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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO
- Thread starter grmltr
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Loved that show.
I remember AMC or some other channel would have marathons where they'd had fun factoids appear at the bottom of the screen.
Did any if the dvd/Bluray releases include that as an option?
I remember AMC or some other channel would have marathons where they'd had fun factoids appear at the bottom of the screen.
Did any if the dvd/Bluray releases include that as an option?
Dammit. 90s Australian comedy was gold. Curse you, ABC.
On a more serious note, not enough people know about Thunderbirds 1965. A project where filmmakers took audio drama recordings and turned them into three full fledged Thunderbirds episodes. They painstakingly recreated the original sets and props and puppets.
I think I still have the box set on DVD somewhere.
God I loved this show so much as a kid.
The live action movie was kind of meh, but the scene where they have a few frames of Marionette animation always made me choke up a bit.
God I loved this show so much as a kid.
The live action movie was kind of meh, but the scene where they have a few frames of Marionette animation always made me choke up a bit.
I got to know this show this show as a kid because my dad still had some of the old toys. Launching the Thunderbird 2 from the inclined ramp off Tracy's Island was the coolest shit.
Watched this show as a kid growing up in England, despite it being from my dad's time.
It was ahead of it's time! Swing wing aircraft (TB1), vertical take off/landing rockets and more are all just happening today (SpaceX)
Great show.
It was ahead of it's time! Swing wing aircraft (TB1), vertical take off/landing rockets and more are all just happening today (SpaceX)
Great show.
I loved it as a kid.
I still remember the hype from Blue Peter doing the build your own Tracey Island.
DO NOT GOOGLE OR EVEN LOOK AT THE NEW THUNDERBIRDS!
I still remember the hype from Blue Peter doing the build your own Tracey Island.
DO NOT GOOGLE OR EVEN LOOK AT THE NEW THUNDERBIRDS!
I loved this show as a kid and I remember my parents bought me a toy set with metal versions of the Thunderbirds but honestly I remember almost nothing about the show.
Yeah I loved the show as a kid but the toys even more. I have the island with the mini vehicles, the big Thunderbirds 1 & 2+4 and a bunch of figures.
Best set.
Those launch sequences are still amazing. It's funny though how slow everything was back then. Each step in the process was shown in great detail, like the conveyor belt slowly moving towards container 3, or the bar with the seat retracting in the sequence for 3.
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I went on holiday to Gambia in Africa once, and caught a small boat on a day trip to a smaller island that took a few hours. Got chatting to most of the other people on the boat, and this older guy told me how he used to be on the team that made all the miniatures for Thunderbirds.
He went on to make models for a few films too, and I asked him which was his favourite thinking he'd mention a film I'd never heard of....and he just casually said 'oh probably Alien'...... which is when I flipped out!
Spent the rest of the trip asking him questions, he basically said most of the thunderbirds guys were hired up to work on Alien for lots of interior miniature spaceship stuff. They were the 'go to' British team for a while apparently.
He went on to make models for a few films too, and I asked him which was his favourite thinking he'd mention a film I'd never heard of....and he just casually said 'oh probably Alien'...... which is when I flipped out!
Spent the rest of the trip asking him questions, he basically said most of the thunderbirds guys were hired up to work on Alien for lots of interior miniature spaceship stuff. They were the 'go to' British team for a while apparently.
Thunderbirds was life for me as a kid.
If you didn't grow up and at least TRY and build that Tracy island set thanks to blue peter then you didn't have a childhood, as far as I'm concerned!!!
If you didn't grow up and at least TRY and build that Tracy island set thanks to blue peter then you didn't have a childhood, as far as I'm concerned!!!
Aw yeah!
My favourite toy as a kid was a replica of the Thunderbirds island with all the Thunderbirds and characters.
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Hell yes, this is the one I had, too <3Yeah I loved the show as a kid but the toys even more. I have the island with the mini vehicles, the big Thunderbirds 1 & 2+4 and a bunch of figures.
Best set.
I made my own Tracy island when I was a kid. I still watch this show, there is a new version on TV that is almost as good as the original.
Did anybody ever watch the big budget live action film they did ages back?
If not, try and imagine loving something as a child, then seeing everything you enjoyed about it changed, ruined, removed or just wrong. Only thing it had going for it was confusing my penis into thinking I would shag Lady Penelope. I'll fetch you your Rolls you dirty posh girl...
If not, try and imagine loving something as a child, then seeing everything you enjoyed about it changed, ruined, removed or just wrong. Only thing it had going for it was confusing my penis into thinking I would shag Lady Penelope. I'll fetch you your Rolls you dirty posh girl...
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It's a weird one for sure, very much 'of it's time'; directed by Johnathan Frakes of all people.
Well he did direct Sub RosaIt's a weird one for sure, very much 'of it's time'; directed by Johnathan Frakes of all people.
I actually grew up watching it, being very much of that generation of kids who caught the reruns in the 90s. I didn't quite realise what was off about it at the time, and admittedly ended up focusing on the visuals because hotdamn those redesigns were actually pretty great. The film at least understood the sense of the overly grandiose stock footage.
Been a while since I watched the new series, and while it was awkward in places, I did it find it well done in points as well. Again, mostly visuals - one sequence that sticks out to me is when Alan is goes on a spacewalk (long story, Thunderbird 5 got taken over by an AI) and there's some really cool tracking shots with the camera because it's all in space and so there's no real up or down, so it follows his path as he shifts orientation.
Honestly though part of what's made being a fan of the show interesting is slowly coming to understand its influence on another culture and its entertainment - specifically Japan's, and the development of mecha tropes. Mazinger Z rising from the swimming pool? Lifted from Thunderbird 1's launch sequence. Super Sentai (and thus, Power Rangers) took a lot of damned notes from Thunderbirds in realising how miniatures could be used to depict machines of a massive scale, and GoGoV (and thus, Lightspeed Rescue) in particular is a full on homage, with the show being rescue themed and centred around a single family of heroes, in the sentai version anyway. Seriously, look at this, and it's not hard to spot the DNA of Thunderbird 2 in there. Really, if you see some overly long and detailed launch sequence in a Japanese work of fiction that both pads for time and looks cool, you can thank Thunderbirds for that. Shoji Kawamori - of Macross fame - even repaid the favour by designing Thunderbird Shadow for the new show.
The legacy it has is honestly astonishing.
I always liked it more as a kid, dunno why maybe it was the slightly morbid premise and the creepy villains.
Yeah I loved the show as a kid but the toys even more. I have the island with the mini vehicles, the big Thunderbirds 1 & 2+4 and a bunch of figures.
Best set.
Those launch sequences are still amazing. It's funny though how slow everything was back then. Each step in the process was shown in great detail, like the conveyor belt slowly moving towards container 3, or the bar with the seat retracting in the sequence for 3.
