A brony of few words who writes many.
Late one night, Rainbow Dash is rudely awoken when a mysterious object plows through her house and crashes near Twilight's library. Inside it is an equally mysterious stallion that seems more than a little different in character to the ponies that find him. But when strange apparitions start appearing in Ponyville following this event, this stallion might be just the fellow to have on hoof.
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Well that was nice. Great timing to; I just watched the 7 seasons of Doctor Who this Christmas so, that's cool. Can't wait for part 2
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looks awesome
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Finally got round to reading this!
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Yay!
Moar!!!!!
3835363 ...is coming!
This has to be one of the best doctor whooves storys I've read
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Now if only I could get more people reading it.
How is this not famous, this story should had over 1000 likes by now.
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Heck if I know. I'm starting to think it's just unlucky and was inadvertently overlooked by most. Been trying to find a way to draw more attention to it somehow, but thus far it hasn't made much difference.
Once again Ioved it! ... You know, you portrait The Doctor pretty well. mind if you lend me a hoof on my story, Its a Spike X R63 Doctor Whooves, When Spike Meets The Doctress
As always, good chapter!!!
Answer, The TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit broke whilst it was in 1960's Britain, keeping it stuck as a public police call box, the Doctor knows this but he couldn't be bothered fixing it because he liked the look! He's explained it to his companions multiple times!
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You think I would be writing this fanfic without researching this stuff first?
Actually, it has been implied that the matter is more complicated than the circuit just being "broken," especially when you consider the fact that the Doc HAS fixed it at least once, yet despite that, the TARDIS ALWAYS, without fail, winds back up as that same blue box. Statistically speaking, given how the circuit is supposed to function and choose an outward appearance most suited for the present time frame and location (meaning a 1960s (not 1940s) police box would be poorly suited for most of the places the TARDIS winds up at), that seems more than a little irregular. So I got to thinking about what could explain that.
Since the Eleventh states once that the TARDIS itself is responsible for selecting the that outward appearance, and we know the TARDIS is sentient and capable of thinking for itself, I figured, just like the Doctor for each of his regenerations, she just liked the blue box look and selected that for her own, consistent, outward image. She's just less picky about it than the Doctor.
The Doctor later just gave up trying to fix it, and came to accept the look over time. It probably didn't occur to him to think that the TARDIS might want a say in how she looked until after the events of "The Doctor's Wife" when the Doc learns just how sentient she actually is. Hence why he says this NOW rather than later.
Its also a theme the show's been playing on a lot more as of late (like the TARDIS being picky about companions) so this is just my attempt to further that along and play into it myself.
It's also never been officially confirmed what actually was "broke" about the chameleon circuit anyway. Not even the Doctor seemed to be certain. So this leaves it somewhat open to interpretation like this.
I didn't explain all of this in the chapter because A: I had (apparently foolishly) assumed the reader could deduce these for themselves from the dialogue, and B: it wasn't really in the Doctor's character (especially THIS Doctor, who'd rather explain things away as just being "complicated") to get long-winded about it, and rather just cover the basics, keeping in mind that the companion he's telling it to wouldn't know in advance anything about this stuff. So I covered the basics of the idea.
The Doctor really needs to take the handbrake off
4023809 Actually, I figure that by this point in time, those brakes are practically gone anyway, and it's not like there's a TARDIS service station he can go to to get them fixed, so he might as well leave them on all the time.
Epic
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There better be a sequel to this, this is AWESOME!!
If only copyright wasn't a thing. I could point some animators in your (the authors) direction. you could get a fanfic series going. Keep up the good work
If I know the Doctor, he's probably arguing with himslef inside the TARDIS about wether or not to go back and pick em up, which side will win? Who knows
....yeah, dangerous as in ripping a hole in the fabric of space and time dangerous...
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I will say that Doc's has a greater, underlying, reason for doing this that he hasn't come clean on yet.
sequel!
3992241 1960's*
4127415 1960's? Really? So why in one episode, when he went to 1940's Britain, did the Doctor keep running into police public call boxes instead of his TARDIS?
...unless they kept them around for a while...hmmm, dunno all I know is why they got rid of 'em! People mistaking them for porta-potties...
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To answer the question, the TARDIS mimics a police box from the 1960s era specifically, but police boxes have been around for far longer than that (back to the late eighteen hundreds at the earliest, I believe) though they weren't always blue. America even had a few instances of their own police boxes, though they seemed to have never caught on state-side like they did in the UK.
As for why they were retired, police boxes were built mostly to be a sort of emergency police station of sorts, something the police could go to at the scene of the crime to report in or collect supplies kept within the box instead of having to waste time to make the trip all the way back to the police station to achieve the same purpose. The phone part of the box was most key, which was used by police to report in to the police office, and also for the citizen to call the police in an emergency when there wouldn't be any other phones they could quickly access. So obviously, once the home phone became commonplace and the advent of the cell phone came about, this eliminated the major need of the police box and they were eventually retired from service, no longer needed.
However, in London, one remains in service still, mostly just for old times sake, at one entrance to the Earl's Court train station. Got a picture of it myself, when I visited this past fall.
So yeah, a brief history on police boxes.
4128226 Yay i just learned something new!
and about police boxes too! 
definitely a great piece, I hope a future "Brony Radioist" would use your story, that particular speech would literally KILL me!
3992241 Turns out that the reason why it's stuck like this is because the Doctor HIMSELF damaged the Cameleon Circuit in the past to burn the image of the Blue Box into the memory of Humanity and to inspire fear of it in the more violent races as shown when an invasion was in the works only for them to see a Blue Police Box in London and immediately fear that it was the Doctor's TARDIS (when it was simply just a Police Box)
4122231 Considering that he had WASTED a regeneration on this accidental trip, he wouldn't be keen on jumping through in that fashion: Gallifreyan biology has a limit of up to 12 Regenerations, that's 13 different Doctors.
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I'm not familiar with this detail...may I ask where it stems from?
4194634 If you don't count the Doctor cheating death and gaining 12 more regenerations that is...
4194670 The broken Cameleon Circuit? Or the attempted invasion being thwarted by a LITERAL Police Box that was NOT the TARDIS?
4196454 The master tried that in the 1990's American-Made Doctor Who Movie... as one can guess, it didn't work out too well for him at the end of the movie.
4197925 Yeah I've seen it....poor bastard
getting sucked into the Eye of Harmony and sent to the end of time must suck so much! 
4197986 actually he got pulled into the Eye of Harmony and -as C-3PO would put it- "slowly digested over a thousand years" by the TARDIS. Later on he was resurrected by the reborn Lord-President of Gallifrey: Rassilon, to fight in The Last Great Time War against the Daleks, only to run away out of fear to around the year 100,000,000,000 AD where he hoped that nobody would ever find him.
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The latter. I'm guessing it's from one of the books or such other media that I'm not as familiar with.
4198009 Oh didn't know that...were'd you find this out?
4198248 Useless Things is what it's from.
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Oh okay, I know next to nothing about the (many) short stories that have been written for Doctor Who, which explains why I hadn't heard of it before.
You're more in depth than I am; since Doctor Who's continuity is so flippin' massive, for convenience's sake I generally stick to just the show-established continuity, though keeping an open mind to the many other works where it might be applicable. So sometimes stuff like this gets overlooked by me.
My theory is that the word handbrake is the nearest translation for the Gallifreyan name of some safety feature standard on all models of TARDIS, and that only River Song would be nuts enough to turn it off.
SEQUEAL!!!
Yup...called it
The Doctor always goes back!
Also SEQUEL!!!
What would your opinion be on people making their own sequels?
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Upon considering it, I guess I'd be okay with that. Could serve as a sort of interlude adventures for Spike and Rainbow with the Doctor to go on, just in case I ever do come back and pick up from where I left off myself.
Might have to set a few ground rules though...hmm...
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I take it that you're interested?
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A little, yeah. I was more just asking it on general principle that it would let people come up with their own ideas to limit the number of folks who bugged you about making an official sequel to this.
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Well, if you DO "take up the torch" as it were, I won't stop you. Initially I had wanted to set down some ground rules about this first, in case I ever come back and pick things back up again, but upon considering it and seeing that I actually couldn't make any guarantees as such, I decided it didn't make sense to, so have at it.
Also, no one else has shown interest in doing the same, so I feel I should at least warn you that if you don't, I highly suspect no one else will. I don't say that to make you feel obligated into doing it (heavens no!), do what you want/need, I just thought you ought to know, since you're the one who's shown interest.
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I might have a crossover side story where this Doctor runs into the protagonist of a Doctor Who crossover I'm writing. Maybe a cameo or two in the main story. Or, you know, it happens as the conflict of one of the chapters.
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Sounds interesting. If you do write it, do let me know, I would love to read it.
I really enjoyed reading this story all the way through, it was epic and cool all at the same time! I wondering if there there be a continuing story to this!