Okay, seriously. I want a Redname response.
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Posted on: 2012-08-28 19:54 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Equation
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The British police service, I'd wager. It's a common police call box, the Tardis simply happens to look like one. If you'll notice, the Drudges are written like Cockneys and they have a sort of Victorian English social structure. The police call boxes around the zone are a reference to that.|
Originally Posted by GreatRock
I want to know who came up with this!
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Granted, I'm sure Dr. Who making that call box design so common is part of why they were specifically added, sort of like how the Optimus Prime truck used to be the Black Market. I guess the Tardis and Optimus Prime swapped colours, since the Black Market truck is blue while the call boxes are red. Point is, this makes sense to be there since Dr. Who didn't actually invent that design.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
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Actually, I wish that telephone booths of whatever design or vintage would make a return so that one can make a cell phone call in relative quiet (and consequently, shunt off loud cell phone talkers to their own private hell).
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Originally Posted by Feefa J
To be honest neither England nor Scotland has any police boxes at all anymore, except as historical curiosities. This is occasionally alluded to in Doctor Who when younger , contemporary characters do not recognise the TARDIS as one. They were made obsolete by personal radios about forty years ago and have all but vanished. The same goes for the traditional red telephone boxes (as seen in Faultline). They have almost entirely disappeared over the last twenty years, made obsolete by mobile phones.
NB. The above does not apply to the tourist-popular parts of London. They're probably full of police boxes and red telephone boxes  |
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That's a really good idea. Cell phones replaced the phone but we simply lost the quiet and privacy of the booths.|
Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Actually, I wish that telephone booths of whatever design or vintage would make a return so that one can make a cell phone call in relative quiet (and consequently, shunt off loud cell phone talkers to their own private hell).
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What bugs me is people nitpicking over relatively minor things.
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Originally Posted by GreatRock
What bugs me is people saying Dr. Who rather than Doctor Who. It also bugs me when people call The Doctor "Dr. Who" instead of, you know, The Doctor.
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Man, who uses phone booths anymore!
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Over the weekend, I was in a (rather large) house that had a full, old style phone booth in it with a working phone... and I used it to make a call! |
Originally Posted by Freitag
Man, who uses phone booths anymore!
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I think during the i23 beta one of the devs mentioned that, yes, one of the people working on the game is a huge Doctor Who fan and did a bit of homage to it for the NW zone.
Maybe that's why the whole NW zone loads slower...soo many TARDIS' and timey-wimey loopy stuff....hmm...
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Even before cell phones made the phone booths mostly obsolete (and I think I read a story that New York is turning their phone booths into WiFi providers), booths were disappearing for the open variety. Recall Clark's frustration in Superman: The Movie.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Actually, I wish that telephone booths of whatever design or vintage would make a return so that one can make a cell phone call in relative quiet (and consequently, shunt off loud cell phone talkers to their own private hell).
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Time travelers?
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Originally Posted by Freitag
Man, who uses phone booths anymore!
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This right here sums up what's wrong with copyright law these days.
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Originally Posted by Equation
The image of the Blue Police Box is currently under Copyright of the BBC, even though I think the have an open license to the police.
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I actually used a rotary phone up until I moved to California :-). That makes me awesome, right?
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Originally Posted by Freitag
Man, who uses phone booths anymore!
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Originally Posted by Freitag
I actually used a rotary phone up until I moved to California :-). That makes me awesome, right?
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"Now at midnight all the agents and the superhuman crew come out
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
and round up everyone that knows more than they do"-Dylan
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Yes. Yes, it does.|
Originally Posted by Freitag
I actually used a rotary phone up until I moved to California :-). That makes me awesome, right?
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Originally Posted by Freitag
Man, who uses phone booths anymore!
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Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Over the weekend, I was in a (rather large) house that had a full, old style phone booth in it with a working phone... and I used it to make a call!
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Maybe the SEP field is broke.
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It's TRADEMARKED, not copyrighted.|
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This right here sums up what's wrong with copyright law these days.
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And all considered it's a decent one.
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Originally Posted by Chyron HR
I smell... COSTUME CHANGE EMOTE!
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Originally Posted by Freitag
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Originally Posted by Freitag
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If memory serves me correctly, and if anyone here can verify or prove wrong, that police boxes in SCOTLAND are red.
So as a way of keeping authenticity to the British Isles as well as a lovely homage to certain sci-fi shows, the long standard British Police Box model was used with the Scottish red.
I am unsure, do not quote me, this is just my own personal assumption on the matter.
NB. The above does not apply to the tourist-popular parts of London. They're probably full of police boxes and red telephone boxes
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