So are these references to the TARDIS or not?
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AzureSkyCiel,
Posted on: 2012-06-06 15:08 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
The Kent Police Museum in the U.K.:
"Today the image of the blue police box is a trademark of the BBC as it is widely associated with the science fiction television programme Doctor Who?, in which the protagonist's time machine, a TARDIS, is in the shape of a police box."
(Quote is in the text just below the pic of the red police box.)
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Originally Posted by Riot Act
Not 100% sure that's correct. I think you misread the article, it sounds more like the Met couldn't stop DW using the box not the other way round.
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An MPA spokeswoman said: "In terms of the appearance of the new boxes, I don't think it's likely that we'd make them the same as the Doctor Who ones - technology has moved on a bit since then." Another problem for the police is that they no longer hold the rights to the design of the old boxes. The Met launched a six-year battle with the BBC over the copyright of the boxes. But they lost. The case ended in 2002 when the patent office ruled the public is more likely to associate the boxes with Doctor Who than they are with the police. Such is the power of the Doctor. |
This line is of more concern to me:
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So this is where my tax money goes?!
| The Met launched a six-year battle with the BBC over the copyright of the boxes. But they lost. |
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Given how British everything is in Night Ward, and it's supposed not that far from the other playable parts of Praetoria, it makes me think that the playable parts of Praetoria are in fact in Britain. It's never really specified after all, and they tell you very little about anything else in the world, though the airstrips imply there's something out there besides DE-Infested wilderness.
You should see the "bobbies" walking around that go with those "police boxes". They have the hat and coat down.
It most certainly is a British Police Box reference, and the Tardis by extension given the world it is in and my idea for their function(modes of travel for the "bobbies", though still haven't seen one step out of one as a spawn point which would be awesome).
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If any developer is reading and wants to make that happen, the "bobbies" stepping out of the police boxes, you already do that with the Marcone guys in Port Oakes. It wouldn't be hard to make the Police Boxes have their own special door and copy the code from the Marcones.
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First Ward is a clue, like "the lower 9th ward" of New Orleans we all heard about with hurricane Katrina. It's around New Orleans. The low-lying watery areas also are a clue to that.|
Originally Posted by Miakis
Given how British everything is in Night Ward, and it's supposed not that far from the other playable parts of Praetoria, it makes me think that the playable parts of Praetoria are in fact in Britain. It's never really specified after all, and they tell you very little about anything else in the world, though the airstrips imply there's something out there besides DE-Infested wilderness.
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Emperor Cole's official bio has a timeline and track of where Hamidon emerged and the "final battle" it and Cole had. They fought in the general area of New Orleans and established Praetoria right there on the spot, according to the official word:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Emperor_Cole
I think in game plaques explain the part about establishing the city on the spot of Hamidon's "defeat".
Not 100% sure that's correct. I think you misread the article, it sounds more like the Met couldn't stop DW using the box not the other way round.
The real police boxes in the UK were blue and the Doctor's Tardis was meant to look like these... Well actually the Tardis was meant to blend into its surroundings (hence the police box look) and adopt a disguise to suit its environment. Unfortunately it broke in the early episodes and got stuck in it's current form. This is why the Master's Tardis could look like anything he desired.