Doctor Who: 20 Things You Didn't Know About The Day Of The Doctor

15. Some Of The Daleks Were ACTUAL Toys

Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston The Day of the Doctor
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As well as impressive CGI effects, there was another technique used to create the explosive Time War sequences in The Day of the Doctor - miniatures.

One way these were utilised was for the moment where the War Doctor's TARDIS crashes through a wall and destroys several Daleks.

It was far more practical to smash a smaller TARDIS model through the wall than a full-scale one, but this also meant that smaller Dalek props were needed too. Otherwise they'd look like giants, and that would be weird.

To do this, the team sourced several off-the-shelf Dalek toys and simply made a few tweaks to them, to make them look more accurate. Et voila! Ready-made small-scale Dalek props!

 
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Danny has been with WhatCulture for almost nine years, and is currently Doctor Who Editor and WhoCulture Channel Manager, overseeing all of WhatCulture's Whoniverse coverage. He has been writing and video editing for 10+ years, and first got a taste for content creation after making his own Doctor Who trailers and uploading them to YouTube (they're admittedly a bit rusty by today's standards). If you need someone to recite every Doctor Who episode in order or to tell you about the making of 1988's Remembrance of the Daleks, Danny is the person to ask.