Whilst researching Dr.Who toy guns I came across a more modern prop that's actually a toy.
In 2005 David Tennant's Tenth Doctor, in an episode called The Fires of Pompeii, uses a transparent yellow water pistol with a blue grip to soak the season's monster, the Pyrovile.
Nothing new to Who fans nowadays, the water pistol was a toy commercially available at the time called the Splashinator by PMS.
Here's an orange grip Splashinator.
Finding this exact water pistol twenty years later isn't that simple. Maybe avid WHO fans have snapped them all up.
Much easier to find is the same toy but in different and also non-transparent colours and renamed SPLAT and released by Bland Brothers of Florida.
Naturally fans will go to great lengths to possess a prop. This example is an 'exact replica' of Tennant's toy I saw on Worthpoint, although the 'maker' has made it non-transparent.
As with most old water pistols the design persists even today and can now be found in party packs at Amazon and party suppliers. Here's a single colour blue version bottom left and nicely see-through. Maybe there's a party pack version in yellow too?
Woodsy
The gun David Tennant is holding is a Walter P.38, if that helps.
ReplyDeleteI looked for ages for a yellow Splashinator but only managed to find a blue one. As your other poster says, it's based on the Walther P38, the same gun used in The Man From UNCLE and elsewhere, so there are plenty of die-cast versions about. But it is surprisingly hard to find the water pistols.
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