As it's been announced that the Cybermen will be rearing their iconic metallic heads to plague Peter Capaldi's new Doctor Who, I thought it was an appropriate time to look back at the latest Cyberman design introduced in season seven's Nightmare in Silver episode.
Original Cyberman from Doctor Who's Nightmare in Silver episode
These original costumes and props were featured in the episode where the
Cybermen tried to convert the
Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor into the
'Cyber-Doctor' and were photographed on display at the
Doctor Who Experience in
Cardiff Bay, Wales on December 9, 2013.
Doctor Who Nightmare in Silver TV poster
Not only is the episode noteworthy for featuring the latest suit upgrade for one of the
Doctor's arch-foes (which really feels like it's been given a very
Hollywood makeover), but it also features the
Star Wars and
Harry Potter actor
Warwick Davis (
'Wicket' the
Ewok, 'Professor Filius Flitwick') as
'Porridge'.
Costume worn by Warwick Davis as Porridge
in Doctor Who's Nightmare in Silver episode
Porridge is the operator of a chess game featuring a deactivated
Cyberman in the intergalactic theme park,
Hedgewick's World of Wonders (which has seen better days), but he's also hiding the secret that he's actually an
Emperor who gave up his empire because of the pressures of the role.
Cyberman from Doctor Who's Closing Time episode
Another
Cyberman-themed prop on display at the exhibit was this chamber from the sixth season episode
Closing Time, which featured a crashed
Cyberman spaceship buried beneath a department store.
Cybershade costume from The Next Doctor 2008 Christmas Special
Also on display at the
Doctor Who Experience was this
'Cybershade', which were beast-like
Cyber-creatures with bronze heads that appeared in the
2008 Christmas Special, The Next Doctor, set in
London at
Christmas in 1851.
If you're a fan of the humanoid cyborgs, be sure to check out these different
Cybermen designs that have appeared through the ages on Doctor Who.
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