Resistance was futile: Dalek and TARDIS snapped up at Scarborough Sci-Fi and Fantasy auction
A Dalek who was a star attraction at Sci-Fi shows in the area went under the auctioneer’s hammer in Scarborough and fetched £2,200.
Viper (all Daleks have names) arrived on planet Earth seven years ago in the Robin Hood’s Bay workshop of cabinetmaker Danny Norwell.
It was Danny’s second Dalek – the first went internationally viral when it was filmed trundling through the streets of Bay, warning people to stay indoors during the Covid crisis.
Viper has an aluminium and wooden body, is sit in, self-propelled thanks to a battery powered electric motor, is equipped with sound and lighting systems - and has a changer that translates the voice into Dalek.
Viper went up for auction at David Duggleby’s Sci-Fi & Fantasy auction, where it sold for £2,200.
Continuing the Doctor Who theme, a TARDIS also went under the hammer at the firm’s online auction.
The TARDIS – an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension In Space – is a full-scale replica that Danny designed to be easily dismantled for transportation in his Ford Galaxy car and rebuilt within minutes on arrival at conventions.
The TARDIS boasts a functioning lantern and ringing telephone and its telephone door was autographed by several Doctor Who cast members including Sylvester McCoy, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Janet Fielding and Carol Ann Ford.
It sold for £1,100.