Comments on: Dalek Invasion

By: Tara

Tara — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:33:27 +0000

I’m glad to know we could help. Best of luck on your own Dalek!

By: jr

jr — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 04:30:04 +0000

You have just saved my life – I have to make a Dalek costume for school, which will also be used for halloween. You have given me heaps of ideas. In particular I LOVE the paint roller! Great work.

By: Tara

Tara — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:36:48 +0000

A Dr Who party sounds like a great time! The hat was simply a cheap metal mixing bowl we spray-painted with the same paint we used for the body. We glued/taped a cheap costume hat on the inside of the bowl to make it actually wearable. The stalk part of the eyestalk was just a cardboard tube we had lying around, possibly another plastic bottle part in there as well, and the front bit was a piece of some sort of toy. My son says it was a Lego Bionicle piece. Really, it was whatever we could find around the house. And then we taped it all together as best we could. The blue you’re seeing is just some thin plastic I cut to fit– it may have been from a plastic shopping bag. Oh, and we stuck glow sticks in those plastic water bottles on the sides, which looked nice at night.

Good luck, and have a great time at the party!

By: Colorado

Colorado — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:09:16 +0000

Love this! We are having a Dr Who party in a few weeks…can I ask how you made the hat? I can tell you used water bottles on the sides, but what is the eye stalk? And what kind of hat did you start with? THANKS!!

By: Sparks

Sparks — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 22:52:47 +0000

Awesome costume! And I assure you that in Seattle, the costume would’ve been widely recognized!

As background, we used to have a whole street of these odd-looking streetlight sculptures that became known to many people as the Daleks. When the area was redeveloped and the space turned into a building, the lamps came down. There was general outcry from the geeky community (“No! You can’t get rid of the Daleks!”) and, to our pleasure, when the building was done, some of the Daleks reappeared in the new complex’s courtyard as the vents for the underground parking garage.

(Google “Uwajimaya Daleks” to see images, as they’re directly across the street from Uwajimaya here in Seattle.)

By: Davros

Davros — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 00:45:07 +0000

I approve.

Davros

By: Chris Howard

Chris Howard — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:43:57 +0000

From the little 10th Doctor in my life, (and his 11 Dad) brilliant job. We had similar experiences, although the Doctor was able to successfully run in school corridors, (they do all look the same) and leap from every doorstep. And yeah, not many people knew, but those who did were overjoyed. Another friend had a young Dalek wandering Hamilton with similar results. So as always, those who know Who are passionate, the rest of the population need to get with it.

Tell your little Kaled I’d be honored to go toe to toe with him.

By: Quieteyes

Quieteyes — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:08:01 +0000

That’s awesome! I don’t even know which is more awesome: the fact that he wanted to be a Dalek or the fact that you made a Dalek costume for him. Kudos all the way around.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:36:51 +0000

WOW! Wicked amazing costume!

Let your son know that we are cyber-genuflecting to him from down here in Boston. Last year we were trick or treated by a group of teenagers dressed as the doctor, martha jones and a stone angel – my wife’s “sqweee!” was probably heard for miles.

By: Spikeabell

Spikeabell — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:58:19 +0000

wow….great costume..can’t believe he wouldn’t be recognised immediately!