Outer plasmic shell
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The outer plasmic shell, which has dimensionally transcendental properties, alters as the exteior of the TARDIS changes shape. (DW: Logopolis)
With models such as the Type 40 TARDIS, the outer plasmic shell responded to a chameleon circuit.
- Later, more sentient TARDIS'es might decide what to change into all by it-, him-, or herself.