| Cacique Caribe | 25 Sep 2010 12:16 p.m. PST |
I don't know much about Daleks. Actually, I don't think I have ever seen an entire episode of Dr. Who. However, when I saw this picture I could not help but ask . . . link QUESTIONS: Do all Daleks come in the rolling salt-shaker types? Or are there some that are of the walker variety? Thanks, Dan |
| Jakar Nilson | 25 Sep 2010 12:19 p.m. PST |
The proposed 80s animated series was going to have spider-like Dalek war machines, from the production sketches I saw. I believe that they are still somewhere on the Internet. |
| 28mmMan | 25 Sep 2010 1:05 p.m. PST |
Not that I have seen, but this seems close to what it would be like link |
| Coyotepunc and Hatshepsuut | 25 Sep 2010 1:20 p.m. PST |
Welll, no, because then stairs wouldn't be the ultimate defense anymore. |
| Cacique Caribe | 25 Sep 2010 1:20 p.m. PST |
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| napthyme | 25 Sep 2010 1:26 p.m. PST |
No, Daleks developed anti-grav tech instead, so when they can fly they don't need to walk. |
| jpattern2 | 25 Sep 2010 2:33 p.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 25 Sep 2010 2:39 p.m. PST |
The 28mm Star Wars B'omarr Monk minis are also similar: auction
The MicroMachine B'omarr Monk is different but equally cool: auction |
| Tanuki | 25 Sep 2010 2:45 p.m. PST |
IIRC, there were supposed to be spider Daleks in the TV movie starring Paul McGann as the 8th Doctor. They never made it to the final cut. As a nod to that movie, there are spider Daleks in background of shots inside the Dalek Crucible in the episode Journeys End (the last episode of the new seried 4). It really is a case of "blink and you'll miss them". Gads, geek or what ??? :) |
| Thieses | 25 Sep 2010 3:35 p.m. PST |
CC, The Reviresco Xulu Spiders that jpatern2 mentioned above were modeled after these images by a guy named "Scarecrow". He created them based off the Doctor Who novel "War of the Daleks" which mentions them. They can be seen here. YouTube link
These are great figures, and they look nice with my Black Tree Doctor Who Minis. (Look at the first pic at the top.)
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| 28mmMan | 25 Sep 2010 7:04 p.m. PST |
Your paint jobs on the Yetis are better than the BTD website, nice. |
 Saber6   | 25 Sep 2010 7:35 p.m. PST |
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| Zephyr1 | 25 Sep 2010 7:48 p.m. PST |
A Dalek with a walker? Very easy to outrun…. ;-) |
| chironex | 25 Sep 2010 11:41 p.m. PST |
That first img reminds me more of the Mechanoids, especially the Brain:
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Then again what is a Mechanoid but a creature, once humanoid, so hideously mutated and bioengineered that it can no longer survive outside its life-supporting vehicle…
Totally original. No blatant ripoff at all.
Just as "you belong to us you will be like us" as the Cybermen would say means something other than "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."
Been waiting a while to say all that… |
| Covert Walrus | 26 Sep 2010 3:25 a.m. PST |
Ummm . . . chironex, the Cybermen turned up and started to convert humans ( On occasion to start with, more frequently later ) in the 1970s, while Star Trek was still maundering in cancellation limbo. So who was copying whom? :) Walking Daleks have been seen fairly often in fan fiction and art, but no-one really makes anything that would play them well on the table IMHO. |
| chironex | 26 Sep 2010 7:24 a.m. PST |
Did the original series of Star Trek feature Borg? Was the Next Generation produced in the 1970s? |
| 28mmMan | 26 Sep 2010 8:13 a.m. PST |
"If there be nothing new, but that which is
Hath been before, how are our brains beguil'd,
Which labouring for invention bear amiss
The second burthen of a former child! O! that record could with a backward look,
Even of five hundred courses of the sun,
Show me your image in some antique book,
Since mind at first in character was done! That I might see what the old world could say
To this composed wonder of your frame;
Wh'r we are mended, or wh'r better they,
Or whether revolution be the same.
O! sure I am the wits of former days,
To subjects worse have given admiring praise."
- William Shakespeare ***** The fear of losing one's youth, health, and humanity via the ability to interact with the world around you is an interesting motivation for this subject. Surely it is this fear and maybe an additional one of the great communistic fear of losing individuality and becoming one of many unnamed cogs. |
| unitrecon | 26 Sep 2010 9:01 a.m. PST |
THere are the new Khurasan not-Daleks in 15mm – if you want Dalek info, then check out Dalek Second Empire online cartoon, same on youtube – also look at Dalek invasion of Skaro on youtube. Irregular also make non-Daleks in 6mm |
| GarrisonMiniatures | 26 Sep 2010 12:14 p.m. PST |
Interesting Dalek web comic: link |
| Captain Apathy | 27 Sep 2010 10:47 a.m. PST |
There is the Black Manta walker from the Mcdonalds Happy Meals. picture |
| Thieses | 28 Sep 2010 9:53 a.m. PST |
The Cybermen were introduced in the 60's in an episode called The Tenth Planet. Later In the episode the Tomb of the Cybermen they tried to convert humans into Cybermen. They walked around saying "You will become like us". The Borg were introduced In the STNG episode "Q-Who?" in 1989. The both the Borg and Cybermen are very cool. I use the Playmates STNG f Borg Figures to game with |
| John Treadaway | 17 Feb 2011 8:11 a.m. PST |
There were no Borg in Original Star Trek Chironex John T |
| billthecat | 17 Feb 2011 4:15 p.m. PST |
Blasphemy! Davros was in a wheelchair. Therefore all Daleks must be propelled in a like fashion… Any other form of transportation is the mark of an inferior species which must be EXTERRRRMINATED! |
| WarpSpeed | 17 Feb 2011 6:05 p.m. PST |
When the pedals broke on the tricycles ,yes they were walked by the human operator inside. |
| chironex | 20 Feb 2011 5:55 a.m. PST |
@John Treadaway, yes that's what I was suggesting would be found if one could sit through it all. |
