Rubbertoe Replicas

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Rubbertoe Replicas was a freelance company, based in Cardiff. It was founded by props maker Nicholas Robatto in 2012 as an offshoot from his company, Rubbertoe Props, which supplied Doctor Who with props predominantly throughout the Matt Smith era.

From its creation, it was the BBC Worldwide's licensed premium prop replica manufacturer and seller for Doctor Who. As of December 2020, the company was still actively manufacturing and selling prop replicas.

The company produced replicas of:

• Captain Jack's Vortex Manipulator
• Captain Jack's Sonic Blaster
• the Fourth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
• the Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
• the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver (as a regular version, and also as a "shark-bitten" variant as seen in A Christmas Carol)
• the Twelfth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
• the Thirteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
• Romana's Sonic Screwdriver
• River Song's Squareness Blaster
• the Sonic docking port (seen on the TARDIS console from Series 7B to Series 10)
• Staser guns (seen in Hell Bent)
• Dalek gunsticks
• the Laser Screwdriver
• the Moment
• the Confession Dial

They also produced other colour variants of the Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver, as limited edition pieces.

People credited for work on the replicas

Thirteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

• Arwel Wyn Jones
• Darren Fereday
• Nick Robatto

Twelfth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

• Michael Pickwoad (as production designer)
• Stephen Cooper (as concept artist)
• Nick Robatto

Eleventh Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

• Nick Robatto

Fourth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver

• Ron Daniels, Brian Terranova, Jason Aud, James Sutton (as researchers)
• Nick Robatto (as manufacturer)

Romana's Sonic Screwdriver

• Terry Poole, James Sutton, Brian Terranova (as researchers)

External links

• Official website