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2006-12-07 Britain

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-07 06:50|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Mr Simpson, who has a TV and film memorabilia business, now plans to make it squirt water and smoke, and take it into the centre of his home city of York...

If he took it to New Orleans during Mardi Gras who'd notice?

Posted by Procopius2k 2006-12-07 08:38|| 2006-12-07 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Cue the complaints from Dalek advocacy groups in three, two, one....

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-12-07 08:55|| 2006-12-07 08:55|| Front Page Top

#3 He had better be careful. One of the reasons the Daleks are still such good villains is that the people who own the copyright have for decades refused to allow anyone to make fun of their monster. And this was a damn good idea.

Even the BBC has gotten in trouble with them for trying to put a Dalek in a comedy review show.

But it was a wise decision to not allow "dilution" of their creation. So many monsters have been ruined that way.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-12-07 09:46|| 2006-12-07 09:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Daleks are wimps.

That's what a REAL killerbot looks like :

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-07 09:47|| 2006-12-07 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, Katy Manning [Jo Grant] once appeared nude in a British men's magazine, posing with a Dalek.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2006-12-07 10:11|| 2006-12-07 10:11|| Front Page Top

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-12-07 12:05|| 2006-12-07 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7
#5: I'd have to see the evidence to believe that.

Posted by Fred 2006-12-07 12:16|| 2006-12-07 12:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Bright Pebbles in Blairistan, I know I'm nitpicking, but isn't it an android, or at least, some kind of cyber-being, rather than a pure bot?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-07 12:43|| 2006-12-07 12:43|| Front Page Top

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