Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Marleybone – The Professor’s B.O.X.

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Pop Culture References of Wizard101

The Professor’s B.O.X. – Doctor Who’s TARDIS
http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Location:Telegraph_Box_(Marleybone)#axzz7Yw5D9o6K
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TARDIS

The Professor guides Wizards through through time with special quests inside his Telegraph Box during the Five B.O.X.E.S. Event.

The B.O.X. and The Professor outside of Scotland Yard in Marleybone

The note on his Telegraph Box reads:
Telegraph Box

Knowing before
opening,
being before
seeming.
Not for public use
WARNING: Smaller
on the inside.

Control room of the B.O.X.

The BOX normally sits outside Scotland Yard in Marleybone, but can be found near the Jade Palace in Mooshu, Olde Town of Wizard City, in Zafaria’s Baobob Market, and on Abbey Road in Avalon during the B.O.X.E.S. Event.

The TARDIS

The TARDIS (acronym for “Time And Relative Dimension In Space”) is a fictional time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its various spin-offs. Its exterior appearance mimics a police box, an obsolete type of telephone kiosk that was once commonly seen on streets in Britain. Paradoxically, its interior is shown as being much larger than its exterior, commonly described as being “bigger on the inside”.

TARDIS control room (ca The Ninth Doctor)
Police Call Box outside Earl’s Court tube station in London, built in 1996 and based on the 1929 Gilbert Mackenzie Trench design.

Due to the significance of Doctor Who in popular British culture, the shape of the police box is now more strongly associated with the TARDIS than its real-world inspiration. The name and design of the TARDIS is a registered trademark of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), despite the fact that the design was originally created by the Metropolitan Police Service.

This is the fifty-third article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City and the tenth Marleybone article. The current list of all the (known) Marleybone references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

B.O.X.E.S. images are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Doctor Who TARDIS images are copyright BBC

London police call box image is borrowed from Wikipedia and is in the public domain

Image usage qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

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