Just to tie up a loose end, I see that British authorities have recovered that missing Dalek I wrote about last week. According to the BBC, the thieves decided the stolen prop was “too hot to handle” (i.e., they figured they were going to have a problem fencing it, or decided their original scheme wouldn’t be so funny if it ended with them in handcuffs), so they dumped it on Glastonbury Tor and dropped a dime to let somebody know where it was. (According to the Wikipedia, a tor is a “large hill, usually topped with rocks,” in the southwest of England.)
The owner of the tourist attraction from which the Dalek was taken denies that this whole event was a publicity stunt, and despite the offer of his services, the presence of Colin Baker was apparently not required.
Kind of a let-down, actually… I was hoping the thing would turn up in the middle of Piccadilly, dressed in a pink tu-tu or something.
I would have been more likely to expect our evil robot friend to have been “garden gnomed” and ended up in a series of pictures from famous vacation spots. As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure I saw something that looked like a Dalek lurking in the background of one of those photos during the Michael Jackson trial…
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Boy, now there’s an image from hell, a Dalek and Michael Jackson together in the same space-time coordinates. Agh!
Of course, that would be just one of the necessary stops in any “Dalek California Adventure.” I can see imagine the snapshots now… the Dalek on Space Mountain at Disneyland, taking the tour at Universal Studios, exterminating other tourists on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and, of course, sampling some Jesus juice at Neverland Ranch.