Cyber-Man!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:45 pm

CYBERRRR-MANNN!!!!!

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Wed May 10, 2006 8:55 pm

*can't be arsed to go look for the "How To Draw Robots - By Pat Lee" edition of Shortpacked*

Draw him reaching out towards you. Like you've stolen his purse.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:20 pm

Cool beans design.

I heard that Bryan Hitch would be doing some design-work for Dr Who, could this be some of it?

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:21 pm

To be fair to teh Supahstah, it wasn't him who started this trend, Brend.

http://www.botchthecrab.com/archive/tel ... &year=1985

Check out, ooh, Beachcomber, Blaster, Cosmos, Grapple, Grimlock, Hoist, Powerglide, Seapspray, Skids and especially Warpath.

Post by **Denyer** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:24 pm

Nice update keeping the retro look.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 10, 2006 9:38 pm

Brendocon wrote:*can't be arsed to go look for the "How To Draw Robots - By Pat Lee" edition of Shortpacked*

Draw him reaching out towards you. Like you've stolen his purse.

Would it help if there was WD-40 dripping off his palm?

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:36 am

Metal Vendetta wrote:To be fair to teh Supahstah

RACIST!!!!!

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:43 am

I can't wait for this.

So have any US Transfans been watching Who on Sci-Fi Channel?

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:09 am

noo who has been smasjing so far.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:14 am

Teh Jumbo Masseev Tennant Who TFA Fred:
http://www.tfarchive.com/community/show ... adid=34685

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu May 11, 2006 10:40 am

Predabot wrote:Cool beans design. I heard that Bryan Hitch would be doing some design-work for Dr Who, could this be some of it?

Whilst it certainly looks pretty much like a Hitch Iron Man with flattened facial features and two L-shaped bits of metal bolted to the head, I seem to recall reading somewhere, maybe either here or on Millarworld, that Hitch said he didn't actually design them, it was other chaps. Could be wrong tho. If it was other chaps, it looks like they were maybe trying to tip the hat a bit to Hitchy, as that fair screams 'Hitch!' to me.

As well as 'Mugger!', obv.

edit: did a look-see and most Doc sites and wiki label it as a Hitch design, but there's an LITG carrying a message from Hitch saying he didn't design it and in fact did no work for series 2. Does that tally up with the info m'learned Doc experts have?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:00 am

Hitch did some spaceship and tardis sketches for series 1, but his contribution seems to have been downplayed somewhat.

Brendocon wrote:Teh Jumbo Masseev Tennant Who TFA Fred:
http://www.tfarchive.com/community/show ... adid=34685

Too much Eccles and RTD hate for my liking.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:24 am

So defend them

Post by **Best First** » Thu May 11, 2006 12:53 pm

found the bottom of this page interesting:

http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/index6.shtml

how much of this stuff is there and how much of it should be considered canon?

plus how cool a job would it be putting together those websites?

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Thu May 11, 2006 5:02 pm

Best First wrote:found the bottom of this page interesting:

http://www.whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/index6.shtml

how much of this stuff is there and how much of it should be considered canon?

plus how cool a job would it be putting together those websites?

Dunno about the design work - I just assume that anything in DWM, on the BBC website, or on Outpost Gallifrey's news pages is correct.

As to the canonicity of the tiein sites, I'd say that they're about as canonical as the old Target novellisations. They've made various minor contradictions to the series (e.g. an early page of the whoisdoctorwho site gives Mickey and Rose's ages in a way that contradicts Father's Day), But they also flesh out the stories a bit like the targets did.

Pissin' Poonani · Post by **Pissin' Poonani** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:24 pm

Very cool-reminds me of General Grievous. The one of the cover of the Radio Times has the top of his helmet see-through, and you can see 'is brainses an what-not.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:27 pm

Pissin' Poonani wrote:top of his helmet see-through, and you can see 'is [...] what-not.

Oo er.

Post by **Denyer** » Thu May 11, 2006 9:34 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:Too much Eccles and RTD hate for my liking.

Just the usual skepticism, really. And the current series being noticeably sharper than the previous so far.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 11, 2006 11:13 pm

Hopefully this won't turn out to be a spoiler, being as it's just conjecture, but it occurred to me earlier that 'Mondas' is a word that is reminiscent of a foreign language word for 'world', and given that Mondas (former home planet of the race who became Cybermen, for those who didn't already know.) was always meant to be Earth's twin, and that the time travellers are going to end up on a parallel Earth, there are strange cogs beginning to turn around the inkling of a thought...

Oh, and the whole point of this topic (aside from reviving discussion in the Noo Who (or Noo Noo Who, or whatever) was something Brend said at TransFest '05, although noone seems to have got it.

Brendocon · Post by **Brendocon** » Fri May 12, 2006 8:35 am

It was Anglo.

Spyber.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri May 12, 2006 10:37 am

http://www.b3ta.com/board/5894583

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 12, 2006 6:56 pm

Brendocon wrote:It was Anglo.

Well, that would explain the accent.

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri May 12, 2006 7:21 pm

Did I hear somewhere that the special effects guys were involved with Star Treks Borg?

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Sat May 13, 2006 11:49 am

The important thing is that the Cyberleader retains his black handlebars and is (accoridng to the Radio Times) still more emotional than the others. I'm hoping he still swams about with hands on hips offering Sweedish massages to people.

And in a totally unsuprising move it seems The Hand of Fear (the one where SJ gets left in Aberdeen rather than Croyden) will be on DVD latter this year, along with... The Mark of the Rani. Well, we were all waiting for that. The question is, what cash in Cybermen story will be the years last disc?

Bouncelot · Post by **Bouncelot** » Sat May 13, 2006 12:37 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:Did I hear somewhere that the special effects guys were involved with Star Treks Borg?

That's incredibly unlikely.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Sat May 13, 2006 7:10 pm

Were the Borg created by Michael Westmore? I know I have a book on this somewhere...

Anyway, good episode this week - the Cybermen were still quite genuinely scary and it's a cliffhanger in the classic "How the hell are they going to get out of that" scenario. What's the betting the Cyberleader intervenes?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat May 13, 2006 8:29 pm

I'm (ever so slightly) disappointed with their voices but they looked great. These 2 parters really give the stories more time to breathe too - nice to learn a bit about Mickey's background for instance. I thought Lumic was slightly hammy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 14, 2006 5:59 pm

I thought their voices were quite appropriate, tbh. The synthetic aspect being reminiscent of the 'bank robbers' of Hartnell's era.

And their jerky movements adding to the impression that they're early on in their development.

I wonder who (or perhaps what) Gemini is.

Interesting that Torchwood gets a mention.

Post by **Best First** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:07 pm

Doesn't Torchwood get mentioned at every available opportunity?

really enjoyed that - good work on the Mickey front i thought, although Rose is having a bit of a Kate Buaer day in this episode.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:23 pm

Best First wrote:Doesn't Torchwood get mentioned at every available opportunity?

True, but on a parallel Earth?

Did a certain Time Manager prevent the Emperor of Great Britain from falling foul to a Vampire a hundred odd years earlier, or something, then?

"Trust me on this!

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