What is a Type 40 TARDIS?

The Type 40 — or, formally, the Type 40 time travel capsule — was the class of TARDIS to which the Doctor's TARDIS belonged. (TV: The Deadly Assassin, et al.)

How many types of TARDIS are there?

If a TARDIS Type is particularly successful, then over 300 of that Type might be created. There were around 100 different types issued before the end of the Last Great Time War. The Type 89 TARDIS is the most advanced non-military TARDIS ever created.

How old is the type 40 TARDIS?

The first Type 40s were built on Date Index 1995733 RE, well over five thousand years before the Last Great Time War.

What type of TARDIS does the Doctor have?

Time and Relative Dimension in Space

The Police Box that the Doctor travels around in is really a Type 40 time and space machine from Gallifrey, his home planet. TARDIS stands for Time And Relative Dimension in Space.

Is the Tardis the most powerful ship?

BUT what is said to be the most powerful object in the Whoninverse is the Moment. The most powerful and most dangerous weapon in all of creation (not the T.A.R.D.I.S.), described as the Galaxy Eater it is capable of whole galaxies within in a single moment, hence its given name.

Doctor Who: Type-40 TARDIS - Spacedock

Is the Tardis impregnable?

Given this, the TARDIS is jam packed with all of the most advanced and sophisticated security systems Time Lords could conjure. To start, it is neigh impregnable when undamaged. The TARDIS is equipped with a force field, rendering most weapons in the universe obsolete against its exterior.

Can the Tardis be destroyed?

The TARDIS shouldn't be that easy to destroy, and yet the Silence were able to destroy it without even being inside it. Worse, they destroy it to such an incredible extent that it causes every moment in history to be destroyed.

Is the Tardis infinite?

While the exterior is of limited size, the TARDIS is famously "bigger on the inside", with the interior being a whole separate dimension containing an infinite number of rooms, corridors and storage spaces, which can all change their appearances.

Why is the Tardis bigger on the inside?

Because someone is looking through the picture frame and the box is a long way away, the large box might seem small enough to fit through the picture frame. But that's just because it's far away. In reality, it's much bigger.

What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.

What is the real name of the Tardis?

The TARDIS, also known as a TT Capsule was the main kind of time and space vehicle used by the Time Lords of Gallifrey.

How do you fly the Tardis?

Use Programmed Flight Mode to travel to any galaxy. Use the TARDIS Astronav Computer to select your desired coordinates. Press "Travel to Coordinates" and the TARDIS will take flight.

Will there be a new TARDIS?

Ncuti Gatwa has been handed the keys to the TARDIS for Season 14 of the long-running series. The Doctor has regenerated. After months of speculation and wild rumors, Doctor Who fans finally know who will replace Jodie Whittaker as the new Time Lord.

Did the master have a TARDIS?

In The Doctor Falls, The Master acquired a TARDIS before leaving Gallifrey but burnt out its dematerialization circuit while attempting to get away from a black hole too fast. His future incarnation Missy provides him with a spare, and The Master can fix his TARDIS and depart.

How heavy is the Tardis?

This would sink through the planets crust if its full weight was concentrated into a footprint a meter square. In Full Circle (1980), Romana stated that the weight of the TARDIS was 5 × 106 kilograms in Alzarius's Earth-like gravity (about 5 × 107 Newtons, or the weight of 5,000 tonnes).

Do all Time Lords have a TARDIS?

Retired Time Lords are not permitted to own a TARDIS, and unauthorized use of a TARDIS carries a mandatory Death Penalty.

How old is Doctor Who now?

The "900" discrepancy

Before the Eleventh Doctor's 200-year farewell tour between TV: The God Complex and Closing Time, the writers of the 2005 revival of the series explicitly described the Doctor as around 900 years old, despite contrary statements on TV and expanded media.

Where did the TARDIS sound come from?

So we put that in." The sound was generated using a broken down piano frame. "It was standing up in the corner of the workshop with its strings exposed and I scraped a front-door key down the bass string. We recorded that and added loads of feedback." Brian created many other special sounds and atmospheres.

Did the Tardis get bigger?

The square actually appears bigger once you've entered it. The TARDIS is essentially this thought experiment with one more dimension added in. The blue box exterior is like the square. It looks like a finite 3D object, but most of it is spread out across a fourth dimension of space.

Is the Doctor the only time Lord left?

We may never know for certain, but whatever its genesis, the outcome of this epic conflict was horrifying and only two Time Lords survived - the Doctor and the Master. With the latter's apparent death the Doctor is left to continue his travels with the lonely knowledge that he is the last 'child of Gallifrey'.

How old is the Doctor's TARDIS?

Age: Several thousand years. Little history known. The Doctor's TARDIS is identified many times as a Type Forty. Type Forties are indeed referred to several times as being obsolete.

Why did the TARDIS exploded in Series 5?

The Kovarian Chapter wanted to make the Doctors death a fixed point in time to prevent him from answering the question. Ironically the Kovarian Chapter were the cause, they blew up the TARDIS which created the very cracks in the universe through which the Time Lords are now calling.

Why did the silence explode the TARDIS?

The most logical answer is this: The Silence planned to kill the Doctor by blowing up the TARDIS (to prevent him from reaching Trenzalore). However when the TARDIS exploded it was in the Time Vortex.

What was inside the Pandorica?

Knowing the TARDIS exploding would cause the cracks destroying reality, they believe only the Doctor can operate the TARDIS, and thus removing him will prevent the explosion. As the Doctor is sealed inside the Pandorica, every star in the sky goes supernova.

Can the TARDIS pilot itself?

But, except for short or emergency flights, normally with the presence of the Doctor alongside, no human (River Song isn't pure human) would have been able to pilot the Doctor's TARDIS by themselves.