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David Hobday’s Renegade

Remembrance Renegade (DH1)      Stationed up on the stage to the side of the main control room is a grey Renegade Dalek from the 1988 story   Remembrance of the Daleks.
This Dalek is owned by David Hobday who won it when he was 13 years old. Through a friend, he was contacted by the production team who borrowed his Dalek and he was able to act as operator too, spending four days on set.

Given that the asylum featured a Renegade prop which looked very similar, it would be obvious to assume that this is the same Dalek was recalled but it is not, although it is also a This Planet Earth replica Dalek. They can be distinguished from the real Renegade props because they have real collar mesh instead of the ‘dappled’ plastizote.

The prop did not have an illuminated eye (as shown in the photograph) so it was added in post production. The digital effects artist who added it duplicated a Dalek nearby which had three blue LEDs for its light, hence the Renegade ended up with the same oddity.

Dead Planet Dalek (AB1)
Andrew Beech’s Dalek Belonging to Andrew Beech, this replica was the work of prop-builders Steve Allen and Dave Brian. When originally constructed, this Dalek had been made in the late-sixties style with slats and mesh, albeit with inaccurate lights.

Following a life of promotional appearances, it eventually found a new home when the Doctor Who Experience was opened in London in 2011. Rather than have two identical props on display, one of Beech’s replicas was converted to become an original 1963 variant. Special effects veteran Mike Tucker undertook the refurbishment work, adding new push-through hemispheres, removing the mesh and slats, and making new eye-discs and new lights. He also fitted a new collar.  