The 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is right around the corner

As everyone knows, the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who is right around the corner. The 12th Doctor is on the way, we are getting more and more information and everyone is thinking about the possible changes that the show could face. That is why I chose to undergo a 4-hour drive down to Cardiff Bay recently to finally check out The buy Doctor Who australia Experience before we get taken in a new exciting direction.

If you go down into Cardiff Bay you’re sure of a big surprise. That’s right, from the moment you approach the building you can be sure this is a place for fans of old and new alike. One of the first things you will see is a small blue TARDIS perched over the dock to the right, Cardiff sure is proud of its DW heritage. As you enter the main reception you may be shocked to see Bessie just sat there establishing that fans of all eras are welcome. This is where it gets interesting. After entering the doors in a group of about 30 people you are taken into a dark room and shown a video. Now while it seems to just be a trailer for DW in general, I guess it gives uninterested parents who have been dragged along an idea of what is going on. In all fairness it was a beautiful sum up of Smith’s Doctor Who series, using his best speeches and the sublime sounds of Murray Gold. During the whole video, the screen seems to be broken and scratched, but at the end of the video this lines up with the crack from Amy’s wall, and you literally step through a crack in time and space.

You step into a fairly messy room full of artefacts from the show going back to not only 2005, but also 1963. As a few are presented to you in a dull and lifeless fashion by a saved personality from the library’s moon database it is tame and pleasant… until he arrives. You a rudely interrupted by the Doctor by accident while he is looking to contact Amy. He annoyingly refers to you as “Shoppers” which may be true for some but most of us want to go there for the experience, not just be passing through. At this point all the hairs stood on end and my heart fluttered as that moment we all wish for at night happens, the sound fills the room and everybody is frantically looking around for answers, and there it is. As if from thin air the TARDIS materialises right in front of you and the Doctor insists we all cram into the strange blue box.