A brief overview of how Daleks build things

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2 ай бұрын

Have you ever wondered how Daleks are able to build ships and cities, when their casing only has a manipulator arm and gunstick? In this video, we are going to find out
All footage is the property of the BBC. Music by Frank Klepacki

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@acropolismauve8496 2 ай бұрын

I’ve always loved the idea of worker Dalek variants with their own unique manipulator arm. Makes them less one note in terms of the complexity of their civilisation.

@peytonmac1131 Ай бұрын

When they were first created, there were meant to be artists and a full society. I imagine there's a few Dalek gardeners who trade in their weapons for clippers and a shovel.

@thanqualthehighseer Ай бұрын

i always thought the Dalek manipulator arm was some kind of force field emitter like the Sonic Screwdriver that could reshape matter or energy into any needed object or the ' sucker ' end was nano tech that was just in a default state and could be adapted to be any tool required. knowing the level the Daleks were on it was probably both.

@FactionParadox2090 2 ай бұрын

I also want to hear Daleks singing "I've been working on the railroad" while doing theri stuff and the manager is like "silent, you will remain silent"-

@thornbush8 Ай бұрын

*dalek 1* "hi ho ! hi ho ! it's off to " *dalek 2* " si-lence ! do not siiiing "

@sisconhimejoshi Ай бұрын

We all know that: 1) Daleks do not sing and 2) Daleks do not have managers

@danielmobley1 Ай бұрын

I like the idea of a Dalek coming home after a long day only for his Dalek-wife to tell him a lightbulb’s gone out in the kitchen. The wife glides away and, a moment later, trundles back in to find her husband suspended from the ceiling, hiking up a toolbelt with one of his tentacles with unscrewing the broken bulb with the other- his travel machine with the lid off in the corner of the room.

@addictedfoolgamer1970 Ай бұрын

Dalek builder bum?

@Abdul-zz2vn 2 ай бұрын

I have never noticed the daleks from stolen earth had those contraptions

@badwolf66 2 ай бұрын

Daleks have hundreds of script writers enslaved so that they can become the most OP beings in all of the multiverse.

@anndra8687 2 ай бұрын

We must assume they have construction machines. However, it would be appropriate for the Daleks that construction might be a weakness

@bbqgiraffe3766 2 ай бұрын

I like the idea of daleks ourside their casings slamming energy drinks and welding together the assembly lines

@kylerbelshaw7042 Ай бұрын

While singing "Everything is Awesome" in their ridiculous monotone screech.

@oliverjroebuck 2 ай бұрын

I like to imagine that it's simply an amalgamation of all 3, depending on the situation.

@codaboi138 2 ай бұрын

So glad someone explored this topic!!! It's not something that would cross most people's minds when seeing the Daleks, but it's bugged me for years. I'd love to see a worker Dalek with a forklift style rig mounted to the skirt and gun box, replacing the apandages. I imagine they'd have versatile multi jointed manipulator arms to perform fine machinery work but also heavy lifting. Almost like an add-on to the Dalek casing.

@ekij133 2 ай бұрын

Mechmaster's graphic Dalek novels show some excellent examples of Daleks operating various types of machinery.

@codaboi138 Ай бұрын

@@ekij133 yeah, I love those. Some really fun ways they show how that version of Dalek society works. Some are comedic but a lot are great. I love the anti aircraft guns and the mechs they use.

@KingofPotatoPeople Ай бұрын

I’ve just imagined a Dalek variant with two Swedish Chef style human arms

@mayojar5264 2 ай бұрын

well, this also explains how they do any scientific experiments to develop any new technology.

@nickthepick8043 2 ай бұрын

You gotta love that the Daleks are fast builders. And if not that, they're efficient at it. I especially love the background thought of all Daleks being on the same page regarding resource allocation, as to what project would be better for the entire race. Instead of how other governments struggle to satisfy everyone's needs.

@Lumibear. 2 ай бұрын

From clues in previous episodes that show them able to construct rough casings in their ‘blobby’ form but self-repair using only ingested energy in their final shell form, I’d imagine internal nanobot tech, able to ’3D Print’ whatever they can program fully detailed plans for using suitable raw materials, hence the need for slave miners.

@thomasgrove2724 2 ай бұрын

Mechmaster’s Second Empire comic featured a ton of specialized vehicles which could allow Daleks to load and carry heavy machinery, and even more dexterous Daleks with a bit more limb movement than normal

@Lukas-mk8so Ай бұрын

Honestly I really like the idea that the Dalek has a more complex and deeper society with many parts of it - like historians, Workers, Artists and so on. The whole "Daleks are only killing machines" is to short thinked and there is often implied there is more behind Dalek Culture than that.

@joshuagough3696 Ай бұрын

Don't forget that all daleks have a level of telekinesis, so it is possible that early Daleks used this to build their initial structures and then moved to more efficient means! Personally all of these make 100% sense, you need specaliste to repair major damage and assemble specalised equipment, slave labour can be used to build structures and mining, and drones can be used for superficial damage, or to get to areas a standard dalek cant get. They wouldn't want slave labour to be apart of major technical construction (unless theyre specifically using intelligent people, like in Evil of the daleks, to construct something they cant themselves) due to the risk of information being leaked to the wider universe

@liamc9998 Ай бұрын

I mean, if my memory’s correct on this, I feel that I can recall Daleks also plundering such infrastructure - be them ship, facilities, or other such things - from other species they’ve conquered to use for their own needs.

@njfox3305 2 ай бұрын

It is an interesting question I suspect its a combination of all 3.

@TemporalsonToys Ай бұрын

There is a comic where we see a dalek using an antigravity arm to move around parts in the story Bringer of Darkness.

@patricklee5239 23 күн бұрын

We also know that Daleks have nano technology, so they could use nanite swarms to build large constructs as well.

@jesserizzo6114 2 ай бұрын

There's a 2nd doctor comic from the 90s i believe that has a small group of daleks stranded on a planet trying to use parts of their broken ship to create a communications device to call for help. In one panel a dalek is shown to have a projector like machine in place of its manipulator arm which it uses to make a bubble like force field to lift and move parts of the communications device. I assume the projector arm worked through some form of anti gravity and it's my favorite explanation for how daleks build things.

@lepterfirefall 2 ай бұрын

Awesome...never realised hoverbots were in new who with that weird robot thing!

@FeliusSnepis Ай бұрын

Oh yeah the return of the command and conquer music to jam to while watching the video!

@timecontroller8800 2 ай бұрын

It is confirmed that daleks used slave labour to build dalek ships and gather fuel for them in the dalek empire series (which they talk about a lot) also you have to remember the first dalek production line was built by the kaleds so the daleks likely used that for a while till they were ready and the plunger has shown to have incredible strength so it could probably hold things to help build. Also I am pretty sure in we are the daleks they mention how they use nano technology to make buildings on skaro and the Zenos tower

@swiftbird4846 2 ай бұрын

Fantastic ideas. I'd love to see more of this on-screen. I like the idea of construction or architect Daleks.

@orionlandianproductions 2 ай бұрын

Wasn’t expecting based c&c music

@JakeandElwood1980 2 ай бұрын

Like the classic thunderbirds machines

@matteomascaropennacchi2220 2 ай бұрын

This should be also showed in future doctor who series

@59rlmccormack Ай бұрын

Special Dalek worker drones make sense if we go that route.

@paladinboyd1228 2 ай бұрын

Would a dalek that failed in it's task be demoted to worker dalek as punishment. Since they are not gonna be killings things and instead outfitted for building would that be seen as a punishment or do the Daleks consider any task that benefits them a good thing?

@plantainsame2049 2 ай бұрын

Thay where bred for thare jobs I think

@paladinboyd1228 2 ай бұрын

@@plantainsame2049 That makes sense, now we just need a story about a little worker dalek who dreams of being a drone and killing.

@PerovNigma 2 ай бұрын

@@paladinboyd1228 Every day, it looks down at its standard-issue gunstick and hopes it will get the chance to use it.

@paladinboyd1228 2 ай бұрын

@@PerovNigma, “some day I will some day yeah” And then one day it did what no dalek has done before and shot the doctor then shot him again when he started regenerating. And that’s The end of the little Dalek that could.

@loudbrownhorn Ай бұрын

I wouldn't usually make a suggestion, but just so its out there: If you like, you could do a video on the music used for the daleks, from the 60s dalek themes to the Segun Akinola's most recent one. Just an idea.

@ptonpc Ай бұрын

Makes sense that all three would happen.

@MegaBadgeman Ай бұрын

I think you have to go back to the Tom Baker era to see what he original designer of the Dalek had in mind from the beginning. Perhaps it was similar to how the cylons who outlived their creators. They must have foreseen this eventuality and designed a solution.

@ekij133 2 ай бұрын

When fish encounter humans they wonder how humans could build ships or submarines. Our _superior technology_ is beyond the understanding of _inferior beings_ !

@matteomascaropennacchi2220 2 ай бұрын

Yes please do more explanation

@ultimate_pleb Ай бұрын

*"We will explain later"*

@android65mar 2 ай бұрын

All of the above

@matteomascaropennacchi2220 2 ай бұрын

I rather the dalek tools and Dalek construction factory and even Manned drones, Btw Their factory reminds me of cars construction

@Browncoat7969 2 ай бұрын

Nah they just summon bob the builder to help them out 😂

@Jacoboy27 2 ай бұрын

Blob the builder

@rondemkiw4492 Ай бұрын

A Dalek can change it's "body" like a human can change their clothes. If a Dalek needs to do garbage collection, it will never drive a garbage truck - it will occupy a specialised casing that is a garbage truck.

@grahamturner1290 2 ай бұрын

🐙

@FactionParadox2090 2 ай бұрын

They do have a weirdly nice sense of aesthetic, for a bunch of murderous cyborgs.

@redjirachi1 Ай бұрын

Architects have only a little more respect in Dalek society than medics do in Sontaran strategy

@matteomascaropennacchi2220 2 ай бұрын

I wish We could see this again and by the main reason, btw What if doctor who villains and even Daleks were charged for their crimes

@_Y.J 2 ай бұрын

Would be cool to see purpose built daleks with buzz saw and blow torch, instead of a gun stick and manipulator arm, it defeats every purpose of what a dalek is but at least they can build stuff 🤷🏼‍♂️😂😂😂

@Gzeebo 2 ай бұрын

#4. Daleks have been seen promising things of value in exchange for goods and services, i.e. trade. (Although usually not honourably.) #5. We've also seen them employing paid mercenaries. Maybe they employ people to do other jobs. #6. Do Daleks ever just steal things? (Other than planets I mean.)

@thornbush8 Ай бұрын

shoplifting is hard without a bag, or pockets. you can't just glide out of the shop with a family size bag of monster munch stuck to your plunger. till-dude's going to notice.