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Subject: Re: OT: Breeding nextgen Daleks!
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On 02/04/2024 14:24, Bill Sloman wrote:
> On 2/04/2024 11:55 pm, Don Y wrote:
>> <https://mega.nz/file/cjoXCCiT#zphWlIXeN02hkivnJb0uxZDxSZyRQFQu8LpPIfbP25s>
>>
> Daleks were famous as the cheapest and least convincing aliens ever seen 
> on a TV screen.

I disagree. Daleks were properly scary monsters for youngsters at the 
time. I used to have the Punch dalek cartoon framed on my office wall.
https://magazine.punch.co.uk/image/I0000ZvleumhOmDo

One of my friends has a full size ex BBC one in his living room.

Cybermen were much scarier though because they *could* climb stairs. 
Even if they looked a lot like blokes in silver boilersuits with 
accordions and plumbing for ears. Modern ones are much tougher looking.

It was the menacing sing song modulated voices that made them so weird. 
Ring modulators were cutting edge stuff back then.

Modern Dr Who episodes are made to a much higher standard. And Daleks 
can now fly which neatly gets them out of the staircase bind.

> The image presented seems to be of some things that might do something 
> practical, and are not nearly tawdry enough to qualify as Daleks.

If you want a really badly made Dr Who alien "The Ark in Space, 1974" is 
one such. Amazing what you can do with green paint and bubblewrap.

https://randomwhoness.com/2016/11/11/imagination-bubble-wrap-and-the-ark-in-space-1974/

If you go even further back there were plenty of worse aliens in the 
likes of "Plan 9 from Outer Space". A film that was so bad that it 
became good again and had a cult following (along with others of that 
ilk). I can't recall the film now but another alien was obviously two 
blokes under a carpet!


-- 
Martin Brown