MOC: Doctor Who LEGO Tardis with building instructions

[Tijger-San]

Hello Everyone,

As some of you may know I've built a Tardis last year. It's been displayed on several events in several different layouts including a steampunk layout on Lego World Utrecht 2014 (of which I still have to post pictures) and a collaborative layout with Ecclesiastes on Lego World Kopenhagen last February of which I posted a picture below.

The Tardis on Lego World Copenhagen 2015 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

One of my fellow AFOL's, TAFOL, liked it so much that he offered to make building instructions for it. And that's what he did! I've made some small changes to the cover and the part callout but overall TAFOL is the one to take credit for making the photos and individual steps. I think he's done a brilliant job!

Yesterday I've created and uploaded this teaser picture and asked people to send me a message titled "Torchwood" if they want a PDF version.

Doctor Who LEGO Tardis building instructions by Tijger-San, on Flickr

I've actually got quite a lot of requests so I've decided to do things differently. I'm going to try to upload one step each day. To kick it off, here are the cover page I made for it and the parts callout. The rest of the pages will upload over the coming days.

Lego Tardis Instructions page 0 front by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 0 parts by Tijger-San, on Flickr

And as promised here are more steps.

Lego Tardis Instructions page 1 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 2 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 3 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 4 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 5 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 6 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 7 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 8 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Lego Tardis Instructions page 9 by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Some people mentioned it's a bit small but I actually tried to build it on minifig scale. A minifig is a bit short compared to people and that's why my Tardis is a bit smaller to compensate that. Here is a picture I used for reference.

As you can see in the picture above, the doctor can look trough the window although he may have to stand on his tows. That's also the case in my version. The picture below isn't briljant, but it shows a my Tardis compared to a minifig.

Dr. Who's Tardis by Tijger-San, on Flickr

Also, the height of the Tardis changed a bit with each doctor. The picture below shows a comparison of different Tardises (is that spelled correctly? ). That's why I think little differences between different MOC's are no issue at all.

Let me know what you think and if you're building one, please post pictures. I'm also looking for someone who can print bricks and tiles. After all, what's a Tardis without the police box sign and public use notice?

Edited March 22, 2015 by Tijger-San

[Raggedysuperior]

Amazing!

[legoguy1984]

Love the Tardis and this is an interesting way to share the instructions. I won't be able to make one just yet but will definitely be checking up on the progress here.

[Andy D]

Great new design!

Thanks for sharing this... Looking forward to the instructions.

Andy D

[Tijger-San]

Thank you everyone. I've just added the first to building steps. I hope you like them.

[Captain Braunsfeld]

Absolutely fine - what about doing the inside of the Tardis next time?

[Tijger-San]

That's a good idea! It will probably be a bit bigger than this version. But that's fine, since it's a lot bigger on the inside. I've just added two more steps in the first post.

[Robin Creations]

Even though I don't watch this show, I know that you did a really good job with this

[Tijger-San]

Thank you very much Robin. I just added another step.

[Andy D]

I thought I knew where it was going, but I never saw the steps on pages 7,8, and 9, complete surprise! I think I will start building today and see where it goes.

UPDATE: well, I got started. I gathered parts, had no where near the amount of blue needed, so I decided to make it black, dark blue-ish grey and some light blue-ish grey. Kind of a Batman's TARDIS.

I think I figured out the top, but I am unsure about the interior support, I'll look into that more later. Still waiting on more steps.

It seems I get surprised at the implementation with each step.

Thanks,

Andy D

Edited March 22, 2015 by Andy D

[Andy D]

It looks like this thread is pretty much dead, but I decided to put my completed TARDIS based on Tijger-San's design here anyway.

I finally got around to finishing the TARDIS based on Tijger-San's design. Since the instructions were never fully completed, I took my best guess as to how the TARDIS was supposed to be assembled.

Following just the instructions presented here an on FLickr, I was able to complete it. It seemed rather unstable at times during the process, but once it was all locked up it seems pretty stable.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I did not have enough blue, so I made the TARDUS in black, dark blueish-grey and some light blueish-grey. I think it looks pretty good anyway (even though not blue)

Here are some photos. I also have a TARDIS built according to Dr. Sinister's instructions, so I included that here as well.

Dr. Sinister's design made for a more stable TARDIS as it was being assembled.

The black and grey TARDIS using Tijger-San's design

photo 1 by MyPlasticBricks, on Flickr

The TARDIS with the Doctor and River Song

photo 2 by MyPlasticBricks, on Flickr

Dr. Sinsiter's TARDIS on the left Tijger-San's TARDIS on the right

photo 3 by MyPlasticBricks, on Flickr

What do you think about the different TARDISes?

Edited April 19, 2015 by Andy D

[Woofi]

The mini Tardis looks great. Nice work.