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Remote Control Robot: Dalek from Doctor Who

44 Responses (Add) | Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 at 1:05am

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My friend Willie over at ThinkGeek sent me the new Dalek Robot to play with. If you know much about Dr. Who, you’ll know what a Dalek is. It’s remote control, and fun to play with!

Doctor Who is a guilty pleasure in the US and an obsession in the UK. Amazingly the show is still being produced today with the tenth successive Doctor now in play. Of course we all know the Daleks are the real stars of Doctor Who. With a toilet plunger in one hand and a elongated egg beater in the other, Daleks are some of the deadliest cyborgs in the galaxy. Bitter from being mutated by radiation and stuffed inside an inferior robot body, the Kaled people hate the Doctor (and staircases) and are bent on universal domination… and who can blame them really? Finally you too can act out your Dalek fantasies with these detailed R/C replicas. Each R/C Dalek stands 12 inches high and is happiest when gliding around your home shouting “EX-TER-MIN-ATE!” and hunting for the Doctor. Complete with tank-like controls and digitized grating dalek voices you’ll feel just like you’re in your own low-budget BBC telly show.

Dalek features include:

Authentic Detailed R/C Dalek Stands 12″ High
Powered Rotating Head
Moving Laser Turret
Flashing “Eye” Lights and Gun Turret
Two Channel R/C with Tank like Controls
8 Dalek sound samples including speech and exterminator gun sound
Directly control sound effects from buttons on the remote

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44 Comments

Windows Vista Torrent

December 23rd, 2007
at 11:15am

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Gmodman3

December 23rd, 2007
at 12:13am

Oooooppsss……..I Broke My Dollac

RobotsAreHereNow

December 23rd, 2007
at 12:48am

cute for a icon robot ,it would be easy to mod

livingdeadman

December 23rd, 2007
at 1:20am

I’ve had one of them for a couple of years. Didn’t this guy read the intructions??? It clearly states not to lift it by the head!!!
EXTERMINATE!!!

Hawk12athome

December 23rd, 2007
at 1:23am

Ooooh, I have one of them, fun!

livingdeadman

December 23rd, 2007
at 1:24am

I’ve had one of them for a couple of years. Did this guy not read the instructions??? It clearly states NOT to lift it by the head!!!

EXTERMINATE!!!!

ja750

December 23rd, 2007
at 3:20am

Hey Chris, The Dalek will go a lot further if the controller had the Ariel attached. I got this Dalek and it goes a lot further than 2 feet. ;)

adamkhimjirules

December 23rd, 2007
at 3:24am

whos dr who

Ostrich24

December 23rd, 2007
at 5:25am

“where’s it’s nob” lmao!

david181993

December 23rd, 2007
at 7:40am

Who’s doctor who?!?

He’s on a programme in the Uk. He is a human-like person who travels about in time with a companion and usually ends up in dangerous situations to save the day.

Daniel Brusilovsky

December 23rd, 2007
at 1:57am

Hey Chris,

Nice video…really like the idea :)

Did you fix that thing on the top that you broke? :)

Arcon

December 23rd, 2007
at 2:10am

A) w00t first post

B) Thats a cool robot… I like the dancing one from yesterday better though. Then again, I never watched Dr. Who. sounds good though

Michael Rivera (mrivera1)

December 23rd, 2007
at 2:20am

Although I’ve never seen the Doctor Who show, I must say I really love these little robot gadgets and such. They are so cool to play with and show off to people. I have a bit of a fascination with these little things.

Cameron

December 23rd, 2007
at 2:42am

These look like a good deal of fun, and durable… I enjoyed the show. Keep doing these reviews I enjoy watching them :)

duncanyoyo1

December 23rd, 2007
at 10:06am

Isn’t there supposed to be an antenna on the remote ( I see the hole for it )

C222

December 23rd, 2007
at 3:29am

I’m a huge Sci-Fi geek. I would definitely get things like this if i had enough money. I cant wait for the season premier of Dr Who on Christmas.

richardbt71

December 23rd, 2007
at 11:04am

You call yourself a geek and you don’t know about Doctor Who? SHAME! lol

geetaryounggun

December 23rd, 2007
at 9:08am

Hahah nothing wrong with having a favorite cool toy. I have the Lost in Space robot which is pretty well made. You press the button on his chest he moves side to side and his arms kinda wave around and yells out Danger Will Robinson! Danger! and other famous lines.

Johann

December 23rd, 2007
at 9:14am

ThinkGeek rocks!

tonyG

December 23rd, 2007
at 10:16am

Wow, I didn’t realize Dr Who was such a popular thing anywhere other than the UK. I’m not a Dr Who fan at all but I like Daleks (more for how they look than what they actually are).
I might have been interested in this toy but the fact you need to stay within two feet of the unit is just a killer. No way am I gonna tail this thing, while being hunched over like Mr Burns. :D

nick123

December 23rd, 2007
at 11:24am

Well looking at this post i was suprised to see that an add came up for the i-sobot..lol

Phil Cluff

December 23rd, 2007
at 4:24pm

Yeh… we’ve had those in the UK for a few years now!

Alamdeep

December 23rd, 2007
at 5:53pm

Neat toy Chris, I believe it should move a bit faster and it’ll be great. How much can you buy it for?

tripleraven

December 24th, 2007
at 2:36am

70 dollers for 2 of those daleks.

RickyTomatoes

December 24th, 2007
at 3:02am

The Dalek’s look like big, clumsy blenders. I don’t know how they came to be Dr. Who’s worst enemy.

bahumatneo

December 24th, 2007
at 3:36am

death or plumbing!!! death or plumbing!!!

AlfredNeuman

December 24th, 2007
at 2:13am

Long time fan of Dr. Who, since Tom Baker played the role, so I had to buy this just to terrorize the dog. Odd thing, he didn’t see the humor. Now my dalek has battle scars. What fun.

DrWho

December 24th, 2007
at 7:57am

Hey Chris, so you did make a video about me and Dalek, Good Job =)

I’m the last of my kind, I’m the last survivor of the time war

lgregb

December 24th, 2007
at 6:54pm

I love Doctor Who! I live in England and i am really excited as the christmas special is on tonight at 7pm GMT.

lgregb

December 24th, 2007
at 6:58pm

Well according to the tv show the Daleks killed all of the Time Lords apart from the Doctor.

mwwilk

December 25th, 2007
at 1:00am

What about a remote control Davros!?

reganDhulvey

December 25th, 2007
at 4:53am

awsome

Joseph

December 24th, 2007
at 11:08pm

Top 5 list:

1 Glad you posted this, i missed it live

2 Posted 2 days before Christmas is a BAD idea, not enough time to buy it as a gift, maybe next year… if they are not sold out

3 Makes a nice gift, do not forget to buy something for yourself to motivate yourself to do more next year

4 Visit ThinkGeek.com and buy one Dalek for myself and see what other goodness they have

5 Make a top five list and send it to Chris, and thank him giving away the Dalek…what about as a contest? how about as a prize for the “Best Top 5 List”? or else give it to someone who submits a top 5 list

Just my 2 cents… wait should that be 5 cents?