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

15. Some Of The Daleks Were ACTUAL Toys

Doctor Who The Day of The Doctor Daleks
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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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