[MOC] The Skaro Summer Bake off!

[Agent Kallus]

Last summer on the Planet Skaro the evil Kaled scientist Davros gathered a legion of the most gifted Dalek warriors. They were taken outside of their cities, past the ruins of Thal civilisation to a great empty plain. There was a contest to determine who among them could serve him in his most nefarious scheme yet, but with was no ordinary contest, it was a BAKE OFF!!!!! 

 

 

Broadcasting this spectacle across the universe had seemed like a potentially lucrative opportunity to Davros. Money being in short supply because Daleks do not pay taxes and he had already spent a tonne on new sink plungers for his creations. Knowing now that he would televise the event Davros needed to find himself a co-host that could match his charm and wit, luckily he found one in the recently Cyber-converted Noel Fielding. Cyber-Noel was able to find them some judges in the form of a nestene duplicate of Paul Hollywood and the Weeping Angel division agent Mary Berry.

Daleks competed in baking challenges for the title of star baker, all entrants to the bake off were exterminated expect for the overall winner, who earned a place in Davros's scheme, baking an irresistibly good cake for his birthday party so that he can get the Doctor to come to his party, cause Davros wants his autograph.

 

So yeah, this was made as my entry to the summer time style contest based on very favourite Lego theme Doctor Who except it's not my favourite them as it only got 3 sets, though I'm always hoping for a revival of Lego Doctor Who.

I might've of bent some of the rules slightly but hopefully I didn't break any. Whilst the Lego theme it's based on is Doctor who, this is obviously also inspired by the Great British Bake Off, making it somewhat of a mash up. There is a small 1*2 stud overhang from the base of the ground, Mary's wing and some other character parts do also have slight (hopefully negligible ) overhang of th12*12 base. It is not fully presented as a static scene as I show the characters in different places in the scene (if you can only consider one configuration, them I'd chose the one with the handshake and the loser being blown up by the special weapons dalek). 

Some fun little details include:

• A Hollywood handshake (Plungershake?) given to the victorious grey Dalek.
• The tart in the bin, referencing Bingate from the from Series 5 of GBBO. (after the loser is destroyed his cake goes in the bin too, a sad waste of a possibly decent cake)
• The Bin itself being a blue box is because Daleks tend want the inhabitants of a certain blue box destroyed
• Cyber-Noel was supposed to wear the Torso from CMF alien torso but I don't actually have that minifig (I got confused) so I improvised, but had he been wearing that torso I would have made it clear that the planet on his shirt is Mondas not Earth.
• The gingham tablecloth is meant to represent a technical challenge judging, where the bakers are supposed to all follow the same recipe and produce the same result, clearly one of our 2 Dalek finalists missed the mark, he must've been playing too much minecraft.
• The bakes on their workstations are meant to be their showstoppers, a chocolate bombe from the grey Dalek and an Éclair from the Imperial dalek.
• It is Chocolate week, hence the Bombe, éclair and chocolate cakes.
• Remeberance of the Daleks is one of my favourite Doctor Who stories, hence the inclusion of the imperial daleks (the grey dalek isn't based on any particular design however), the special weapons dalek (serving as executioner and exterminating the loser) and Davros in imperial colours (though not the emperor disguise as whilst I have made attempts at the closed dalek emperor design the parts needed for the version I  liked don't come in the right colours)
• I omitted the tent  because then it would just look like normal bake off, outdoors on an alien planet gets the vibe across better I think, besides I don't think it rains much on the post-Thal, post Time War Skaro.
• The GBBO finale usually has 4 bakers, however I cut it to 2 to give me some more room to play with, and to make the storytelling of the loser being exterminated more streamlined.

And finally here is the scene with the characters removed and a line up of the characters.

 

 

From left to right the character are: 1: Davros, 2: Cyber-Noel, 3: Nestene Duplicate Paul Hollywood, 4: Weeping Angel division agent Mary Berry, 5: Special Weapons Dalek, 6: Imperial Dalek Baker (Unexploded), 7: Imperial Dalek Baker (Exploded) and 8: The Grey Dalek/ Dalek Star Baker.

Thanks for taking a look, I apologise for my subpar photography.

Edited May 26, 2024 by Agent Kallus

[Murdoch17]

Nice work, love the mashup concept and the use of miner helmets for Dalek tops! Also, Davros wanting the Doctor's autograph sounds like a clever plan to (finally!) get his name!

Edited May 26, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Agent Kallus]

On 5/26/2024 at 2:23 PM, Murdoch17 said:

Nice work, love the mashup concept and the use of miner helmets for Dalek tops! 

Thanks, I have been using the mining hat for Daleks for a while now, it's pretty perfect ( just needs the ear lights but it gets the general point across). The mashup was mostly inspired by one of the daleks I'd already build sat on my shelf and it having the whisk for it's gun meant it looked ready for baking .

On 5/26/2024 at 2:23 PM, Murdoch17 said:

Davros wanting the Doctor's autograph sounds like a clever plan to (finally!) get his name!

 

Is it Mildred or Theta Sigma?

[Murdoch17]

1 hour ago, Agent Kallus said:

Thanks, I have been using the mining hat for Daleks for a while now, it's pretty perfect ( just needs the ear lights but it gets the general point across). The mashup was mostly inspired by one of the daleks I'd already build sat on my shelf and it having the whisk for it's gun meant it looked ready for baking .

 

Is it Mildred or Theta Sigma?

Either that, or John Smith.

[Jason Todd is my God]

Hello,

This is great! Daleks doing the great British bake off! I will say you've made a poor choice as to which image to use for the voting thread! Still you've got one of my votes! You could probably also do with upping your photography skills but I don't have any tips to share because I'm also not great at that. But I think 🤔 it's a good and fun entry.

-J.T.i.m.G

[Agent Kallus]

On 6/11/2024 at 12:17 PM, Jason Todd is my God said:

Hello,

This is great! Daleks doing the great British bake off! I will say you've made a poor choice as to which image to use for the voting thread! Still you've got one of my votes! You could probably also do with upping your photography skills but I don't have any tips to share because I'm also not great at that. But I think 🤔 it's a good and fun entry.

-J.T.i.m.G

Thanks, I get what you mean about the picture choice for the contest, I was umming and ahhing as which one to pick but it can't be changed now anyway .