Wil the tardis ever change from a police box?
jxbrenna
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now before you ask i don't mean permanently 
id love to see a scenario like Attack of the Cybermen where 12 fixes it for a episode only to break it again i think it would give younger views and those who are new to who the chance to see what happens when i really works. i think it changing into something funny and random like a car or a statue
Although it looks like it may somewhat happen in series 8 with the mini tardis police box pictures.
id love to see a scenario like Attack of the Cybermen where 12 fixes it for a episode only to break it again i think it would give younger views and those who are new to who the chance to see what happens when i really works. i think it changing into something funny and random like a car or a statue Although it looks like it may somewhat happen in series 8 with the mini tardis police box pictures.
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The Rani's chameleon circuit also appears to be knackered!
I think that a good idea for an episode would be that the doctor lands on earth in the 50's or 60's and then the doctor and companion get thrown out mid flight, and then they have no idea where the TARDIS landed and there are loads of police boxes around making it really hard to find. Could imagine the doctor at the third one he's seen holding the door handle going 'c'mon, tell me it's you this time' only to open the door and find it's just yet another police box.
Obviously there would have to be some sort of alien problem where he was searching as well to give it a bit more flavour so he's saving the town and searching for the TARDIS at the same time. I imagine as he finally finds right when he wasn't expecting to at a pivotal moment during a fight with the enemy.
And some different person open the doors and runs into the TARDIS.
Don't want to sound rude but are you actually genuinely asking this question as a fan or is this trolling?
The construction of your post looks more like a piss take than a question!
Apologies if genuine!
asking as a fan,what other fan with think of the idea,
my grandpa had a nickname for portaloos
Speaking of which - The Master's Tardis wasn't that clever was it? For something that is supposed to 'blend in with the surroundings' his was a bush in a planter on the rocky planet of Logopolis, then a stone Roman Column. Previously it was a grandfather clock on the alien planet Traken!!
Far too Ionic
Like in Doctor, Widow, Wardrobe?
It would be nice, if the Doctor could get the Chamelion Circuit working properly again, so the time-machine could blend in with it's surroundings, but I personally want it to stay as it is.
What?!?
Let's just hope that the effects are better this time, if they do decide to shrink the Tardis, and that it is only temporary.
That happened in Logopolis in 1981. The Fourth Doctor and Adric succesfully managed to get a Tardis to fit inside his, and when he walked inside that one, and went out the other side, he was back in the main Console Room again.
A simillar thing happened in, I think it was called 'Time'. That was a minisode filmed for either Comic Relief or Children In Need. We had two Amelia Ponds, and we also saw the Blue Police Box inside the Eleventh Doctor's Console Room.
I wouldn't mind if it change it's appearance for an episode or even a short run with a variety of appearances. So long as it reverted to the police box form.
Easily done with a new Doctor, as we are about to have now. He might have a different attitude to start with, or even just be curious to try different appearances.
The real reason why it would always have to revert to a police box is not "in story" at all. The police box form has become iconic for the show's audience. It allows the audience to recognise it and the show instantly. It's the same reason why many regular characters (companions, the Doctor himself) wear the same costume throughout, particularly in classic Who and other old TV shows. Recent Who has changed that a little, but costumes remain the same for long periods nonetheless. Instant recognition is valuable to show makers.
"Every time the TARDIS materialises in a new location, within the first nanosecond of landing, it analyses its surroundings, calculates a twelve-dimensional data map of everything within a thousand-mile radius and then determines which outer shell would blend in best with the environment.... and then it disguises itself as a police telephone box from 1963."
So it does change... it just changes into the exact same thing (more or less).
Another hit from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation, and we all know what happen to them.
;-)
In response to a suggestion that the TARDIS could look like a Portaloo, you wondered if this was a piss take... well I thought it was funny...