A little trip to Cardiff (Part 2)...

Here's the second part of my pictorial summary of our trip to Cardiff (the first is here).  This is the exciting bit, with some pictures from the Doctor Who Experience!

If you've ever been on the Warner Bros Studio Tour, this is like that but quite a lot smaller.  There are lots of costumes - one from each of the Doctors and several from the most recent seasons' companions.  There's also a few Tardis sets - one of which was part of the interactive experience section (which involved you getting captured by Daleks, Mam was quite confused!) - the one I was really excited to see was 9 and 10's from the new series.

When you go upstairs there are more costumes - most of which are the monsters!  There are also a few 'outisdes' of Tardises (Tardisi?) for you to pose in front of, and some displays showing you how they make the sets/alien models.  I do wish they had put more props in, but I guess it's because they're constantly using them in filming so wouldn't want to keep changing the displays.  It took about an hour and a half to go around in total, and of course there's a 'little shop' at the end!

The first Tardis console from the new series - it's so detailed (and pretty battered!)
I haven't got many more decent pics from downstairs as the lighting was quite low.

'Daleks through the ages' - they'd also got Davros there!

In the evening we went for another toddle around the Bay, and managed to find the 'secret' entrance to the Torchwood Hub.  It's now been turned into a shrine to Ianto Jones - there's a plaque and many many lovely tributes!  Quite corny but it's rather nice as there are no Torchwood sets to go look around.

We also went for supper at an awesome place called Pie Minister.  The food.  Is.  Amazeballs.
 I believe there's one in London aswell, so we'll be hunting that down next time we're there for sure.

All in all, we had a lovely time in Cardiff.  I'd thoroughly recommend a visit there!

xxx