A Closer Look at the New Sonic Screwdriver!

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Woo! The Sonic Sunglasses seem to have disappeared, replaced by the one and only sonic screwdriver!

Well, I say ‘one and only'; as we all know, it’s the same software, with a different case – so that’s it’s seventh major redesign.

The previous sonic was given to the Doctor in The Eleventh Hour (2010) by the TARDIS, and lasted until this year’s opener, The Magician’s Apprentice/ The Witch’s Familiar (2015), the Twelfth Doctor then abandoning it after throwing it to a young Davros. That model was the longest-serving, having served alongside the Doctor on Trenzalore.

He then converted to ‘wearable technology’ in the form of the sonic sunglasses, which divided fandom – but then, so does the screwdriver, so frankly, the production team can’t win!

But we saw last night that Peter Capaldi’s incarnation of the Time Lord was granted a new one – finally! – by the TARDIS too.

In the above video, Capaldi introduces the new device, and we get a brief look at the blueprints for the model.

The screwdriver will be back at Christmas in The Husbands of River Song – while Rover will seemingly have a sonic trowel. No, really.

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