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Creating The Console Room Brendan Sheppard

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What happens when a childhood dream refuses to stay in the past?

Growing up in Belfast, I didn’t have a TARDIS console room. I had a small hallway, a dressing gown and an imagination powerful enough to transform the ordinary into somewhere extraordinary.

More than forty years later, that childhood sanctuary became real.

Creating the Console Room tells the personal, funny and occasionally chaotic story of how a small team of craftspeople, engineers, filmmakers, students and lifelong Doctor Who fans attempted to recreate the iconic 1983 TARDIS console room from The Five Doctors.

This is not simply a technical manual or a collection of measurements – although there are plenty of those. It is the story of the people behind the build: the research, the craftsmanship, the electronics, the roundels, the unexpected setbacks and the tiny victories that slowly brought the room to life.

It is also a story about childhood, friendship, creativity, grief, escape and the courage to stop saying, “Wouldn’t it be amazing if…” and begin asking, “How could we actually make it happen?”

Written in my own voice and filled with behind-the-scenes photographs, memories and stories from the project, this book invites you inside the creation of a full-size, interactive tribute to one of television’s most memorable sets.

Building a TARDIS console room is not a sensible thing to do.

But sometimes the most extraordinary journeys begin with a wonderfully ridiculous idea.

An unofficial fan-made publication. This book is not endorsed, licensed by or affiliated with the BBC.

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