The
new Dr Who
exhibition - 5,500 square feet in size - is housed in the Golden
Mile Centre on the Central Promenade in Blackpool,
next door to the Sea Life Centre and very close to
the site of the original attraction. Devised and created by Experience Design Ltd, as an interactive, walk-through exhibition, it has original props and costumes from the series, including several of the Doctor's best-known adversaries; Daleks, Cybermen,
Sea Devils and many of the gadgets that appeared on the show over the years,
such as the Third Doctor's yellow roadster 'Bessie' and a replica of the centre console of the TARDIS.
The displays cover a wide variety of characters and costumes from the programme.
Located on two floors with 8 galleries and 10 televisions Ripley’s is attractive and educational.
Robert Leroy Ripley’s life was an unbelievable adventure. For over forty years he explored the
uncanny and witnessed the amazing. He was a world traveller who visited places few people
had ever heard of, from the temple of heaven in China to a town in Norway called Hell!
He was an artist and a reporter, an explorer and a collector. The stories he gathered would