Here's the Fabulous Locations of Thunderbirds as appearing on the Never Was site. Enjoy whilst eating your mince pie!
https://neverwasmag.com/2019/11/the-fabulous-locations-of-thunderbirds/
and for that real Tracy Island JR21 Christmas Eve vibe then sit back for a few minutes with a sherry and be part of Give or Take a Million ang oggle at the vintage toys with Barry Gray's music remastered by DantheMan.
I was watching a modern Thunderbirds Are Go episode with my Grandson Junior and Granddaughter Miss the other day and they were both excited and laughing about something that would happen in the opening.
Turns out it was the flying back of the sunloungers round the pool as TB1 ascends! They were howling when it happened.
Here are those sliding sunloungers so you can see for yourselves! It is quite funny!
It reminded me completely of how I always waited with baited breath for something similar when I was a kid watching the original Thunderbirds opening and looking out for a particular .... flame!
Its the single final lick of flame at the end that more or less erupts from the letter A in Supermarionation. Once I'd seen it I could relax into the programme proper!
Did you have any special moments in Thunderbirds or indeed any other TV show readers?
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Having been a proper film bodger about 15 years ago using toys as props in the garden I love simple home made movies that flow well and capture the moment.
Here's a TB2 one from You Tube I've not seen until today, sodorsNWRsteam's Mountain of Doom.
I love it. You?
Here's a Getty Images picture that intrigued me.
That's a Thunderbirds robot! Its a new one on me but I imagine you may know about it readers. I'm hoping so!
Here's a 1967 copy of a Spanish magazine called Triunfo [Triumph]. The cover shows a panel with Lady Penelope and Thunderbird 1 entitled Television Space Puppets.
Thunderbirds was a global phenomenon!
Did you see it outside the UK?
This Japanese toy is simply stunning, a working toy Thunderbird 1 launch bay! I mean damn! Anyone know what it is?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9ui4DP-aTA
Is it the TB1 part of this magnificent working model?
This is simply marvellous! From japan, its a moving model of the Thunderbirds pod bay and I'm in awe! How is it done?
This is the sort of Thunderbirds set I would have had as a kid but I just don't recall, dammit.
Gummed Papercraft, which I saw on auction so saved the images a while back.
I often wonder if the combined efforts of Project SWORD and SpaceX could tackle stuff like Thunderbirds did.
I got to thinking about deep places, really deep places like these pictured, two of the deepest places on Earth: The Gates of Hell and the Great Blue Hole, according to Conde Nest Traveller.
Last time we childminded our Grandjunior I thought I'd introduce him to Thunderbirds the original series. I would say TOS for short but Trekkies have snaffled that one already!
Trying to ensure audience satisfaction I chose the most exciting episode I could remember as a kid, the one with the massive crocodiles. I wuz mesmerised back in the day!
And so we settled down like a couple of Tracy brothers and the iconic theme tune started. I noticed it was me that was getting excited and not Junior, but once the giant crocs turned up I was sure he'd feel the Anderson vibe.
I was right. Those big reptiles pounding the house did the trick. What a fabulous job the Century 21 team did. Tails smashing the walls, snarling, growling, snapping. And that was just me! Junior loved it! I was thrilled.
The Thunderbirds vehicles were pretty darn good as well and I realised that Thunderbird 2 was my favourite as a kid. There's just something about it's huge portly body and the wonderful pod vehicles. You never knew what you were going to get! And the sounds. Boy, those engine sounds! What were they?
I was also amazed how obvious the strings were on the puppets and Junior could see them too. It didn't bother us and I can only assume it didn't when I was a kid. In fact I liked seeing them again, those strings.
I'd also forgotten how long Thunderbirds was. 50 minutes! Wow! Almost like feature films! Junior got fed up sitting around after half an hour and went off to play scrapyards with his old Dinkys we got him. He is only 4 after all.
What would you say is the ideal age to watch Thunderbirds the original series readers and which episode would you recommend?
