Wed
May 26 2010 11:43am
The Maddening Innards of the TARDIS

As established in the TV series, the Doctor’s time-traveling TARDIS is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. (And bigger off camera than can ever be captured on film.) It is boundless, an infinity plus one, a universe in a box, and therefore unmappable. Or it was.

Over this past weekend, an intrepid Doctor Who fan took a gorgeous stab at realizing the TARDIS’ inner universe. The image above is just one page from A Partial Map of Your TARDIS (Subject to Change). The ensuing pages are even more esoteric, fairytale-esque, and eye-bending. I highly suggest downloading the entire PDF (in the above page link). There’s also a Flickr set.

If your brain can somehow hold more after all that, then hop on over to the TARDIS Technical Index for a labryinthine breakdown on how a TARDIS actually works, bit by bit. Be warned: TARDIS manuals, like their namesake, are bigger on the inside.


Chris Greenland just realized that the internet is also bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

4 comments
Alex Brown
1. Milo1313
awesome, awesome, awesome...thanks for posting this, dude :)
Michael Grosberg
2. Michael_GR
Nice art, although calling this a map is a stretch. I think "collection of funky graphics and random text" is more like it.
Sihaya
3. Sihaya
"Chris Greenland just realized that the internet is also bigger on the inside than it is on the outside."

To paraphrase Mr. William Gibson, that's the advantage of the fact that there's no "there" there. Which is true of the TARDIS in a way, too. The inside of the TARDIS is much larger than the inside of the few million brainpans of its devotees.
F Shelley
4. FSS
Awesome - I just "discovered" Dr Who (I know - rather like Columbus "discovered" America) a couple of months ago, and have been watching the series since its mid 2000's rivival on Netflix. The funny part is my 7 year old daughter really loves it too (although we have to be careful to keep her away from the more horror-style episodes, especially those scary-assed Weeping Angels).

It's so cute that I'm raising a little geek (like me!). I can only hope she veers nerd-ward in the next few years (also like me!).

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