"There's a lot of EXCELLENT buttons" ️ Tour the brand new TARDIS set with David Tennant and production designer Phil Sims!
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00:03 Here we are.
00:09 How long have you been working on this now, Phil?
00:11 Around, I think, 20 weeks.
00:13 We've been building for 16 weeks.
00:16 We had to send off lots of files to be CNC'd.
00:21 The parts of the roundels that run from the front face
00:24 and sort of curve like a trumpet.
00:25 Yeah.
00:26 They took a lot of work.
00:27 So they--
00:28 First things bizarrely that we worked out.
00:30 Yeah.
00:31 So that was the trickiest bit of all of this?
00:33 Exactly.
00:33 This bit was easy.
00:34 Really?
00:35 No, not at all, no.
00:37 We film on this on Monday.
00:38 On Monday.
00:39 And it's now Friday.
00:40 Yeah, it's going to be--
00:41 Feeling confident?
00:41 Yeah, it's perfect.
00:42 It's going to be fine, yeah.
00:44 There's a few bits still missing, but it's getting close.
00:47 It's missing, yeah.
00:48 I first saw this on a headset.
00:51 Oh, yeah, on the virtual reality.
00:52 Which is very exciting.
00:53 Yeah, it's really-- it's amazing to be able to use that.
00:56 And then you come in, and you have a moment where you look
00:58 at it, you think, are we misleading people?
01:00 Is it really going to be like this?
01:02 It's almost more impressive.
01:03 It's very big.
01:09 There's a lot of excellent buttons.
01:11 Yeah, we were told you like buttons.
01:13 I do love a button.
01:15 Oh, they are actually lighting up.
01:17 We've also been told you get through buttons like wildfire.
01:19 I do, yeah.
01:21 I do, but this feels perhaps more robust than the one
01:23 I remember.
01:24 On the old Taurus, things broke with such regularity.
01:27 Or I broke them, or they cracked, or whatever.
01:30 But the only thing left was the big lever.
01:32 So that was the only thing that became consistent.
01:33 Was that the only reliable thing?
01:34 Yeah.
01:35 Oh, I like that as well.
01:38 The Califrayans are just logoing it up now
01:40 so that it all makes sense.
01:42 Right, OK.
01:43 That's been cleared by the high council.
01:45 That's been cleared, yeah, exactly.
01:47 It's very fiddlable.
01:49 Good.
01:50 That was the plan.
01:53 And what we're imagining is on the lower level.
01:55 Do we know yet?
01:56 You know, it's evocative of a tokamak generator, which
02:00 is like a fusion generator to create
02:02 endless electrical energy.
02:03 This is the coffee machine.
02:08 It takes up quite a lot of space, the coffee machine.
02:09 It's quite a big coffee machine.
02:10 It's quite central to the whole--
02:12 It is.
02:12 You'd think there were other things that prioritized
02:15 on a Taurus console.
02:17 Presumably, things can be removed and will--
02:19 Yeah, exactly.
02:20 It's an organic console.
02:21 Yeah, that's something I'd love to get your take on.
02:23 It would be interesting to know if we can sort of, you know,
02:26 tweak things here and there.
02:27 I imagine story-wise, sometimes--
02:28 You just change things between episodes,
02:30 and I don't think anyone notices.
02:31 The Taurus grows it, right, and develops it.
02:33 That's exactly what it is.
02:35 The rotor moves up and down, and these paddles, or petals,
02:40 open as it moves up, and then they close as it moves down.
02:43 And then there's petals at the top that do the opposite.
02:46 Oh, nice.
02:48 And you're confident that's not going to break down?
02:50 I-- sorry, am I twitchy?
02:54 I'm really confident it's not going to break down.
02:57 I'm very--
02:57 It's not going to break down.
02:59 God, I've got to be running around these at some point,
03:01 haven't we?
03:02 There's been a lot of discussion about where
03:04 David's going to run.
03:05 They might have to slow you down.
03:07 You might get through it too quickly based on the--
03:09 I've only got a few days on here.
03:11 I'm going to make the most of it.
03:11 Yeah, it's true.
03:12 Make the most of it, yeah.
03:13 Don't want to leave too many things for Shuchi to discover.
03:15 Want to get in there first.
03:17 Thank you for your excellent tour.
03:19 Thank you.
03:20 No problem at all.
03:21 Any time.
03:21 That is very exciting.
03:22 I'm very much looking forward to getting on here.
03:24 Good.
03:24 And for the paint to be dry.
03:26 Me too.
03:27 Fingers crossed.
03:28 Yeah, one day.
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