Ho Ho Ho! Welcome To The Doctor Who 12 Days of GIFmas!

First off: this one isn’t a contest. This one is more like our 30 Days of Summer Break Doctor Who — we’re just doing this for fun! And fame! And Tumblarity!

Beginning tomorrow Wednesday 12/14 we will start the Doctor Who 12 Days of GIFmas — celebrating some of our favorite holiday-themed Doctor Who animated gifs!

And because we want to see how creative you can be, we’re hoping to see gifs for all the holidays including (but not limited to) Christmas, Hanukkah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, New Year’s Eve, or whatever else you can come up with.

Here’s our example:

Need a tutorial on how to make animated gifs? Check out some of the posts at the Tumblr tag gif+tutorial!

So create your holiday gif, post it to your Tumblr, and tag it doctor who 12 days of gifmas.

We’ll reblog some of our favorites every day leading up to the premiere of the Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe!

Create a fond memory, win a limited edition TARDIS hoodie in the process!

Ok. It’s time for another holiday giveaway courtesy of Doctor Who Tumblr and BBCAmericaShop!

The last three giveaways were fun — first you made fanart, then you wore holiday sweaters, then you went on a scavenger hunt — now we want you to do something nice…

BBCAmericaShop has these exclusive videos of Matt and Karen answering three holiday questions:

• What is your fondest holiday memory?
• What is the best holiday gift you’ve received?
• What is the best holiday gift you’ve ever given?

Matt was excited about giving his dad a watch.

Karen was excited about giving her friend nostril hair trimmers.

We want to know what are you going to do to create a ‘fondest holiday memory’ for a friend or family or neighbor this year?

Will you spend time with a friend you haven’t seen in a while? Cook Christmas breakfast for a parent? Give your little brother or sister a big box of Hanukkah gelt chocolates? Buy someone a combination wristwatch + nostril hair trimmers?

Whatever it is, share it and it just might win you something awesome!

• Create a post telling us how you’re going to create a fondest holiday memory for someone you love.
• Use text, use photos, use video — whatever works best (as usual, have fun with your post!)
• Tag it doctor+who+tumblr+fondest+holiday+memory

We will pick one winner at random to win a limited edition official Doctor Who TARDIS hoodie!

This is what it looks like:

This is what it would look like on you if it were a t-shirt with the logo on the front and you were Matt Smith:

And this is what we would look like if we were in the same room as you and the above were true:

And we’re sorry. We’re so so sorry, non-America, but again — this giveaway is only open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia.)

Read all of the official terms and conditions here.

If you win and you are under 18, you will need a parent or guardian to sign for you.

The sweepstakes ends at 8pm EST Monday, December 12th!

So go do something nice for someone you love this holiday season.

(And when you’re done entering this contest, BBCAmericaShop is running a holiday sweepstakes to win two $500 gift cards(!) through The Facebook. You should go enter!)

Ok, it’s time for the…

Doctor Who Tumblr + BBC America Shop The Complete Series 6 on Blu-ray Or DVD Giveaway Scavenger Hunt!

(yes, we’re making these titles ridiculously long on purpose.)

For this one, we want you to find ALL THE THINGS* Doctor Who in real life.

Here is a list of eleven (11) items to find in your neighborhood or town:

1. A TARDIS phonebox-like thing
2. A Fez (The Big Bang)
3. A Stetson (The Impossible Astronaut)
4. A cool Bow Tie (The Eleventh Hour)
5. A weeping angel statue (The Time of Angels)
6. Neil Armstrong’s A Foot (Day of The Moon)
7. Jelly Babies Candy (The Almost People)
8. A Roman Solider Guard (The Pandorica Opens)
9. A peg doll (Night Terrors)
10. A TARDIS junkyard (The Doctor’s Wife)
11. Creepy furniture that looks like it’s from the 1980’s (The God Complex)

1. Don’t buy them.  Just take a picture of yourself with at least five of the things.
2. Upload it to your Tumblr as a photoset.
3. Tag it doctor+who+tumblr+sent+me+on+a+scavenger+hunt

If you can’t find these exact items, then use your imagination and find something that sort of looks like it.

We will pick THREE of the tagged entries AT RANDOM to win Doctor Who: The Complete Series 6 on DVD or Blu-ray courtesy of BBCAmericaShop!

Again, this giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia.)

Read all of the official terms and conditions here.

Also: if you win and you are under 18, you will need a parent or guardian to sign for you.

The sweepstakes ends at 10pm EST Monday, December 5th!

Win Doctor Who “The Complete Series 6” on DVD or Blu-Ray while drawing Darvill as an Evil Bear and K.Gill as Prisoner Hamster!

Thanks to the very fine and upstanding folks that run BBCAmericaShop.com we get to do our first GIVEAWAY!!!!!

Yesterday Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill took part in a Q&A where they described what Doctor Who villains they’d love to play:

Jo Whiley: What Doctor Who villan would you like to play?

Arthur: I would like to play an evil bear.

Matt: I would like to play the Devil but with a twist. Imagine if the Devil and the Doctor became entwined?

Karen: Prisoner Zero but… in the form of an animal… a hamster.

So there you go. There’s your challenge…

1. Create a piece of fanart (drawing, photoshop or short story no more than 12 sentences!) that includes Matt Smith as the Devil Doctor, Karen as Hamster Prisoner Zero and Arthur as an Evil Bear.

2. Tag it devil doctor hamster zero evil bear and…

3. we’ll pick one of the tagged entries at random to win Doctor Who Series 6 on DVD *or* Blu-Ray!

A few notes:

You will not be judged on artistic ability. In order to enter, you just have to post something to that tag. Just to prove it to you, here’s what our entry would have been:

A regular Van Gogh, us.

Also: We’re sorry. We’re so so sorry. But this giveaway is open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States (including the District of Columbia.)

Read all of the official terms and conditions here.

Also: if you win and you are under 18, you will need a parent or guardian to sign for you.

The sweepstakes ends at 5pm EST Wednesday, November 23rd (Doctor Who’s 48th Birthday!)

This is our first sweepstakes so WE ARE VERY EXCITE!

Thanks again to BBCAmericaShop. They have other contests going so go follow them if you are a Tweeter or a Book-Face.

And good luck!

30 Days of Summer Break Doctor Who

Hello fellow enemies of Hitler and lovers of all things good in the world like puppies and rainbows!

Today begins our 30 Days of Summer Break Doctor Who which conveniently ends on August 27th (see what we did there?) the day of the premiere of “Let’s Kill Hitler”.

We’ve taken questions both from your submissions and from other 30 Day Doctor Who challenges along with some of the best questions of the 30 Day DW-related tumblr tags. We think they should be fun.

For those new to 30 Day memes: each day, create a post answering the day’s question. Tag it 30+days+of+summer+break+doctor+who and/or 30+days+of+doctor+who. Go browse the tags to see what your fellow Whovians have answered. We’ll be reblogging some of our favs.

So have at em.

• Day 01: Which regeneration of The Doctor would you most want to meet and why? (via xtermin8)
• Day 02: What’s your favorite episode (and why)?
• Day 03: Favorite quote or one liner from Doctor Who? (via toastweasel)
• Day 04: What’s your favorite relationship on Doctor Who?
• Day 05: What habit of the Doctor’s makes you laugh the most?
• Day 06: If you had a vortex manipulator and could tell your past self just one thing, what would it be?
• Day 07: If you could have your memory erased of any Doctor Who episode so you could watch it again like it was brand new, which one would it be & why? (viakittieswithpottymouths)
• Day 08: Draw whatever you think a Time Head would look like.
• Day 09: Name something/someone in real life that you suspect is from Doctor Who
• Day 10: Who is your favorite guest actor to appear in an episode of Doctor Who?
• Day 11: What actor would you love to see guest star on Doctor Who?
• Day 12: Name a Doctor Who TV crossover that you would love to see happen (other than Torchwood/Sarah Jane Adventures).
• Day 13: What is your favorite/scariest Moffatism?
• Day 14: Which Doctor Who baddies could you potentially see teaming up with The Doctor (not including the Master)? (via welpidunno)
• Day 15: Would you prefer to have River’s sonic blaster or the Doctor’s sonic screwdriver? (via timelordanon)
• Day 16: What’s your favorite Who-related Tumblr (other than DWO)?
• Day 17: What songs would appear in your Doctor Who mixtape?
• Day 18: Mods are asleep! Anything goes!
• Day 19: Which Doctor Who character is most like you?
• Day 20: What’s your favorite “guest appearance” by someone from history (i.e. Churchill, Van Gogh, etc)? (via motel-money-murder-madness)
• Day 21: Post your favorite Who-related photo or GIF
• Day 22: What is your favorite Who-related video on YouTube?
• Day 23: Favorite villain [classic and new] (via fildespensees)
• Day 24: What is your most memorable Rory death scene? (via sexplosion)
• Day 25: The TARDIS has a pool. What other weird rooms or objects do you think are in there?
• Day 26: Which character would you most want to meet IRL and why?
• Day 27: What scene makes you hide behind the sofa?
• Day 28: Name a Whoism that you use in real life
• Day 29: Make up your own short fanfic using Doctor Who animated GIFS.
• Day 30: Why do you love Doctor Who?