Friday Night is DJ Lowtide - no DJ Dalek night!

A coup I declare! Dalek invasion! I've been deposed! ~ Laredo

Kick-Off Friday at Adipose Square!

Friday's Summer Kick-Off was a great night! Thanks for all that came (and we had a great turnover of faces from all walks of Second Life - football fans, London fans, Doctor Who fans.. great stuff!)

DUSK:
DJ Lowtide started the night with a mix of loosely related football related tunes as dusk fell on Adipose Square's newly acquired football turf!





NIGHTLIFE!

DJ Kat took over for a further two hours to play a mix of football anthems, football samples and some little sci-fi titbits to treat the non-football fans! A host of effects, an entourage of Daleks and several heavy footballs discended on the crowd!










Congratulations to our night's winners, Moly Dartmouth and Marc Boxen! Moly for flag bursting English kit and Marc for the surprising English patriot, Davros! Well done both of you! A nod to Simon Osei for his bizarre football-cyber... thing! See below and steady your beating heart (far right of picture.. the thing with a football for a head!)..


Want more pictures? Check our SLIDESHOW for even more images from the event and the sim! http://www.flickr.com/photos/44933593@N02/show/

Something fishy!

A nice calm day by the river, in busy New London Village, as a little fishing competition gets underway. Earlier in the day Drusilla Sciavo defeated Jayne Gudkov in a very close finish to the previous contest!
Pictured below, Laredo, Snake, Kat and Babob compete.

Peace out, Harry Saxondale!

A Late update (that rhymes!) Yes, Laredo had a rezday party - he did really!

...and what a jolly time was had by all, as the blue haired one tried to convince us all he could no longer be classified as a newbie.. ok then Laredo ;-)

Competition in SL to win a free Limited Edition K8-T!

Come in-world to Second Life's Doctor Who Zone and win a Limited edition gold K8-T. The Limited edition K8-T has unique gold colouring, and features that are not (yet) available for the K8-T on sale.

Entry is free, and the 4 entrants with the most votes at 1pm SLT on Christmas Eve will win!
Click enter on the contest board at the Ice Rink, and you're in the game

http://slurl.com/secondlife/TARDIS/165/167/23

A second (life) wander into the Zone....

A wander south to the Nefarious Spires. A customised Whomobile parked outside and a BBC indent inspired police box snuggled in the white snow.


If you can find it, there's a great little hidey hole in the tower, a nice place to look across the zone in peace and quiet. Unless you're unfortunate enough to find "him" there...

A wander into Second Life and into the Zone..

A small trip into the Doctor Who Zone...

What's this? Well m'ol' mucker, this is New London Village in the Doctor Who Zone. Morning is in the air, the Rani World looms in the distance on Johnny's land and beyond that in the distance is the Nefarious Tower, lodged deep in the winter snow. But it's the foreground we're interested in.

Take a look closer, to the right of the winter ice rink and Memorial Church building and just between Magpie's Television store and my own small political office and you'll see the building in question. I call it, the Freebie shop.

And here it is. We are closer to our prey now. Here's the outside of the Freebie Shop. Snow decking the front path next to the loud creaky door(yes, I maybe qualified in temporal physics and mechanical engineering, doesn't mean I carry around a tin of oil - think about the trim to my suit). Inside, we have one lone fool surveying our collection of free items....

And there's the idiot in question. Probably looking for the icy breath freebie, or a poster for his dull, uninspiring TARDIS. Some sounds there I see, a few gesture packs. Some rather fun set of T-Shirts, flyable TARDIS' some posters, some handy SL gadgets. And there's also a second floor too. Oh and if you tire of hunting for free stuff, the second level leads out to the roof and the balloon ride beyond. So come and have a look - and if you have some, bring a little oil. Thank you.

DWZ REVIEW: Dreamland

With Dreamland having just enjoyed its full airing today, it seemed a perfect time to look back at this animated event and use it to kickstart our DoctorWhoZone reviews. We have a few more reviews coming up next week, so look out for them! In the meantime - keeping looking right here. Yes that's right, keep reading. Ready for the next paragraph? Good.

Dreamland is the second animated Tennant Doctor Who adventure. The TARDIS lands in Nevada, home to the non-swinging, post-war communist fearing 1950s. Upon a chance meeting with an alien artefact on display in a local diner, the Doctor is whisked upon another exciting adventure that will take him to Area 51 - Dreamland - and the dark secrets it harbours within....

Dreamland sports a very different style to the last animated story - The Infinite Quest - taking it away from the two dimensional roots and into something a little more dynamically three dimensional. For those of you without amnesia, you will no doubt remember guest star Georgia Moffett from Series Four. Here she plays Cassie, an American waitress and one of the Doctor's sidekicks. Also in the cast is British acting legend David Warner (who has been in pretty much every sci-fi franchise known to man) and he plays the arch-alien-antagonist, Lord Azlok.

So what do we have here? Well in some respects, its Who-by-numbers; we have the Doctor immediately getting into trouble; a big monster threat; a misguided military archetype; some aliens who need defending and some sidekicks to be rescued.. the list goes on. But in a way, this isn't bad -you watch a show for certain structural expectations, and I'd say this delivers on those elements - aspects that many viewers would consider quintessentially part of the "Doctor Who formula".

So yes, the story has a good pace, the usual and necessary structural ingredients. The overall direction and visuals are impressive - and of course, Murray Gold's music gets lots of airing. But is it brilliant?

Is it? Probably. For kids - I imagine they loved every minute. For me, the one quintessential element of the "Doctor Who Formula" they missed was the really colourful script. The script isn't bad, it just never ignites. The Doctor never says anything that really catches you; nothing that you'd remember after watching this story. The story perhaps runs too fast a pace to allow the dialogue to do anything spectacular.

The other downside for "yours truly" was the model work for the main character. While aspects of Tennant come through in the Doctor's visuals, the animation never truly captures Tennant's energy or body language - that's a tall order for any animation I know - but the fact is it doesn't feel like the Doctor, even if it sounds like him. And what's up with his receding hairline there? If I was Tennant I'd be very self conscious of that!

But the cast do a good job. As a Brit, I couldn't fault Moffett's accent (but then I am a Brit), though with Sandra Dickinson as a mother, that must have been a great help. David Warner does a great job with Azlok, oozing power and commanding attention. So one cannot fault the cast.

Really, one cannot overly fault Dreamland at all. It's fast paced, its well produced and full of talent. For an adult, I just found the script a little bland compared to the main show and the model work for the Doctor a little distracting. I'd certainly recommend a watch and would definitely consider it as a future present for any nephew's birthday.

Better than the Infinite Quest for me, though not quite to the quality of the New Series. But given the standard of the live action show, I wouldn't say that's a bad place to be.

Grade: B

Laredo Lowtide

The attack of the purple people eaters!

What's this? A new Who alien species attacking two of Who Zone's finest staff Lowtide and Serpente? Following her return to New London from Victorian times, Kat was shocked to discover these purple beasts on the attack. Who will be next to fall to the purple people eaters?

Jingle jingle the yuletide season approaches!

Never too early to get into the Christmas spirit it seems! Want to feel festive a little earlier than RL tends to allow? Pop on over! (Nice sweater Lowtide!)

Blue haired malaky!

The Blue haired wonder, Laredo Lowtide, relaxes after the Doctor Who 46th Birthday Party, planning tomorrows schedule. What will that include? Who knows, but its bound to be devious if the look on his face here is any guide!

Region restarted at 7pm SLT, so should be nice and lag free tomorrow :-)