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Rubbertoe Replicas The 14th Doctors Sonic Screwdriver

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Rubbertoe Replicas is pleased to present a faithful replica of the brand-new Fourteenth Doctors Sonic Screwdriver, designed for the regenerated Fourteenth Doctor, played by David Tennant. The Fourteenth Doctor’s Sonic was principally designed by Doctor Who Props Art Director Michael Van Kesteren, with input and guidance from Production Designer Phil Sims.

When Michael initially started thinking about design concepts for the Fourteenth Sonic, he decided to completely immerse himself in Doctor Who by re-watching the whole series from beginning to end, from William Hartnell through to the present day. Michael then got hold of all the previous sonic screwdriver toys and replicas he could get his hands on and studied them in order to, in his own words, “absorb the language of the sonics that had come before.”

An astonishing sixty-seven initial design sketches and concepts were then produced by Michael, to try and create a design that captured something of the essence of previous incarnations of this iconic prop, whilst remaining something fresh, new and uniquely of itself. Sixty-seven ideas were eventually whittled down to fourteen, and with tweaks and input from Phil Sims and the show’s producers, the final design was eventually locked down…

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