Monday, May 2, 2011

Where's Your Tardis?

OK, today is going to be a little over the top GEEKY, so just keep that in mind. First off, have you given much thought to what you would do if you had a time machine? I mean, we all saw Back to the Future at least 20 times (I and III anyway, II just wasn't that good). Didn't we all want to have a Dr. Brown friend that could build almost anything?     

And Quantum Leap was the greatest. 
  
"Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished."    

Followed soon after by the weekly "Oh, boy."
   
I've got the final season of Quantum Leap checked out on Netflix right now.   

And who could forget the most excellent time machine given to Bill S. Preston, Esq.  and Ted "Theodore" Logan by Rufus.    

But probably the best time machine is this one:   

Yes, you're right. It is the Type 40 TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) flown by Dr. Who, the last of the Time Lords. Obsolete and unreliable, although originally it was supposed to be flown by six pilots, which may explain the lack of reliability.     

Unfortunately, time is running out on the Where's the Tardis contest being run by BBC America. Competitors are asked to submit pictures of the TARDIS they have built showing the "original design", "creative use of materials", "creative placement in a public location", and "blah blah blah Facebook". Contest runs until May 15th, so your time is limited. According to the contest rules:    

"The First Place Winner will be awarded the Grand Prize of a Doctor Who Screening event at a venue in your area in September 2011, with a maximum of 50 guests, plus one copy of every episode of Doctor Who currently available on DVD in the United States with a suggested retail value of Two Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy United States Dollars (US $2,970.90)."   

So get to work. September is wide open for me, so let me know when and where the screening will be when you win. I don't want to miss it. Oh, and can I borrow the second season from Tom Baker's time as the doctor? That's the only Tom Baker season I don't have. Thanks.  

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