AFT Doctor Who: Trip to Rome (Jack and the Doctor)

[dieastra]

I decided to do more with the Character Building figures. Jack and the Doctor travelled to Rome. The Roman is new. He got a bit exasperated.

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[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

A stylish sightseeing!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

True! Must be tiring though, they just want a vacation, but Daleks are everywhere.
I really don't know whether I would travel with the Doctor. Looks quite dangerous to me.

[hamsterwoman]

Hee! (also, I didn't know there were Lego Doctor Who figurines, but of course there's Lego EVERYTHING :)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks ;)

There ARE Lego Doctor Who figures, but it's not those. Mine were done by Character Building, starting years ago and are fake Lego. The official Lego only came out last year and I don't like them one bit. Mine look much cuter so I'll stick with them!

They even made playsets and everything but I tried not to get sucked too hard into it. Most of it was Eleventh Doctor's era so that helped.

Could I trouble you please? Do you know the name of the building Jack is standing on?

[hamsterwoman]

I think it's the Arch of Constantine, maybe?

(I'm totally not an architecture person, though!)

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Certainly looks like it, thanks!

I once was in Trier and saw the Porta Nigra, which also was quite impressive:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Trier_Porta_Nigra_BW_3.JPG

Maybe you can go over Trier when heading south from Dusseldorf? They have more Roman stuff there as well.

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

Because standing on high buildings rooftops aith a serious face makes you look cool :)
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll211/davetheshady/EPIC%20FAIL/roofangst.jpg?t=1215887876

Daleks are everywhere!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Because standing on high buildings rooftops and a serious face makes you look cool :)

Definitely! And this has been so ingrained in our brains now. When we were at Fedcon, there was a building that also had such a thing like in your picture and we totally expected Jack to stand there.

There was at least one Jack at the convention so that's something.

I still can't get over that new Doctor Who exhibition picture. He has a certain face and look there and instantly is Jack again. Nothing has changed at all. I thought I was finished with this but they really should bring him back!

[alumfelga.livejournal.com]

He has a certain face and look there and instantly is Jack again.
Totally! It proves he can go back any day, no problems in finding the character in him at all.

[spaciireth.livejournal.com]

The "I thought it would be bigger on the inside" literally made me laugh out loud.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks for letting me know ;)
That was a very spontanous thing when I realized the buildings were not quite in scale. Sometimes things just come to you.

Daleks ruin everything.

[heather mccrillis (from livejournal.com)]

I take it the Roman isn't Rory.

Re: Daleks ruin everything.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

He's sold as Roman Auton. There is a Roman Rory as well but he looks different:

http://merchandise.thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cbrareseries22.jpg

I bought the Roman especially to do this story ;)

Love your headline! Thanks!

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Cute! "I thought it would be bigger on the inside" - LOL.

Stacey

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thanks ;)
It came to me when I realized that the sizes of the buildings did not exactly match. They are so cute! I had to have them. I got them in a shop in Xanten, where they have that huge park I posted some picturs of a few weeks ago. Where they excavate all those original Roman buildings. That is history there.

[geekslave.livejournal.com]

Cool!

Stacey

[owensheart.livejournal.com]

Lol brilliant!!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Hehe thank you ;)

[dancingdragon3.livejournal.com]

That is fantastic!

My favorite is the Doctor inside the coliseum, lol.

Would you mind if I shared this to my comm? I've been thinking of making figure skits officially allowed content, and they would get such a hoot from this. Don't hesitate to say 'no', I understand totally.

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

The Doctor in the Coliseum was not planned but one of those spontanous ideas that happen while shooting, when I realized how small it was LOL

I don't mind at all! I am always happy to share my figure pictures with the world and make people happy and smiling. I also had some up in the art contest at Fedcon. Feel free to go to the upper right corner in my LJ, there are link lists, everything sorted by fandom.

As long as there is a link back to this journal or entry, it's fine! I would be honored, actually ;) It does not happen very often.

[niviene.livejournal.com]

So adorable - 10 inside the Colosseum! Everyone should have one!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Everyone his own Colosseum you mean? Maybe it was in truth the TARDIS, having changed ;)

[niviene.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!!

Can you imagine if the TARDIS had changed to look like the Colosseum? I think it would no longer be inconspicuous the way a telephone booth is.....mind you today most people don't really notice much as they're too busy on the cellphones so maybe not!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

Aren't you right about the cellphones... it is quite scary.

The other day I read this tweet:

"[watching a cartoon on TV while watching a different cartoon on a tablet while playing a game on a second tablet] 6-year-old: I'm bored."

We are the last generation that grew up without the internet and know how to use our own imagination in making things out of nothing, or reading books and play whole worlds in our heads.

That people can't even walk down a street without looking at their phone scares me. I fully admit that I am addicted to the internet as well, but usually I check it at the computer in the evening. Not every single minute.

[niviene.livejournal.com]

That kid needs to go outside and get some fresh air lol! What ever happened to going outside?

Sad that people don't know what to do without the internet. I remember we had a black out here a few summers ago and so people went outside and everyone looked at the stars and talked until the lights came back on a few hours later which was amazing and fun!

I agree though that imagination and making things out of nothing or stuff around the house is a lost art. I used to make up stories and plays all the time and sometimes act them out with my siblings for entertainment. We even did radio plays behind the couch and made up the sounds or used stuff we had around for the sound effects.

I have to admit that I do not own a cell phone and people find me really weird for that but I can't justify the costs. I have a home phone which is relatively inexpensive compared to most cell plans. I try to limit my computer time too!

[dieastra.livejournal.com]

What ever happened to going outside?

Well, if I look back to my childhood, I rather stayed in reading a book than go outside ;) But I know what you mean.

That sounds beautiful with the blackout! In big cities you can't really see the stars anymore.

I do have a cell phone but it is not a smartphone. It is a very old Nokia and I only can phone with it. No internet, no picture taking, no apps. I finally caved and got it because I often invite friends and when we are going to the Karl May festival together, I would worry to lose them in the crowd and so we can contact each other. But I only use it once or twice a year (like last weekend at Fedcon, texting each other, again for finding us in the crowd) but the rest of the year it is switched off. People know not to contact me on it but on the landline.

I use a prepaid card, you can upload it with money so it's only taken when used, and I also don't want to pay any monthly fees for something I don't use.

But when my friend was in hospital for many months recently it became the only way of communication.