Doctor Who Experience (Llangollen)

Doctor Who Experience (Llangollen)
Features:	Located with Dapol, Largest Doctor Who exhibition
Location:	Lower Dee Mill, Llangollen, North Wales
Opened:	[[[[1995 (releases)|1995 1995 (releases)|(releases)|1995]]]]
Closed:	[[[[2003 (releases)|2003 2003 (releases)|(releases)|2003]]]]
Memorable moment

Located next to the Dapol toy factory, the LLangollen Doctor Who Experience was the largest Doctor Who exhibition to have ever been staged, and open continuously.

Overview

Collecting props from over 30 years of props together this was one of the largest exhibitions of Doctor Who props. There was over 6,000 square foot of space dedicated to the exhibition.

Notable elements

There was a huge amount of props ranging from Patrick Troughton's era as the Doctor and right through to Sylvester McCoy's time in the part.

Full props and masked costumes

• The TARDIS console (The Five Doctors onwards version)
• Time Lord headwear from TV: The Deadly Assassin or Arc of Infinity
• Doctor costumes (Third Doctor, Fourth Doctor (burgundy variety), Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor)
• Cyberman from TV: Earthshock and Silver Nemesis
• Bessie
• Several Daleks from multiple eras
• A Robot Yeti from TV: The Web of Fear
• A Time Lord costume from TV: The War Games
• An Axon from TV: The Claws of Axos
• A TV: The Sea Devils-era Sea Devil
• An Ice Warrior (appears to be) of the TV: The Curse of Peladon era.
• An Eight Legs from TV: Planet of the Spiders
• Giant Robot from TV: Robot
• Osiran service robot sarcophagus from TV: Pyramids of Mars
• Krarg from HOMEVID: Shada
• Morbius from TV: The Brain of Morbius
• Gallifryan Guard
• The Captain from TV: The Pirate Planet
• Mandrel from TV: Nightmare of Eden
• Argolin and a Foamasi from TV: The Leisure Hive
• Melkur from TV: The Keeper of Traken
• Gundan Warrior from TV: Warriors' Gate
• K9 and Coven Leader Hecate from TV: A Girl's Best Friend
• Malus from TV: The Awakening
• Omega from TV: Arc of Infinity
• The Garm from TV: Terminus
• A Tractator from TV: Frontios
• A Silurian from TV: Warriors of the Deep
• Magma Beast from TV: The Caves of Androzani
• Mestor from TV: The Twin Dilemma
• Drathro and a Serivce Robot from TV: The Mysterious Planet
• Sil, Kiv and a Delegate from TV: Mindwarp
• A Vervoid from TV: Terror of the Vervoids
• At least three Haemovore from TV: The Curse of Fenric
• Kandyman and Fifi from TV: The Happiness Patrol
• Special Weapons Dalek from TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
• Nemesis statue from TV: Silver Nemesis
• Control and a Husk from TV: Ghost Light
• Gods of Ragnarok and Clown costumes from TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Three Cheetah People from TV: Survival

Other props and costumes

• Weapons from TV: The Sunmakers
• Kroll from TV: The Power of Kroll
• Mona Lisa painting from TV: City of Death
• A Mutt head from TV: The Mutants
• A Dinosaur model from TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• "Cyberscope" from TV: Earthshock
• Snake model from TV: Snakedance
• Cyberman heads from all eras of the Cybermen from TV: The Wheel in Space through to Silver Nemesis
• Nyssa's brown velvet costume
• Turlough's costume
• Sarah Jane Smith's costume from TV: The Five Doctors
• The Third Doctor's cloak from TV: The Five Doctors
• Lytton's Cyberman chestplate from TV: Attack of the Cybermen
• Dinosaur in a vat from within the Rani's TARDIS in TV: The Mark of the Rani
• The Renegade Dalek Battlecomputer chair from TV: Remembrance of the Daleks
• A Sontaran mask from TV: The Invasion of Time
• The Rani's costume from TV: Time and the Rani
• Tetrap head from TV: Time and the Rani
• Pool cleaner robot from TV: Paradise Towers
• The Eye medallion from TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Ace's period costume from TV: The Curse of Fenric
• The Master's costume from TV: Survival

Promotion

• Colin Baker and Caroline John were present to promote the exhibition when it opened.

Notes

• Unlike some other exhibits, both previous to this and running concurrently (such as the Longleat exhibition) this exhibition was open all year round.
• When, in 1997 Tom Baker went to New Zealand to make a series of television commercials for New Zealand Superannuation Services, he got on loan the scarf from his time as the Doctor from this museum.
• Given the range of props and costumes, many of them must have come from previous defunct exhibitions such as Doctor Who Exhibition Blackpool, Doctor Who USA Tour and the 3001 Space Adventure exhibition.
• At least one source attests that there were Daleks from the 1960s Dalek movies and from the 1996 television movie however according to another source states that the Dalek props that are in this exhibition are at least in part from the 1960s (a walk-in variety) and another (black and gold) a repainted Dalek from TV: Revelation of the Daleks. From the images available there are no immediately apparent props from the 1996 TV movie.