What you see above you is the 1st Season Aztec sonic as used by Christopher Eccleston. As you can see, it is a handsome beast.
The good news is that I shall be using this as the basis for my long rumoured universal TV remote control. And the good thing is, that in addition to light and sound and the ability to control TV sets, it will look identical to the above, albeit without the ability to extend.
However, a small snag has come up. In order to make this without extraneous buttons and thus accurate to the prop above, I can only realistically put in5 functions without compromising the aesthetics:
1. Power on/off + search
2. Volume up
3. Volume down
4. Channel Up
5. Channel Down
The optional function will be a mute switch but will need one of the other functions to be given the shove.
The question I want to put to you lot is whether you want the mute function and if so, which function would you ditch?
Opinions mucho appreciated.
On a final note: The fiscally challenged tightwads who find my prices onerous have a new champion called Dan Stokes who goes by the rather bellicose moniker 'Anakin Starkiller'. This deluded carpetbagger somehow thinks he can produce an accurate machined metal sonic for $100-$200 and has been actively courting business on the RPF. It seems that this tool has harvested the wisdom and observations from this blog yet has missed out some of the more pertinent gems that I have let slip. That is, it is simply not possible to create a CNC'ed machined, accurate sonic with custom sound chip for less than what I charge and I'm in China where prices are less (but going up rapidly). Any less and I'll be doing it for charity. Dan will learn this the hard way and his little sycophants will have their hopes for a £60 sonic sadly and hilariously dashed.
Anyway, this fuckstick has now roped in Russ Brown to help him machine this and we already know that Russ and his old man were responsible for the infamous MFX. Indeed, Russ has been selling unofficial MFX's for quite a while now, both above and below the counter, so maybe he will shift a few more of his 'overrun' MFX's via Dan Stokes? Who knows...maybe even QMx might use Russ too. It's very chummy little world we live in, eh?
...but I ramble. Let me get to the point. Let's consider the following pic:
According to Dan Stokes, there were two Aztec props. One static closed and one extendable. The alleged static closed one is the one pictured at the beginning of this blog and the extending one is the one shown above.
Actually, they are both of the same prop. The crackle pattern, especially in the troughs of the ridges give it away.
None of the Aztec props were truly static as popular belief would have it. Both extended and indeed one was fixed into the half extended position during Season 1.
If Mr Stokes cannot see such a basic thing as this, what hope does this bode for his would-be run?
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