Cornwall 2008: Land's End and Doctor Who

[moonlettuce]

So, on the morning of August 19th, we did the Minack Theatre, and in the afternoon we headed to Land's End. I wasn't sure what to expect from Land's End because, well, there's not much after, y'know, the end of the land but sea.

It was, however, very pretty - especially as you looked out to sea.















However, the thing that caught my eye wasn't the walk along the coast (which I actually would have quite like to do if we'd had more time there), and it wasn't the rides in the helicopters they were giving to raise money for the Air Ambulance (although, again, I would have liked to do it.)

No, what caught my eye over the vast crowds of people was, in fact, this:



Land's End have a Doctor Who Up Close Exhibition. Which meant the others lost me. For two hours.

Me, alyse and alyse's short person bounced in like geeks on crack and didn't emerge for quite some time.

And since I was a geek with a camera, I took photos. Of everything. From different angles. Twice.

I was far too amused by the front of the building painted like the TARDIS. Especially since it was bigger on the inside ;)


The exhibition started with pictures of the various Doctors going up the wall as you climbed the stairs, until you got to the TARDIS at the top:

(Ignore the blotches, for some reason my camera had a bit of a hissy fit at some points.)

They then had various costumes and props from New Who, so fear my photo dumping ::grin::

Costumes from Voyage of the Damned:


Various bods from The End of the World:


Poster from The Unquiet Dead:


The Face of Boe!:


Part of the werewolf's cage and a flying monk from Tooth and Claw:


Slitheen:

As an aside, next to this was a screen running a clip of Aliens of London showing Toshiko checking out the pig, and I kept grinning and thinking "That would have been Owen if he hadn't been hungover..."

Sontaran:


Weeping Angel from Blink:


Clockwork figure from The Girl in the Fireplace:


Ood!:


K9!:

Yes, I may have squeaked a little slightly okay, a whole heap at this one. There was a big red button next to him and if you pressed it he spoke to you. Yes, I loved K9. No, I'm not ashamed of this fact. Yes, I did nearly once spend £1,500 on a lifesize version of K9. No, I didn't do it in the end, after lost_house and temaris made wtf, dude? faces at me and dragged me out of the shop. Yes, part of me actually regrets that just a little.

Delete, delete, delete...


A Hath off The Doctor's Daughter:

The angle's a little funky on this one because he was on quite a high stand so I had to stretch my arm up to get the photo, otherwise I was looking up his nose, er, breathing apparatus.

And then you turned a corner to a set of doors that only opened at certain times and warnings on the walls:


You went through the doors, and the lights went down and out from the side the Dalek arose, proclaiming its mastery over humanity...

I also took video of the Dalek ::grin::

And then you get the pig slave:

Although, seriously, they should have ended with the Dalek. Dudes! Go out on a high...

Even the door gets in on the act:

Just after I snapped this photo, the door opened to reveal alyse, who'd totally lost me while we were walking around, had finished about 30 minutes earlier than I did and was on her way back to check I hadn't been abducted by aliens (or arrested for trying to smuggle K9 out in my bag).

We mooched about for a bit more, bought some rock, found the others and decided to head back to the cottage. And that, in a rather TARDIS-shaped nutshell, was Land's End ::grin::