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doctor who - Has the TARDIS been shown to transport objects bigger than its doorway?


A number of times, the Doctor or his companion has been shown riding a motorcycle out of the TARDIS:


Doctor on a scooter
The Idiot's Lantern S02E07 (story 173)


Doctor emerging from Tardis on motorcycle
The Bells of Saint John S07E06 (story 231)



In The Magician’s Apprentice S09E01 (story 251) he is shown to have a Tank "300 years ago" from Clara's time point of reference.



Has the TARDIS been shown to transport items larger than its doorway before?




Answer



The short answer is yes, the Doctor has demonstrated at least three ways in which out-sized objects could be transported by the TARDIS


The TARDIS can simply materialise around large objects that needs to be transported and de-materialise just as easily.



  • In the classic Fourth Doctor serial Logopolis, the TARDIS materialised around a police phone box, placing the phone box inside the TARDIS. A similar trick was pulled in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship when Rory's father Brian is taken inside while standing on a ladder.


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Objects touching the outside of the TARDIS can be transported with relative ease




  • We see this happen in an incident where Captain Jack was transported through time while lashed to the outside of the TARDIS in Utopia:


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The TARDIS can grow and shrink to allow large objects to be taken through the main door



  • In the episode Flatline, the TARDIS is shown to be transporting something substantially larger than its doorway, namely the Doctor.



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  • It stands to reason that the TARDIS can be expanded to create a doorway large enough to fit a tank, something we see happen in The Name of the Doctor when the 'Dimensional Dampeners' on the TARDIS begin to malfunction and it swells to alarming size.


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Re: Tanks




  • Although it's not strictly on-topic for the question, you may also want to note that the Doctor has unlimited access to miniaturisation technology. He could simply shrink a tank, pop it under his fez and grow it when he gets to the other end of his journey.





  • Of course, we're assuming he didn't just take the tank apart, fit it through the door in pieces and rebuild it when he got to the other side.




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