 I am here with James also known as Pertwee's frills and today we're going to be talking about an upcoming Doctor Who event that you are not going to want to miss. So firstly he says let's just talk about you first so what got you into the show? It was probably I would have been in primary school and one of my mates came into school and he mentioned what the sonic screwdriver was and I was just like what is this? And then I remember I saw the sonic screwdriver before I even watched the show and I remember sitting watching the looking at the Argos catalogue for hours hoping that one of my parents go out and buy me this sonic screwdriver. Yeah and then I think I waited until David's first episode on Christmas Day and that was it. Well I can't help but agree but god damn and so how long have you been a fan for? Well since then so it would have been like Christmas 2006, 2005, yeah so yeah as long as then. We have been talking for a bit before we turn the camera on because despite being a fan since then it's safe to say your favourite Doctor is not from the new run. So my favourite Doctor with John Pertwee is just yeah you can't fault him I just think he's brilliant. Definitely the most stylish as we can see from this. You can't be velvet and yeah so. Wonder Peter Capaldi shamelessly ripped it off we know. So obviously the event what's it called and what's it going to be? The event is called Madame Hussauds it will just be a display of my collection just various bits it will be black archive unit themed and just basically walk through time for the last 60 years of Doctor Who. No it's going to be brilliant I mean would you say it's quite similar to Doctor Who experience? Probably yeah yeah it will yeah there will be plenty plenty on display and yeah it will start from Hartnell going right away up until Jody possibly David Mark II. Oh really? But we'll see see what happens there. Now that is up to date revealing things having things on display that's not even on telly yet. Wibbly wobbly time. That's the kind of exclusive you can get. So obviously I've been seeing the collection and I will have some more b-roll as well as maybe a separate video depending on how it goes but can you say some of your favourite items from the collection that will be on display? Probably the costumes I really like costumes the Doctor's costumes especially Pertwee but yeah I think the jewel of my collection is the original time rotor. I'm so glad you mentioned it. It's literally to the right of us and my god does it fill up a room and it's the coolest thing ever. And can you tell us a little bit about it? Basically it would have been used by Chris Erickson and David Tennant for series one and two. So is the screen used from? Yeah the screen used original it was damaged during filming and taken out between series two and three and yeah and it's now in the front room. Yeah it's just it's really cool. Honestly I wish I could articulate how cool it is but just having the screen used time rotor next to you whilst you're talking it's a little destructive but also the coolest thing ever. God damn. And how did you come across it? Basically a friend of James Sutton who you've also interviewed he referred me to a prop dealer and yeah and it was a phone call that was surreal and yeah yeah I'll come pick it up tomorrow so yeah we agreed on a price and yeah it's just strange to own and I watched it age 12 got enough and down on telly and it's yeah it's now in the front room. Yeah and if you want a time rotor in your front room talk to James Sutton apparently because it keeps being an ongoing joke it's him and Dominic G Martin who just know everyone for some reason. So with going back to the event where did the idea to do this event come from? I think it's always been in the back of my head. I've had mates who have grown out of it and we've always spoke about we need to do an event we need to do one in our hometown Essex and things like that. A few other people that I know David Nagel we've always mentioned we need we need to do an event of our own so yeah it was that and going to a few events myself seeing some stuff on display and I just thought I could probably do this I could probably do this myself so yeah give me a go all for good cause for dementia. Yes so going on to that so what is the charity and why did you choose it? It's Dementia UK I picked it mainly because I generally get on with old people and yeah I think it's the old people that get affected by dementia and they remember this last 60 years of the show that we all love and yeah I've got members of my family friends that are affected by it and so yeah I couldn't think of it better calls really. No I completely agree and honestly it is really cool that it is a charity event because let's be honest you could make bank off something like this but the fact that it's going to a good cause it's fantastic. Yeah it's probably it's probably cost me more amount of money I know I've sat down a few times and thought it'd probably just be cheaper for me just to give the money to the charity than what I've spent out on organising. But with this I mean we were saying how you don't know if it's going to be a one-time thing or a yearly thing it could just go on to keep making more money which is really it's an investment yeah an investment that fills up a house but an investment so obviously it's not just you who has supplied all of these things you've commissioned you've bought can you name some of the other names that are involved in this yeah probably Steve Steven Ricks he's made the majority of my costumes a lot of Doctor Who fans will know him he made this in its entirety yeah he is a real spot on for replicating Doctor Who costumes I've got bits from James Burgess I've got bits from James Sutton Tom's refurbishments various bits I've made myself yeah there's just yeah there's plenty of people out there who have bought bits off of and yeah and leading on to that obviously it's a standard question when it comes to interviews but favorites will arise at some point or another so I will be kind and I will dismiss anything made by someone else yeah so out of your own collection like something you've made or something you've bought what would you say is like the sort of pride of your collection oh um probably John Perkwy's watches which are in here yeah in the display um yeah tracking them down from a few blurry photos yeah and I've got a good friend Lewis who's a watch infuse yeah he works for Rolex and what you don't know about watches ain't worth knowing and I showed him a couple pictures and he said oh I think this might be this and we eventually tracked some down there was a guy in America who who I sort of inspired and he tracked another one down and yeah I think they're they're probably my favorite things yeah because no because they're things that no one else would bother about but there's a lot of people now that are going out buying the Global Watches for their collections uh so yeah yeah that's so you like the little bits like the things you wouldn't necessarily think of yeah I love the things that um you just unless you're a real Die Hard Doctor Who fan you'd be like oh that is that is that and that's that's from that episode where a normal person and like non-who fan would just be like oh yeah that's a that's just a decanter like yes but then we're like no that's that's the one there's a candidate at the Capaldi out so yeah that's yeah that's that's they're my favorite things and going back to the name because obviously Madame Hussauds it's pretty it's pretty obvious where you got the name from but um so why did you select that um it would it started as a joke so I've got yeah yeah I've got my room here um and it's my Doctor Who room uh and then I started collecting the full-size mannequins and the guy who the mannequins by the way that have scared me on three separate occasions and I've not been here long uh they was made by a guy um who worked for Madame Hussauds Blackpool and he also does stuff for the NHS he makes prospective guys so yeah he he was yeah he was telling me bits about like Jodie Wick as I was like oh there's a flick you know left iron and I'm like I'll take your word for it I believe you uh and yeah and then after I looked he he's bang on with he's sculpting and yeah so I ended up with kind of wax work so Madame Hussauds become the name of my um room and yeah so that was that was the name of the event I like how your room is essentially being turned into an entire hall like that like a lot of people obviously in the fandom myself include to have their nerd room which they have been graciously offered by whoever they're living with but yours has been turned into an event so I think you win and also in my head as we're talking I'm making sort of a mental note of what you're mentioning so I can get a close-up later I've so far got watches and Jodie Wick as I too think I did not think I'd be filming this today and finally is the most important question for those who want to come to the event and I cannot recommend it highly I'm definitely gonna make the trip myself where is it and when is it um it is in Upminster um it's a town close to where I live in Essex um it's a five minute walk not even not even five minute walks two minutes walk from Upminster station uh which is the last stop on the district line so it is pretty easy to get to um it is on the 30th of April and the first of May just the morning because I need the rest of the day to pack everything away hopefully I can get it packed away and the rest of the day but um yeah um yeah the postcodes are in 142 bb ace at st laurence hall um right next door to st laurence church in upminster um that has a bit of history to it itself it was um where the speed of sound was first accurately recorded yeah so how on brand for doctors yeah so I found that out afterwards but um yeah so that allows a bit of history to itself the hall itself um was used as a world war two hospital back in the day yeah so he's um now it's filled with like empty child stuff yeah plenty of history gas masks and stuff like we're going back but yeah that's it so yeah if anyone that can come would be great um I'm doing a five pound entry fee uh it's all going to dementia uk um I've got a few friends bring some stuff david's bringing another tardis I've got a friend just up the road who's got another tardis um I've got a fella I know he's bringing another dalek hopefully he's gonna invade the town centre um yeah so we're just gonna see how it goes absolutely absolutely and obviously if you want to come along please please do bring as many people as you want as he said it's all going to charity so it's for a good cause and you get a fun day out it's a win win yeah it is a win win and if people want to keep up to date with the project or things because I'm not showing everything there is so much and I'm being I'm going to be very hands off with what I show off but if you if you uh people want to have a little look where can they find you um I am on instagram as madame who swords um I've also got another my main account perkley's thrills some of my collections on there um I've got lots of bits I haven't shown before but yeah madame who swords is showing just a sneak peek of little parts um yeah and you just have to wait to see on the day the whole the whole uh display fantastic fantastic and it is going to be worth it absolutely and before we wrap up one final question what do you think is the most obscure or weirdest thing that's going to be at this event like the strangest like little or big item that no one would ever expect to be on display just to give people an idea of how wide a range you have that's a good question um and that's what an interviewer wants to hear um it will probably be going back to the same thing like it blink and you miss it um uh I've got a vintage gas mask um everyone's going to think empty child straight away but it appears in the age of steel drops from the TARDIS yeah it is it's right there yeah um and not many people would even know or bother to know what it is but um I managed to find the the screen accurate one and yeah that's that's just a little odd thing that I feel like I'm going to have to explain on a date to people that's you know it's not you're going to be busy answering questions it's not a budget um yeah empty child it is uh yeah that's fantastic you should have you should hire like a kid to sit on top of that and just chuck it down every like five minutes well thank you so much for inviting me around I look forward to continuing looking through your collection and uh done thank you I don't have an intro and I don't have an outro it's creepy isn't it it's strange it's strange I I'll come up with it by accident got the shakiest hands known to man see this is what I was I wasn't allowed to do at um time fracture excellent I did build one when I was younger out of wood and I built it to the proportion so I could fit in it yeah that's the clock we're joined yeah weathering on this is spectacular yeah my my mate done that and he was a car sprayer cover it up I think you'll make a funny shot onto bed oh shit yeah that's really cool so it's an antique in itself and like quite collectible yeah it was in the original suit wow that's your uh that's your ringtone