Matt Smith and Steven Moffat created their own piece of Doctor Who history today during their first visit to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff! To celebrate the visit, their hand prints were immortalised in cement,
which will be displayed permanently at the new attraction. Matt Smith is
the first Doctor to be immortalised in this way, although we reckon he
won’t be the last.
Also taking place at the permanent exhibition was the unveiling of
several new exhibits from Series 7, including the dress worn by new
companion actress Jenna-Louise Coleman (Oswin’s dress and boots from Asylum of the Daleks), Grayle’s Chained Weeping Angel and The Cherub Angels (The Angels Take Manhattan) and the Robots from Dinosaurs on a Spaceship along with the costumes of Solomon and Nefertiti.
Matt Smith said:
I’m honoured to have made my own little
piece of Doctor Who history today. It’s a show with so much tradition
over nearly 50 years, so to be the first Doctor to take part in
something like this is really special.
It’s fantastic that the Doctor Who Experience has been given its very
own purpose-built home here next to the studios and it feels like a bit
of a spiritual home for Doctor Who. It’s been great fun unveiling some
of the Doctor’s most fearsome adversaries from Series 7 and with the
Christmas special and more episodes next year, there’ll be plenty more
props to come down the line.
Steven Moffat:
I’m very excited and honoured to have my
hands preserved forever. And quite relieved they came back out of the
cement! I now know, for all my future crimes, that my fingerprints are
readily and permanently available.
As you may know, the Doctor Who Experience is the only interactive Doctor Who attraction
in the world, and welcomed over 230,000 visitors during a one-year stay
at London’s Olympia before moving to Cardiff in July 2012. Since
opening over 40,000 fans have passed through the TARDIS doors and taken
part in their very own Doctor Who adventure
