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]]
Closed:	[[2003 (releases)|2003]]

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

Other props and Costumes

• Weapons from DW: The Sunmakers
• Kroll from DW: The Power of Kroll
• Mona Lisa painting from DW: City of Death
• A Mutt head from DW: The Mutants
• A Dinosaur model from DW: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
• "Cyberscope" from DW: Earthshock
• Snake model from DW: Snakedance
• Cyberman heads from all eras of the Cybermen from DW: The Wheel in Space through to Silver Nemesis
• Nyssa's brown velvet costume
• Turlough's costume
• Sarah Jane Smith's costume from DW: The Five Doctors
• The Third Doctor's cloak from DW: The Five Doctors
• Lytton's Cyberman chestplate from DW: Attack of the Cybermen
• Dinosaur in a vat from within the Rani's TARDIS in DW: The Mark of the Rani
• The Renegade Dalek Battlecomputer chair from DW: Remembrance of the Daleks
• A Sontaran mask from DW: The Invasion of Time
• The Rani's costume from DW: Time and the Rani
• Tetrap head from DW: Time and the Rani
• Pool cleaner robot from DW: Paradise Towers
• The Eye medallion from DW: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
• Ace's period costume from DW: The Curse of Fenric
• The Master's costume from DW: 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 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 DW: Revelation of the Daleks. From the images available there are no immediately apparent props from the 1996 TV movie.