
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 127th birthday of Niels Bohr, a major quantum physicist, contemporary and friend of Einstein, who I must admit I am aware of only by reputation. I do like his quotes though. Some of them are decidedly Doctor-y.
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”
Adventure hooks? Possibly... fleeing the Nazis and working on the Manhattan Project seem like good places to start.
“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”
Adventure hooks? Possibly... fleeing the Nazis and working on the Manhattan Project seem like good places to start.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
File Download Rapid!
UNIT sourcebook Defending The Earth out now in pdf!
Looking for some suitable adventure hooks? Consider Skywatch!
Looking for some suitable adventure hooks? Consider Skywatch!
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Hide Your Eyes
I saw someone in town today wearing a “Keep Calm And Don’t Blink” T-shirt, and briefly considered doing a Weeping Angel mime. I decided against it as that’s rather intrusive, but it got me thinking...
What if people started acting like Weeping Angels? Still, silent, hands over their faces? What might that mean in the Whoniverse? Are they holding the image of an Angel, or trying to avoid their attentions, or...?
(And what was the little girl doing covering her face at Winter Quay..?)
What if people started acting like Weeping Angels? Still, silent, hands over their faces? What might that mean in the Whoniverse? Are they holding the image of an Angel, or trying to avoid their attentions, or...?
(And what was the little girl doing covering her face at Winter Quay..?)
Five rounds rapid!
Defending The Earth: The UNIT Sourcebook preorder
Now the DWAITAS line’s first sourcebook instead of a box set.
Now the DWAITAS line’s first sourcebook instead of a box set.
Tuesday, 2 October 2012
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today
We’ve done the Beatles, right? It’s the 50th anniversary of their first single.
I had them in the background of an episode of The Door which you’ll get to read one of these years...
SteveD included them in his Kinks-inspired adventure brainstorm (threatened by Carrionites as lyrical genii tend to be) and it would be easy to go a lot further. A title-based adventure hook brainstorm, for one.
I had them in the background of an episode of The Door which you’ll get to read one of these years...
SteveD included them in his Kinks-inspired adventure brainstorm (threatened by Carrionites as lyrical genii tend to be) and it would be easy to go a lot further. A title-based adventure hook brainstorm, for one.
Monday, 1 October 2012
So therefore...?
John Seavey at MightyGodKing considers The Angels Take Manhattan.
He asks the obvious first question, and comes up with a reasonable answer.
He asks the episode’s last question, and comes up with an answer which is rather interesting and plotty.
But I mostly draw your attention because of the middle question, which I hadn’t worried about, and comes up with an answer which is hilarious.
(Probably not in keeping with the tone of the episode, but still.)
He asks the obvious first question, and comes up with a reasonable answer.
He asks the episode’s last question, and comes up with an answer which is rather interesting and plotty.
But I mostly draw your attention because of the middle question, which I hadn’t worried about, and comes up with an answer which is hilarious.
(Probably not in keeping with the tone of the episode, but still.)
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