Which TARDIS is the most A E S T H E T I C ?

Today I'm joined again by Tharries: / @tharries
and we're here to talk TARDISES!

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

Capaldi's TARDIS also looks like it's a proper, flyable ship, unlike Jodie's TARDIS. It's also a lovely design, with the rotating lights and Gallifreyan symbols.

[@Rocksteady72a]

I feel the same way about 12's Tardis as I do about 12 himself: the definitive version, even if it isn't my favorite.

[@Jamestopboy]

12’s TARDIS is like him. It’s a crème brûlée: crusty on the outside, soft and squishy in the middle.

[@mr.randomguys7629]

I love that they also added bookshelves and chairs and stuff when Capaldi took over. It feels like it has a ton of depth. Really great. My favorite Tardis.

[@laurenbastin8849]

Who Fans whenever they see 13’s tardis: “Oh, you’ve redecorated! I don’t like it”

[@scratchgd5604]

ironic how its the only one the doctor explicitly says she likes and yet its the one most people hate

[@Backfisch5927]

@@scratchgd5604I think 11 said something like "oh you sexy thing" when he first saw his new tardis interior in the eleventh hours

[@concon09090]

Couldn't agree more about Peter's TARDIS, something about it just feels warm and safe to me in a way that Matt's didn't quite nail.

[@peterjoyfilms]

Matts second tardis feels so cold

[@OverWims]

it was supposed to. He chose it when he lost any amy rory and lived in the clouds

[@concon09090]

@@OverWims I suppose, but then it's weird that he didn't at least brighten it up a little after he started travelling with Clara.

[@OverWims]

@@concon09090 probably because he was too busy figuring out who she was

[@concon09090]

@@OverWims ah, but here's my devastating counterargument; I subjectively think it looks significantly worse than the Capaldi one. Take that, science. Edit: also, it's still kind of a weirdly designed set for that purpose, because it looks so barren. If the Doctor has been holed up in there on his own for years, shouldn't it look more lived-in, like Capaldi's?

[@mrgerund3060]

God i just love how capaldi's tardis feels like home and how it's used, how it powers up, when it powers up, the lever, the huge circly bits with time lord language which spin when travelling... Literally feels like an actual time machine.

[@mrgerund3060]

@@prismaticavia omfg that reminds me, one of the most painful moments of 12's regeneration wasnt the ring falling to the floor, it was the tardis ejecting all of those books before its interior burns

[@dusty2366]

I have a soft spot for Eccleston and Tennant's TARDIS, but only really after they turned the lights up in Series 3. On the other hand, Whittaker's is just a production nightmare from start to finish

[@daedalus6433]

Yeah, I'd have preferred reusing the late Matt Smith/Peter Capaldi interior instead of blowing it up.

[@filthycasual8187]

@@daedalus6433 Smith/Capaldi was the best interior of the revival era. Incredibly versatile, could be customized for any Doctor... just like the Classic Series interior.

[@Bagofnowt]

Whittaker's was such a missed opportunity. I loved the design of it with the crystals, but I think it should've been bigger and more spaced out to allow for more movement and allow for more stuff to happen in there rather than just be 'the place where the episodes start' On the other hand, the moment where she brings up the hologram of Lin in revolution was an amazing use of the space, and the moment that made me fall in love with this doctor.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

I also like 9/10's, the organic style of it does tie into the Tardis being a living thing.

[@prestontheruler9332]

The 9th - 10th doctors tardis is extremely underrated, it has SOME issues. But i like it anyway.

[@flyhyland]

I (controversially?) consider Matt Smith's first TARDIS as my favourite. To me it feels so magical and like what the 2005 one would've been with a bigger budget. (Which was basically exactly the situation Smith's one was created in....) I just love it and how it's so massive and the sound design is superb as well and really generates that feeling more, of wonder and amazement. 'All of time and space; everywhere and anywhere; every star that ever was. Where do you want to start?'

[@elliotkouame3849]

I agree that it looks magical from afar. In fact, that is the word I’d use to describe the feeling of his entire first season And I love it for that. But when you get up close, the console is just made up of Earth nonsense, and that irks me.

[@concon09090]

If nothing else, it's a great TARDIS for expressing that Doctor's character, with all of its idiosyncrasies and eccentricities.

[@elliotkouame3849]

@@concon09090 i get that that’s what they were going for, but it’s just too much for me

[@NATHAN-gl9ns]

100 percent agree, it feels like if the eight one got better lighting and infected by magic-it's so big and bright I love it

[@eirei0789]

@@elliotkouame3849 Iunno. I like how the console looked to have been assembled from pieces of junk. But I know I'm in the minority there. I like the idea of the TARDIS, having to repair itself during The Eleventh Hour, landed in a junk yard on earth and remade the console using the stuff there.

[@thegrouchization]

One idea that kinda sold me on the Davies-era TARDIS is that it's the result of the Classic set going through changes over the course of the Time War. The Round Things (TM) get stripped back to reveal the walls behind them for ease of maintenance, additional supports are installed (or perhaps grown) to aid structural integrity, and as components of the main console break down the Doctor jury-rigs functional replacements with whatever he has to hand, resulting in a very makeshift set of controls. That said, personally I prefer Matt Smith's first TARDIS. It just feels a lot more whimsical. Jodie's TARDIS... where to begin. Somehow they've managed to make a design that feels both claustrophobic and far too open at the same time. While the "organic crystalline" look could potentially have worked, I don't think the "crystal fingers" surrounding the console are at all salvageable.

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

The crystals are a very pukey colour as well.

[@QuartzRoolz]

this theory about 9/10's tardis is kinda proven by the day of the doctor, because Hurts tardis is literally Davies era Console in Classic era room.

[@LiveHedgehog]

@@QuartzRoolz It's not a theory, it's literally the intent of the designer of 9/10's TARDIS. It's not his fault that the next era's production crew didn't know or understand that.

[@LiveHedgehog]

That's why I don't really like Smith's first TARDIS console - the console is made of bits and bobs like 9/10's, but their TARDIS was designed that way as it was supposed to have been repaired by the Doctor over time (this is explained in DW Confidential).

[@thegrouchization]

@@LiveHedgehog I kind of see the controls as an extension of the aforementioned whimsy. The kitbashed aesthetic is definitely appropriate for the often manic 11th Doctor.

[@TheOriginalEwan]

Peter Capaldi’s Tardis interior just screams ‘space-time machine’ to me, the lighting and bookshelves add a lot more. Oh, and the spinning circles at the top were the best bit. Not sure what those are called.

[@sabrel4975]

They're called spinny things

[@ViperOnRR]

​@@sabrel4975 what are the spinning things

[@kabobawsome]

Capaldi's TARDIS feels EXACTLY like both a time machine/space vessel AND a place where someone ACTUALLY LIVES. EDIT: I feel like Jodie's TARDIS had some genuinely quite solid ideas behind it, but it's somehow both overdesigned and overly bare, which if it were just one or the other, wouldn't be a huge problem, it'd just be a bad TARDIS. But together it just doesn't feel like a real place. EDIT 2: Another thing! About Capaldi's TARDIS. They DID NOT care about continuity in the TARDIS AT ALL. Yup. There's a guitar there. What do you mean there was a desk there last episode? No, yeah, there's always been a blackboard. What blackboard? That's a bookcase. Guitar? What guitar? That's also a bookcase. This panel leads to the bowels of the TARDIS. Also it can be opened to stash away some tequila. Idk, it just enhanced the feel that, yeah, someone lives here. And they're really eccentric, so they move stuff and change stuff ALL THE TIME.

[@LiveHedgehog]

One thing I find funny about Jodie's TARDIS is that it was clearly designed in tandem with her Sonic Screwdriver, and they're supposed to look like they're two halves of a whole, for lack of a better term. But story-wise, it makes no sense, as 13 makes her Sonic out of Stenza tech and spoons. So her TARDIS somehow matching that aesthetic makes no sense.

[@gabe5918]

@@LiveHedgehogFINALLY someone calls that odd detail out

[@LaurenceGill2000]

The problem with 13s TARDIS is that the pillars make it feel so small and cramped. Series 12 helped by adding some stairs etc, trying to make it feel bigger, but still feels like a small room with a console in

[@timrosswood4259]

I actually like the 13's TARDIS, but i do think the pillars should be a bit further apart from the console.

[@LaurenceGill2000]

@@timrosswood4259 It's the one thing that would make it so much better, outside of that it's perfectly fine

[@moiragoddard592]

I find it too dark but maybe that's my poor eyesight??

[@cameronjosephvideos5942]

It also doesn't suit Whitaker's Doctor at all. She's all goofy and lighthearted, while her Tardis is dark and raw. If you turn the crystals green or blue it' would fit a War Doctor or Eccleston Tardis, but with Whitaker it couldn't feel more out of place.

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

As someone who was introduced to Who with the reboot, the weird organic look on the Tardis for Doctors 9 and 10 will always be the first image to cone to me when the Tardis is mentioned. And it does sell the "the Tardis is a living thing" idea.

[@richardgale4827]

'As in, like, a normal one?' - the disbelief that any Who fan wouldn't be handling a SONIC screwdriver. Love it.

[@lewdwig]

Always been a big fan of eight's cosy gothicwave, but 12's was just so perfect for performative Capaldi'ing.

[@synobyte2123]

Pffft, Performative Capaldi'ing. XD

[@nathanielk7415]

they didn't touch on this in the video but i think that the Ruth Doctor's tardis is really cool and just better than 13s in every conceivable way

[@samable7724]

I especially loved the post-it ridden version of the Ruth Doctor’s tardis, shame it got destroyed in the episode Edit: not Ruth’s tardis

[@bennett4789]

i agree ruths tardis is super cool

[@kyleager473]

That wasn't Ruth's Tardis

[@nathanielk7415]

@@samable7724 kyle is right, that was the spare one the doctor got from gallifrey in timeless children. ruth left with her own tardis

[@samable7724]

@@kyleager473 oops right thank you :) that’s my bad

[@Villiins]

I always loved Matt Smith's kind of antique steampunk-y brass vibe I think it definitely suits 11s dress sense as well

[@deltahalo241]

The best Tardis is Peter Cushing's, this is an undeniable fact. For real though, what I loved about Matt's and Capaldi's Tardises was the verticality they provided, having conversations taking place on three different levels with the camera panning between them really made the Tardis feel like an actual location, instead of a set. There are elements that I like of 13's Tardis, but as a whole I just don't think it works as well.

[@samuelbarber6177]

Personal favourites of mine are: The TV Movie, Matt Smith’s first, Peter Capaldi’s and William Hartnell’s with the War Doctor’s being an honourable mention. I especially like the ceiling of the TV Movie’s, showing a map of space.

[@The_Blue_Otaku]

Same here

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

The TV movie console is too sparce. The electric-cable pegboard has too few holes and the central dias [Edit: Time-rotor] is too transparent and almost empty. The transparent cylinder contains only thin air and a few small crystals. Apart from that, very good. Cosy.

[@OverWims]

12:50 the thing that annoys me the most about 13's TARDIS is that the police box door is visible from the back inside the TARDIS. This is fine, it is white which makes sense as the backs of the doors are white. BUT WHY IS THE POLICE BOX SIGN THE RIGHT WAY ROUND?????

[@Myne1001]

I didn't even notice that till just now

[@TheSpectacularSpiderPunk]

It's because it's supposed to be the rear sign lintel of the police box, since the sides of the box form the interior's porch. The sides forming a porch is fine but that sign lintel? It's so wrong, because that sign should be on the outside of the TARDIS, not the inside!

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

The appearance of the outer doors are supposed to be part of the illusion created by the chameleon circuit. Many time during the classic series we saw straight through from the console room into the world outside with no trace of Police box doors.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

@@zacmumblethunder7466 That would be considered a continuity error these days

[@samuelbarber6177]

My dream TARDIS interior would be probably be a fusion of the Classic TARDIS and Peter Capaldi’s. Basically Capaldi’s TARDIS with the round things.

[@lewdwig]

I love the round things. What are the round things?

[@rosechuma2006]

@@lewdwig "...No idea."

[@ftumschk]

@@lewdwig The roundels in the walls? Some act as concealed lighting, some others are hinged doors with storage spaces behind them, and others still are "service hatches" to access wires and cables.

[@madderthaneggs7129]

@@ftumschk here that whooosh, that's the sound of a reference going right over your head....

[@ftumschk]

@@madderthaneggs7129 Damn! Fell for that one :)

[@senonimoustv2497]

The 8th Doctor's Tardis makes me wanna snuggle up in a blanket with tea and biscuits there at the side.

[@gamingledgens2112]

As I grew up with 9th/10th doctors tardis I will always prefer it, but the 12 doctors tardis interior is a definite second place for me.

[@benedapal7987]

Capaldi's was a good looking safe feeling tardis... If I had to choose one for myself I would have it be Capaldi's or Smith's first tardis

[@zacmumblethunder7466]

Those translucent orange rock things always remind me of the candles made out of Father Jack's ear wax in "Father Ted".

[@Luuuna]

11s first Tardis is my favourite, purely for nostalgia

[@nathanielk7415]

yeah I'm the same, good memories

[@static2735]

this, but i also like the way the lighting works with the glass floor

[@LaurenceGill2000]

Capaldi's just is the best tho

[@Tharries]

Don't use a regular screwdriver as a Sonic Screwdriver kids.

[@MrSmithers]

What if I need to assemble a cabinet at an oncoming baddie?

[@morgancarter5788]

@Tharries I love your videos

[@Myne1001]

@@MrSmithers the sonic screwdriver can screw screws. Hasn't done it since 1969 but I assure it is a feature.

[@MrSmithers]

@@Myne1001 oh thank goodness.

[@totallynotaferret]

The next doctor

[@ronanstephens1597]

I like the Eccleston/Tennant tardis but I feel like it's fits Ecclestons doctor more when he was still very moody. This conversation makes me realise I would have really liked the tardis to have had, at the least, some significant changes when Tennant took over. Would be great to see a tardis that reflects his nerdy but suave and sarcastic personality. Also actually feel like the Eccleston tardis might fit Jodie better. It's more of a tinker's tardis which neither E or T were particularly (at least with the tardis)

[@nicolebee3283]

I agree with you and Tharries. I love the TV movie TARDIS. Capaldi's one is a VERY close second. I just love the aesthetics and they both FEEL like a home as well as a time travelling spaceship

[@martinkelly8588]

Not saying that the 11's second TARDIS was bad, but the best thing about it was how it narratively bridged the gap between 11's first TARDIS and 12's TARDIS

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

I just wish they canonically explained in the show why the TARDIS changed mid-season. Like outside the show ofc we know it's because they had to move studios and they couldn't move the old tardis interior, but I just rebinged through those seasons and it wasn't even acknowledged. Just, boom, new tardis

[@concon09090]

@@ashleysherlock5705 there's also the fact that this is the first time that the Doctor has really stopped and settled in one place since the Time War. I figured that the reason the TARDIS seemed to be made mostly of junk in Series 5-7a was that it'd been constantly repaired and stuck back together with spit and prayers while the Doctor was constantly moving. Once he had a chance to stop, he could give the old girl some real TLC, neatening the place up and making it look much more like an actual ship. This would also explain why 13's TARDIS went back to the junk look, because it got wrecked and then rapidly self-repaired again.

[@romulofigueroadiaz480]

@@3seven5seven1nine9 umm. Are you kidding? He changed his Tardis console room and his attire after losing Amy and Rory, can you not put 2 and 2 together?

[@CinemaQuirks]

In order of Best to Worst 1. 11's First Console room 2. 9 & 10's feels like home 3. The TV Movie Console 4. Capaldi's 5. Troughton's 6. Everyone else's 7. Any future Console room 8. 13's

[@barney9456]

1)Twelve's 2)Eighth's 3)First & Second's 4)Ninth & Tenth's 5)Fourth Doctor's other control room

[@robota8498]

Personally, I have a thing for Eleven's first Tardis because it resembles a lot a time machine as some gentlemen in the Victorian age would have imagined it (for example the works by H. G. Wells), and also Nine and Tenth's ones have some of this aura. Twelve's, although interesting in its own way, looks more like a standard space ship

[@MrSmithers]

Call me basic, but the 10th and 9th doctors TARDIS is my favourite.

[@Zug8415]

Basic

[@MrSmithers]

@@Zug8415 you just did exactly what I wanted.

[@klop4228]

I'm big on the aesthetic of the classic one(s), though maybe it's a bit small and hasn't got enough space to just hang out

[@prof.evilpictures8696]

Ya Basic!

[@spectre9340]

Yeah same. My first introduction to Doctor Who was the reboot with 9. So ofc I'm gonna feel more attached to 9 and 10's TARDIS interiors. I got so put off when they changed the exterior paint job for 11's :'(

[@pickyphysicsstudent201]

Its a tough line to balance on. You want something which feels alien & mystical but you also want it to have a homely touch.

[@Villiins]

It'd be cool to maybe do a vid on sonic designs? Idk maybe there's not enough of them

[@LukasOfTheLight]

Of the modern era: 1. Pond-Era TARDIS 2. Capaldi TARDIS 3. RTD TARDIS 4. 7B TARDIS 5. Dead Crab Chibnall TARDIS

[@eirei0789]

Aww. I liked the secondary console room during Tom Baker's era. It feels very classy and homely. And I liked the stripped down console.

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

13's dematerialisation lever looks like a giant hole-puncher

[@erinravenseeker413]

The overabundance of blue in Whittaker's TARDIS would just make me feel like I'm constantly backstage.

[@crpalstuck2966]

Aka Jay and Tharries gush about the Movie TARDIS for a third of the video and then those other ones

[@TheHorrorDevotee]

I like 9/10's TARDIS the best, because it's supposed to be a living thing and that 'coral' design illustrates the TARDIS' organic and mechanical natures perfectly. Capaldi's TARDIS feels too sterile and mechanical.

[@Myne1001]

If they ever bring back the original 1963 design (again) I want at least one character to just acknowledge that one wall that looks completely different to the others.

[@AlienIOIandroktone]

I specifically liked the War Doctor's, and the modernised basic default Tardis seen in Hell Bent and Twice Upon a Time. I don't mind Pertwee's weird one, but the rest of the classic Tardis interiors from then onwards I dislike, same with the 9th, 11th, and 13th's Tardises. 11's second and 12's is solid, and I don't mind 8th's

[@KYCDK]

my favourite is Capaldi then Tennant, then matt smiths first tardis, basically if I had to choose one to fly it would be Capaldis, but I grew up with tenant and matt smith, and there's a bit more warmness to them, but also Capaldi's my favourite doctor

[@YEs69th420]

Jodie's TARDIS is actually a really cool set that should have been used for literally anything else. It'd be good as an important location of interest for an episode, for precisely the reasons that it makes for a terrible TARDIS.

[@MetalheadSean666]

My favourite are Toms Wooden interior Mcganns movie tardis Smiths first interior Capaldis (only wish it was brighter) And the fugitive Doctor think that's a perfect modern take on the classic

[@dommoore6180]

The Tardis was going to change dramatically in S27 anyway. So the consistency wouldn’t have lasted.

[@OverWims]

I don't get why people complain about Matt's 2nd TARDIS being cold and sad feeling etc. He chose it when living in the clouds after having just lost Amy and Rory. What do you expect him to have chosen? Pink fluffy unicorns?

[@marxistlynchist]

It only fits Matt in that one Christmas special though.

[@OverWims]

@@marxistlynchist the actor yes. But you have to think of it from the characters point of view. He would've had that TARDIS for possibly centuries. We don't know how long he was in solitude for. He would have grown accustomed to it. Capaldi only changed it cos he himself changed.

[@Traveler_202]

Mat smith’s first tardis superiority

[@andrewwebb7584]

I think with 13's room, they tried to give it an illusion of infinite space by making it a less defined walled in space... Ironically it ends up making the place feel a lot smaller because there's not really anything else to it other than the console and the pillar things!

[@Aogami20]

Is nobody gonna talk about how 13's tardis looks like a dead spider?

[@malfuctioningphysic518]

I think Whittaker's TARDIS looks super cool and quite flyable but I can agree Capaldi's TARDIS is up there.

[@Cmor19]

I'm loving these discussions.

[@jack-wulf]

While the tv movie has my all time favorite tardis for sure, I have a huge soft spot for 9/10's tardis. For two main reasons -- I like how alive it feels, there's a distinctly organic feel about it that I think all the other versions lack. And secondly... I adore how jank it is. It truly feels like a really really old broken down car. That musty ass seat is so incredibly indearing to me. It's just a vibe and I really think it fits it's era.

[@CaptainWolverine1993]

13ths TARDIS in one word: Claustrophobic

[@ftumschk]

Time Warrior = "The Tupperware TARDIS"

[@greghawkins59]

The ceiling high time rota is a must have at this point

[@WandG_Fan]

I'm going to call the 8th Doctor's TARDIS: Church TARDIS

[@obiwan-in-a-pudding2909]

I like 10's Tardis actually, but I'm not sure how much of that is just nostalgia.

[@corbinhoevers]

*aesthetically pleasing

[@hexogramd8430]

I tend to prefer 9/10s as it feels the most organic, the tardis is alive after all

[@anarlote5658]

Funnily enough the TV Movie and Capaldi Tardis are my favourites as well. You mentioning the 'lived in' feeling expressed well what I had been thinking but never quite gotten the words to say, that the Tardis is supposed to be the home of the Doctor and their companions, and should show that in it's design and props. I also like the opportunities for storytelling and character building that props like bookshelves and seats on the Tardis can have, how they can communicate personality. For example, I liked the way that Capaldi's Tardis had blackboards and props that allowed him to express himself, such as in the start of 'Before the Flood', Ep. 4 Series 9, where he describes the concept of a bootstrap paradox using props lying around the Tardis. These reasons are also why I have to agree with you about 13's Tardis being bad, it just doesn't feel like a place you could spend a long time in, and doesn't really allow much room for showing what the Doctor and companions get up to between adventures.

[@jasminerr]

TWELVES TARDIS WAS THE BEST. PERIOD.

[@thegreatsaxtonian]

Personally my favourite is Matt Smith's first TARDIS, I think it's the one that best reflects the Doctor piloting it and I just ADORE that centre console. I also like that it's really asymmetrical and a bit bashed together. I think it's the interior that has the most character to it. And personally, I don't really like Matt's second/Capaldi's. I think it feels too manufactured and perfect and I think it's a bit too big. I can really appreciate that it is a beautiful set, but I think it's the interior that has the least character for me. Granted I've not watched the classic era and very much am a NuWho guy. Jodie's is still the worst though. I have no idea where it ends or where it's boundaries are supposed to be

[@ValtVeee]

I also love Matt smiths first TARDIS interior and it still kinda has that stoneyish look to it and with the green

[@docskywalker51riftstudios58]

I love a lot of them, I have no idea, but eight and twelve are my favourites

[@gooper3644]

I also like the idea of the tardis changing more dramatically. I wish more tardis designs tried to make it look unique using different colours and ideas based on the seasons. The only traditional ones I really like are Capaldi’s and the early classical one, because I like the furniture Edit: also may have to add that wooden tardis to my favorites list. Just make it larger, different console and maybe more stained glass and furniture and it would probably be my favorite

[@HiperPivociarz]

I really love the wood one too, because it does feel ancient, like if Gregorian monks built a time machine, and it also feels like a home.

[@JimtheFish0451]

I have to say, the wood aesthetic of the movie and secondary room (my favorite) really works for me. Although I would like a return to the clean, functional white design of the classic series, a wood Tardis interior would be great to see.

[@sionalarsen]

An aesthetic I dislike about modern who is that the interior doors are the police box doors. And it just always makes me think... if the chameleon circuit was working, would the interior doors CHANGE every time the Tardis landed in a new place/time?? I miss the disconnect of old who blocky doors leading to the exterior blue and wood doors

[@Brixxter]

Capaldi's is absolutely my favourite. I love the huge spinning disks over the console

[@lolman-xc7pp]

The 13th tardis looks like it was made of those Salt lamps that are always sold in those bogus alternative care stores

[@Macapta]

10th gets points for me cos you get to see his wardrobe and the under level of the console room. Adding more rooms and functions of the TARDIS makes it feel more real and lived in for me.

[@GrubStLodger]

Agreed, TV Movie Tardis is the best Tardis, it's part gothic cathedral, part factory, part time machine and part living room.

[@CT-0392]

Mcgann's TARDIS takes the top spot for me.

[@dias4247]

I don't see many people talking abt this But I quite like the 7th Doctor redesigned TARDIS interior, that unfortunately we never saw in the show, just in BBC Choice's 35 Years of Doctor Who. I like the idea of the ceiling Time Rotor holding the console, like it's hanging from it It's a pity the show was canceled before it became a reality....

[@pocket-dimension]

My favorite is the Smith/Capaldi 2012 set. Both iterations of it, despite them both giving off different vibes.

[@TheSamtheman081]

My favourite is the 80’s tarnished that the 5th,6th,7th had.

[@Addy_The_Baddy]

13's TARDIS looks like it has a giant dead crystal spider in it

[@wil2209]

I LOVE thirteens tardis: the organic crystal pillars which grew on me over time, the entrance being the inside of the police box making it feel like a portal to another magical world, the atmospheric lighting and mist (I love the blue light shining through the walls), THE WALLS ARE BEAUTIFUL OMG the roundels and the tyre things are mechanical and I love it, it’s a similar darkness to McGanns TARDIS isn’t it? Also there are some sort of steps for them to sit on lol but yh no obvious doors, the console could be better only if we see more of it and learn what everything does the mini TARDIS is great. I like capaldis TARDIS it is a great set piece and does definitely feel lived in and home to a wacky time traveller as does McGanns but they don’t feel organic like thirteens or tens and somewhat elevens

[@shnoozezzz9752]

i do like 13s it really did grow on me to i just wish there were some little chairs and some like obvious walkways so youi have an understanding of where characters go and i kinda wish the uppy downey bit (i cant for the life of me remember the actual name) was just a bit taller but i do love the actual console and how it looks so tactile and i just wanna push everything

[@Bagofnowt]

I really love Whittaker's TARDIS, but I feel like it would've been SO much better if it was more spaced out and had more 'living space' in it, like some nice little chairs. Maybe just for Graham, he got a bit flustered on his feet all the time. The transition to the hologram of Lin was the moment that made me fall in love with 13 and it was an excellent use of the space. They kinda got their shit together in S12 but it was still underused.

[@charlestownsend9280]

My two favourites are the movie one and 11's first one, I just love the large spaces with lots of weird and interesting things in them. I also like the 4th doctors wooden console room, probably because it looks different and interesting. As for capaldi's I like it but I don't love it, it's better than 11's second console room and it does look lived in which is good, it's probably my 4th favourite. I don't hate 13's, it has a lot of interesting things in it, the main issue that I have is the lighting or lack of light.

[@LiveHedgehog]

My favourite thing about 13's TARDIS interior is that they didn't think to see what the glowing crystals looked like on camera before they started shooting. You can see what they got on camera initially in the leaked images from 2018.

[@sethrothz]

My favourite is Smith's first, something about it has been awesome to me since I saw The Eleventh Hour when it aired

[@ameliespencer97]

Weirdly I think that an updated version of the 4th Doctor's wooden console room might fit 13 better? Idk it's just because that design gives me kinda 70s vibes and so does 13's costume???

[@Roboshi2007]

in order to reflect Jody's doctor her tardis would have to be a combined circus and torture room.

[@N00N01]

Out of the thumbnail ones HL 2 combine Weed bong 70s dashing

[@duskplains1235]

In memory David Tennants Tardis looks like it’s a Dalek owned one.

[@EGGY3994]

I have a 13th Tardis fan theory: that it aged and yellowed for a 1000 years of being the ghost monument. Imagine it with crisp clean white crystal pillars and a perfect cut time-rotor, something like the fortress of solitude and classic who.

[@jacksweet484]

Love this series!! Don't know what else you could possibly talk about at this point, but please try and think of something

[@fkez0510]

I will always have a soft spot for everything 11th Doctor related. My first doctor and and my one and only doctor

[@gradualdecay]

it's gotta be eccleston/tennant. can't go wrong with that steampunk vibe

[@LexVanguard2004]

My top 5: 1) Capaldi's Tardis 2) Smith's 2nd Tardis 3) Smith's 1st Tardis 4) Eccleston's/Tennant's Tardis 5) Whittaker's Tardis I like them all though tbh, but Capaldi's Tardis is by far the best.

[@LiftedStarfish]

I'm biased due to not having seen any classic who, but Matt Smith's TARDIS is my favorite.

[@Tyxaar]

YES. My TARDIS interior design aesthetics have been validated. Other note: 9/10's Tardis looks extremely dirty.

[@adamdavies1068]

I have a soft spot for the unused season 26 Sylvester McCoy TARDIS console. The one not connected to the floor

[@demondoggo2768]

" they barely changed the design " *Has entirely different wall-textures and lights*

[@jackschofield294]

Unpopular opinion: 13s tardis is my favourite because I feel like it’s very messy and chaotic but it also feels alive and obviously the tardis is alive so it makes most sense to me

[@roguepsykerhaaker4813]

I find it very visually interesting if nothing else. I haven't watched since the 10th tho so maybe my opinion doesn't matter

[@concon09090]

I just feel like there are better ways to communicate how organic it is than the giant crystal nightmare, y'know? I think you're right about the chaos thing tho, it'd be better if they leant into that aspect more, gave the rest of the console room more texture with various piled up knick-knacks and pieces of junk and furniture, that would at least make the rest of the room feel a bit less like an empty television set.

[@inionanbas615]

I love the other Tardis from revolution, perfect blend of classic and modern!

[@MitchCyan]

13th’s Tardis looks like something from Guardians of The Galaxy.

[@Jackson-ub1uv]

Imagine if 13 regenerated by tripping and bashing her head against one of the thousands of pillars she has lying around.

[@Myne1001]

Still better than the Sixth Doctor's in the novelisation